The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya Novak

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever come across something so simple and so effective that you couldn’t believe it? That’s what happened to me many years ago when a friend suggested EMDR to help me deal with some of my past trauma. I tried it and it was mind-boggling to me. It was simple and yet whenever I played with it, I experienced a shift in how I perceived my reality. That’s why I couldn’t wait to...

Send us Fan Mail We can support the physical body in different ways. I often talk about and guide my clients through the jungle of emotional and mental turmoil that comes with physical trauma. Together we release emotional blockages, deal with unhelpful thoughts, install empowering beliefs, etc. Even though this is my calling and something that I’m really good at, I never disregard the physical th...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a fact that different cultures deal with trauma differently. How do you deal with it? A lot of people in the Western world try to run away from suffering that was caused by any kind of traumatic experience - accidents and injuries included. We try to forget, we put a brave face on, but good-intentional sentences from people around us such as “Just hang in there,” or “It’s gon...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we can only learn through pain. That’s what my husband Jerry says sometimes when looking back on all the injuries he sustained over his lifetime. There were a lot of ankle and knee sprains, as well as more serious injuries such as broken back and collarbone. Today his body is as if almost nothing ever happened, which in a part is due to his optimistic outlook on life, an...

Send us Fan Mail Mindful movement is very healing for the body, mind, and soul. Yoga has been in my life for about 2 decades. Although truth be told, for a large part of this time I wasn’t actively practicing it because I just didn’t ‘feel it’. In my more than two-year recovery process after my rock-climbing accident, I was doing quite a lot of ‘hot yoga’ and it was really helpful (besides all the...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is different! When I was wrapping up the last few things yesterday for the episode to be ready and to be published today, I was still debating with myself if I should do it or not. This week I didn’t have (the planned) episode ready, because I got sick 10 days ago and I was feeling terrible for most of last week with fever, coughing, sneezing, and all the goodies that...

Send us Fan Mail Any traumas that you experienced and old emotions that you didn’t process in a healthy way and let go of suppress the immune system, and the full healing capability of the body. In an ideal world, we would learn how to process any adversity in a healthy manner in our childhood. That would equip us for life and the journey would be easier. Unfortunately, most of us were raised by p...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to healing any kind of physical trauma we don’t really need a plan for that specific injury, what we need is a plan that works for ANY kind of injury. The challenge that people very often have with this suggestion is that they are coming from the point of view that different kinds of injuries need different kinds of approaches and specialists. And it is true in a way...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to pain (whether acute or chronic) perception matters greatly. What you learned about it during your life and how those neural pathways were established give an insight into how we experience pain. David Butler is a world-renown expert on the topic of pain, so don’t be surprised if your physiotherapist, osteopath, chiropractic, or any other medical professional nods...

Send us Fan Mail Currently there’s a (big) gap between allopathic medicine and what is needed in the world of healing physical trauma. We are more than just a bunch of cells and in the same way, as we need to take care of our body, we do need to take care of our mind and soul. Elena Bensonoff is a pioneer in the field of functional, regenerative, and quantum medicine, and she’s been sharing her gi...

Send us Fan Mail The way we live and perceive life is very much connected to how we see health and healing. You’ll probably agree that materialism is (still) at the core of our culture – something shiny on the outside that we keep searching for, working for, waiting for, striving for. So it’s actually no wonder that our current medical system is designed around the idea that all the answers we nee...

Send us Fan Mail It takes real mastery to develop effective and simple solutions to complex problems like chronic pain. That’s why I enjoyed sitting down with Les Aria, PhD so much – he’s worked with over 50.000 patients through the course of his career, and the way he explains the pain process and recovery is at the same time incredibly deep, and so easy to understand, as well as implement.  In o...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know there’s a form of self-acupuncture that you can do at home? In fact, you can try it as you’re listening to this episode. There’s a life force flowing throughout your body and it’s known to many cultures and religious traditions. In Chinese medicine it is called ‘qi’ (chi), in Japan ‘ki,’ and in India, ‘prana’. This life energy is transported in your body through merid...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine having all sorts of symptoms and then, after being exposed to certain sounds, all of this is a thing of the past. It might sound too good to be true, right? Dr. Jeffrey Thompson is a brainwave entrainment expert who’s been pioneering the field of vibrational medicine and sound healing since the early 80s. It all kind of started when he made a chiropractic adjustment of his...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a lot of controversy when it comes to detox. Our bodies are equipped with organs that take care of this process (liver, kidneys, lungs…) but is this truly enough in the environment that we live in and the food and drink we put into our bodies? I sat down with Angel Evans who is a detox specialist and we talked about all things related to detox. We went even further and dis...

Send us Fan Mail If you needed to decide on a surgery would you expect its success rate to be very high? What about if it was well below 50% – would you still take your chance? Dr. David Hanscom was a top orthopedic spine surgeon for 15 years. Then he quit – because the stress and pressure of perfection he demanded of himself wore him down, but more importantly, because he discovered that the over...

Send us Fan Mail You’re more than just that one body part that has been injured and you deserve to be treated as a whole. Many times people don’t see beneficial results in their progress because many times medical professionals zoom in and focus just on one area of the body – where the pain persists. The decades of Eileen Kopsaftis’ experience show a different kind of story. Everything’s connected...

Send us Fan Mail The conventional medical approach to treating physical trauma is simply not enough! This is the reason Dr. Maya created The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks. This show focuses on healing physical trauma holistically. The episodes are released on a weekly basis. Tune in 🎧 + Share 💛 For accessing show notes, links, transcript, and video, please visit https://www.mayanovak.com/podcast...