Personal Stories

Foot pain, back pain and stomach aches in a 19 year old college soccer player TMS intruded my life in August of 2004. Only two weeks before I started my freshman year of college, I began to notice sharp pains in the metatarsals of my left foot whenever I ran. At the...

I first went to hear Dr. Schubiner give a talk on TMS in preparation for an upcoming graduate class I was going to be taking related to mind body medicine-never considering it would directly impact me. One of his slides listed about a dozen common disorders linked to...

For many years I have struggled with a panic reaction to speaking or reading in public. While many people have public speaking jitters, my reaction has been more severe; resembling a full blown panic-attack. I began to experience panic disorder symptoms (which started...

Since I was in my teens I had developed all kinds of physical symptoms which included IBS, acid reflux, back and neck pain, and overall fatigue. My symptoms would come and go throughout an entire year. I had a family member listen to Dr. Schubiner speak about Tenision...

The diagnosis was Fibromyalgia. It took about 10 years before I was given that diagnosis, but when I did I was finally glad that someone put a label to a very painful, and at times, strange condition I had. I had a great variety of symptoms such as pain all over my...

In the beginning of 2004, I was 26 years old. I had recently acquired a Bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University, gotten a job, a promotion, and a new boyfriend. I was looking forward to moving out of my mom’s home, once again, and establishing my financial...

Books have always been great sources of information for me. I picked up Dr. John Sarno's book "The Divided Mind" and saw myself and my personality characteristics written there. I had been suffering with fibromyalgia, plantar fasciitis and fatigue, amongst other...

Dear Dr Schubiner, Well I’ve been running with no pain, 2 times a week, since the second week of your TMS workshop! I’m ecstatic! As you know it had been 4 years since I had stopped doing any type of aerobic activity due to an incessant pain in my left buttock and...

I have had recurring anxiety attacks between January and February every year for many years. I became very frustrated because I did not know what brought on these attacks and why it was happening during the same time frame. I did not want to use medications any more....

Dear Dr Schubiner,Thanks you so much for your encouragement to challenge myself to take control of my pain. I have been in pain for as long as I can remember. My pain has been from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes and I often felt like I had run 20 miles...

In February of 2007, after living with severe pain for over 4 yrs, I found Dr. Schubiner and his Mind Body Program. In the last four years I have had several diagnostic tests, including 2 MRI's, a CT scan, a discogram, and a nerve conduction test. I was told I have 3...

I attended a presentation that Dr. Schubiner gave in March of this year concerning our mind’s ability to create physiological responses to stress. While sitting there I began thinking of a reoccurring chest and left arm pain that I was experiencing on a regular basis....

I have had chronic health problems for over 30 years. I have had a history of Crohn's disease, back pain, TMJ and fibromyalgia. I have seen many doctors and tried numerous disciplines. I tried every treatment, every doctor recommended - physical therapy, traction,...

I’ve always been an amateur athlete and sports junkie, but severe low-back pain changed my life from active to sedentary. It started about six years ago. I got the first episode of back pain in January, but got over it relatively quickly and I promptly forgot about...

In May, 2005, my sister and and I were goofing off and standing on our tip toes for about 15 minutes straight. I got a sharp pain in one of my Achilles tendons, and stopped immediately. The pain went away, but about 2 days later I got the same sharp pain in both of my...

In the spring of 2005, I came to a point where I knew I could no longer sit and wait for a “cure.” I needed to take action! Coincidentally, I had just received a brochure from Providence Hospital that gave a brief description of the TMS program: the Mind Body Medicine...

I am a 59-year-old woman who is generally in very good health. However about 2 years ago, I developed pain in my left upper hip that continually woke me up from sleep during the night. The pain was excruciating and scared me a great deal. I saw my regular internist...

Before I was referred to Dr. Schubiner by my regular doctor, I was nearly incapacitated. I was “diagnosed” with interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, vulvar vestibulitis, irritable bowel syndrome, trochanteric bursitis, back problems, all of which caused...

Three years ago I changed to a more physical job and immediately began to have hip pain. Physical therapy did not help and the pain continued to worsen. Within six months my back and joints ached everyday, I could barely walk a flight of stairs, and I was exhausted by...

I am so glad I found you and your course! It has certainly helped me make tremendous progress in a short time, when I thought I would never see any improvement and I was getting beyond despair. After the first three weeks I was operating at 75-80% of my ability, with...

I want to thank you for allowing me to attend the Tension Myoneural workshop last year. As you already know, I have played competitive soccer for about 10 years now. I started playing when I was 7. I suffered a back/hip injury about five years ago that never seemed to...

I began to have stomach pains about 9 years ago. They began in the fall and got worse every fall for several years. I tried to ignore it, but when it was particularly bad one fall, I had my gall bladder removed, but the pain continued. The pain intensified each year...

After years of intermittent anxiety, followed by depression, I knew I could no longer fool myself into thinking that my problem was caused just by a set of certain circumstances. I told myself that I only needed to get beyond the next problem and everything would be...

In order to heal yourself from fibromyalgia and other TMS symptoms, you have to look at the truth in your life, no matter what it is. If you live an illusion, you will never reach the end you seek. Once you make the decision that you will live in truth, there's no...

I am a 23 year old woman who has had migraine headaches about 3 times a week for about 6 years. For the past year, I started having pains in my lower legs. The pain got so bad that I could not sleep at night. Some nights I didn't want to go to sleep because my legs...

Approximately one year ago, I was diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica, a painful condition of the muscles and joints that I knew I had been suffering with for years. In fact, a few months earlier it had gotten so bad I couldn’t get out of the truck. My career has...

I am a 56-year-old female who for most of my life has had to live with continual pain. Even as a young child, my early memories were of pain, mainly in my legs. I was told these were growing pains. Later in life, I had carpal tunnel syndrome and pain in my hands. Then...

I began in the early 1990’s getting various pains when I was in my mid to late 40’s. They were foot pain (diagnosed as arthritis), shoulder and elbow pain, hip pain (diagnosed as trochanteric bursitis), much back pain, and especially severe sciatica. I tried...