Is limbic system retraining woo woo nonsense?

Everyone who deals with chronic pain has heard this infuriating phrase at least once: 

'It's all in your head.' 

I know I have. 

And when my doctor said it to me after 7 years of debilitating back pain, I wanted to shake him until he understood my pain.

But it gets worse…

Despite 100s of studies, neuroscience breakthroughs, and dozens of books published by doctors with decades of experience.

People still troll limbic system retraining, saying it’s “woo woo” and belongs on the spiritual side of healing rather than the scientific side.

What I teach in Brain-Based Healing is not meditation, not manifestation, and not “positive vibes only.” I teach ground breaking exercises that are grounded in peer reviewed science:

• Dr. Howard Schubiner found that 88% of people with chronic back and neck pain were actually experiencing primary (brain-driven) pain (not damage in their spine, even though almost all of them had spinal “problems” on MRI scan).
  

• In a 2021 trial at the University of Colorado, 66% of participants practicing pain reprocessing therapy were pain-free or nearly pain-free after just 4 weeks and those results held a year later
  

• Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) has been shown to reduce pain more effectively than traditional CBT in multiple clinical trials
  

• In a large trial of 230 patients with fibromyalgia, EAET beat both CBT and standard education on pain outcomes. Some participants even saw their pain virtually eliminated.
  

• Trauma-focused therapies like EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) have been shown to not only resolve trauma, but in some cases eliminate chronic pain symptoms altogether

The list goes on and on…

What I teach inside Brain Based Healing overlaps with clinical techniques (like open focus meditation and somatic tracking) but the way we use them is explicitly clinical, neuroplasticity-based, and comparable to exposure therapy or EMDR.

Because the medical system is built to treat symptoms, not root causes.

Doctors are trained to look for structural problems in the body: 

• Discs

• Joints

• Inflammation

If they don’t see it on a scan, they don’t know what to do.

And insurance companies?

They’ll pay for:

• Pills

• Injections

• And surgeries 

But not for therapies that rewire the brain’s danger system.

That’s why even though the research is clear and has been replicated across universities, VA hospitals, and clinics… 

…Most people never hear about it.

That’s why I created Brain Based Healing.

To take the research that’s been locked away in journals and put it into a step-by-step system that anyone can use at home.

If you’ve been ignored, or told “it’s all in your head,” I want you to know: 

The science is real, the healing is possible, and your pain is reversible.

And if you want to be the first to get access when I open the doors…

>>>Click here to join the waitlist for Brain Based Healing

To your success & joy,

— Kimia