41. Traditional Medicine to Mind-Body Medicine - Jen's Story of Healing CFS

Are you wondering how you can make a career out of your healing journey? Lindsay and Cait are joined by Jennifer Mann to discuss how leaving traditional medicine led to her current career as a mind-body practitioner. Jennifer details her personal journey with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), using brain retraining & somatic work to find relief from chronic symptoms, working with Lindsay in private sessions, and ultimately, forming a business around chronically healing. Jennifer is a certified mind-body practitioner and has worked in the health and wellness industry for 10 years as a functional movement therapist, holistic bodyworker, yoga teacher, pilates instructor, and performance coach. After her CFS diagnosis, Jen went on to fully recover and co-founded a trauma-informed healing course called CFS School, where she now helps people thrive in their wellness. Show Notes: -Jen's journey & personal story – her background in traditional western medicine, her experience as a ballet dancer, and experience in the biomedical space -Jen's experience working in a traditional hospital setting before her own chronic symptoms started -The beginning of Jen's journey with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) using western medicine approaches – seeing many doctors & specialists, getting many tests, trying antibiotics + antivirals – and her health was only getting worse -Getting diagnosed with POTS & having no energy -Jen's decision to leave her traditional work in physiotherapy and her desire to focus on whole mind + body healing > simply managing her symptoms -Jen's experience working with Lindsay in Vital-Side and learning how to change her state -Learning about the vagus nerve, Polyvagal Theory and the role of movement & physical touch in healing -Using somatic experiencing as the missing piece in Jen's healing journey -Finding Human Design and receiving the permission to show up as her most authentic self (i.e receiving vs. pushing) -Early signs of Jen's purpose to help others heal when she was a ballet dancer and helping others with physical pain -Tuning into her gut feelings and intuition to make decisions to start her business, CFS School -The early days of Jen's business – experimenting, taking a slow & steady pace allowed her new business to flow with ease -Jen's story of pregnancy - how she was able to defy the prognosis given to her by fertility doctors -Using visualization on her uterus to get her body ready to bring life into the world -Getting pregnant after 1 "try", despite what the labs said Resources: -Jenn's Instagram: @jcamylee -Discover your Human Design here -Lindsay's Instagram: @myvitalside -Information on Vital-Side programs and private sessions here -Cait's Instagram: @caitrossco -Visit Cait's Website Join our community: bit.ly/rewirethepodcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: bit.ly/rewiredisclaimer