Eps 2. Chronic Illness Warrior Charmaine Thane - POTS and cardiac events from a patient's perspective

Our special guest today, Charmaine Thane, is a fellow chronic illness warrior and meditation teacher.  Like me, she is a hernia mesh survivor and has worked on raising awareness about the negative impacts of surgical approaches using hernia mesh.  In 2021, after she suffered a heart event, and redirected her attention to the heart care world.  Her focus on alternative or natural therapies has led her down many paths and has led her deeply into meditation, which has helped her enormously.  She plans to return to mediation teaching with some movement training as she continues working on her own recovery.  She has recently written a series ofprogression yoga exercises for POTS patients.  She has over 25 years of meditation practice and enjoys Qigong, yoga, singing/chanting mantra, art-painting and drawing as well as movement practices such as waling, swimming, weights, etc.  She has extensively studied holistic meditation, Emotional freedom technique, various forms of meditation and yoga and Reiki, aromatherapy.  Contact:Charmaine at Soulbright: https://www.facebook.com/soulbrightforyou/Information for INOCA international can be found at https://inocainternational.com/Information on Dynamic Neural Retraining can be found at https://retrainingthebrain.com/Follow Dr. Sharon Surita on Instagram @FunctionallyEnlightenedShow Notes4:30 – hernia mesh and disability9:40 – hernia mesh removal11:00 – mental health challenge14:13 – alternative practices16:50 – coronary artery vasospasms17:40 – electrolytes for nervous system 18:40 – x39 patches21:00 – diet and exercise21:50 – DNS (neuro retraining)  and breathing for POTS22:40 – covid and ozone therapy24:25 – blood draws and POTS25:00 – lifestyle changes26:30 – dysautonomia symptoms, severe fatigue30:45 – cardiac psychology unit32:00 – meditation and visualizations34:00 – breathing practice41:25 – contact information