In this episode, I'm joined by Rachael Green, also known as "ribeye Rach" on Instagram. This podcast episode has been a longtime coming we’ve been trying to arrange it for almost a year now! And interestingly, back when Rachael first found my podcast and we started speaking, she was in a totally different place with her recovery compared to now, so maybe that was the universe at work!

Rachael was always an avid rock climber and athlete, but in 2016 her health rapidly deteriorated, and she was diagnosed with dysautonomia, ehlersdanlos syndrome, chair malformation, craniocervical instability, tethered cord syndrome, intracranial hypertension, gastroparesis, adrenal insufficiency, chronic Lyme disease and much more.

After various treatments and surgeries and no improvement, Rachael was still in “a living hell”, and she hit her lowest point in 2020 when she was essentially bedbound, having seizures and in a wheelchair.

Starting a Lyme disease treatment protocol brought her out of her bed bound phase, but it was when she found alternative ways of healing that her healing accelerated, changing her life. Through brain retraining, DNRS and living by a carnivore diet, she is now able to live her life again.

In this conversation, Rachael tells her amazing story and we discuss brain retraining, the power of timing, the distinction between wanting to heal and being ready to heal, the importance of belief in your recovery, and how different treatments work for different people.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
1:40 Rachael's childhood and upbringing
2:03 When Rachael's health started deteriorating, and the many conditions and syndromes she was diagnosed with
13:36 How Rachael started considering looking at alternative methods of healing and nervous system regulation and brain retraining
15:56 Rachael’s introduction to the carnivore diet
16:55 Starting prolotherapy treatments and finding DNRS brain retraining, which was a turning point in Rachael’s recovery
18.18 Rachael and Phil’s experiences of the carnivore diet
20:32 The importance of timing in recovery, and how Rachael had come across DNRS 5 years before she started it
22.35 The timeline of Rachael’s recovery
25:52 Rachael’s progression, from wheelchair to walking, over the past year
27.45 How everything is linked to the nervous system, and how there are so many different ways to regulate the nervous system, and how it looks different for everyone
28:13 Rachael's worst times and feeling unsafe in her own body
31:25 How when you’ve had so much failure before, you co etc expect that each thing you try won’t work
32:20 Phil and Rachael’s experience of putting so much pressure on each treatment to work and the desperation to find something to help them heal
33:19 The importance of believing you’ll recover and surrounding yourself with success stories
40:00 Where Rachael is at now with her healing
43:25 How it can sometimes be hard to share your recovery when in the midst of it
44:43 Finding the gratitude in your journey, and how Rachael now appreciates the little things in life
47.08 Rachael’s advice to others going through the same right now

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