I love this Dan. It is soooooo true. The PRY family is full of optimism, hope, support, self-compassion and endless kindness. This PRY family I know will be my family for life!

I have a reminder that pops up on my phone regularly that just says, “emotional contagion.” It’s a great reminder to check in with what kind of energy I’m giving off. Thanks Dan, great vid as usual

Have a lovely weekend Dan! Optimism is like a flower to me! If you plant it in a beautiful pot, adding good soil, it grows and flourishes day by day. And put it in the sunlight too of course! People love meeting ‘ beautiful sunny flowers or 🪴 plants! 🌺🌸🌼🌻🌹🌷🎋

My husband and youngest daughter are optimistic by nature but eldest isn’t.Most of my friends are but I don’t discuss any of this with them as 2 closest friends are nurses and tend to think in the medical way.This is why I like this group because we all get it and can offer support to each other ❤

Thanks Dan! I’m borrowing your optimism today. Did 20 minutes of yoga (which I haven’t done in a long time) and big uptick in symptoms. I know my brain is warning me “don’t do those moves! ⚠️” for the most part I have stayed calm but honestly each flare up tends to scare me. You are deeply appreciated ❤❤ On another note, all my friends are deeply supportive. I do not talk to my sister about it because she wouldn’t get it.

Thank you Dan and good to see Mr Finn! I’m surrounding myself with optimistic people/friends! Can’t be around negative people anymore! Have a great weekend and hope Mom is doing well ❤️

Thanks Dan. Such an important message. I have surrounded myself around others that are optimistic (like me!) on this recovery journey. We all support each other. These are lifetime friends I have made. Seeing Ingrid and Diane in Europe this year! And possibly Annie and Amanda on the east coast in May :)))

Thank you Dan have a great weekend and everyone else 😘😘😘

Hi Dan it's lovely to see Fin and glad to hear you and your mum are well 🤗. Wow that is so true my daughter is so negative about everything , l love her to bits but time out this weekend is for me 😀 . Well the shush thing didn't work 😀 . But i learned to block it out . Have a lovely weekend Dan 😊 and everyone else too 🤗🌻❤️

Have a cousin age 69. Has unmanaged diabetes, I told her the symptoms were obvious but she carried on eating. Pandemic fear etc. Lost her dog last year. Within 5months her health went down the pan. From being on zero meds NHS had her on 8 sorts, one in particular I warned her about. Gut issues got worse. I told her most issues were TMS PDP. Eventually she started listening and took back control, weaning herself off meds except one diabetic med. Still got what she refers to as sciatica but her thinking changing. I can now talk with her more regularly. Have shared your videos. X

Great today, as always. Thank you!! 🐈‍⬛ And Francine 🙋‍♀️🌼🌼🌼

There are also good support groups and it is important to be understood and seen. Safety is build very slowly especially if you come from an unsafe family. You need time to start believing. I truly believe it true what you say, but there are so many steps in between. I am a body orientated psychotherapist myself and the clients I see, most of them feel unsafe and the power of that is so imprinted in them. It takes a lot of time and it really must not become a way of bypassing cause the feeling of fear just comes back.

The friendships I’ve made in the group have made all the difference in my recovery & I don’t know what I’d do without them. We cheer each other on & support each on the tough days. I’m grateful for my forever friends, I just wish we all lived closer together! A few of us are planning a meetup in Hawaii!!! ❤❤❤

Thank you, Dan!!! Love Finn, He reminds me of my Blackie who passed a year ago Thursday Have a Blessed DAY everyone...

I stay away from negative people and groups. Even sometimes if you want to help someone you’re nervous about telling them their pain is not structural, but caused by the brain. Some people want the easy way out through medicine and not deal with the underlying issues. Now I just jump in and out of groups, especially the ones where they say I’ve been journaling for years, and not seen any difference. Yeah no thanks to that method. 💜🌻✨

Thanks Dan for this, and all of your videos. They are powerful and authentic. I have improved since watching your videos, regularly communicating to my brain knowledge and safety. However, it seems I have been on a plateau for some time, with advances and setbacks, advances and setbacks etc. Do you have any videos on what to do when your symptoms improves, yet they plateau but do not diminish? I think you said once that in your case your progress was so gradual that you didn’t know when it ended, it just did. Optimism is key, I agree with that, but it is hard to maintain in this long plateau I am in. Thanks Dan!

Not sure if anyone here can answer this or not. Went through severe trauma in childhood. There were five children, and our father was alcoholic. My mother went into hospital when I was five, and never returned home. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage. An aunt offered to raise me, but took me to an orphanage. Needless to say, my childhood was full of abuse and trauma. Was easy to determine, a lot of my back and neck pain was neurological, but being born with scoliosis, there was physical damage. Before knowing all this I submitted to the surgeries, and drugs. There was so much structural damage that now my whole thoracic and lumbar spine is fused. This led to spinal stenosis. Is it possible to be pain free with even structural damage now?

Dan what is your group like ? Is it an optimist group ? Great to be with optimistic people, but being a member of a group can trigger negative feelings etc, depending on what trauma they you have experienced and where they are on their journey. 😊 Lovely to see Finn 🐈‍⬛ Thanks Dan

I agree 100%. Question and further comment a little off topic here. I discovered that TV noise gives me symptoms (I suffer from migraines). Maybe bc when my head hurts I always need to lie down in a quiet room. Then even on a good day, the TV an give me symptoms. Any ideas how to stop that. Also, when I listen to the stories, some people deserve, then I hen more different symptoms, even when the outcome is great for them. Any ideas how to stop that? Thank you

Your coaching group sounds wonderful but the sessions are too long for me.