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Retrain the brain for health
Join Madeleine Lowry to learn how advanced neural retraining can accelerate healing from chronic health issues — through client stories, expert conversations, and practical insights. New episodes weekly.
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EP.84 INtRO to MAP
What is MAP? Neural Retraining for Stress and Chronic Illness
A clear explanation of how the MAP Method works with the subconscious mind — and why it differs from EMDR, tapping and talk therapy.
EP.72 Getting started
Getting Ready for Your First MAP Session
New to neural retraining? This episode walks you through what to expect before and during your first session — including the 15-minute prep video.
EP.33 complex conditions
MAP for Complex Chronic Conditions — Cathy Moore, PA
A functional medicine PA specializing in CFS, MCAS, chronic Lyme and autoimmune conditions on why she refers patients for MAP and the results her patients see.
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Sensitive People, Multiple Sensitivities and Chronic Illness
Food, chemical, and environmental sensitivities are often driven by an overactive limbic system that has learned to interpret certain stimuli as threats.
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Sensitive People, Personality Patterns and Chronic Illness
Many highly sensitive people develop personality patterns that place a chronic burden on the nervous system, contributing to fatigue and chronic illness.
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Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue is often driven by long-standing stress patterns, especially in highly sensitive people who tend to overgive, overachieve, and carry excessive responsibility.
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Dysautonomia and the Sensitive Nervous System
How dysautonomia — dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system — connects to sensitivity, chronic symptoms and neural retraining.
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Why Sensitive People Are More Impacted by Stress and Trauma
Highly sensitive nervous systems retain stress patterns more easily — and respond especially well to neural retraining.
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Why Sensitive People Experience More Immune and Nervous System Dysregulation
The science behind sensitivity, immune dysregulation, and why sensitivity may make someone more responsive to healing.
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Immune System Dysfunction, Stress and the Brain: The Science of Psychoneuroimmunology
How chronic stress patterns drive immune dysfunction — and how neural retraining can calm the brain-immune threat loop.
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Neural Retraining Explained: Not Hypnosis, Not Therapy — Something Different
A clear, reassuring explanation of how advanced neural retraining works in practice — gentle, effective, and nothing like a trance.
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Identity, Stress and Healing in Midlife
How lifelong roles quietly keep the nervous system locked in stress — and why midlife is when the body can no longer sustain them.
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Nervous System Dysfunction in Midlife: Why Pain, Fatigue and Symptoms Increase
Why symptoms often surface or intensify in midlife and how neural retraining can help restore balance at the source.
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Midlife Symptoms: What Perimenopause Reveals About Your Nervous System
Why midlife is a critical window for healing and how neural retraining can help women regain stability and clarity.
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Why Anxiety, Brain Fog and Fatigue Increase During Perimenopause — and How Neural Retraining Helps
How chronic stress, hormonal shifts and subconscious patterns interact during perimenopause and menopause.
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Neuropathies, the Nervous System and Why Retraining the Brain Can Help
Tingling, burning, itching, numbness and weakness — how neural retraining can calm sensory over-activation.
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Retrain the Brain for Chronic Pain: Why Pain Persists and How It Can Change
How the subconscious mind maintains pain cycles and how neural retraining can interrupt those patterns for lasting relief.
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Men and Chronic Pain: Neural Retraining versus Talk Therapy
How unresolved grief, anger and stress show up in the body as chronic pain — and why neural retraining reaches deeper.
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Women, Stress and Chronic Pain — Understanding Nervous System Overload
Why women experience chronic pain at higher rates and how working with the subconscious can finally help.
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Breaking the Pain Cycle: Neural Retraining for Chronic Pain Relief
Real client stories and insights on how advanced neural retraining can release pain at its roots.
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Retraining the Brain for Chronic Pain: Understanding the Mind-Pain Connection
How the nervous system gets stuck in pain mode — and how neural retraining can help you experience lasting relief.
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Nervous System Dysregulation: Why Your Nervous System Gets Stuck — and How to Get Unstuck
Why the nervous system becomes stuck in chronic fight-or-flight and how working with the subconscious dissolves old patterns.
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The Hidden Role of Identity Patterns in Chronic Symptoms
How subconscious identity patterns shape emotional and physiological responses — and how neural retraining transforms them.
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How Neural Retraining Breaks the Cycle of Chronic Symptoms
Why traditional approaches may never uncover the roots of chronic symptoms — and how neural retraining does.
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The Hidden Causes of Physical Symptoms: Retraining the Brain for Tension Symptoms
How migraines, muscle tightness and hypertension often stem from subconscious emotional patterns rather than physical causes.
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Whole Person Healing: Integrating Conventional Medicine and Neural Retraining — Dr. Alia Paquette
How advanced neural retraining can enhance medical care — addressing emotional and neurological roots of chronic conditions.
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Breaking the Powerlessness Trap in Chronic Illness
How a worldview of powerlessness blocks healing by perpetuating the stress response.
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The Optimal Mindset for Healing — How Acceptance Accelerates Healing
Ancient wisdom and neural retraining: why acceptance and compassion create the inner harmony that allows recovery to unfold.
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Why Worry Keeps You Sick: Breaking the Cycle of Stress and Chronic Illness
How chronic worry keeps the body stuck in a stress response — and why breaking subconscious worry patterns supports recovery.
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Three Mindset Mistakes That Keep You Stuck in Chronic Illness
Black-and-white thinking, resisting what is, preoccupation with fear — how these patterns keep the body trapped in a stress response.
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From Hopeless to Hopeful — Releasing Subconscious Barriers to Healing
Why people remain stuck despite trying countless treatments — and how neural retraining addresses the subconscious blocks.
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Brain Retraining for Chronic Fatigue and Hashimoto's — Janet's Story
How releasing subconscious stress patterns transformed Janet's energy after years of chronic fatigue and Hashimoto's.
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What is MAP? Neural Retraining for Stress and Chronic Illness
How the MAP Method works with the subconscious mind to accelerate mindbody healing and support recovery from chronic illness.
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Heartbreak, Stress and Disease: How Emotions Influence the Onset of Illness
The powerful link between emotional health and physical illness — and why managing your inner world is essential for lasting health.
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Mindbody Healing 2.0: Beyond the Sarno Method with Advanced Neural Retraining
Going beyond the Sarno method to address chronic pain and conditions with advanced neural retraining for lasting healing.
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Beyond DNRS: Brain Retraining for Mold & Chemical Sensitivities — Kendall's Story
9 years of debilitating sensitivities. Tried EMDR, neurofeedback and DNRS without lasting success. Breakthrough with MAP.
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Mindbody Healing for Hypothyroidism — Eriko's Story
Managed hypothyroidism with medication for 20 years, still suffering from anxiety and insomnia. A mindbody approach changed that.
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Stress Relief with MAP on the Go Advanced
A simple MAP tool for stress relief — a guided demonstration you can use even if you've never had a session before.
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Retrain Your Brain for Abundance
How to retrain the brain to experience more abundance — financial, relational, and in physical, mental and emotional health.
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Mindbody Healing for Chronic Pain with Elynn Light
MAP Practitioner Elynn Light on neural retraining for chronic pain and trauma healing — the best investment she ever made.
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Overcoming Anxiety, Fight-or-Flight and Autoimmune Thyroid — Nicki's Story
Anxiety, overthinking, racing thoughts and autoimmune thyroid — comparing MAP to talk therapy, EMDR and vagal toning programs.
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MAP for Emotional and Physical Weight with Jelena Katić Ujević
The role of unresolved emotions in weight gain — and why loving yourself may be the necessary precursor to healthier choices.
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MAP for Chronic Pain — Client Stories
Back pain, joint pain, migraines, scar pain, arthritis and fibromyalgia — how neural retraining addresses chronic pain patterns.
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MAP for Self-Healing — Tess's Story
Sensitivities, chronic headaches, IBS and repetitive negative thoughts — more effective than DNRS, EMDR, somatics and more.
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Getting Ready for Your First MAP Session
How to prepare — the 15-minute prep video, the flow of the first session, and answers to common concerns about the process.
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How to Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body
Practices you can use outside of sessions to optimize your body's healing capacity — complementary to any form of neural retraining.
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Understanding MAP Part II with Dr. Alia Paquette
Having had 20+ MAP sessions, Dr. Alia Paquette asks deeper questions about how and why the method works.
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MAP for Chronic Illness — Susan's Story
10+ years of chronic illness overcome — more effective than somatic work, counseling, EMDR and tapping.
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Understanding the MAP Method with Dr. Alia Paquette
A client with 20 MAP sessions asks pressing questions about how and why the method works.
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MAP for Serious Illness — Alia's Story
How MAP supported Dr. Alia through a harrowing 1.5-year journey with pancreatic cancer — from diagnosis through recovery.
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MAP for Mindbody Health — Josie's Story
How MAP benefits extended to relationships and parenting — plus using the Sensitivities Program for food and mold sensitivities.
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Meet Sofie Hon — MAP Instructor and Practitioner
A top MAP coach in Singapore on creating a ripple effect by training leaders and certifying practitioners.
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MAP for Finding Your Authentic Self
The relationship between finding your true nature and recovering from chronic illness — and how MAP removes the blocks.
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MAP for Chronic Symptoms — Wendi's Story
Chronic gut and immune issues and severe headaches — physical symptoms improved along with mental clarity and empowerment.
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MAP for Changing Your Relationship to Illness
Why your relationship with illness can hinder recovery — and how changing that relationship accelerates healing.
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MAP for Personality Traits That Predispose to Chronic Illness
People-pleasing, perfectionism, over-responsibility — how these traits create the conditions for chronic illness.
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MAP for Emotional Causes of Illness
The biochemistry of mindbody medicine — how working with emotions impacts chronic illness, based on Candace Pert's groundbreaking work.
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MAP for Autoimmunity and CFS — Joseph's Story
CFS and autoimmunity — tried DNRS, EMDR, CFS coaching, tapping and more. Returning to activities with his son after months of crashes.
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MAP for Sleep with Dr. Jenna Foster
Trouble falling asleep, interrupted sleep, nightmares, waking in fear — how neural retraining resolves the underlying patterns.
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MAP for Food and Chemical Sensitivities — Geri's Story
Chronic pain and food, chemical and environmental sensitivities — how the MAP for Sensitivities Program worked in practice.
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MAP and Energy Medicine with Cilla Whatcott, CCH, PhD
Classical homeopath on MAP for anxiety, PTSD, depression, fears and phobias — and the role of trauma in health.
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MAP for Anxiety — Client Stories
Generalized anxiety, acute panic, perfectionism and empath tendencies — how neural retraining resolves long-standing anxiety patterns.
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MAP for Obsessive Thoughts and Anxiety — Lea's Story
Relationship OCD and anxiety — comparing MAP to EMDR, tapping and talk therapy. She recommends it for "anyone experiencing anything."
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MAP for Hypothyroidism and Food Sensitivities — Frances' Story
Low thyroid, brain fog, muscle tension and food sensitivities — improvements from the first session. "Nothing else has given me similar results."
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MAP for Painful Memories — Client Stories
Humiliation, threats, verbal abuse, rejection — how neural retraining neutralizes the intensity of painful emotional memories.
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MAP for Relationship Stress — Client Stories
Complex family dynamics, workplace friction, caring for an abusive elderly parent — resolving relationship stress with neural retraining.
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When the Body Says Yes with Jelena Katić Ujević
Incredible results from a group program for chronic conditions — some participants had never done a MAP session before.
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MAP for Thyroid Health — Melissa's Story
Hypothyroidism, back pain, digestive function and sleep — mental, emotional and physical shifts after 7 sessions.
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MAP for Limbic Dysregulation — Tena's Story
Immune and limbic dysregulation, chronic EBV, mold and food sensitivities — significant improvement after four sessions.
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MAP for Immune Dysfunction — Dawn's Story
MCAS, histamine sensitivities, skin issues, fatigue, asthma and tinnitus — significant reduction after 6 sessions.
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Meet Sarah Lovett — MAP Practitioner and Psychic
How Sarah combines a background in psychic healing with advanced neural retraining for past life issues and psychic awakenings.
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MAP for COVID Long — Rachael's Story
Lost smell and taste and tried everything. By week three of the self-paced program things started coming back.
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MAP for High Blood Pressure — Derrick's Story
Recurring fears, stomach pain, food sensitivities and high blood pressure — improvements after 6 sessions, compared to hypnotherapy.
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MAP for Empaths with Dana Da Ponte
MAP Practitioner Dana Da Ponte on working with highly sensitive people, empaths and intuitives — managing anxiety, overwhelm and self-sabotage.
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MAP for Cancer — Kathy's Story
Working on the radical remission factors alongside stage 4 breast cancer treatment — releasing suppressed emotions as a key to recovery.
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MAP for Emotional Trauma — Aaron's Story
Fundamental change in 60 minutes. The speed at which things shifted after three sessions was what surprised him most.
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MAP for Chronic Pain — Helen's Story
Ankylosing spondylitis pain reduced by more than half. Food intolerances improved. A new relationship with her body after six sessions.
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MAP for the Inner Child with Anne Uemura, PhD
Therapist and MAP practitioner on healing inner wounds from childhood — particularly effective for creatives, intuitives and empaths.
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MAP for Sensitivities with Madeleine Lowry
How working with the brain resolves food, chemical and environmental sensitivities — and the surprising side benefit of improved baseline health.
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MAP for Weight Loss with Debbie Laino
How MAP addresses emotional eating and weight loss — changing the mindset about eating, body image and self-worth.
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MAP for Emotional Fitness with Dr. Kelly Halderman
How MAP completely changed Kelly's life — the most significant impact of any therapy. Chronic fatigue, skin issues and sleep all improved.
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MAP for Optimal Health and Fertility — Kristin's Story
Neural retraining supporting hormonal balance, fertility and whole-body healing — and why Kristin decided to pursue MAP training herself.
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MAP for Food Addiction with Suzanne Bond
Registered nurse and trauma therapist on using MAP for anxiety, fear and addictions — including a breakthrough program for binge eating.
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MAP for Complex Chronic Conditions — Cathy Moore, PA
Functional medicine PA on referring patients for MAP — CFS, MCAS, chronic Lyme and autoimmune conditions — and why she finds it effective.
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MAP Method for Autoimmune with Jelena Katić Ujević
Top MAP coach and instructor on her work with autoimmune and chronic conditions — and impressive results from her program.
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MAP Method FAQs with Amy Soule
Counselor and MAP practitioner answers frequently asked questions — how it works, why it's safe, and applications for emotional, mental and physical health.
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Trauma and Chronic Illness with Madeleine Lowry
The role of trauma in chronic illness, psychoneuroimmunology, and effective methods for resolving trauma to counteract health risks.
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MAP Method Neural Retraining with Colette Streicher
The founder of the MAP Method explains the origins, neuroscience research, and applications — from anxiety and depression to chronic pain and autoimmune disease.
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