28/09/2026
๐ ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ต๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐บ๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ณ.
For years, I read everything I could about health, natural medicine and supplements. I went from one practitioner to the next. Each helped a little, but I was still searching.
A Masterโs degree. Then a PhD in Integrative Medicine.
And when I finished, I was sicker than ever.
How could I know so much about healing and still feel so unwell?
After a deeply traumatic event, my health deteriorated. First pneumonia, then relentless sciatic pain.
I already knew about the mind-body approach to chronic pain. I had even completed foundational training. But I hadnโt fully understood how it applied to me.
Then I picked up Dr John Sarnoโs Healing Back Pain, which had been waiting on my shelf for years.
This time, something connected.
Everything I had learned about the body, psychology and emotional healing helped me understand his work. It felt like the final piece of a picture I had spent years putting together.
I began to recognise how often I pushed through sadness, anger and fear without allowing myself to feel them.
So I started to.
When I was sad, I cried. When I was angry, I acknowledged it and wrote about it. I became clearer about what I would no longer accept from others.
I stopped interpreting every sensation as a sign that something was wrong.
As my fear eased, I began noticing changes. I ate tomatoes and citrus fruit again, wore perfume and returned to things I had avoided for years.
This experience made me value learning even more.
Knowledge builds in layers. Every book, course and experience had contributed. But knowing about something and understanding what it means in your own life can be very different.
Sometimes, one final piece changes how you understand everything that came before.
Is there something you keep postponing learning or exploring, even though it keeps coming back to your attention?
Perhaps it is the piece that helps everything else fall into place.
Warmly,
Dr. Dunya Berg
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