Hello, All!

Thank you so much to all who attended the incredible workshop with Pictal Health. It was so wonderful to share with you, and create an open space of listening and curiosity.

Here is a video of the session, for those who couldn’t make it, and you can find lots more helpful links below. 

“In this session, psychotherapist, life coach and chronic illness warrior Christina Kantzavelos will shared insights about the mind-body connection and talked about the impact of health history timelines on our psyche. We reviewed some complex visual timelines in the Pictal app and discussed takeaways, and had some insightful Q&A at the end. Thank you Christina!”

Some resources I shared: 

• Christina’s website - Begin Within Today

• More about my symptom tracking journal 

• And check out my curated, free resources, (scroll down) which include information on the mind-body tools discussed today

Pictal Health:

• Website - those interested in joining and using the app can use code 'begin' at checkout for 20% off

• Sign up for the Pictal newsletter to get non-spammy news, inspiration, and app updates

 Free Pictal templates for telling your health story (didn’t get to talk about all of these, but they are here for you):

• Draw your timeline and symptoms 

• Create a symptom map in google drive 

• Assemble your health history in a google doc

And a few more things mentioned in our amazing chat: 

• This resource on neural retraining (Thanks to lovely Lauren)

• This article about the proven benefits of emotional awareness and expression therapy (Thanks Tru): “A single course of treatment with emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET) was associated with a significantly greater reduction in chronic pain severity than cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the current psychotherapeutic gold standard, a new study suggested.”

Not mentioned but should have been: 

• Lauren Freedman hosts this awesome podcast - Uninvisbile Pod - about invisible illness. How did I not know about this!? Thanks Lauren for your enthusiasm! We appreciate you so much.

Thank you again to all who took part in this incredible event with Pictal Health. Every chance to connect and learn is time well spent.

Wishing you all immense health, love and abundance for the season ahead!

<3Christina K.