MAP for Chronic Pain - Helen's Story
Flourish with Neural Retraining Podcast, Episode 40 - A Listener's Guide

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In This Episode
- Why Helen describes MAP sessions as "simple yet profound."
- How other neural retraining methods she tried compare to the MAP Method.
- The mind-body connection and how working with the mind can resolved chronic pain patterns.
Show Notes
Join me for episode 40 where we talk with my client, Helen Scharber, about her experience with MAP sessions, a method of advanced neural retraining, for her chronic pain from an autoimmune condition known as Ankylosing Spondylitis and food sensitivities. Hear about what it is like to be in a MAP session, the benefits she received from a set of 6 sessions and why she would recommend the method to others.
In this episode we discuss:
- Helen’s health journey, which has included 20 years of chronic pain from an autoimmune rheumatic condition known as Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS).
- How her food sensitivities made her AS symptoms worse and methods she had tried to resolve them.
- Why she decided to try working with her subconscious mind to resolve food sensitivities.
- Other basic neural retraining methods (EMDR, tapping) and how they compare to MAP.
- How she found the MAP Method, and why she decided to work with me.
- Description of the MAP Method and the role of the practitioner.
- How your subconscious mind reveals its programming through MAP sessions.
- Why Helen describes MAP sessions as “easy and relaxing” and also “simple yet profound.”
- How, after a few months, Helen’s chronic pain subsided and most of her food sensitivities have resolved.
- The waxing and waning of physical symptoms through the MAP process and why she found it “comforting.”
- We discuss Dr. John Sarno’s work and the mind-body connection.
- Her informal ROI calculation of costs vs. benefits of MAP sessions.
Don’t miss episode 33 where we discuss the MAP Method for complex chronic conditions with Functional Medicine specialist, Cathy Moore.
To learn more about the MAP Method please visit MindReMAPforHealth.com to sign up for your introductory MAP package, or a free 15-minute consultation by phone.
Learn more
- Listen to more Flourish with Neural Retraining podcast episodes.
- Learn more about the MAP Method and How it Works.
- Watch the Frequently Asked Questions videos.
- How the MAP Method effectively heals trauma.
- Check out our free course on the MAP Method and how it is used for mind-body healing


Madeleine Lowry, NTP, CMMP
Certfied MAP Method Practitioner
Madeleine specializes in neural retraining for chronic conditions. As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, she worked with many clients who were interested in eliminating allergies, sensitivities and intolerances. After learning a basic method and seeing its limitations, she trained in an advanced method of retraining the brain and now offers MAP sessions over Zoom and online self-paced programs for Anxiety/Depression, Sensitivities, Chronic Pain, Self-Healing, and COVID Long.