In This Episode

• Meet Dr. Alia Paquette and hear about how she uses MAP sessions for self-care.
• Hear how MAP supported her through 2 years of traumas including cancer.
• Learn why she regards the brain as the foundation of health.

Show Notes

Join me for episode 67 where we talk with my client, Dr. Alia Paquette, about her experiences with the MAP Method and how MAP supported her through a harrowing 1 ½ year journey with pancreatic cancer, from diagnosis to surgery, ensuing complications, and painful recovery. Hear how she incorporates MAP sessions as a part of her self-care routine, along with acupuncture, and why she calls it “EMDR on steroids.”

In this episode we discuss:

• Dr. Paquette’s interest, as a primary care physician, and in helping her patients find the resources that will work for them.
• How Western medicine’s mental health support options, which include antidepressants, talk therapy, and EMDR, are often not enough.
• How she heard about the MAP Method and immediately signed up her partner for sessions, based on his significant trauma history.
• The impact of his first session and why she decided to try MAP herself., even though she did not have a trauma history.
• The sequence of traumas that befell her in the next 2-3 years, including the pandemic, wildfires, house fire, loss of pets, and a serious and prolonged health crisis, and how MAP has helped her cope.
• How she regards MAP sessions as ongoing self-care, similar to acupuncture or physical therapy.
• Why we have as a culture separated mind from body and why that has to change.
• Why she understands the brain to be “the foundation of health.”
• How painful emotional experiences of any kind, even if they seem minor, can register in the brain as trauma.
• How she utilized MAP sessions to cope with every step of her pancreatic cancer journey, from the traumatic experiences around diagnosis, pre and post surgery, hospital experiences, life-threatening complications, extreme weight loss, additional procedures, and chronic gut and pain symptoms.
• Why she uses MAP sessions instead of talk therapy due to its efficiency and why she says MAP is so dramatically effective, so quickly.
• How loving yourself and prioritizing yourself is the way that you support your body and your health.

If you enjoy this episode, don’t miss Episode 35: MAP for Optimal Health and Fertility to hear Kristen’s story about MAP for hormonal imbalances, relationship stress, and sensitivities and her understanding of how MAP works.

To learn more about the MAP Method, please visit MAPforHealth.us for our free courses. To schedule an Introductory MAP session please book online at MindReMAPforHealth.com

Moments

[42:30] The sessions we did that focused on the pain symptoms also helped. Even just doing a session on the symptoms, like a switch would turn them off, and when they turned on again, they were never as bad. By supporting where my brain was with all of this, I was able to calm the symptoms down and some cases eliminate them.

[43:45] We did a session on chronic pain that came on at 10 o’clock at night that would keep me awake until 2 or 3 in the morning. We explored where that could be coming from and it wrapped around to the trauma of the surgical experience when I’d woken up trapped in a room where the medical staff were ignoring me. When we cleared that trauma, the pain symptoms stopped. That doesn’t happen anymore.

[45:00] The amazing part of all of this is that whether it’s a new mental health symptom or a physical symptom, I am no longer afraid. I utilize the MAP resources that I have at my disposal until I can have a session again.

[51:45] MAP gives such dramatic insight into self, and past experiences, and how they affect you currently. It’s so immediate and different [from talk therapy] even in one session–it’s EMDR on steroids. It’s so dramatically effective, so quickly.

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