Mind Your Body

A Revolutionary Program to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety

De: Nicole J. Sachs LCSW, John Stracks MD - foreword

Narrado por: Nicole J. Sachs LCSW, John Stracks MD

Learn how to free yourself from chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, and myriad debilitating conditions through the transformative process of nervous system regulation in this accessible guide from psychotherapist and leading Mindbody clinician Nicole Sachs.

At a time when chronic pain and other conditions have reached epidemic proportions, and the medical model is coming up short for so many of us, Mind Your Body shares the evidence-based practices that can help deliver listeners from hopelessness to freedom. Most people who come to Nicole Sachs have exhausted all other paths to cope with their chronic back and bodily pain, IBS, sciatica, pelvic pain, long COVID, migraines, fibromyalgia, nerve inflammation, skin conditions, anxiety and panic disorders, and many more health conditions. Maybe they’re considering surgery or other interventions, with no real promise of a cure, or maybe the surgeries and treatments they’ve already attempted have proved disappointing and they are desperate for relief.

Sachs knows that these kinds of syndromes often don’t originate from a physical source. Rather, they are fueled by trauma responses associated with deeply rooted psychological and emotional triggers that send the brain and the nervous system into fight or flight.

In Mind Your Body, Sachs teaches listeners about Mindbody medicine—which helped her overcome her own debilitating pain and dark prognosis. She explains the essential practice of turning inward, using her revolutionary JournalSpeak method, which has enabled countless people to achieve striking mental, emotional, and physical healing. Mind Your Body takes chronic pain recovery into its next stage, for a new generation of listeners who have been so underserved by our medical system.

©2025 Nicole J. Sachs and John Stracks (P)2025 Penguin Audio

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“Nicole Sachs deeply understands the connection between trauma, the body, and chronic illness, and her transformative program can help anyone suffering from chronic pain live a better life.” –Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

“While the young mind is filled with potential, it also stores the seedlings of chronic pain. Nicole Sachs is on a mission to help us understand the brain’s power to connect emotional experiences with physical responses, so that pain becomes surmountable. Her deep conviction and crystal clarity are life-changing, literally. This is a must read not just for people managing chronic pain but also for the healthcare providers eager to help them.” —Cara Natterson, MD, bestselling author of The Care and Keeping of You and This Is So Awkward

“This fascinating and empowering book offers a deep dive into how our minds can wreak havoc or weave healing in our lives. Nicole Sachs, from her own lived experience and clinical work, reveals an empowering path to well-being. Filled with detailed accounts of how stressful events shape the pain we experience in our bodies and anxiety in our emotional landscapes, we learn how strengthening mental skills of attention, awareness, and self-compassion can transform our suffering, as we shift from merely surviving to thriving in a new life of freedom and choice.”–Daniel Siegel, MD, author of the NYT bestseller Aware

Nicole takes you on journey of healing

Nicole is so easy to listen to. I have loved her podcast for years. She helped me cure myself of chronic headaches, shoulder pain & knee pain. Could not recommend more to anyone who really is looking for a cure for chronic pain.

unlock your superpower

I have been following Nicole Sachs' podcast since July and started doing the work back then. I no longer have chronic pain. This book is a step by step on how to do that. Nicole took everything she has been teaching for 20+ years and put it into this easy to read/listen to book. Do yourself a favor and read this book!!

My security blanket

Thank you Nicole for changing my life and holding my hand through all of this. You truly do such amazing work.

Life changing

Very relatable and eye opening. May have to listen twice. Appreciate Nicole making this book so easy to understand.

She. Is. The. Guru.

This Audiobook is so good. Nicole’s read is really well-paced and even though I have listened to every single podcast (some more than once) and been in countless community calls and experiences with her, I am still learning new things from the book — seeing things from a new perspective. Highly recommend!!

Easy to digest and Actionable!

Nicole is easy to listen to and understand as she shares this heartfelt book. It is laid out well, gives distinct directions and a lot of basis for her work. Her voice is so soothing, but also empowering. I have borrowed several quotes for daily reminders and will listen more than once.

This book will change your life!

When I first learned about the concepts of mindbody medicine and TMS, I approached them with a healthy skepticism. I did some research and found that there's a ton scientific evidence to support these concepts. But the real proof came when I started doing the work and experiencing the results.

Nicole Sachs is THE expert when it comes to this stuff. There are many good books on this topic, but Mind Your Body is, by far, the single best source of everything you need to know to start healing.

The ideas in this book are beneficial to everyone. This is life changing stuff. This is not "alternative medicine", it's real science-based medicine that urgently needs to be integrated into our Western medical model.

I especially love the audiobook version of Mind Your Body because it is read by Nicole. Her confidence and her desire to help people can be heard in her voice throughout the entire book.

Life Changing

There are no other words that I can use to properly describe this book besides LIFE CHANGING. Thank you Nicole!

This knowledge saved my life - do not dismiss this!!

This book is world class!!! In 2016 I was bedridden at 40 years old due to what I was told spinal stenosis, sciatica, scoliosis, and 3 hearniated discs. Mind you, I was a fit gym owner with an MS in Exercise Science and it was 6 months after my dad tragically died. It seemed to come out of nowhere. Because I owned the town gym I had access to 7 different therapies with doctors, PT's, Airrosti, and even went to a flipping shaman. It became so bad I couldn't go from sitting to standing without screaming and couldn't ride in a car. This was the worst pain imaginable and I used to just lay on the floor of my living room and cry wondering if I would ever be able to sit up again.

One day I randomly saw a 20 second ad on YouTube about TMS and Dr John Sarno. At this point it had been 6 months of trying literally everything and being let down, so I listened to his short book Healing Back Pain.

Before I was even done with the book I felt less pain, this is no exaggeration!! I listened to it probably ten times and started keeping a rage journal. Within a couple days I drove my CAR!!!! Nobody ever listens to me when I share this story, they think it's all hippiedippie woo woo but to this day I have had no back pain ever. Guys, even my foot and thigh was numb before this knowledge.

Here we are nearly ten years later and I've been dealing with hiatal hernia pain for 4 years now. Somehow, Nicole ended up in my radar and I started hearing her podcast. Within a few days I no longer have a single hernia symptom because I made the connection that DUH!!! It's TMS! I've been symptom free since, back to my journaling.

I devoured her new book in a straight listen and I feel this should be mandatory reading for every human. This stuff is so so real. I know so many around me would rather suffer in pain than believe they have any personal influence over the issue, but it's a choice to open your mind to a new way of thinking.

Do not walk to get this book, RUN. It's harder to live life in pain than it is to journal the ugly dark parts of you that your brain is trying to protect you from.


This book will change your life.

Profound healing

Nicole Sachs is the real deal. Her methods truly work. I’ve been following her for years and I’ve been thrilled to listen to this book, get reminded of the basics, and deepen my knowledge. If you’re struggling in chronic pain and you’re ready to start healing, this book is for you.