Retrain the Brain for Chronic Illness | Anxiety and Stress Relief, Immune Dysregulation, Nervous System Regulation, Food and Chemical Sensitivities, Mindbody Healing

Midlife often arrives with unexpected symptoms—heightened stress sensitivity, emotional volatility, sleep disruption, physical tension, or a sense that your body can no longer “hold it all together.”

In this episode, Madeleine Lowry explores why midlife is such a turning point for women’s health, not simply because of hormonal changes, but because the nervous system has reached its limit after decades of cumulative stress, responsi...

Anxiety often shows up or intensifies during perimenopause and menopause—even for women who have never struggled with it before.

In this episode neural retraining specialist, Madeleine Lowry, explores why midlife can be such a tipping point for anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, and emotional overwhelm, and why these symptoms are not a personal failure or something to “just push through.”

You’ll learn how long-term stress affects the ad...

Neuropathic symptoms—such as tingling, burning, itching, numbness, trembling, or unexplained weakness—can be just as distressing as chronic pain, yet they are often misunderstood or difficult to treat.

In this episode neural retraining specialist, Madeleine Lowry, explains why these symptoms are closely related to pain patterns and how the nervous system plays a central role in generating and maintaining them—especially when medica...

Chronic pain is real—but it isn’t always caused by ongoing tissue damage. In this episode of Retrain Your Brain for Chronic Illness, Madeleine Lowry explores how the brain processes pain, why pain can persist long after the body has healed, and how subconscious stress patterns keep pain cycles active.

Drawing on the foundational work of Dr. John Sarno and modern advances in neural retraining, Madeleine explains how emotional suppre...

In this episode of Retrain the Brain for Chronic Illness, Madeleine Lowry explores a topic that is rarely discussed: men and their pain. While chronic pain is often approached as a purely physical issue, this conversation looks at how emotional suppression, nervous system overload, and societal expectations uniquely impact men’s health.

Madeleine discusses how men are often conditioned to bury emotions such as grief, fear, anger, a...

Why do so many women live with chronic pain—and why is it so often misunderstood or dismissed?

In this episode, Madeleine Lowry explores the powerful connection between emotional and physical pain, and why women are particularly vulnerable to developing chronic pain patterns.

Drawing on neuroscience, nervous system physiology, and her  experience as a neural retraining specialist, Madeleine explains how the same areas of the brain ...

Essential listening for anyone living with chronic pain—migraines, back pain, fibromyalgia, abdominal pain, joint pain, neuralgia, or unexplained pain patterns—who is ready to explore a deeper, more empowering path to relief.

Madeleine Lowry and fellow neural retraining specialist, Susan Isom, explore one of the most misunderstood topics in chronic illness: the true role of the mind and subconscious in chronic pain.

While pain is a...

Most people believe chronic pain is strictly a physical issue—but modern neuroscience tells us a very different story.

In this episode, Madeleine Lowry explains why the brain and nervous system play the central role in pain, why emotional pain and physical pain are neurologically intertwined, and how subconscious stress patterns can keep the body locked in a cycle of tension, inflammation, and ongoing discomfort.

You’ll learn how t...

Why Your Nervous System Gets “Stuck” — and How Subconscious Neural Retraining Sets You Free

If you’ve been living with chronic symptoms—fatigue, pain, tension, sensitivities, autoimmune flare-ups, anxiety, or long-standing nervous system dysregulation—you may wonder why your body won’t reset, no matter how many treatments, supplements, or strategies you try.

In this episode neural retraining specialist, Madeleine Lowry, explains wh...

In this episode neural retraining specialist, Madeleine Lowry, explores the hidden identity patterns that quietly shape the nervous system and drive chronic symptoms, from fatigue and pain to sensitivities and autoimmune flare-ups.

You’ll learn how early subconscious roles — like being the strong one, the peacekeeper, the achiever, or even “the sick one” — can keep the body locked in chronic stress and how advanced neural retrainin...

Are you curious about whether your chronic symptoms might have roots in the subconscious mind?

In this episode, neural retraining specialist Madeleine Lowry explains why emotional and mental patterns often underlie long-standing physical symptoms—and how advanced subconscious work can finally shift patterns that have kept you stuck for years.

You’ll learn why chronic symptoms rarely begin “out of nowhere,” why the conscious mind ca...

In this episode Madeleine explores how tension symptoms—such as migraines, neck pain, hypertension, heart palpitations, muscle tension and cramps—often originate from subconscious emotional patterns.

Building on the foundational work of Dr. John Sarno and the modern science of neural retraining, she demonstrates how persistent tension is not random but deeply tied to unresolved stress, fears, beliefs, and internalized pressures.

Th...

What happens when modern medicine meets mind-body healing?

In this inspiring episode, Madeleine Lowry talks with Dr. Alia Paquette, a practicing medical doctor and certified MAP Method™ practitioner who bridges two worlds—the science of Western medicine and the power of subconscious neural retraining.

Together they explore how advanced neural retraining can enhance medical care by addressing the emotional and neurological roots of...

Are you stuck in chronic illness, battling chronic symptoms like pain and fatigue, and constantly feeling powerless over your own health? 

Join host Madeleine Lowry, a neural retraining specialist, as she explores the mindset mistakes that block your ability to heal and perpetuate the stress response. We reveal how core negative beliefs keep minor threats looming large, creating a cycle of helplessness.

Three common themes fuel thi...

What if the key to healing wasn’t found in doing more, but in allowing more?

In this episode, neural retraining specialist Madeleine Lowry explores the optimal mindset for healing through the timeless wisdom of the Tao Te Ching — the ancient Chinese text known as The Way.

Drawing on both modern neuroscience and ancient philosophy, Madeleine reveals how resistance keeps us trapped in cycles of fear and tension, and how acceptance, s...

In this episode of Retrain the Brain for Chronic Illness, neural retraining specialist Madeleine Lowry dives deep into how worry and chronic stress perpetuate illness and block recovery.

Drawing on research from Dr. Lissa Rankin, Dr. Candace Pert, and Dr. Robert Naviaux, she explains how persistent worry and fear can activate the cell danger response (CDR) — a protective state that shuts down energy production and healing at the ce...

Are your thoughts keeping you stuck in chronic illness?

In this episode of Retrain the Brain for Chronic Illness neural retraining specialist, Madeleine Lowry, explores three common mindset mistakes that can quietly sabotage healing—black-and-white thinking, resisting what is, and preoccupation with fear or powerlessness.

You’ll learn how these subconscious patterns fuel the body’s stress response, keeping the nervous system locked...

In this follow-up to Janet’s powerful story of overcoming chronic fatigue with the MAP Method™, Madeleine explores why so many people feel stuck in their healing journey despite trying countless treatments, therapies, and brain retraining programs.

She explains how subconscious blocks—unresolved stress, painful emotions, and limiting beliefs—can quietly sabotage even the best medical or alternative approaches.

You’ll learn why true...

Welcome to Retrain the Brain for Chronic Illness, the podcast for anyone living with chronic fatigue, persistent pain, autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s, nervous system dysregulation, or sensitivities that make daily life overwhelming.

I’m your host, Madeleine Lowry, a neural retraining specialist who has guided hundreds of clients through thousands of virtual sessions. Over and over, my clients tell me that addressing the min...