For decades I was disconnected from my body, my voice and who I really am as a creative and poet. My nervous system kept me spinning through a trauma-induced fear response which created loads of anxiety and chronic symptoms. And where did that leave me? Practically disabled. Before I discovered mind-body neuroscience in 2017, I was mostly homebound, using a cane to walk, and had just been measured for a wheelchair. Chronic pain had taken over my entire life and identity.

But with mind-body neuroscience I uncovered the truth beneath my debilitating symptoms. Self-pressure, repressed emotion and disconnection from my true self and body were fueling my misery. Understanding the true root causes of my physical symptoms taught me how to take my health and power back from my chronically limited life. That year I freed myself from IBS, fibromyalgia, POTS, CFS, sciatica, TMJ, chronic pain in my back, neck, hands, wrists, hips and feet, as well as symptoms and pain due to hEDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome).

At the same time, my regular writing practice was exploding with poems and stories which taught me how and why I had suffered through decades of chronic symptoms that I thought were permanent. Freeing my body, emotions and voice felt like I was walking through a mind-body miracle. This new reality was beyond anything I had dreamed possible for myself. I wasn’t just eliminating body pain and chronic symptoms, I was discovering my creative voice for the first time!

With this new found freedom, my deepest desire was to share this incredible healing path with as many people as I could. So I became a certified life coach and mind-body practitioner in order to help clients recover from their chronic symptoms. I also created and taught my mind-body healing course, How We Heal Chronic Pain & Fatigue, which opened new pathways for students to take their health and lives back.

In 2025, after six years of coaching and teaching, I paused my work with clients in order to return to the original poems and stories that helped me heal in 2017. These have now become my mind-body healing memoir, Wildness Within, which is not yet published. I hope it will be available within the next year and can’t wait to share it with you. Meanwhile, I’m sharing my stories and poems on Substack, social media and in my email newsletter. So connect with me in these places and if you sign up for my email newsletter you’ll be sure to know when my book is available!

As I let go of my 1:1 coaching work, I plan to bring more of my healing story, mind-body expertise and creative writing to you! A huge part of this shift is starting my new podcast, Creating Space with Michelle Wiegers, which helps you make room for your authentic self while learning to let go of self-pressure, anxiety, and mind-body symptoms. Through my podcast episodes, email reflection prompts and live workshop experiences, I hope to help you grow a deeper relationship with yourself. And when you subscribe to my email newsletter, you will receive my Creating Space Reflection Prompts which will help you to apply episode topics to your own experience. 

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