Jack McDade

I tinkered with a personal site redesign all Christmas break and never really got anywhere. Go figure — as soon as I get back to work the inspiration struck. Ain't that just how it works? Even got to resurrect Kyle Steed's "Steedicons" for this one.

This is a *really* nice review of radicaldesigncourse.com 😊 Thank you Mira!

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

Let me know if this is something you'd want me to share more about. I have done tons of research, tried a crap load of stuff that didn't work, have had successes that conventional medicine says is nonsense, & am carving out a barely traveled path here. I cut out 99% of my story.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

Every day isn't amazing, and sometimes i feel like it's one step forward, two steps back, but looking back at where i was 6 months ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago... and know I've absolutely found a path towards healing that is proving itself to be effective and fills me with hope.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

TL;DR it's incredible how much damage you can do to yourself by hunching over a computer 8-10 hours a day for 25 years. I started doing weekly Functional Patterns training sessions with a 15 minute cranial/jaw massage and within 2 months started to feel ALMOST normal again. ‼️

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

I actually went back and read my "Struggle Bus" post to remember how all this started and thought harder on the TMJ/nerve side of things and went down a rabbit hole of research, which led me to deciding to go back to this one fantastic massage therapist I had been to a few times.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

After a few weeks I was able to stop cycling in endless unproductive loops of worrying what was wrong with me, not to mention not having the sudden heart racing/passing out sensations and I felt more like a human again. Maybe not my former self exactly, but it brought hope.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

These symptoms compounded everything else going on and cause a lot of signal interference. I saw a psychiatrist who promptly diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (as they do with probably everybody) and he put me on Lexapro, an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor).

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

Not only that, but our catecholamines (neurohormones that include dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline) can get completely out of wack for a number of reasons, like genetics, nutritional deficiencies, viruses, gut imbalances, and so on.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

Anxiety is so much more complicated, and I'm embarrassed to even admit how naive I had been. Our bodies keep the score — our unresolved traumas live inside us and change us, change our physiology. Anxiety can well up from completely subconscious sources.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

This was a turning point for me. Through good counseling I was able to separate some of the symptoms into two categories, two potential sources for the combined clusterf*** I had become.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

For the most part nobody could find anything wrong with me. My bloodwork was nearly perfect. Scans revealed nothing. Chiros couldn't crack the problem away, doctors couldn't prescribe a fix. "Maybe it's just in your head" they would say. Cool. Cool cool cool.

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

It's kinda sad to read that post and think "Oh you naive little puppy, you've only scratched the surface and barely started suffering."

I've been on a really long journey with my health and decided that it's time to share a bit more. I've learned so much (and have so much left to learn) and want to put this out there in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

For the last 5 years I've been dealing with brain fog, lightheadedness, heart racing or palpitations, sometimes i would suddenly almost pass out, dizziness, fatigue, migraines, poor sleep, and other related symptoms, and eventually — near-crippling anxiety and panic attacks.