Calming and rerouting your nervous system requires learning skills and embedding them with repetition. Spend only 10-20 minutes a day on a lesson on The DOC Journey course, and no more. Although you may notice some early changes, significant healing usually occurs over three to six months.

Coaching sessions are a powerful adjunct to the DOC Journey course, but not a substitute. They add depth to your learning, and spending time with others is anti-inflammatory and healing.

Here are some foundational resources:

• Read Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain 
  • Knowing the nature of chronic mental and physical pain and understanding the healing principles gives you the foundation from which to take charge of your own care.
    
    
• The “C”quence of healing is the framework for the healing approaches
  
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-another-name-for-pain/202301/the-cquence-of-healing-chronic-illness 
    
    
• The circle of life with the “ring of fire” is the signature tool. Awareness is the starting point for every aspect of your journey.
  
  • https://courses.thedocjourney.com/products/the-doc-journey/categories/2148041402/posts/2148555878 
    
    
• Minimizing your time in threat physiology and maximizing safety
  
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-another-name-for-pain/202303/healing-pain-and-major-league-baseball  
    
    
• Instead of “fixing” your pain, you’ll be using approaches that stimulate your brain to form circuits AWAY from the mental/ physical pain circuits. The structure of your brain physically changes by neuroplasticity.
  
  • https://courses.thedocjourney.com/products/the-doc-journey/categories/2147794495/posts/2148578356%20

 
April

2– Program Orientation & Introduction to Dynamic Healing

• Healing Begins at Home – The DOC Journey Starting Point

7 – Lesson 1 — The Constructed Self: How Identity Forms

• Understanding the 'Curse of Consciousness'

9 – Lesson 2 — Identity and the Threat System

• Our Need to Feel Safe

14 – Lesson 3 — Multiple Selves: The Person You Are in Different Rooms

• Why Do You Need an Ego? Dissolve It with Awareness

16 – Creative Session

21 – Lesson 4 — The Identity We Inherited

• AI and the Cumulative Effects of Trauma

23 – Lesson 5 — Toward an Anchored Identity: Stable Without Being Rigid

• Who Do You Choose to Be Today? 

28 – Lesson 6 — What Is Mental Rigidity?

• Mindfulness Should Not Be Taught in School – Really??

30 – Lesson 7 — Rigidity and Suffering: The Evidence

• Four Aspects of Solving RUTs

May

5 – Creative Session

7– Lesson 8 — Rigidity in Relationships

• Social Anxiety – Vulnerability Doesn't Feel Safe

12 – Lesson 9 — The Inner Critic as a Rigid System

• The Myth of Self-Esteem

14 – Lesson 10 — Rigidity and the Body: Where It Lives

• Calming and Stabilizing Your Nervous System

19 – Lesson 11 — What Does Softening Mean?

• Quit Fighting Darkness and Turn on the Light

21 – Creative Session

26 – Lesson 12 — Mindfulness as the Foundation of Softening

• Active Meditation – A Simple Starting Point

28 –  Lesson 13 — Defusion: Loosening the Grip of Thoughts

• Anxiety Basics

June

2 - Lesson 14 — The Role of Self-Compassion in Softening

• Connection – The Antithesis of Pursuing Self-Esteem

4 – Lesson 15 — Practicing Flexibility: Daily Micro-Moves

• Navigating Life Is Similar to Playing Major League Baseball

9 – Lesson 16 — What Is Reprogramming?

• The C-quence of Healing Chronic Illness

11 – Creative Session

16 – Lesson 17 — The Stories We Run: Identifying Core Programs

• Motivated by 'The Talent Code'

18 – Lesson 18 — Installing New Programs: Compassion as Code

• Powerful Pain Relief – Schadenfreude or Altruism – Your Choice

23 – Lesson 19 — Obstacles to Reprogramming: When the Old Program Fights Back

• Downhill Skiing Is Dangerous – So Is Life

25 - Lesson 20 — Integration: A New Way of Being

• Be an Expert at Living Life

30 – Creative session