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# More external resources to learn and practice safety
- URL: https://www.hello-self.fr/external-resources-en/
- Published: 2025-10-27T09:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-15T18:54:25.000Z
- Description: In this post I'll link all the external free resources and books that I found helpful!
- Author: Alice
- Tags: All posts, Library, #english

Here are links to more Long Covid and ME/CFS resources, to **learn about the nervous system** and do **guided** **practices**. I will link specific videos, but the YouTube channels are all very good, so feel free to explore them more! 

If you want to to discover **recovery stories**, please refer to [this post](https://www.hello-self.fr/more-recovery-stories-en/)!

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I'm ****not affiliated** with any of the authors listed here.

## Learning more about mind body healing

**🖥️ Videos**

Here are some of the videos that helped me **understand the concept of mind body healing**.

Interview with Dr Howard Schubiner:

- [The neuroscience of mind body and how we can recover from ME/CFS and Long Covid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vF0XNBTv9A)
- [A New Way to Understand Long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS & More](https://www.curablehealth.com/podcast/a-new-way)
- [The way out of ME/CFS and Long Covid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xls0rxJGo4)\- Interview with Dr Becca Kennedy
- [How to overcome ME/CFS and Long Covid and feel good again](https://youtu.be/WFeMEq159Dg?si=YUErwvxmRKFqPL8M)\- Rebecca Tolin
- [The #1 best way to increase activity](https://youtu.be/I6HE8WtI2Z4?si=Ny6IhMomVyGMCUNF) \- Miguel Bautista
- [Consistent messages of safety: 24 examples](https://youtu.be/5SsKnAgAvnY?si=0oA0vYOpYnDN9g71) \- Dan Buglio
- [Recovery from fear](https://youtu.be/VSmTe8zPXh0?si=FOnt6W1IJ-i23mqx) \- Dan Buglio
- [How to learn to shift sates](https://youtu.be/q1YulCGbUjs?si=wkGRBA6SwKIUcx5G) \- Worthy of Healing
- [Am I in D.O.S.E?](https://youtu.be/ze6ysr7rSoU?si=%5F1OtaDF90ofk3sb0) \- Christina Choy  
*D.O.S.E is an acronyme for "safety" hormones, it stands for Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphin.*
- [I Spent 20 Years Treating Anxiety Wrong — Here's What Changed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDeHcH%5F3wuY) \- Maggie Sterling

**📘 Books** (also available as audiobooks)

- **Breaking Free** \- Jan Rothney
- **Pain Free You** \- Dan Buglio
- **Recover** \- Dr Sally Riggs
- **The Way Out** \- Alan Gordon

## Guided practices

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Here are **my** **favorite** guided practices.   
🔈 This icon means that the practice has background music.

### Meditations

- For really severe people : [Very Short Meditations (1-5 min) For Low Capacity and/or For Beginners](https://claudiacaracol.com/index.php/2025/10/18/very-short-meditations-for-low-capacity-and-or-for-beginners/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNhkr9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpIJFIiAaxDD-2g3HiROpPm%5FTGz1rbJe0B4jDpskpRahMJ2dKKEB16Gb9KR%5F%5Faem%5FsI51qKtDw%5FUXj03ItipUxQ) \- by Claudia Caracol
- [Somatic tracking for Emotions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVYgcT2rImE) (10 min) - *The Pain PT*
- [Somatic tracking for Symptoms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf5scmC6E78) (10 min) - *The Pain PT*
- [How to stop fighting against your symptoms](https://youtu.be/thHM1%5FUMhEY?si=yMhr2ZQVTeGg8HPK&t=289) (12 min) - *Tanner Murtagh*
- [Acceptance and surrender meditation](https://youtu.be/elOOJQxb2Qg?si=-SLE-MSgtU2FZE87) (🔈 22 min) - *Ashok Gupta*
- [Everything will be okay](https://youtu.be/cWCpr38Dm9M?si=Qm0O-pUouvJIu9lA) (🔈 10 min) - *Great Meditation*
- [You will get through this](https://youtu.be/Zk8aZhB56BQ?si=Ni-qhqCIPqWqI5u6) (🔈 17min) - *The Meditation Resource*
- [Meditation to heal from ME/CFS](https://youtu.be/mT%5FogHg45jM?si=gSUA3fDwUyTUpn4D) (🔈 20 min) - *Healing Gems*

### **Sleep & insomnia**

- [Racing thoughts while trying to sleep? Try this](https://youtu.be/ft-vhYwHzxw?si=V2PJPYxdaMVpCQn5) (10 min) - Headspace
- [Insomnia Meditation](https://youtu.be/zT9Qy4G885g?si=kM0RPUqNmwXCAVZV) (45 min) - Ally Boothroyd

### **Yoga nidra & body scan meditations**

- [Restore mental and physical energy](https://youtu.be/NheUaAEwyG8?si=2yz0QOKV28Ce%5F%5F8a) (🔈 17 min) - Ally Boothroyd
- [Non sleep deep rest](https://youtu.be/99bXH9ad5sg?si=uwVYMcs-TM6c4ndD) (30 min) - Ally Boothroyd
- [Guided relaxation for Long Covid, ME/CFS, anxiety](https://youtu.be/BALTOxc0xJY?si=iCwiX1BJq6xTevTh) (14 min) - The Buteyko Method

### **EFT tapping**

- [Intro to Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT](https://youtu.be/JiD72cZ5mcU?si=f5j-Z98Re%5Fo0D-Uw) (5 min) - Brad Yates
- [When healing seems hopeless](https://youtu.be/qwve%5FC5yHxA?si=oMJxoQqdALsgTId4) (12 min) - Healing Gems
- [Releasing the pressure to heal](https://youtu.be/NCgJPc01ZzU?si=0%5FqLOhf9xbLXXJw4) (17 min) - Healing Gems
- [Doubts about healing](https://youtu.be/VnRvldq-Wlo?si=ea6PveqUzWdGW3nd) (10 min) - Brad Yates
- [Fear of never getting better](https://youtu.be/RtkGr6LrpxQ?si=tEVu0zKAucyIHb6F) (10 min) - Brad Yates

### **Gentle physical movement**

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****Never push yourself with physical activity!** I was only able to start doing these exercises after I had recovered enough to not trigger symptoms while doing them.

- [Yoga for Long Covid recovery - 10 minutes of gentle easing](https://youtu.be/JQOG2aB00aw?si=NTGRgNLW8cJK9uWT) (10 min) - Suzy Bolt
- [Isometric yoga for Long Covid and ME/CFS](https://youtu.be/tuQngCHfrvk?si=nWieCA1Y%5F-FAvo7s) (30 min) - Oka Takakazu
- Lymphatic Drainage Massage: [13 min version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5F4yvyWkFQiA) \- [2 min version](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9U4TLt415kU) 🔈
- Adapted Physical Activity (5 min per video, audio in French but you can look at the movements) - Hospitals of Paris
  - [Lower body (gentle movement in bed)](https://youtu.be/Rf0q9NiN-Ko?si=PRMZRpx18UNpA6Jm)
  - [Upper body (gentle movement in bed)](https://youtu.be/O-1R8l-yWVs?si=-x01oon6c-hoarpD)
  - [Gentle strenghening (seated)](https://youtu.be/91JWeY80z6w?si=vjrVuqw7sH7zmc3B)
  - [Gentle strenghening (standing)](https://youtu.be/wD13GbjddeM?si=I5w81IxLlvMOSzlH)

## Other links

🎵 [My recovery playlist on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dEwlmKTa4dnH9AMA8BMD0?si=8b9dfa81d70043c8) : Gentle music, with and without lyrics

💬 [Therapy in a Nutshell](https://www.youtube.com/@TherapyinaNutshell) : Amazing mental health free content from a licensed therapist.

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