Come Home
To yourself. To your body. To your inner wisdom.
I’ll help you find your way.
Does the pain and discomfort in your body keep you from living a more fully expressed life?
Do you long to:
reclaim your energy…
be free and spontaneous…
hike, dance, or move in whatever way your heart desires?
Let’s talk.
I help individuals facing issues such as chronic migraine, back pain, or chronic fatigue release pain and get back to the activities they love. Using a mind-body approach that allows them to heal on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level I help them shift into seeing pain as a pathway to greater self-compassion, resilience and self-awareness.
Work with Me
When you work with me, you’ll get to:
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Soothe your nervous system…so you can handle the stress life inevitably brings
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Identify the messages in your emotions…so expressing your needs and desires comes more naturally
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Learn the unique language of your body…so it becomes a refuge rather than a source of distress
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Teach your brain that you are safe…so you are free to engage in the activities that light you up
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Listen to the wisdom of your essential self…so the next steps on your path become clear
Meet Karol
Migraines and neck pain were a fact of my life for two decades. I’ve now been in recovery for over 2 years and, oh, what a relief it’s been! Realizing that there is nothing physically wrong with me has been life changing. The parts of life I once thought were off limits are mine again…things like yoga and other forms of movement, the freedom to enjoy any food I choose, and spending a day in the sun! The work of Dr. John Sarno and Dr. Howard Schubiner led me to the correct diagnosis of Mind Body Syndrome (MBS), or Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS), and gave me my life back.
Success Stories
Working with Karol over the last 6 months has been a deeply supportive and transformative experience.
I came to Mind Body Therapy after a long period of dealing with many physical symptoms, chronic fatigue, and a history of mould exposure, which had left my nervous system feeling constantly overwhelmed and on high alert. Despite having tried numerous approaches, I still felt stuck in cycles of symptom monitoring, fear, and self-doubt around my health.
Karol brought a calm, compassionate and steady presence to our work together. She helped me understand the mind-body connection in a way that felt empowering rather than dismissive, and guided me to gently interrupt patterns of hyper-vigilance that were keeping my nervous system activated. Through our sessions, I learned how to respond to symptoms with curiosity and kindness rather than fear, which has been a profound shift for me.
What stood out most was how safe and validating the sessions felt. Karol never rushed the process or pushed an agenda. Instead, she supported me to build trust in my body again, regulate my nervous system, and reconnect with a sense of steadiness and resilience. Over time, I noticed a meaningful reduction in symptoms, greater emotional regulation, and an increased ability to live my life without constant scanning or anxiety.
This work has not only supported my physical healing, but has changed the way I relate to my body, stress and uncertainty. I am deeply grateful for Karol’s guidance, compassion and skill, and would highly recommend her to anyone seeking a gentle yet powerful approach to mind-body healing.
Remmy, Australia
Long Covid ripped my world apart.
I had identified, and started to develop and apply many of the skills I needed to recover before I came across Karol, but without doubt finding and working with her was one of the most critical factors underlying success on my journey. Just as an athlete makes critical gains under the external eye of a kind and wise coach, guiding and aiding their progress, anyone recovering from a life altering illness such as this will also make huge gains under the right coach. Such a coach is not easy to find however, and I cannot recommend Karol highly enough in this regard. Patient and compassionate, yet always direct and insightful, Karol not only helped me to navigate my recovery, but also to grasp the messages that the illness had to communicate.
Sarah, Ireland
Honestly, this is the best I've felt in almost 15 years! I am encouraged and hopeful that it will continue.
Karol has been a great help to me in my ongoing journey to recover from TMS. After a lifetime of chronic pain and digestive issues, countless visits to doctors who couldn’t explain my pain or my malfunctioning digestive system, endless medical procedures, injections, surgeries (that I now know were unnecessary), extreme restrictive diets, thousands of dollars spent on physical and psychological therapy, massage, acupuncture and alternative treatments, none of which provided any relief, I was lucky to stumble upon the work of Dr. Sarno in June of 2021. With a sense of hope for the first time in my life, I read, studied, took an online TMS recovery course, and practiced everything I had learned consistently every day. After a year and a half of hard work, I noticed some improvement, but had a sense that there was still a piece missing. I am so grateful to have connected with Karol! Her gentle, supportive and validating approach to TMS counseling, along with her deeply professional, as well as personal, understanding of the root causes of TMS have greatly enhanced my progress toward recovery. She provided some wonderfully effective “tools” that I use regularly when I have a flare-up, helped me clarify the essential mind-set necessary for management of symptoms, and our sessions together facilitated my connection with inner aspects of myself that needed serious attention. Working with Karol has been life-changing for me, and I know she is exactly the piece in my TMS recovery that I sensed was missing. Thank you, Karol!
-Laura Sim, Retired College Professor
Karol is one of the very few practitioners that I trust and value.
After receiving 8 mind-body coaching sessions with Karol, I am thrilled to report a significant decrease in migraine frequency and intensity (from an average of 15 migraine days/month to 5!).
While I’m obviously quite happy to be experiencing fewer migraines, one of the biggest takeaways that I’ve learned from Karol is that success in addressing MBS is not defined by a particular outcome, but instead, by lessening the fear around the pain. So more importantly, I no longer fear migraines like I used to. Migraines don’t control me or my life anymore. Through working with Karol, I’ve learned to turn toward my pain, instead of trying to hide from it or avoid it, and that has made all of the difference.
– Katy H., Registered Nurse/Wedding Photographer
Working with Karol Miller as a life coach was an important part of my retirement process and it was money well-spent.
– Hope Nisly, Librarian Emeritus, Fresno Pacific University
I can highly recommend working with Karol.
I have been suffering for more than 2 years of long covid, but right now I am healing by applying the mind-body tools and I am making tremendous progress. I can now do everything physically, like walking with my dog for 1 hour or more, cycling in my city and taking little trips. I am also starting to expand my world by seeing friends and family again. Karol has profound knowledge of mind-body work. She is a wonderful, attentive listener and very supportive in the healing journey. Her coaching skills help me feel my emotions better and her deep understanding of what is necessary to heal is very helpful. I am sure she can make a difference to you!
-Mabel, Netherlands
Karol is an amazing life coach now specializing in Mind Body issues, and I’ve been blessed to work with her.
She’s wonderful if you are interesting in getting personal help with your symptoms and working with someone who truly understands what’s going on. I am so grateful to have had the chance to work with her. It’s nice to have someone trained, gentle, kind, educated and intuitive give you direction on how to heal from your body’s “producing symptoms” taking over your life. Karol is honest and positive and easy to work with! I highly recommend her!
– Chrissy Eden, Small Business Owner
Working with Karol allowed me to gain a much deeper sense of clarity about my goals.
– Megan W.
Recent Posts
Pay Attention
A wise man I once knew regularly told the people around him to “pay attention.” Now, these are words that most of us have heard so often they tend to have the opposite effect. But because I respected this man, I took them to heart and gave them some thought.
My interpretation of what he meant is along these lines:
Be present in your life.
Be where you are.
Slow down.
Be curious.
Listen.
Take another look.
Our minds are generally overflowing with judgement and the need for control. We’re mostly sure the way we see things is the whole picture. It helps to just admit that most of us start and stop there.
It takes a lot of practice to get past our assumptions.
When to Stop Talking and Start Healing
“Stop talking about your pain.”
Maybe you’ve heard this before. It’s a popular premise of many pain management programs. Dr. David Hanscom, a respected spine surgeon who now runs a program for the elimination of chronic pain and symptoms, puts it at the center of his program. He says, “Talking about it causes the body to have an inflammatory response, which causes more pain.”
Not talking about it can be so hard he says he loses clients over it.
Understandably so!
Wouldn’t it be make sense to talk about it? For some of us, “not talking about it” is what got us here in the first place.
Ask yourself: HOW do I talk about pain, and what is my motivation for doing so?
Shenpa
Recently, a client told me about seeing a photo of herself, taken while vacationing with friends for a few days. It sounded like one of those punch-in-the-gut moments, where the feelings hit without warning.
She described her revulsion at seeing the way her clothes fit her body. The way she was flooded with familiar feelings of self-loathing and shame.
This dear woman was hooked. Triggered.
What she did next was extraordinary, and as she told me about it, I felt my own body exhale.
Ready to get started?
Together, we will navigate your path, uncover the changes you’d like to make, and clear away the emotional and mental debris that gets in your way.
