Glücklich im Inneren Zuhause - Deine Tankstelle für Liebe Glück und Frieden · Cornelia Maria Mohr

#504 Gut und glücklich Leben mit Fibromyalgie - Kerstin Goldstein im Interview

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Kerstin explains how her fitness career made her sick with fibromyalgia, then became key to her recovery.

The episode is an interview between host Cornelia Maria Mohr and guest Kerstin Goldstein. Kerstin introduces herself as living in Munich with a passion for travel, working online while often on the road. She has worked in fitness for over 25 years, originally with stressed women, and once owned a fitness studio in Munich. Since 2017, she has worked online and now specializes in fibromyalgia after being diagnosed herself in 2019. Kerstin defines fibromyalgia as a chronic pain disease where pain wanders through the body, accompanied by poor sleep and fatigue, often diagnosed when other medical tests find nothing. She explains that her symptoms began around 2011, with chronic body pain unexplained by doctors until she self-diagnosed via Google and found a confirming doctor. Kerstin reveals that her fitness career both contributed to her illness—through overwork teaching seven classes daily—and now helps her manage it with appropriate movement. She discusses using meditation during her worst periods, listening to the same guided meditation daily in her studio breaks. Kerstin now meditates unconventionally, lying in a hammock or with legs up a wall, rather than sitting traditionally. Her current work involves one-on-one coaching for people with fibromyalgia, focusing on everyday strategies, nutrition, and finding good doctors, not just movement. She recommends yin yoga for rest and describes balancing activity with rest, like taking evenings off after busy travel days. Kerstin shares her professional goal to increase public awareness of fibromyalgia so people recognize the term and understand sufferers' experiences. She emphasizes that managing fibromyalgia requires listening to one's body, finding what works individually, and accepting oneself, rather than relying solely on medicine. The host concludes by thanking Kerstin and promoting her own online program, Transform Come to Life.

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