127. Not Every PPPD Recovery Is Fast: Sheena's Success Story

If you're struggling with PPPD, chronic dizziness, visual vertigo, or frustrating setbacks that keep you feeling stuck, this recovery story reveals how moving beyond physical exercises to address the deeper emotional layers can lead to lasting healing.

In this episode, Sheena shares her long recovery journey with persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) and visual motion sensitivity. What began as brief spinning episodes evolved into constant, life-disrupting sensations—feeling like walls or shelves were moving, difficulty walking straight, intense panic in grocery stores, and trouble driving on highways.

After normal medical workups, Sheena tried vestibular rehab (VOR exercises) and vision therapy for binocular vision dysfunction. While these offered temporary breakthroughs, stress, grief, and a major post-COVID flare brought her symptoms back. True transformation happened when she found The Steady Coach, began using somatic tracking and graded exposure, and did the deep emotional work of shifting her relationship to anger, frustration, and symptom "dips." Today, Sheena is fully back to living life—skating, long bike rides, and attending loud concerts without fear.

What You'll Learn:

• The evolution of PPPD, visual vertigo, and motion sensitivity

• The benefits and limitations of vestibular rehab and vision therapy

• Why COVID, stress, and grief trigger severe dizziness relapses

• How somatic tracking and graded exposure retrain the nervous system

• The critical connection between unexpressed anger, frustration, and symptom cycles

• How to safely expand your world and return to driving, stores, and crowded events

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro