After over thirty years of illness, including M.E., I made a promise to myself that when I found something that enabled me to fully recover I would use it to help others. Here's my story of that journey:
When I was nine years old I was taken to the doctor one morning with stomach pains, and by the afternoon I was in hospital having my appendix removed. Until that point I was a very healthy and active child, always playing with my friends and climbing trees. After the operation I recovered quickly, but was soon off school again with a mystery illness, later diagnosed as glandular fever.
My school years were then dominated by long periods of absence, where I had flu-like symptoms for weeks or months on end. After I finally left school (taking an extra year to get my A-Levels as I missed so much time) my health became a little more consistent - I would have longer periods of wellness, but would catch anything going and have it more severely and for longer than anyone else, and I developed several food intolerances. For years I maintained what outwardly appeared to be a normal, successful life, but the struggle with illness seemed ever-present.
In 2002, after a series of stressful events in my life, I had the flu and just couldn't shake it off. I was diagnosed with post-viral syndrome, then eventually chronic fatigue syndrome, which after some investigation I found was the "new name" for M.E. My doctors were sympathetic, but their suggestions of graduated exercise, pacing and Prozac felt like stabs in the dark, there was no specialised support in my area, and their lack of hope left me floundering around trying different routines but just getting worse, developing irritable bowel syndrome to add to my list of symptoms.
After a year or so when I'd exhausted the conventional approaches I started trying alternative therapies. I had allergy injections, kinesiology, chiropractic treatments, acupuncture and psychotherapy, some of which helped some of my symptoms, but none of them giving me the energy to keep my house clean, let alone go for a walk or get a job.
Finally I heard about the Lightning Process and decided to go for it. By then I knew that stress was a factor in my symptoms, and I'd been told my adrenal glands were not functioning properly, so the Lightning Process's explanation of M.E. made sense to me, and I knew I had to give it a shot. It was amazing, the evening after the first sesion I walked to a pub (up a steep hill no less!), had a large meal and a couple of glasses of wine for the first time in months, and couldn't take the grin off my face! It was the start of a wonderfully quick journey back to health and fitness.
I was determined that whatever process I found to get well I would learn how to pass this on to others, and this would be my future career, so I trained with Phil Parker, the creator of the Lightning Process and Principal of the European College of Holistic Medicine, and am now able to set other people on their own path to health and happiness. I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing.
Sarah
When I was nine years old I was taken to the doctor one morning with stomach pains, and by the afternoon I was in hospital having my appendix removed. Until that point I was a very healthy and active child, always playing with my friends and climbing trees. After the operation I recovered quickly, but was soon off school again with a mystery illness, later diagnosed as glandular fever.
My school years were then dominated by long periods of absence, where I had flu-like symptoms for weeks or months on end. After I finally left school (taking an extra year to get my A-Levels as I missed so much time) my health became a little more consistent - I would have longer periods of wellness, but would catch anything going and have it more severely and for longer than anyone else, and I developed several food intolerances. For years I maintained what outwardly appeared to be a normal, successful life, but the struggle with illness seemed ever-present.
In 2002, after a series of stressful events in my life, I had the flu and just couldn't shake it off. I was diagnosed with post-viral syndrome, then eventually chronic fatigue syndrome, which after some investigation I found was the "new name" for M.E. My doctors were sympathetic, but their suggestions of graduated exercise, pacing and Prozac felt like stabs in the dark, there was no specialised support in my area, and their lack of hope left me floundering around trying different routines but just getting worse, developing irritable bowel syndrome to add to my list of symptoms.
After a year or so when I'd exhausted the conventional approaches I started trying alternative therapies. I had allergy injections, kinesiology, chiropractic treatments, acupuncture and psychotherapy, some of which helped some of my symptoms, but none of them giving me the energy to keep my house clean, let alone go for a walk or get a job.
Finally I heard about the Lightning Process and decided to go for it. By then I knew that stress was a factor in my symptoms, and I'd been told my adrenal glands were not functioning properly, so the Lightning Process's explanation of M.E. made sense to me, and I knew I had to give it a shot. It was amazing, the evening after the first sesion I walked to a pub (up a steep hill no less!), had a large meal and a couple of glasses of wine for the first time in months, and couldn't take the grin off my face! It was the start of a wonderfully quick journey back to health and fitness.
I was determined that whatever process I found to get well I would learn how to pass this on to others, and this would be my future career, so I trained with Phil Parker, the creator of the Lightning Process and Principal of the European College of Holistic Medicine, and am now able to set other people on their own path to health and happiness. I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing.
Sarah