It’s been several days short of one year since I did your Next Steps to Recovery webinar here in Italy. At that time, I had had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for over four years. I had been to several doctors who tested for this and that among the myriad of symptoms that I was constantly having. At times I thought I was getting better during that time only to keep getting more tired, gaining weight, and adding more and more symptoms to the pot, and basically resigning myself to just getting worse until a friend of a friend mentioned that her daughter had been cured from CFS and did I want the information? Of course!!!
The very next day, she sent me the Empower Therapies website, and I immediately took the 2 hour Next Steps course. I could sense a huge difference the same day! I was very interested in taking the full Switch course, but now I wanted to travel to Auckland and take the course in person. My husband was also interested in participating in the course, saying that he believed he could also benefit from it.
We signed up, did all of the homework, and had our interview. Meanwhile, we were both doing the relaxation exercises a lot, and thinking about the past traumas in our lives. It took us awhile to organize our travel plans, but several months later, we travelled from Italy to New Zealand and did The Switch live with two others, and four others from various countries joined us online.
It was a tremendous pleasure meeting you and taking The Switch. We learned so much not only about the methods you employ and teach, but also about ourselves! We continue employing all that we learned from the course, and contemplating our lives. We’ve both had a few periods of “winter” that were extremely short-lived since, and we’ve had to remind each other when we were doing “sick” then do more Switches, both quick and deep.
To date, I am going to be 75 years old in the fall. When I started the course, I was overweight from being sick, able to walk 2,000 steps on a good day, then be sick for several days after that. I couldn’t eat a lot of foods; I wasn’t sleeping well; I was grumpy and had a very negative attitude toward life in general. I hadn’t danced classical ballet in all of that time.
Since taking your course and putting the principles into practice, I have on occasion walked 23,000 steps, and climb 34 flights of stairs in a day while sightseeing on vacation. I am taking three 90 minute advanced ballet classes and 2 personal training sessions a week. It did take a while to gain the muscle strength, flexibility, and endurance all back, and I am still improving by leaps (pun intended) and bounds! My weight is back to what it was years ago. I am sleeping 7 hours a night soundly and dreaming a lot. I can tolerate gluten again and eat all the foods I wasn’t able to before (except for milk products, which I wasn’t able to tolerate since I was 18 years old).
I remain and will continue to be ever grateful to you and The Switch! I have my life back and even more energy than before. What a pleasure to be able to travel, dance, eat, and hang out with friends and family again! Thank You! Thanks You! Thank You!
Saluti from Italy,
