Media

It has been a lot of fun over the years to be interviewed on BBC radio three times, National Radio once, The Breakfast Show twice, plus countless newspapers and magazines. Some of these stories are on this page for you to view.

It’s also been exciting to be recognised by mainstream medicine. I have presented at five GP conferences (voted Best Speaker two years in a row), and have been endorsed by two medical professors (and been on radio with one of them).

John Dunbar, Orthopaedic Surgeon in Dunedin, has been a huge supporter of my mind-based interventions for chronic pain and we have recently co-led a seminar and were both interviewed on Radio New Zealand about how the mind and emotions affect chronic pain and other chronic illnesses. You can listen to our interview here.

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Plagued with chronic fatigue for more than a decade Mel Abbott was at her wit’s end and willing to try anything, even if it meant travelling halfway around the globe. After a horse riding accident left her with a severe head injury at age 18, Abbott ended up with a raft of health issues and for 11 years weathered the cost of more than $100,000 worth of treatments – none of which worked.

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While I lived and worked in the UK the media followed my progress closely, inspiring thousands of people with the hope that recovery is possible. The Cambridge News wrote a double-page feature story in April 2010, which was then published in a further 7 British newspapers. You can click on each page to read them.

• Newspaper Page 1
• Newspaper Page 2

I was invited to contribute to the LawTalk magazine about how to deal with stress. They have allowed me to share this article on my own website to help inspire people with extra tools for managing life!

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