The illness experience, and the tools I learnt, made me an Olympic athlete

Summary

Recovered through a three-day Lightning Process course in December 2009 with her father, taught by two newly licensed instructors from the new Norwegian company Aktiv Prosess, after nothing else had helped — not a GP who told her to exercise through the symptoms, a two-week diagnostic admission at Akershus University Hospital that found mononucleosis and gave painkillers, papaya capsules, an acupuncturist, a naprapath, a healer associated with singer Morten Harket, or an NLP practitioner's visualisation exercises. She had fallen ill at 14 with chest pain, breathlessness, dizziness and muscle and joint pain, sleeping 16-30 hours at a stretch, missing almost all of middle school, needing a shower chair and disability card, and often found "curled up on the shower floor crying." By day three of the course she felt different, had new motivation and said she had "gotten the tools and learned how to change my mental patterns... and finally felt like myself again," winning silver at her first Norway Cup within two months and becoming Nordic taekwondo champion within a year. She went on to earn a black belt, compete for the Norwegian national taekwondo team for five years, train up to 24 hours a week and travel 100-plus days a year, and competed at the Rio Olympics in 2016. No relapse is reported; she quit top-level taekwondo after 2018 but says she remains well from ME/CFS, crediting the illness and the LP tools with shaping her into the athlete she became.

What they credit

Credits Lightning Process, Neurolinguistic programming (NLP).

Symptoms mentioned

Symptoms: Breathlessness, Heart symptoms & palpitations, Pain & fibromyalgia.