Recovered from ME/CFS after 30 years
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 30 years
- Published
- Jun 2025
Summary
She credits Rebecca Tolin's online mind-body course Be Your Own Medicine, taken over about six months at age 70, teaching calming breath work, the physiological sigh, box breathing and Wim Hof breathing alongside emotional and somatic work. Crucially she had already done the Gupta Programme diligently for six full months immediately beforehand and states she 'saw zero improvement' from it, making this one account a negative result for Gupta and a positive one for a different mind-body course. She had had ME/CFS for thirty years with no prior progress. She reports being 'essentially fully recovered', says 'I have my life back', and is hiking around Mt Shasta again. She does not say whether she must keep practising the techniques to hold the gain.
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Brain retraining, Trauma & somatic work, Vagus nerve stimulation, Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Rebecca Tolin / Be Your Own Medicine.
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