William Groves' Recovery Story

Summary

Followed the Gupta Program (joined 2023), read Dan Neuffer's book "CFS Unravelled" and Joseph Murphy's "The Power of the Unconscious Mind," got nutrition counseling through the Optimum Health Clinic, and combined this with pacing, meditation, self-hypnosis, a TENS machine, infrared sauna, and restorative yoga, also drawing inspiration from Raelan Agle's recovery videos. He developed ME/CFS and post-viral fatigue after glandular fever in March 2018, a mild-to-moderate illness in which he kept working full-time in an office for most of roughly 6.5-7 years, though with significant limitations including a period of part-time and home-based work. He says "I am about 90% recovered" and "I live a normal life," able to play golf, ride an electric bike and walk further, and notes his friends and colleagues would call him fully recovered even though he personally is still working toward his pre-illness fitness level. He reports intense exercise can still cause sleep disruption and general dysregulation, and that he had crashes during recovery which he frames as "an important part of moving forward," and he continues his mindset work and pacing practice.

What they credit

Credits Brain retraining, Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust), CBT and psychotherapy, Hyperthermia and sauna, Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Pacing and the energy envelope, rTMS / tDCS / transcranial stimulation.