Before I got sick, I was a full-time yoga teacher and loving my life. I was five years newly married, and we were happy. Stress was low, and then we got pregnant, and I had a wonderful pregnancy. I was energetic, I was happy, I was joyful, and I was strong. When I was about eight months pregnant, we moved into a larger apartment, and that is when my symptoms started. We moved into a sick building. We had no idea that the apartment was infested with mold. I began to feel symptoms pretty much right away. They started with sneezing and a lot of colds, and I had a couple of sinus infections that last month of pregnancy when I never used to get sinus infections at all. And I had a cold the day that I delivered our daughter, and I remember feeling a lot better in the hospital than I did at home. And when we got home, my symptoms got worse. I um, got rashes, insomnia, severe pain throughout my body. My feet killed me. I had trouble walking. My joints and I had a lot of rashes, and extreme brain fog, is extreme. The worst symptoms for me was the nerve pain that I had throughout my whole body and the constant twitching underneath my skin. It felt as if there were little electricity buzzes underneath my skin all over. And then one day I finally collapsed. I ended up being on just a diet of soft foods and blended foods and soups. So soup was a mainstay for me. I would sometimes have soup all day long. This lasted for years. The illnesses were devastating to me and my relationships. My husband was the one to take my daughter out to restaurants and to fun outings. I lost most of my friends. I couldn’t go to their homes. I would start to smell mold in their homes, and I could detect where upon entering their home exactly where the mold was. I would say, oh, it’s over in the left-hand side of your home over there or it’s in your bathroom and eventually, uh, these people would call me back saying that they got a mold inspector and sure enough, they had to remove eight feet of their walls or they had to remove a kitchen sink or a bathroom sink or a bathtub. And so I started to think that I was developing this psychic gift. And that’s where my brain went. I started thinking I had this talent and anything to make this all worth it. So for years I continued to see this herbalist who helped me a lot, but the herbs ended up being just effective band-aids. They didn’t take away the sensitivities. So I ended up seeing so many practitioners. I saw of course my internist, I saw dentists, oral surgeons for the blood blisters, dermatologists, I saw a cardiologist, a urologist, psychologists. I saw a psychologist for EMDR. Eventually I went to see healers of all sorts. I felt ashamed. My husband became Superman. He had to do everything for me. I felt like I was losing my independence. I lost my independence. I depended on him, yeah, I felt ashamed, weak, not myself.
I found out about DNRS during my first appointment with a naturopath. I had made an appointment with her to help me with my gut issues because I believed at the time that healing my gut would help me with all of the symptoms that I was having. During that first appointment, she had asked me so many questions and she said, I’m not going to even give you one blood test. Everything that you have falls under one category. You have a limbic system dysfunction, a brain injury. And so I remember being very shocked. I didn’t know what to think, and she just said, look, get online and Google Annie Hopper DNRS. And so I did, and it made complete sense to me after hearing everything that Annie said and after hearing all of the testimonials I related to every story. So for the first time in a long time I had hope, and I got a lot of support from my family, and my dad had told me that if you ever hear of any kind of healing modality for whatever it is that you have, I will support you. And so it was with that help I was able to attend the in-person program. The in-person program was an amazing experience. I hadn’t met many people like me before with the kind of conditions that I’ve had. So here I was in a room with all of these other people who had the same conditions, and it was as if we didn’t even have to speak. We just understood each other. We were all canaries together. I knew that I had made progress because I was starting to feel more of an uplifting energy, and I was really starting to feel hope but I didn’t notice any progress in terms of chemicals that week because there really were no chemicals around. The venue was completely a safe environment for all of us but I do remember on the last day when my husband came to pick me up, we went to a little store afterward to get water, and when we walked out, he looked at me with this uh, horrific face and said, didn’t you smell that?
And I said, no. And he said that there were some kind of chemicals in the store, and I told him just don’t talk to me about that. I don’t care. So it’s been over two and a half years since I took the program, and I did not recover in six months. It took me much longer. And what really helped me was charting my progress daily, and that charting of my progress is what really helped me to stay in the program. There are so many things that I could do now that I couldn’t do before .I can go shopping at the mall with my daughter. I can go to concerts. I can hug people with perfume. I can exercise. I can eat sharp foods without any sores on my tongue. I can go into a bathroom and see spots of black and be completely fine. Um, there’s so many things that I can do now. I feel that I’m normal again, and I feel that I’m Karen again. So if you are suffering from a mysterious chronic illness that you can’t figure out and your doctors can’t figure out, it’s time to do this program because there is a way out of this hell that you are in.
From Karen’s seminar application form – August 22, 2015
Q: I want you to envision yourself completely recovered. How will this make your life more enriching?
A: “Imagine the possibility of a more enriched life as I will be able to attend church and sit next to my family without reacting to people around me wearing perfumes and colognes.”
