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The first symptoms that I noticed physically were headaches. And, um, they got worse and worse and worse, and they would be completely debilitating for four or five days. And long. For a long time, I didn’t know what was causing them. And quickly following the headaches, I noticed a severe brain fog where I literally wouldn’t know, I wouldn’t remember the name of people I was talking to or why I had gone into the kitchen to pick something up. So very severe. Um, and until the program, I didn’t realize quite how much the more emotional, mental aspects of my symptoms were. And I realize those have been going on for longer. The, for instance, social anxiety. Um, I’m an extrovert and I’m a performer, but I would get these absolutely frozen moments of social anxiety, for instance. That’s been going on for a while, and I recognize that now, having done this five days is very much a part of my limbic system disorder.
I, I’ve, I’ve done a lot of therapy. I’ve done a lot of emotional work and spiritual growth and, and a lot of self-improvement in an attempt to, to get around the debilitating, what I would always have called just trauma and sort of emotional scarring. I’m now seeing this as, as really a, a, a symptom of limbic dysfunctions. I’ve been doing a ton of that, and to parts of it got better, but the critical issues didn’t. Um, and I’m talking like 25, 25 years of really hard work. I could never understand why I couldn’t just, I got, I knew everything and I couldn’t make that shift. But on, in terms of the physical symptoms, when they began, I went to see all sort of, uh, all MDs. I went back to England, um, where, you know, we, we have, uh, treatment on the national health. I went to see the top immunology professors, two of them supposedly the top in the country.
And I went, I traveled all over the United States looking go visiting hoists and detox people. I’ve done, I don’t know, I can’t remember how many detox protocols I’ve done. Um, and none of them really made a difference. And I’ll say this, but just recently I did find one that, that really did help. It was, it was deep and profound and it’s, it’s pretty out there. Um, so my health has improved, but most of what I tried didn’t make any difference. I actually spoke to the most eminent professor of the teaching professor at Guy’s Hospital in London. When I described my symptoms of MCS, he was very sympathetic. And we talked, he wanted to know all about it, and he made all sorts of comparisons between me and the soldiers that are coming back from the Gulf War and the, their Gulf War syndrome. And he said, this is fascinating, but to be really honest, I don’t think I can help you other than the avoidance thing.
So I remember that very specifically going, wow. And this is the most qualified guy in England. I spent thousands of hours online reading papers from Harvard professors, teaching doctors. I went to another doctor in England who I found myself sitting in his room as he was examining me, telling him what was going on. Like I was trying to do it politely, but I found myself hemming to inform him. He had, bless him, nice guy, but he had nothing to offer me. And this guy was, you know, 30 years of experience in allergies. And I heard about DNRS through the, the, um, detox practitioner that I’ve been working with for two or three years, and I’ve seen some improvement. And she was very enthusiastic. She’s, uh, she has read Annie’s book, I think, and, and I was very supportive and encouraging. And, and it was just a matter of when I was well enough to travel because I couldn’t fly.
I was a mess. And when I heard that the program was gonna be in Ojai, which is where I live, I jumped on it as soon as I can, I could with, with her support. And my friend Jessica, who’s done the program, who lives in Ojai, um, and literally, I, I, I spent time with her witnessing the extraordinarily level, extraordinary level of improvement. I mean, that’s the, that’s the proof of the pudding coming from, because I know how sick she was, same as I was. And she’s now amazing. She’s like a firecracker. And I remember thinking that was would never be possible in my life again. I remember thinking that I would have to live in a little cabin in the middle of nowhere with no life. And I had a career with successful music, career with a band, and I was performing a thousands of people.
And I have such a passion for that. And I was, I felt, I, I didn’t think that I could ever do that again. I did come to the course a little skeptical because I’ve tried so many things, even though I saw my friend get completely better. Um, I was worried because it’s the brain. And in the same way that I’d be worried about going to a hypnotherapist, I, you know, I, I realize that part of my limbic dis dis system dysfunction was the need to control and make everything safe all the time, becoming incredibly rigid like that. So I was worried, what are these guys gonna do? They’re gonna get into my head. And I was also, you know, a little bit of the European and the British inside me was like, this is all, I mean, is it all gonna be really positive thinking and kind of, you know, we gonna be able to ize so we don’t have our feelings.
And, and, and I didn’t wanna turn into an ultimatum as soon as I got here. I was so relieved to be in a room full of people like me, um, because there’s no substitute for being in a room full of people. I’ve read people, you know, people’s experiences online, and, and I know people who have had similar issues, but to have a room full of people, it was the most incredible experience. And I noticed changes almost immediately. And they were subtle at first. And I would say they were more in terms of my mood, my mental attitude, the shape, my, my enthusiasm, which went from worry and anxiety, um, to, to a calmness. To a calmness. And very quickly I realized when the, the course is so good, and obviously, Andy and Kandy and Pat have been working on this for a few years, and they’ve got it to a place where it’s really well communicated.
It’s really simple. They’ve refined it. And so it was very easy to start ingesting. And the minute I started the exercises that the, the, the, you know, the particular things that they’re recommending, I started to notice shifts in my mental attitude. And one of the, I mean, physical symptoms aside, which were completely debilitating for me, I couldn’t go anywhere. I would smell a park car from 200 feet away, and I couldn’t walk down that road, even if it, the engine wasn’t running. But the emotional, the negativity, the, the whirling of the, my, my outlook on life, I’m realizing how much of it was limbic and certain, for instance, social anxiety being amongst the group, that significantly within the second day, I noticed began to evaporate. And I would start feeling awkward, but it was no longer catastrophic to feel awkward. It just was, my responses became different.
And that’s a miracle to me. And that was just enough for me to know with 100% certainty that this, at, even at this stage, you know, day five, I’ve just done the course. I’m a relative stranger to this. I’m a hundred percent certain that this works. I know that if I practice for the next six months or beyond, not only is my life gonna get better, I know that it’s gonna be better than it ever has been. I can just, I, I just feel it’s difficult to describe. I can just feel the potential. What I would say to people is, I mean, I want to kind of just, it’s a no brainer. It is absolutely a no brainer if anybody has any kind of multiple, any kind of allergy, multiple chemical sensitivity, any kind of exhaustion, any pain, um, fibromyalgia, um, and all the other list of symptoms, which you can see on the website. Um, post-traumatic stress disorder. I mean, that’s a big deal for me. And I know that I’m gonna recommend a lot of people that I know with that kind of circumstance to this course, because a lot of the emotional anxiety they’re experiencing, and they’ve been in therapy for 10 years, and, you know, they know all about it, but it’s still, it’s still getting them.
Oh my goodness. I, I absolutely just do guys, do this. I mean, come and do this and then see what happens. Just invest in your life, invest in your wellness, and then see what happens.
