What if you Can Help the Future You?

15 Million people in the UK currently have a chronic (persistent) condition such as Pain, Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease, Stroke, Asthma or skin conditions such as Psoriasis and Eczema.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s), or indeed any form or level of emotional or physical trauma, a car accident, for example, can increase your risk of both physical and psychological health in later years. 1 in 3 children are now said to be suffering from poor mental health and 1 in 4 adults will suffer from poor mental health in their lives.

So what is the correlation?

Through my work as a Nurse, I spent many years helping patients to only manage the conditions they had developed. Medication from their GP was the mainstay of treatment
as was endless hospital appointments, specialist appointments, waiting lists and so on.

What if I told you that much of this can be avoided by the way we think and behave in not only preventing or reducing the severity of these disease processes but also improving outcomes and even removing issues such as longterm pain.

Now, as an Emotional and Physical Wellbeing Therapist, I work with children and young people who are sometimes paralysed with anxiety. They may feel unable to attend school (Anxiety Base School Avoidance), feel anxious about friendship groups, be self-harming, have anorexia, have low self-esteem, low confidence and mood, have no motivation and even have suicidal thoughts.

I’ve worked with all the above problems as well as many others with young people.

I also work with a lot of chronic (persistent) disease adult clients and have found time and time again (as research now shows us) that early traumas often lead to chronic disease.

What if this can be avoided?

By working with children and young people, they no longer have eating problems, anxiety-based issues, self-harming. They are getting back to school (pre Covid-19), getting their exams, going to job interviews, being gainfully employed, having careers, feeling confident, having good relationships. Their likelihood of chronic disease is reduced because they are successfully dealing with and being emotionally released from the traumas they are experiencing now at this young age.

What about the adults who already have things like persistent pain or Type 2 diabetes?

By working with this group of clients I have seen people reduce or completely release their pain even after many years. The Diabetics have reduced their HbA1c (long term
sugar levels), lost weight (if appropriate as not all Type 2 Diabetics are overweight). Clients have reduced their blood pressure, are sleeping better. Asthmatic clients are running faster with no inhaler use. Clients with Eczema have no skin problems.

Here is a case study taken from a review with permission from the client –

Laura, 39 (not her real name)

Came to see me as typically, she had been everywhere else including NHS therapies and was desperate to find something that would work long term.

Chronic fatigue
Persistent upper body pain for 10 years following an accident
Migraines with aura. These disturbances can include flashes of light, blind spots and
other vision changes or tingling in the hand.
Asthma
Tinnitus (ringing in the ear)
POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) – it is a collection of symptoms
featuring very fast heartbeat, more common in females and often brought on by a viral
infection.

Laura said she wanted to ‘calm her adrenaline system to help further improve her POTS symptoms’.

The reason Laura chose me was because of my background in the medical profession and my extensive knowledge and qualifications in alternative therapies.

In the first session, we worked on the feelings of anger which was the issue bothering her the most on the day which was negatively impacting her emotional and physical health.

The level of anger went from a 10 to a 0 on a scale which I always use. It still hasn’t returned. Later in this first week, Laura noticed the tinnitus that she had for most of the year had completely gone.

Ten weeks later at the time of writing the review – still no tinnitus.

In sessions 2, 3 and 4 we worked on a range of issues and in this time, released the upper body pain.

Laura said she had paid £100s (if not £1000s) over the years on osteopathy, acupuncture and chiropractic work as well as NHS physiotherapy, and whilst all of these helped for maybe 48 hours, nothing sustained.

Laura had now been pain-free for over six weeks. This was the longest pain-free period she has had in her upper body since an
accident 10 years ago. Throughout the sessions, we covered managing the POTS which has continued to improve. Her heart rate (tachycardia) and blood pressure were currently the lowest they had been all year. We also worked on asthma. Following this session, she was able to do her fastest run of that year and did not use her reliever inhaler before, during or after the run.

“The results I experienced over the six weeks were better than I ever could have hoped for. Kate always wrote down and gave me the details of the treatments and progress of each session which was really helpful also to reflect back on and refresh if needed. Thank you, Kate!!”