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Lightning Process, NLP, life coaching, hypnotherapy and EFT

Lightning Process recovery stories

Thay, 35 ME for 10 years

I had ME for ten years. In that time I achieved many wonderful things including a PhD, a fantastic marriage and a beautiful baby. However, I also had constant pain and tension in my muscles, congestion in my head and overwhelming fatigue. There were times when I hated life.

Four weeks ago I learnt the Lightning Process. The results have been amazing. I arrived for day two of the course with a huge grin on my face. I had looked in the mirror and seen colour in my cheeks and a sparkle in my eyes that I could barely remember. By the end of day three I was buzzing. I had baked a cake (and laughed when it collapsed). I had pushed my toddler round and round in the worst weather imaginable and felt exhilarated. I had knocked back Prosecco with my husband and felt joy and excitement. And I had finished the day with the most relaxing bath ever. I was beginning to love life again.  

Four weeks later I am still marvelling at the results. I run up the stairs at work. I go out afterwards on a whim (and drink way too much!). I am calm when my toddler has a tantrum. I walk and walk and walk. Most importantly I am looking forward to the future.

I had ME for 7 years before going to Kate for the Lightning Process course. I had to take early retirement because of ME and had a lot of problems with mobility and with my voice which disappeared for days at a time. I have tried just about every alternative therapy available and while some helped I remained stuck with ME and none took me beyond a certain plateau of wellness. Oh and I wasted a lot of money!

In the last couple of years, I have been only moderately affected….I described it as living my life to the full two thirds of the time and resting the remaining third trying to recover from what I had done. So, not a bad life but not what I would describe as a full one. I was pretty much of a boom and bust baby …the bust times included being unable to speak, to walk only short distances with a bad limp (in fact I have been through John Cleese’s entire repertoire of funny walks in the last seven years). I spent whole days on the sofa and suffered from the horrible ME muzziness and congestion of the head. I am a keen artist, grandmother and walker but all three activities left me exhausted. I planned my diary so that I had enough rest days in between activities.

I can’t believe it is only just over two weeks ago that I did LP with Kate – so much has changed in that time. The first 48 hours after the course I was euphoric. Walked all over London in terrible weather conditions and even managed to sing after the first day – the first time in 5 years or so. Then, for the remainder of that week, I became manic – fitting an unbelievable amount of activity into each day. When I found myself getting tired, I panicked.” I can’t get tired”, I thought...”Tiredness means I still have ME.”  “Calm down,” said my daughter who had also attended the course. I did eventually calm down. I realised that people in normal life do get tired after busy days BUT the big difference - they recover after a good night’s sleep. So that is what happens now….lots of activity; fitting several things into one day – lots of walking, when before I would have taken the car, no rests. And then at the end of the day, I am healthily tired and go to bed and sleep well. Then, lo and behold, I wake up in the morning feeling fine again and fully restored and ready for another active day! Nothing special – maybe – no mountains climbed (yet) but for me a miracle.

When Kate asked us at the beginning of the course what we wanted. One of the things I mentioned was the energy to paint as much as I liked. Well, I am very excited about my painting, which I have been doing a lot of these two weeks. It has always been colourful and vibrant but the two I have done this fortnight are different. I am happier with these paintings than I have been with any previously. They are still vibrant but at the centre of the vibrancy is a calmness and joy, I don’t believe I have captured before. I hope other people think so too because I am entering them for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - not much hope but fun to try.!

So thank you Kate and Phil and the Lightning Process for a new full bite at life - no more boom and bust and a full diary!

Neuro linguistic programming (NLP), life coaching, hypnotherapy and emotional freedom technique (EFT)

Ann-Mari, 42, procrastination
I cannot recommend Kate highly enough as a therapist.  Her approach is pragmatic and results-oriented, but at the same time, immensely nurturing and empathetic.  During the session, I found that I was able to let go more deeply than I ever have before and, as a result, some profound and lasting changes have taken place in my life in the last year.

LF, 24, confidence and performance at work
I just completed a wonderful journey with Kate who helped me to rediscover the lost voice in me.
Kate is like a shepherd who patiently guides you through the rocky and winding paths of the dark forest that is the inner you and brings you out into green pastures and sunshine of the real you. Her warm personality and honest yet simple approach enables you to take action and step into new boundaries that you once thought were not possible.
From here, I have rebuilt my self-confidence and raised my self-esteem which has not only helped me in my professional work but I have also seen benefits in my personal life.
Thank you Kate! You have been wonderful!

Mary, 43, career coaching
Thank you Kate.  Your coaching and the strategies you recommended enabled me to be much more confident when I started a new career path.  Little did I know how useful they would continue to be - I was recently asked to present to nearly 200 HR professionals at a client’s annual conference – not a walk in the park, certainly, but made much easier to manage by drawing on those strategies you shared with me – particularly when my PowerPoint presentation refused to run!