A Recovery Story: From Life-Altering Chronic Symptoms to Living a Full Life
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- 2 years
- Published
- Jun 2026
Summary
Credits trauma and somatic work, JournalSpeak, brain retraining and graded exercise. Steph was ill 2y with very-severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. 90% bedbound; Sarno/JournalSpeak trauma journaling.
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What they credit
Credits Brain retraining, Graded exercise, Trauma & somatic work, Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust), Graded exercise / graded activity, Sarno / TMS / somatic tracking / JournalSpeak, Trauma work (EFT, EMDR, TRE).
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