Jenny provided updates about her recovery with DNRS in the Global Community Forum. You can read about the initial five months of her progress in our first article about her journey. 

In her own words (lightly edited for length and clarity) here is the letter Jenny wrote to our community at the one year anniversary of doing DNRS. She reflects on her many victories and the ways that the DNRS practices continue to improve her life. 

She ends by reassuring anyone putting their trust in DNRS that “…you are on your way to healing and to a completely new life that will be better than you could ever have believed!”

Dear Retrainers 

I am not very active on this forum anymore, since I got my full and active life back and I am busy doing all the things normal, healthy people do. When I started DNRS 1 year ago I was mostly bedridden for 4 years, living with my parents who had to help me with basically everything except personal hygiene. I could not stand up long enough to take a shower or leave bed for more than meals. What a complete contrast to the life I am living now – having practiced DNRS for one year – I am as healthy as anyone. Probably healthier than most. 

I have no physical limitations. I am biking everywhere and enjoying the freedom of exercising and going wherever I want, whenever I want, to the fullest. 20 km does not even feel like a long distance to bike anymore, and that would have been far even for my pre-illness self. 

I am not counting the “first time I did this since I got sick” anymore. I am beating the records that I had before my limbic system impairment. I biked 60 km, which is a LIFE RECORD. I am not only the strongest I have been since I fell ill, I feel like I am stronger than ever before in my life. 

One of Jenny’s reflections on how much her life has improved since doing DNRS.

One Last Hurdle: Work Life

The one thing I am still training on (that I just started to train on) is work. I just started going back to work and even though I feel that is within my training zone with some margins, I still do the DNRS practices because I know I have some limbic over-firing regarding work since even before I fell ill. I use tips I got from retraining friends and I’m participating in a Living DNRS class, and it is going great so far. 

I decided that I am not going to think of work as a stressful threat to my health anymore. Instead I’ll think of work as something fun and easy and relaxing that is good for me. I can feel my attitude towards work and previous limbic responses change day by day. Some of the strategies I use is to think of going to work as going to a spa. I go there to relax and have fun. I enjoy a fruit break every day and I laugh at myself in the mirror when I take a trip to the bathroom. 

I take small moments before, during or after the day to read and add new things to my list “Things I love about my work”. During my DNRS practice I visualize having fun at work, feeling professional, feeling valued and appreciated by patients and colleagues. I use my best work-related memories from before I fell ill and I use the new ones I am creating now since I started work again. Like laughing with colleagues during the lunch break and feeling connected, feeling like I am part of something meaningful.

I celebrate every new work-related victory, like completing tasks. I feel good about myself for what I accomplish, and focus only on what I actually did – not what I didn’t do yet. I do a DNRS exercise on my way to work and on my way home from work. 

Using DNRS Strategies for the Long-Term

One strategy that I use in general with my DNRS practice is inspired from Rick Hanson’s book Hardwiring Happiness, and that is giving myself the opposite feeling, that is – the one I am needing right in the moment. For example, if I am feeling lonely, I focus on a memory of having good times with friends or my deep connection with a loved one. If I feel stressed and busy I visualize being on vacation, relaxing or going to a spa. 

If I feel like I am useless or not enough I do a round of DNRS practices with the theme of being appreciated and loved. For example, I’ll focus on a time when someone did something that made me feel valuable to them or when I did something that was very appreciated by others. I find this to be a very effective way for me to make the rounds help me the most in that specific moment. 

I feel like I am in control now and that I have the tools that I need to retrain my brain about basically anything. I know that with training I can take control of my limbic responses in whatever shape they may show up, and fill my life with whatever I want to have instead of limbic reactions. 

I will probably be training on work the coming year or so, to really take the time to fundamentally break those old, unhelpful limbic system reactions associated with it. Not because I have to, I might do fine at work anyway feeling healthy and all as I already do now, but I want to move beyond managing and into thriving in and enjoying every area of my life. 

I want to keep training not because I have to in order to be able to do things, I already do things now, but I want to make my life as magical and joyful and enjoyable as possible. I want to keep training beyond being healthy to actually being truly happy and grateful every day. Because it is more than possible and I (and everyone else) deserve that. Life will always throw challenges at us, and I want to handle them as smoothly and easy as possible. My time is too valuable not to.

“I am not only the strongest I have been since I fell ill, I feel like I am stronger than ever before in my life.” – Jenny

This Is Only the Beginning

I am not the victim of my automatic responses to my surroundings anymore, I am the creator of my best responses and my best life possible every day. It will be a lifelong exciting project and a magical journey without limitations. This is only the beginning of all that is still to come. I know anything is possible, having made it back to a second chance at life. I am forever grateful for this knowledge and for these tools to make anything happen. 

I wish everyone in this community the very best, you are on your way to healing and to a completely new life that will be better than you could ever have believed. And I wish that everyone that is not yet in this forum but in need of it will find it and begin their own journey to health and happiness 🙂 

By the way, if you read my 5 month update, I wrote that my next goal was to be able to travel – and oh I did!! Starting with small steps like just going out of town, and now I am traveling anywhere! This August I traveled with my boyfriend to the other side of the globe to attend my friend’s wedding in Vietnam and we stayed for 2 weeks. I enjoyed every part of the journey without any symptoms — I even slept fine in a completely wrong timezone, ha ha! 

6 months earlier I was probably among the most inflexible and immobile persons on this earth. Miraculous. Sharing some pictures from the great victory of going to Vietnam with you here below!  

All the best!

Jenny Lord

P.S. If you are wondering whether or not to sign up for a Living DNRS class, do it! I hesitated but did and it was so worth it!!

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Before beginning DNRS, Samantha described herself as living “like the boy in the bubble.”

In her own words (lightly edited for length and clarity) here is the third and final part of Samantha’s recovery diary.

Revisiting Recovery Goals

I started this program like most of you, with the intention of getting back into society and living a normal life again. 

MY BIGGEST GOALS WHEN I SIGNED UP FOR THE PROGRAM:

• To move out of the tiny camper in my boyfriend’s driveway where I’ve been for just shy of 2 years after needing to move out of his home and abandon my things (now stored in his garage)
• To be able to buy items like clothing, general living necessities, and other items in the world without crippling symptoms
• Bring more foods back into my diet that I used to love 
• To fall asleep without scary symptoms
• To be able to buy a mattress since I had to remove the one in the camper leaving me sleeping on cushions intended for a couch. 
• To be able to wear makeup or use hair products again (haven’t been able to in 2 years)
• To be able to go back into my boyfriend’s home or go near my old things again
• To get vaccinated so I can socialize without fear and so I can be maskless around my boyfriend
• To be able to get back to running my business that I love, as a portrait photographer

Week 13 Update: I Feel REBORN And I’m Ready For This New Life!

The week before I started this program I was fairly certain I was not going to survive. 

I took this photo of myself (below) just days before I found DNRS. I’m wearing a sports bra because I was down to only ONE shirt I could wear, so I tried to only wear it when I absolutely had to so I didn’t have to wash it so frequently.

I don’t really know why I took that photo. I felt hopeless and scared, and being a photographer I suppose I wanted to document it. I NEVER thought I’d share it with anyone. I haven’t even shown Randy my boyfriend yet and he’s my best friend and biggest supporter. The amazing thing is, I don’t even recognize that woman now. And, I certainly don’t feel anything remotely close to that state anymore, but I’m glad I took it because I can see HOW far I’ve come.

I used to be allergic to EVERYTHING, even half my “bed” was covered in garbage bags (see photo below) and the camper was getting smaller and smaller because I kept “contaminating” new areas. 

My life was incredibly limiting, and worsening by the day. The last two blog posts I’ve made, I’ve written a lot about my miraculous recovery, and things keep getting better! Don’t get me wrong, I still have symptoms and my brain is still trying to sort all this out, and that can be uncomfortable at times. But I would take those symptoms and uncomfortableness 1000 times over the life I had been living.

I can now spend HOURS in the house that was part of my “perfect storm.” I have slowly moved some items that I couldn’t even go near, into the camper. I’ve used incremental training, baby steps, to get to this point. 

I definitely overtrained last weekend though when I had pizza, cookies, AND ice cream. I felt not-so-hot for a couple of days but I kept up with my rounds and I wasn’t scared or upset. Once I felt better I had a small portion of ice cream as incremental training and have been fine and enjoying the process.  

The one thing I have noticed is that every day is SO DIFFERENT. If I don’t feel like I’m having the best day, I know there’s a good chance I will feel awesome the next day. So, I try not to get irritated if things aren’t going how I want them to. I remember that squiggly line of progress… eventually it will straighten out and stay that way!  

I took the photo below today! I’m a photographer, that’s been my profession for 11 years. Up until about a month ago I hadn’t worked in months. Now that I’m getting back to work, my creative juices have been flowing and it’s exciting again! 

Last night the idea for this image just sort of came to me. I write my proclamation 10 times “I am healthy, I am strong, I am limitless” nearly every day (I’ve only forgotten a few times). I have saved a lot of the papers, so I decided to create a portrait with them. Randy went to the studio with me, and I set up all the lights and guided him on how to take it for me. It was really special.

The best part about this photo is that the shirt I am wearing is from the house I had to flee. The ring and bracelet are from my items stored in the garage from the PREVIOUS house I had to flee. I wanted to make a portrait that expressed how I feel NOW, that included reminders of this process, and included some of my wins. The fact that I can wear any of those items is a true miracle. I had severe reactions to them just 3 months ago! 

Lastly, a few other big wins:

• I went to the “weekly happy hour” that Randy always goes to on Friday nights. I could never go before because it was too risky and also they would burn a fire which I couldn’t be near. I am happy to say that they had a big fire and I had no reactions. I also had pizza, ice cream and cookies that weekend.

• I have incorporated other items into the camper, things like my favorite mug I thought I had to give up, a really cool tweed jacket, a dessert dish, jewelry, and a favorite t-shirt. It took a while for my brain to be okay with these items but I am having NO reactions to any of it now.

• I am no longer allergic to dogs!! The allergist tested me TWICE!! Woohoo!!

It has become comical when I have symptoms now, especially now that I know I can stand in the basement which was the scariest thing I could fathom going near. I feel like any reactions I have now are like a toddler testing me. Often it’s for something that I KNOW I have no issues with, so I laugh at the symptom, and usually within minutes it goes away. 

I am for the first time in 8 years confident that I will never go through anything like this again because at the first signs of limbic system impairment I will know what to do and can shut it down. I’m so grateful for that. I feel like a HUMAN again, a human with a future, and the future looks so bright. 

Happy training everyone, I hope you have many joyous moments this week!

You can revisit the other two parts of Samantha’s recovery diary by clicking the links below:

• Read Part 1 of Samantha’s diary.
• Read Part 2 of Samantha’s diary.

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Deciding to embrace DNRS as a healing modality on the advice of a progressive doctor he respected was a pivotal moment in Paul’s life. He had once brushed off the suggestion of a friend to try DNRS, but now he was ready. At the time, he could barely function, and his mother had to care for him as he could no longer do simple activities of daily living, like showering or cooking.  It seemed like everything he did would cause an upswell in symptoms.  Once Paul made the commitment to engage in DNRS, he applied the DNRS neuroplasticity exercises daily, and developed creative ways to stay motivated.

Along the way, Paul reached out to the community of brain retrainers and utilized DNRS support services to their fullest:

• Enlisting support from a Certified DNRS Coach.
•  Attending the 12 week Living DNRS classes.
• Engaging with fellow members on the DNRS Global Community Forum on a regular basis.
• Often practicing his exercises with other DNRS participants. 

As a result of his dedication to his healing journey, Paul’s reality is completely different now. 

Spoiler alert: Paul admits that sometimes he cries tears of joy because he didn’t know the level of happiness he has now could exist. 

In this, a reflection on his recovery journey in his own words (with minor edits for length and clarity), Paul describes the life events and habits that culminated in a health crisis, what Star-Trek inspiration he used to fuel his DNRS-based recovery, and what his life is like now. 

Exciting New Capacities After Overcoming the Odds

I am writing this update with an open heart and a feeling of immense gratitude. I remember back in early 2020 when I joined the DNRS community, I would read similar sentiments from other brain retrainers who were either recovered or at the later stages of their recovery journey. It was such a foreign concept to me and one that I could not relate to back then.

Since that time, my life has expanded and I continue to grow as a person: 

• I have hopped on a couple of airplanes, once to fly to Houston, Texas to visit a close friend and the other time to fly to Las Vegas. 
• I can dance for long periods of time any day of the week. 
• I went on a 9 mile hike recently. 
• I have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen, sometimes on my feet for 2 hours, cooking away new inventions or trying out new recipes. I remember back in the day when I could only eat one food and even eating that one food caused discomfort.
• While I have had food freedom for quite some time now, it seems that even foods that used to give me moderate issues don’t bother me at all. 

Someone asked me recently if I had recovered. I honestly didn’t know how to answer that momentarily because that word doesn’t have the same meaning that it once did. The short answer to that question is no. I still have symptoms that I want to rewire. I still have some beliefs and ways of being that I want to rewire.

But I have my life back. 

I can do almost anything. I can go anywhere. I recently drove for 6 hours straight and felt I could drive another 6. I don’t second guess my decisions anymore. If I want to drive an hour away to go visit a friend, I do it. Later on in this blog post I will share some of the medical labels that I have overcome, some of which I was told I would have for the rest of my life or that there was no known cure for it. I think to really understand how far I have come it’s important to give a little background information about myself.

Limbic System Dysregulation From a Young Age 

I was born into a chaotic household, with an alcoholic father who was unpredictable and would be calm and nice one minute and then as if someone flipped a switch he would start yelling and behaving erratically. One of the ways our limbic system and nervous system learns how to regulate is through our caretakers, which is usually our parents. Both my parents were not regulated people so my brain and nervous system didn’t stand a chance. 

As a very young child I remember my parents taking me to the health fairy (my word for any health professional) several times because they thought something was wrong with me. I would get reactions from a lot of foods, I had trouble sleeping, I wet the bed until I was 6 years old, and sometimes I wouldn’t talk for days. My parents were concerned about me.

Physical Traumas Compounded

In high school I was playing Spiderman on one of the spiral staircases and I fell down two stories and I landed on a very hard floor flat on my back. Two of my classmates found me passed out on the floor and told me to go see one of my teachers. I had a slight concussion and a broken left hand, but nothing major happened. At least, that’s what it seemed like back then. 

During my college years I was involved in two head on car collisions while I was driving, both were the other driver’s fault. After my first car accident I developed panic attacks and I had trouble driving through intersections that had traffic lights. 

There were times when I would be sitting in the classroom and I would get up suddenly and run towards the exit. Most of my professors didn’t appreciate that and after class I went to go talk to them to explain what I was dealing with. One of my psychology professors pulled me aside and said “I understand what you are going through.” I could see kindness and empathy in his eyes. He gave me the phone number to a therapist. That therapist was a wonderful person and he helped get rid of my panic attacks using hypnosis and they would stay away for about 2 decades.

Self-Medicating Away Sensitivities

Growing up I always felt different. I felt like I could read people’s thoughts and could feel everyone’s emotions. If someone was upset I would literally feel their emotions. I felt like a freak. I felt alone and misunderstood. I spent most of my weekends numbing myself with alcohol. It was the only thing that made me feel good and it numbed the pain deep inside of me.

After college I dove head first into my career, working for financial institutions and also starting businesses on the side. I was usually working or hanging out with my friends. I hardly ever slept and coffee and energy drinks were my jam. In late 1997 I lost my 20 year old baby sister and I felt numb for what seemed like months. I didn’t know how to grieve so I held it inside me and began doubling my work output at work and partying even harder on the weekends. I believed at that time that if life was so tough then I should at least go out and have fun with my friends.

The body has innate wisdom and I ignored all the signals it was trying to tell me. I began developing a bunch of symptoms such as digestive issues, memory issues, and more. Yet, I kept pushing and pushing. When I look back at those last few years that I worked, I honestly don’t even know how I did it – probably just sheer force of will. In early 2018, even that wasn’t enough to keep me going. 

After my nth trip to the emergency room, my boss pulled me aside and said that I needed to go on medical leave because I was unable to perform my duties at work. He was a very understanding manager; I was surprised he let me work as long as he did. New symptoms began surfacing and I no longer had the energy or the will to continue working. 

I wasn’t able to work and I was trying to hold onto my home, my cars, my relationship, and my sanity. I eventually lost them all and moved out of state with my mother and Stepfather. I felt alone, defeated, and deeply misunderstood.

I’m not going to get into what came next except to say that I spent a lot of time by myself in a dark room, not being able to handle light, sound, or much of anything. I didn’t think it was possible, but I continued to decline. 

My mother was supportive but didn’t understand what I was going through. And even though my stepfather let me live in their house rent free, he made it pretty clear that he didn’t understand and he wasn’t convinced that what I was experiencing was real. Things got to a point where I didn’t want to live anymore. I felt miserable and felt like a burden to my family. I wasn’t able to sleep and even medications weren’t helping. There was a period of several months where I could only sleep for 15-30 minutes at a time, if that.

A Pivotal Decision & Commitment

One night during one of my darkest hours, I decided to make a choice. I made a decision that I would do whatever it took to get better. I also made a promise that I would do whatever it took so that my dear mother would not have to experience that kind of loss again. Once I made that firm decision, my outlook began to change.

About a year later, I was following a doctor on Facebook and he mentioned DNRS. I remember him mentioning that about 2 years ago but I discounted it. Well, I was in a much different state of mind. I was fueled by something much bigger than myself, and that was to get better so that my mother wouldn’t have to suffer watching her son decline. It gave me a strength and focus that I didn’t think was possible. 

I bought DNRS in January of 2020, but didn’t start watching it until the beginning of March. It took me nearly a month to get through all the material because I could only watch it in increments of a few minutes. Part of me believed it could help and part of me didn’t. It was a near-constant battle inside of me. The part of me that made the decision to do whatever it took won and would continue winning.

At the start of my journey with DNRS  I could barely function, my mother had to cook all my meals for me, I needed help to go to the bathroom, and I rarely showered because if I did, it would cause an increase in symptoms. 

The Kobayashi Maru-Inspired Approach

Despite the rough start I dedicated myself to the program. Though I hated structure, I have to admit I needed the structure that DNRS gave me in the beginning. I had a lot of cognitive issues so knowing what to do each day was helpful. As time went on I slowly began adding more tools to my toolbox. I was relentless.

Please note that relentlessness did not mean using my tools all day long. It just meant that I would do my daily practice, even if it meant not doing my whole hour of rounds. I would make it a point to do something, even if it was to go outside, sit down on the grass, and listen to the birds sing.

Because working the program was so challenging for me in the beginning, I began thinking about how I could make this process easier or at least more joyful. I started thinking about that episode of Star Trek where Captain Kirk passed a test that had a No-Win scenario called the Kobayashi Maru. He won the test by reprogramming the simulation.

I decided to go “Kobayashi Maru” on DNRS. In other words, I decided to create a container and environment that stacked the odds in my favor. 

For example, I realized that I hated to do the DNRS exercises and my limbic impaired brain was also resistant to doing them. Just being honest. So I struggled with them for a few months until I decided to ask a better question. What process can I come up with so that I can hard rewire my brain to either like doing them or at least feel neutral about them? To learn more about how I did it click here. *Editor’s note: to view Paul’s original post in the Global Community Forum, you must be a member of the DNRS program.

Turning a Corner

After some time I began liking doing the DNRS exercises. And today, I love to do them. And if you’re wondering if I still get resistance to doing them, the answer is yes. The limbic system likes to resist doing them sometimes, but since I look forward to doing them, they get done. It’s kinda strange to me sometimes that I can like to do something but my limbic system has something else to say about it.

I began connecting with others to do things that were supportive of our recovery journeys. We began doing pillar 5 together by laughing together, dancing together, singing together, doing meditations together, and more. Over time I had enough friends that I could call up that finding someone to do practice with or elevate our moods together wasn’t an issue. I didn’t feel so alone anymore and it made it much, much easier to do my daily practice.

My Kobayashi-Maru-Captain-Kirk-inspired strategy worked. As my daily practice turned into newly formed habits, I didn’t have to think anymore about doing it. I would do my practice everyday and I began noticing things starting to shift.

Then & Now: Much More Than Physical Recovery

It’s been 34 months and while there is more work to be done, I am living a full life! I started a business at the beginning of the year and it is going better than expected. I am very active. I walk nearly every day, I shadow box, play basketball, and do Qigong several times a week. I went on a couple of dates recently which felt really good. I hadn’t gone out on a date in years but I handled the dates with ease and grace. At first I hesitated even trying to go out on a date because I don’t have my own place or car yet and I am still in the early stages of putting my life back together, but then I eventually realized that the right person will see past all that.

And while I am happy about all these things, what stands out for me is how I feel and how clear-headed I am. I wake up most days full of gratitude, contentment and joy. My family has noticed how much I have changed, especially these past few months. I laugh a lot. My silliness has returned and I crack a lot of jokes. I sometimes cry tears of joy because I didn’t know this level of happiness even existed. 

Part of me thought that some of the testimonials I read in the past were probably exaggerated. I can definitely say they were not. It really is that good! And looking back at all the hard work, it was SO totally worth it all.

For those of you that are curious about which symptoms I have overcome so far, I am about to mention them.

I have overcome the following labels:

• Lyme, Babesia
• Food sensitivities, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Mold sensitivity
• Night terrors, Nightmares, Sleepwalking, Insomnia
• Chronic Fatigue, Brain fog, Malaise, Adrenal Fatigue
• Muscle weakness, Back pain, Pelvic pain
• Paraesthesia (burning or prickling sensations), Twitching, Blood pressure spikes
• Extreme weight loss, Malnutrition, Hypoglycemia, Hyperglycemia
• Dry skin, Dry eyes, Eye floaters
• Body temperature dysregulation, Excessive sweating, Frequent urination
• ADHD, Depression, Panic attacks, Suicidal ideation, Hallucinations (visual and auditory)
• Fear of being alone, Fear of people, Fear of driving, and other phobias
• SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), Gastroparesis, Erosive gastritis, Esophagitism, Barret’s Esophagus

Rewiring Your Reality: Parting Words of Wisdom 

There’s a part of me that wants to hop onto a time machine and go back during my darkest times in 2018 and give myself a very long, deep hug and tell myself that everything will eventually be okay. I want to tell my past self that no matter how challenging things get there is always hope; the mind and body have an amazing ability to heal and sometimes it needs extra support, encouragement, and tenacity wrapped under a blanket of self love and self compassion.

There’s a lot I could write about all the ups and downs, how I handled the doubt and the fear, and how to overcome adversity, and I will go into more details in later blog posts. I think for now I want to give a word of encouragement that no matter how dark things get, there are plenty of sources of light to light the way. And there is always a way forward. Don’t allow the imbalanced limbic system to convince you otherwise.

One of the biggest cons that the limbic system played on me was that it had me believe that it was in charge. Well, it turns out that it’s not. Once I realized that I had the power to override my limbic system, I knew it wasn’t my boss. Not only was it not in charge, but if I kept doing and saying certain things every day, the limbic system would have to take notice and the new neural pathways would eventually force it to see things my way. While one of the primary functions of the limbic system was to keep me alive and safe, it also had another purpose: to help me get what I want. So I made sure that I sent it a unified message every single day of what I wanted.

Through most of my life I had a brain and nervous system that never felt truly safe. So I learned how to send those signals of safety to my brain in a language it understood. I started doing it from a paradigm of wanting to fix myself, but then I moved away from that because that was creating another limbic stress loop . So, I changed to a paradigm of softness, patience, self love and compassion. There was nothing to fix. 

 “In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.“

– Albert Camus

I just needed to find that invincible summer inside of me. For me, my invincible summer started with a choice, followed by a commitment to myself and something greater than myself, following my own intuition, and never giving up. And that has made all the difference in the world. 

No matter how bad the winters get, each of you have an invincible summer inside of you. I know that you do. I believe in you. Keep moving forward.

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Over the first 5 months of practicing the exercises taught in DNRS, she provided updates in the Global Community Forum. 

In her own words (lightly edited for length and clarity) here are Jenny’s updates on the trajectory of her recovery over 5 months.

What Started it All

I started getting symptoms in March 2018. It was a sudden onset of headache and severe fatigue. I figured it was due to a stressful life situation with full-time work and part-time studies at the same time. 

I was able to continue working part time at 50% speed for about 6 months and then I had to move to another city for a new job. I started my new full-time job in December 2018 and that was when I totally crashed. 

I was so fatigued I could not take care of simple things like cooking or cleaning my apartment. I had friends and family help me but I only got worse during the coming year and in December 2019 I had to move to my parents house to have more assistance. 

Just Existing Was Exhausting

I got so sensitive to sounds I needed hearing protection most of the time and I struggled with cognitive stimuli like reading or watching television. I could barely take in any information at all. Any kind of physical exertion was more than I could tolerate, I had to use a chair to be able to take a shower because I could not stand up long enough. I lost 13 kg (29 pounds) in mostly muscle weight and I could not walk far enough to leave the house. I got a wheelchair to use if I had to leave the house for doctor’s appointments, but I could barely sit up long enough to use it. 

I spent 75% of the day laying down resting and only managed to sit up for meals. I had dysautonomia leading to episodes of heart palpitations and tachycardia. I had a fluctuating low-grade fever and I developed Raynaud’s phenomenon (cold feet with following pain and inflammation). I got an increased thirst and developed a sensitivity to low blood sugar. 

Worst of all, I had no energy at all and I could not tolerate any activities. Just existing was exhausting. I lost my whole active life and what was left of it was burning, feverish fatigue and trying to find anything that could help. 

In July 2022, 4 years after the onset of illness, I finally got diagnosed with ME/CFS. But the doctors did not know how to treat me. Luckily by then, I had already started with DNRS and was recovering at an amazing speed.

Small Big Steps

The last weeks have offered so much progress and I am so grateful to know I am on the right path to recovery 🙏 I have challenged myself every day and been able to extend my walking distance by a couple of meters every other day. The distance is still quite short but it is doubled. And I know I can double it again and again until I am finally out hiking and trekking wherever I want again! This is such a wonderful insight. It is the biggest blessing and gift to know I have the tools to recover now. 

I am slowly, one day at a time, adding small shores and different routines. Each step may seem small from the outside but I can feel the greatness of these little victories. They tell me my brain can relearn to handle activity again and I try to cherish every bit of it — every added meter to my daily walking distance, every social activity and household shore. Writing this first blog post is a kind of celebration. There was a time I never could have imagined progress like this and I am so excited to reclaim my life and be able to enjoy it like never before! 🥰

Sending love and trust and motivation to anyone reading this! Know that DNRS will change your brain and let you create the life you wish for and deserve 💖 One small big step at a time. 

Dinner at my sister’s place

This weekend I visited my sister for the first time!! I can barely believe it. It was amazing. We had dinner and I stayed for hours. I can feel the old carefree, happy, social me slowly awakening again from somewhere deep down. Still dazed, but definitely coming back. It is beyond what I could have dreamed of just months ago.

DNRS is the thing. I am breaking boundaries every day and I am just stunned. There are so many “firsts” I can barely wait to experience again. And knowing they will be possible again makes me happier than words can say. It means I will get my life back. It means everything. 

Annie’s response to Jenny’s update on the Global Community Forum.

My 3rd Month: Future Visualizations Are Coming True

I have made so much progress during the last week! I have had lots of sleep issues in the past. Just weeks ago the possibility of sleeping in the same room as someone else felt so far away. Now I spent my first night sleeping in the same bed as my boyfriend! 🥳 I also spent 4 days with him in our apartment, new record! I am so looking forward to being able to move in with him and have our own independent life (I have been living at my parents’ house for years since I fell ill). 

What’s more, I not only spent some days there, I was more active than I would have thought possible! We even went out for dinner at a restaurant nearby! First time in in years that I have been to a restaurant and I felt so wonderful and alive 🥳 We also cooked together, talked all night and even built our first piece of IKEA furniture together 🤯

Life is coming back to me one bit at a time and I love it!! 🤩 What used to be far off future visualizations, like going to a restaurant and staying in our apartment doing normal activities together, now just happened for real. I am so grateful and so excited about everything good that will come out of this training, I am ready to start a new life at this second chance 🙏 

Taking new steps into the unknown, letting my limbic system know she can trust me and is safe, is amazing and frightening at the same time. I feel like doing that jump gets easier and easier and I am so excited about every new conquest 🥳

Hitting 5 Months And I AM LIVING LIFE AGAIN!

Hi dear retrainers, 

I haven’t checked in with you in a while for the best reason possible – I HAVE BEEN BUSY LIVING MY LIFE AGAIN!!! I started from zero, living with my parents as caregivers, not being able to leave their house or barely walk to the bathroom. But, these last 5 months have TOTALLY changed everything and DNRS has given me my life back. 

I still have retraining to do, next steps for my incremental training will be traveling and then to address my work life, but for now I am still focused mostly on rebuilding my body. I have already gained many kilograms in muscle weight. All this is just a miracle I would never have believed was possible just 5 months ago. 

I am tearing up now as I write this as I realize that I am one of those success stories like those I used to read. Recovery used to seem so far away – but now it is my reality in just 5 months of retraining. I am so grateful as one can be for getting to live life again, for getting to rebuild my body, my health, my life, my relationships. EVERYTHING I dreamed of for years and thought I might have lost for life is coming back and I am enjoying it to the fullest. 

This truly is like rising from the dead, like getting a second chance at life. And this chance I am going to take the best possible care of! 

List of WINS

Just to mention some of my wins last months, they are all HUGE (and I think that you are exactly the right people to know that 🙂

• I MOVED from my parents’ house into an apartment with my boyfriend and I TAKE CARE OF MYSELF!!! I cook, I clean, I go shopping, I do dishes, laundry – all those household chores I couldn’t do that left me depending on my parents are not even a big thing to do for me anymore! 
• I have started EXERCISE! I literally go to the gym again, I go climbing, I go swimming and I take long walks – oh what a dream and joy it is to do this again! I could barely leave my bed 5 months ago and now this week I hit a new walking record of 10,000 steps in one day!!! I can barely believe it myself, it is nothing short of a MIRACLE! I am out exploring my new neighborhoods and the city and enjoying the spring sun, and I just LOVE life again! I just got my bicycle fixed and yesterday I went for a ride and I felt like I was flying, so amazingly, wonderfully free to go anywhere again!!
• I took up contact with friends that I have not even been able to call for years. Now they come to visit, we go out to restaurants, we talk. I even attended my best friend’s birthday party and stayed for hours socializing and playing billiards — and, of course, on this streak I am on now I even won the game! I feel so alive and I am back again – able to be the happy, energized friend I once used to be.

I still do my full hour of DNRS exercises every day and I keep practicing the 5 pillars on a daily basis.  There is limbic system resistance every now and then to new activities or to unexpected things, but I always come out stronger for every incremental challenge. I feel like anything is possible again. 

If you are where I was 5 months ago just know that everything is about to change and that DNRS works. All that you have to do is just to do the training and give it time and it will be oh so worth it!!! 

These are some pictures of me RECLAIMING my life and loving it like never before!

Photos of Jenny reclaiming her life after 5 months of DNRS.

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Before beginning DNRS, Samantha described herself as living “like the boy in the bubble.”

In her own words (lightly edited for length and clarity) here is the second part of Samantha’s recovery diary.

Incremental Training For the Win!

While working on incremental training in my boyfriend’s garage, I started poking around to see if I could trigger a symptom. I’ve been so amazed! I can be around all these things and feel totally fine!  

Well, I came across an old bracelet of mine in my old boxed-up things—things that I was sure I was going to have to throw away after environmental exposure. I brought it in the camper and washed it since it’s been in the garage for 2 years. I put it on and had a small symptom. I actually found this amusing, because I had spent way more time exposing myself to things in the garage without any issue, but for some reason, my limbic system decided that WEARING it was somehow different and NOT okay. 

I am on to my limbic system’s silly antics now and welcomed the challenge. So I immediately went into a round and trained with it, then took it off and hung it in the window where I could see it all day. Yesterday I did the same, put it on, had a small symptom, did my rounds, and hung it in the window. Well, I trained with the bracelet on and today the symptoms are totally gone and I’m wearing it for real! Incremental training is amazing!

The messages on this bracelet couldn’t be more appropriate. I actually bought this about 2.5 years ago before my second “perfect storm” when I thought I was getting better, and wanted to stay inspired. This time it has even more meaning than the last. I love having these little reminders on my wrist. I want to bring all my old things back into my life… especially my clothes, I REALLY miss my clothes! 

Week 10 Update: 24 Hours of Pure Happiness!

So many new things conquered the last few days! I’ve had the best time while doing them! 

My boyfriend and I celebrated our 4 year-anniversary. Since I’m living in the camper in the driveway, and because he has kids in school, we normally stay masked around each other. But he just got over Covid and now that he’s negative we got to spend our anniversary together!

 Here are some of the magical moments from the last 24 hours:

• Yesterday we went and got pizza, onion rings, and a buffalo chicken sandwich and shared everything. We took it to a little island beach and sat by the water and I was in heaven!! After being limited to just a handful of food this was incredible. Prior to this program my diet was dairy-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, only low-histamine veggies, limited fruits, alcohol-free, caffeine-free, nothing processed, no soy, and I was allowed organic meats in small amounts.

• Did I forget to mention that I had WINE for the first time in 8 years?! It was soooo good. I had about half a glass, then had the other half with dinner because, let’s face it, I was buzzing after that first half, ha ha!
• I used to live in a beautiful picturesque Connecticut small shoreline town that has the cutest town center. I have used it for some of my future visualizations and yesterday we drove out there and I got to live through one of the visualizations that I use often! We walked into all the little tourist shops, the village chocolatier, the gift shops, and the cute little spice shop. Then we got tea and walked through the green, sat on a park bench and people watched before heading out to pick up the food to head to the beach. It was wonderful.
• This morning we went to a local farm to buy produce and on the way home Randy mentions there is an amazing creamery up the road. He was mentioning it as something we can try in the future when I felt ready, but my ears perked… I have not had ice cream in 8 years. I felt compelled to try it. So, at 11:30 am and BEFORE lunch (rebels!) we turned around, and drove up this beautiful country road to the creamery where we got 2 scoops to share (coffee almond fudge and black raspberry). It was GLORIOUS! (you’ll notice I had a split second of hesitation in the first photo, but then just dove right in!) Not one symptom during any of it! In the last photo… I was having an “OMG THIS IS WHAT ICE CREAM TASTES LIKE!!??!!!” moment, because I had definitely forgotten!!

• I bought sourdough bread from the farm and it was the first time I had real full gluten bread!!! It was delicious!!
• I’m not having reactions to anything out in the world! I used to experience respiratory symptoms in reaction to about 80% of the things I came in contact with out in the world. That left me not wanting to go ANYWHERE because of what I might come in contact with and bring back home to my camper. I was always determined to keep my camper “sterile and safe.” That fear is long gone!
• I am now incremental training IN THE HOUSE that was part of my perfect storm! I spent 15 minutes there for the first time yesterday. I had a few symptoms within the first 5 minutes, but I started to play with the dog to distract myself and noticed that they went away. I was happy to walk out at 15 minutes on MY terms, not because symptoms pushed me out. My goal is to be able to have an occasional meal with Randy and his kids in the house. Ultimately we’re going to buy a new house so I will never be moving back into this one, but I just would like to get to the point where I can be in it to socialize etc.  Last night was a big first step!
• I’m living in a state of Joy. Living cooped up in a tiny camper for 2 years totally isolated from the world, living in fear, I feel like someone opened up my cage and said “go little bird you’re free!” I am going through these moments in total wonder and amazement. At times I’ve had symptoms in the form of worries that it will all be taken away. But, my Certified DNRS Coach says that’s normal and that thought will fade as I do more and more. She’s reminded me that I will have these tools for life and I will be in control from here on out. That is a really great feeling.

I hope everyone is out there, enjoying the weekend, pushing and challenging yourselves just a little bit, it’s so worth it. 

Stay tuned for Part 3 of Samantha’s recovery journey, coming soon.

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Samatha’s journey into chronic illness started 8 years ago. Despite her best treatment efforts with seeing dozens of specialists and undergoing many different protocols, she still found herself sliding back into a state of chronic illness. Instead of getting better, her sensitivities were increasing, and she suffered from severe reactions to minuscule levels of chemicals, mold and various foods. She describes herself as living “like the boy in the bubble.”

She signed up for the DNRS program and detailed her progress along the way in regular posts on our Global Community Forum. We’ve compiled her updates into three parts so that you can read her “recovery diary” in chronological order. We think you’ll agree, Samantha’s updates are an invaluable play-by-play of her experience with rewiring her limbic system through DNRS brain retraining and how it has impacted her life.

In her own words (lightly edited for length and clarity) here is the first part of Samantha’s recovery diary.

My Recovery Goals

I started this program like most of you, with the intention of getting back into society and living a normal life again. 

MY BIGGEST GOALS WHEN I SIGNED UP FOR THE PROGRAM:

• To move out of the tiny camper in my boyfriend’s driveway where I’ve been for just shy of 2 years after needing to move out of his home and abandon my things (now stored in his garage)
• To be able to buy items like clothing, general living necessities, and other items in the world without crippling symptoms
• Bring more foods back into my diet that I used to love 
• To fall asleep without scary symptoms
• To be able to buy a mattress since I had to remove the one in the camper leaving me sleeping on cushions intended for a couch. 
• To be able to wear makeup or use hair products again (haven’t been able to in 2 years)
• To be able to go back into my boyfriend’s home or go near my old things again
• To get vaccinated so I can socialize without fear and so I can be maskless around my boyfriend
• To be able to get back to running my business that I love, as a portrait photographer

Week 8 Update: Indescribably Life Altering

For 8 weeks I’ve been very dedicated. I have not missed a day of rounds, I hired a Certified DNRS Coach, and started attending LIVING DNRS classes.. I’ve had worries about not doing the program right. To be honest, I talked to my coach about the fact that in the beginning, I had a lot of “fake it ‘till you make it” moments. I just wasn’t sure I was doing it right. 

I had some small but exciting changes so I was motivated to keep going. The Global Community Forum is always a great motivator too! After 5 weeks I hit a big ebb, and I remembered Annie saying this could happen and to not be discouraged. I tried to accept this as “neuroplastic gold” and while prior to that, I was seeing some little shifts that were exciting… things SKYROCKETED after I came out of this ebb.

48 hours ago something shifted. In a MAJOR way. These are all the things I have done and some really BIG things all happened at once in the last 2 days!

I CAN NOW:

• Eat whatever I want (but I’m still eating healthy)
• Buy anything in the grocery store!
• I seem to be able to buy ANYTHING anywhere?! (I’m still scratching my head on this one.. like WHAT!?)
• Wear makeup
• Take waaaay less supplements! From over 40 pills a day to just a fraction of that!
• Use hair products
• I can eat CHEESE! I haven’t been able to eat dairy in 8 years!
• I went from having only 2 shirts and 1 pair of shorts and limited undergarments to being able to buy 3 more shirts, a pair of jeans, and a pack of socks! Tomorrow I’m going to get more!
• The scary sleep issues I was having have stopped!
• I am not living in a state of constant fear! I am living in a state of JOY!
• And the biggest thing of ALL.… last night I had my boyfriend bring me something from the house, the house I can’t go near, and I had NO SYMPTOMS. Then I had him open the garage where all my discarded items were (a garage I normally have to stay at least 30 feet away from when open), and I had him give me something from in there, and NO SYMPTOMS!! I then walked right up to the garage and stepped inside, then I burst into tears and we both cried, I have not had a symptom since!! 
• Today I went and bought a new keyboard for my computer, scheduled a much-needed dentist appointment, an eye doctor appointment, and bought my first ever takeout in over 2 years. Up until this point I could not go INSIDE nearly anywhere!!

I am beside myself. I am so happy to have a coaching appointment tomorrow because I definitely need guidance on how to handle this WEIRD feeling of such rapid healing after living like the “boy in the bubble” in total isolation for 2 years. 

This program has me feeling so many things, like immense gratitude for this gift of life that’s been returned to me. I can’t wait to see what else happens and how my body responds to the continued practice, because I can tell there is more rewiring that needs to be done. My RING camera captured some of what happened last night and the best part is you can hear me saying through tears… “That Annie Hopper is a genius and I love her so much!” 

I don’t know what else to say other than I’m finally starting to dream again, to see my future, and it looks so bright!!!

Week 9.5 Update: I Have a Bed!

2 years ago I bought a camper and parked it in my boyfriend’s driveway, a house I had been living in for a year, until I could no longer be there. 

Very quickly the camper mattress became a source of environmental-related symptoms and it had to go! The dinette area has 4 cushions that convert to a twin-size bed… not the most comfortable, but it was better than being in a car, or a tent on the ground, and that is what I told myself for 2 years. 

Over the years I have tried unsuccessfully to get a new queen mattress for the actual bed area, I have purchased nearly 10 and had to return them all. NOT TODAY!! 

Today the new mattress came, and I knew I was putting it in no matter what. I would train with it if I had to, but I was NOT going to repeat old patterns of the past and tell my limbic system that avoidance behaviors were acceptable. 

I took the mattress out of the box and put it on the platform, put on the sheet and laid on it and OH MY! After not laying on a bed for so long, it was incredible—as you can see in my text to my boyfriend only minutes after testing it out!  

I can’t wait to go to sleep tonight, I can’t believe this day is finally here! 

Also, this week I am continuing to incremental train in the garage full of my old things. I am up to standing in it for 20 minutes! I can’t wait until I can spend some time in the house. 

Other incredible things that happened this week:

• buying clothing, 
• getting back into my photo studio, 
• booking clients, 
• wearing makeup, 
• ordering takeout, 
• wearing hair products, 
• almost no fear now when I’m in stores and I buy anything I want without sniffing it or examining it. Unthinkable just 3 months ago. 

It still feels like a dream, every day I’m still so amazed at what I’m capable of. My statement that I came up with when I started is “I am healthy, I am strong, I am limitless” and I write it every night 10 times as Annie directed us to, and I already feel like it has come true. 

Some new behaviors I have implemented while I’m rewiring:

1. I’ve stopped watching most of my favorite shows that are drama and sci-fi. I didn’t love doing this but I understand you can get adrenaline rushes from media so I’ve started watching totally different types of shows: comedies (Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon), family-friendly shows (Heartland, Shark Tank, AGT), game shows (Generation Gap, The new Password), etc. Sadly my Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Handmaids Tale-type shows will have to wait until my 6-month mark—a small price to pay for this newfound freedom!
2. I stop conversations that aren’t “limbic system friendly” to make sure I’m not getting pulled into negative energy conversations.
3. I’m dancing! Every time I do dishes I’m either listening to an audiobook or music and dancing, if it’s quiet I’ll hum sometimes, and even just noticing I’m not engaged in anything I will put on a smile (because my limbic system knows, haha)
4. I’ve limited my social media, and I’m staying away from the negative news.
5. I have a Google Doc that I log every positive thing (no negatives) that has happened to me that day. I use that as a  daily journal so that I can go back and see all my amazing progress on days when I’m ebbing.

All these things are little but I feel like they are super helpful for me since I feel very influenced by other energies. Thought I’d share in case it might be helpful for someone else.  

Stay tuned for Part 2 and 3 of Samantha’s recovery journey, coming soon.

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She contracted Covid for a second time in March of 2021. Louise found herself unable to walk and needed a wheelchair and had to quit working. She tried numerous treatments then heard about DNRS. 

After four short weeks of implementing the program, Louise has gone from using a wheelchair to taking her 6 year old twin daughters to an adventure playground where she walked for most of a day with no symptoms!  Louise used to have to wear medical grade 2 compression stockings, and now she no longer has to! At one point she was fainting excessively and chipped her front teeth, resulting in veneers. Now she reports no more fainting, no more brain fog, and she has much more energy!

Incredible!! Louise said, “All the science of the program makes total sense, and why don’t more medical professionals know about DNRS and neuroplasticity?”

Recently, Dr. Louise sent DNRS founder, Annie Hopper, an email with an update on her progress. Read the encouraging excerpts from her email below:

“Thank you so so much for giving me my life back, you have set me on my road to healing! 

My POTS is now fully healed as you can see from the videos below! I still have work to do on myalgia, fatigue and neuropathy… but six weeks ago when I started DNRS I couldn’t get out of bed for four days after going on a one hour trip for a blood test. I’m in a bit of an ebb but I know I will come out the other side and can take what I’ve learnt to help with incremental training for the CFS [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] side of things!”

The photo below shows a “before and after” of the video that Dr. Louise sent us to show how her lower heart rate reflects her recovery from POTS:

Dr. Louise’s resting heart rate before (left) and after (right) doing the DNRS program to recover from POTS.

Dr. Louise is committed to implementing all pillars of the program and will continue to use the program to reach total recovery. And once she does will share with the medical community the benefits of DNRS!

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I can stand in the shower, bend over the bathtub and scrub it out, push a vacuum cleaner, do laundry, bake cookies—and eat them too! I can shop and cook for myself. I can pretty much do whatever I want. In the fall I took a trip back east and spent four months in Connecticut. It was my first time traveling since 2008. I have my life back—and I love it. I love myself.

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Lisa remembers first experiencing symptoms associated with limbic system impairment as a young child. “I had digestive symptoms and food intolerances as a young child. As a young adult, I began to experience exertional limitations and blacking out during exercise. I could no longer run, play volleyball, play hockey, or hike mountains. In 2010, I started a night shift position at work, and 3 months later, I hit rock bottom. Unable to work and barely able to perform normal functions for survival, I had to leave my job. My cardiologist told me, ‘Your system just can’t handle night shift’.” Not long after leaving her job, however, life resumed normally for Lisa until she moved into a water-damaged home in 2015. “I started to experience a familiar downward spiral, along with some strange, mystery symptoms. At the time, I didn’t know I had a perfect storm brewing and my limbic system was being pushed over the edge, and I pushed myself to keep trying to live a normal life. In September 2016, I crumpled, and this time I didn’t recover. I spent the next two and a half years trying to find answers and struggling to meet basic needs for survival, suffering debilitating fatigue and brain fog.” This search for answers included visiting numerous doctors and specialists, and undergoing comprehensive conventional testing. “When my conventional doctors were unable to find answers, I turned to various alternative modalities including physical therapy, chiropractic work, kinesiology, foot reflexology, acupuncture, neurofeedback, and energy and bodywork healing. I saw four different naturopaths and underwent extensive and expensive testing. We started to uncover some layers of illness, including adrenal insufficiency, hormone imbalance, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), and Lyme Disease, and treated with various supplements, medications, intravenous (IV) therapies, and detoxification protocols. Some of these treatments perked me up and offered symptomatic relief, however, they did not address the root cause of dysfunction in my body, and my life continued to be very limited.”

Lisa found out about the DNRS program through her naturopath who specialized in Lyme Disease and CIRS. She recalls, “At first, I didn’t know if I had the will and strength to commit myself to the program. I was struggling to find a living environment that I didn’t react to. Each time I moved environments, I would perk up a bit, then within a few months start reacting to that environment as well. It started to feel impossible to find a safe place to live. Then one day it struck me right to the core – I was running from my own brain and it was following me wherever I went. This wasn’t the environments, it was my brain stuck in a pattern, and this is what they were talking about in all the DNRS testimonial videos. Right then I was committed to the program. I committed myself to whatever it took, because I knew it was the way out, and I knew deep down, in a powerful way, that it would be worth the effort.”

Lisa has since been implementing the DNRS program for 8 months, and shared her most recent milestones on our Community Forum.

I’m feeling back in the swing of life! I do a lot of things in one day and feel amazing and effortlessly calm through it all! It feels so normal now to just feel normal and do normal things, and I feel ambitious and productive without running on adrenaline. All of this feels amazing, yet also dim in comparison to the new inner glow of deep contentment and calm! I feel grounded in a way I can’t explain. I live in the present moment instead of in my head and I’m content to just be. Every day I savor this new reality and admire the simple, yet radiant beauty of these fresh blooms. 

I’m discovering a new way to be, and I am savoring the experience of just living life!! (Something that evaded me the last 3+years) 😀

Best wishes to everyone in the New Year!

What is Lisa’s message for those who are still suffering? “There are hundreds of people on the DNRS Community Forum right now who know darkness and suffering, who are finding their way out of the darkness using the tools of the program. In some way, I intuitively knew that my symptoms and allergies did not define me. This program held the answer that made so much sense to me – all my symptoms were manifestations of a limbic injury. All of them. Having a limbic system impairment does not mean ‘it’s all in your head’ or ‘your symptoms aren’t real.’ It’s an actual, physical injury that happens in the subconscious part of the brain, and then results in dysfunction that affects any or all systems of the body, including the immune and detoxification systems. If you are someone who feels like you have tried everything and you barely have the courage to try one more thing, know that this program really is the miracle so many of us were looking for, and we are recovering and reclaiming our lives!

This program did so much more than I expected it to. Not only has it been the answer for my chemical and mold sensitivities, allowed my body to fight off Lyme, and restored my energy, it has also been a complete reboot physically, mentally, and emotionally. Looking back, I can see that I was stuck in a fight-or-flight mode for many years. Now, not only do I have my life back, I have a whole new way of experiencing life. It’s like going from surviving to absolutely thriving. Every day I feel grateful for this beautiful gift!”

Lisa: “This was a photo I took while on a brisk walk”

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Johanna used the Dynamic Neural Retraining System (DNRS) program online to recover from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Food Sensitivities.

After celebrating her special one year DNRS anniversary, she shared her amazing story in the video below:

In her own words, here is a summary of Johanna’s recovery journey with DNRS:

Exactly a year ago, I sat down to watch the DNRS Instructional Videos for the first time.
Although a little bit of my initial skepticism had faded when I read Wired for Healing, I still had doubts.And yet I remember saying that if it at least helped me improve by 10%, it was worth giving it a try.

I had hit rock bottom.

I could only leave home wearing a mask to go for a daily walk in the countryside.
I would only occasionally meet family and friends outside.
My energy levels were so low that I could barely function and I was having more and more debilitating reactions, such that most weeks I couldn’t manage more than about 6 – 10 hours of work.

I could only eat about 24 different foods and there were many foods I was sure I would never eat again in my life.

Funnily enough, I only thought DNRS might help me with my tolerance to chemicals.
Little did I know a year ago how many other things DNRS was going to help me with. Little did I know that today I would be fully recovered and living a completely normal life again.

And little did I know that I would be able to be with my loved ones again – meeting them at home and hugging them again.

I was also able to get back to doing a number of activities I once loved:

• Eat in restaurants and eat anything I want.
• Go out into the world: to shops, the theatre and anywhere I want.
• Go to work full-time.
• Not only attend, but also be the “last bridesmaid standing” at my best friend’s wedding.
• Go travel the world.
• Go running regularly and take part in races (and even win a couple of very unexpected trophies).
• And so much more…

However, the journey wasn’t without its bumps.
By the 4th and final day of watching the DNRS instructional videos, this is what I wrote in my journal:

“I had to take a break between day 3 and 4 as I had a gastric bug.
But I’m so happy that I’m better now and completing the DNRS Online course and I’m really looking forward to my new routine.
I’m focusing on my goals the way I did when I had the stress fracture in my leg and treating my practice with the same commitment that I had towards my physiotherapy. Just like I knew my leg wouldn’t be weak forever, I also must stop thinking that this will be my life forever.”

A year on, how glad I am that I decided that I would give DNRS a try.
And I’m so glad that you’ve found DNRS too. And no matter what part of the journey you’re on, know that DNRS will transform your life.

Wishing you all the very best, always.

Johanna

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Lori was first diagnosed with ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) in 2014. Life had become more and more challenging, with 2018 being her most limited year. “I was bed-bound or housebound at all times, with the exception of medical appointments and a couple of outings resulting in weeks of extreme recovery afterward.” She had visited numerous doctors and tried many different treatments and protocols in search of healing. “I had tried everything: two pages of different modalities, protocols, and specialists. I spent thousands of dollars on supplements, private pay clinics, energy healing, and so much more. But any relief I found was minimal and very short-lived.”

Lori found out about DNRS earlier this year after reading a blog post online that mentioned the program. She began the program soon after, and recently shared her exciting progress on our Community Forum:

After starting the program in April, mood elevation was the first change that I noticed. Some of my personality silliness and lightheartedness started coming back, and I began smiling and laughing more.

Energy was the second change that I noticed. When I started DNRS I found myself consistently able to get up out of the bath on my own instead of sitting there in a towel after the water had drained. I no longer needed to call my husband for help – I could get right up and out myself! Fast forward to today, I am now able to stand up and take a shower many days, wash my hair and blow-dry it myself!! I’m up out of bed more and am having fewer ME/CFS symptoms. My parents held a family reunion in August and I was able to be there this year, which was amazing!

I was also able to go look at a few houses this summer. We had been wanting to buy a house for a long time, but stayed renting a duplex with my supportive parents who walked our dog and sent over meals since my husband was busy with a full-time job, 3 kids, and doing all of the household tasks. Then we found our house and moved in last month! I was able to handle the stress of moving, and I found that since moving into our new place the shifts have really been happening.

I can also now consistently walk my own dog down the street myself and I am looking forward to taking her on longer and longer walks as I continue to progress. The sense of accomplishment I feel as these things have come back to me is incredible! Last week I helped my husband with some pruning in the front yard! And the other night we played a game with my step kids! And I even found myself putting on some background music! All of this is huge progress.

Being in a car as a passenger has become easier as I can now sit up with eyes open and no noise-canceling headphones on, and I’m able to much more easily process everything going by again. The other day we went over to see my parents and I didn’t even bring my headphones! I’m sleeping better, feeling better overall, and yes there are ups and downs in this healing process but the shifts are happening! Looking forward to so many things that I know will happen in the near future!

I am so very grateful for this program. I had tried so many different modalities and protocols before finding DNRS and I am so thrilled to have finally found what I’ve been looking for these past 5 years! Forever thankful to Annie, to my new DNRS friends, and to everyone that has been here for me and become a part of this journey! Sending love and light to everyone along for the ride on this journey! 

To those who are still suffering, Lori’s message is, “When I initially heard about DNRS, I thought it was just positive thinking and meditation, which I had already been doing for years. I was so wrong and was surprised to discover that it was very physical. I learned how trauma (which for me was a virus) caused a limbic system impairment resulting in prolonged symptoms like post-exertional fatigue and brain and body inflammation. Now I have a way to begin to change that cycle.

I had tried everything, so I am thrilled to know that I have finally found what I’ve been looking for! I am forever grateful for this program for the way it is helping me heal. Life is so much more beautiful now!”

Photo taken this summer as I got out with my husband to take in the beauty of our local waterfront!

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Paul began experiencing symptoms associated with limbic system impairment fourteen years ago. “The first obvious a sign was in 2005. I slowly crashed into a fatigue and brain fog that lasted three months. I came out of that and felt ‘normal’ again, then three years later experienced a similar event, two months duration this time, which again resolved spontaneously.” Life resumed normally for Paul until he began noticing symptoms again in 2013. “Six years ago I started to notice some heat intolerance, not bad at first, but slowly getting worse so that by mid 2014 I was feeling critically overheated, flushing, or pale, and a feeling of impending doom. I got a diagnosis of Cutaneous Mastocytosis in 2015, and found a little relief, but my symptoms simply got worse over time. In 2018 I was diagnosed with mold toxin illness, but treatments didn’t make me better and I continued to slowly get worse.” Paul had visited many different doctors and specialists in search for answers, including an allergist who specializes in Mast Cell Activation disorders. As Paul describes, “The diagnosis is a bit of a medical curse, as the dharma is that most people don’t get cured of Mastocytosis, but rather find a way to minimize symptoms mainly by avoidance of triggers. So I had a belief from this that I was simply struck with mast cells releasing their chemicals inappropriately for the rest of my life.”

Paul found out about the DNRS program through his wife, who is a retired medical doctor. “She was researching online, and found an integrative functional doctor who specializes in Mast Cell Activation Disorder (MCAD), mold, Lyme Disease, all the chronic stuff we used to suffer from. Near the end of their consultation, he casually mentioned DNRS as something his patients who don’t respond well to other treatments find relief from. So the next day, there I am on the website, and I know I’ve found my path.”

Paul recently shared his exciting progress on our Community Forum. Although we recommend that people implement the program for a minimum of six months, for some, they will start to see profound changes before this time.

Hey all. I started the program four weeks ago today, and my life seems rather normal, or at least what I remember from long ago: normal for me is exuberant, friendly, a dancer, out visiting friends, enjoying the moment, enjoying the sunshine, and enthusiastic in everything I do. A full-on lover of life. I am all of these and so much more again, I am so grateful to recreate my being once again, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes: Here I am!

Friday night, my wife and I went out for a street party in town. Loud music, jammed streets, lots of friends hugging me, seeing me “back” in my joy. So we talked story, danced a bit, walked all about, and made dates for going over to two different friends’ houses for dinner this week – none of which would have happened just four weeks ago.
So hurrah for this sweet life! Hooray for Annie, and the whole DNRS program.

Aloha, y’all.

What is Paul’s message for those who are still suffering? “Someone once enrolled me in a personal growth program with these words: ‘You can either be, do, or have what you say you want in life, or you can have the reasons why not.’ I wanted healing. I wanted my life back. I had become a prisoner of my house. Mind you, I live in paradise, so it’s not a bad prison. But worse, I was a prisoner of my fear and anxiety. I already had all the reasons why not, but the thing I wanted, healing, spoke to me when I heard the testimonials of others. I wanted to discount them, with a sense of having tried so many things.

This one works. There are hundreds, likely thousands of us who have reclaimed our lives. You can do this. I had mostly given up hope, yet I did it. I am healing and it is a miracle of the highest order. If you are hesitant, remember a day before you had symptoms. You can experience these days of joy again and again.”

Paul also shared with us a recent milestone that brought him immense joy. “The best memory is of my wife waking to see me on the morning of Day 2 of the Online program. I had gone out in the garden to water, and the sun (my major trigger) was out and I stood in it for a short period of time to do the practice I had learned the day before, giggling and laughing because I was only getting hot. I wasn’t freaking into malaise and brain fog. I was laughing that I used to get ill doing this. So I went back to bed. My wife awoke, saw me and said, ‘Welcome back’ with the sweetest grin I had seen in years. I have been crying in joy ever since!”

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