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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Wendy had gone through a period of isolation and medical uncertainty, even ending up in the emergency room multiple times due to her health crisis. She tried various treatments, but nothing seemed to work until she found DNRS.

Watch the video below or read on to learn about Wendy’s healing journey.

Wendy found out about the DNRS program after hearing a doctor mention it. Wendy goes on to say, “He was talking about all the reasons why you can never heal from MCAS. And then at the very end he said, “I have had testimonials from people that I don’t know, and they have used the term miraculous. I can’t vouch for them because I don’t know anything about this program. But it’s called DNRS.”

Wendy researched the Dynamic Neural Retraining System (DNRS) online and lo and behold, found testimonials from so many people who had been suffering as she had been. In DNRS they had found an answer and were actually getting better!

Wendy immediately ordered the program.

As Wendy explains, prior to starting DNRS, “I was basically allergic to everything that I ate and everything that I breathed in.”

Once she began incorporating the DNRS practices into her daily routine, She noticed shifts right away. She regained optimism, energy, and happiness. But this was just the beginning.

The program’s positive impact was significant, allowing her to gradually tolerate fragrances, expand her food choices, and regain her normal weight. Wendy happily reports, “I’m only seven months into the training, but the shifts have been monumental.”

“My body started to fill out and come back to a normal weight, which was just miraculous to me!”

Eventually, she was able to travel and engage in activities she thought were impossible before.

“I just got back last week from traveling overseas, taking a plane ride to another country to visit my daughter, who I hadn’t seen in a year. My ultimate goal was to be able to do this.”

Wendy was able to resume activities she hadn’t been able to do in years: “I was hiking in the forest, ten-kilometer hikes. I was eating street food and enjoying it and not having any fear about having a reaction whatsoever.”

In addition to the program, Wendy appreciated the supportive DNRS community, participating in the Global Community Forum, Certified DNRS Coaching, and the Living DNRS program. The Living DNRS sessions were particularly crucial to her healing journey, where she found comfort in the shared experiences of others and the positive, healing energy within the group.

“When you go through such a health crisis, like I personally went through, you feel very alone. You feel like you’re doing it alone, that you’re not like anybody else and you’re trying to figure it out by yourself. When you come to the Living DNRS program, all of a sudden you have this little family group of people that are all like you, and they’re all working to better their health and work through the program.”

“And I think that that’s a very healing energy to have a whole bunch of people all with very positive energy, very supportive energy all together in one space.”

She credits DNRS with transforming her life from one of fear and vulnerability to empowerment and gratitude.

“The DNRS program has made my life complete again. Going from a place of hopelessness to actually having a full and wonderful life in seven short months is a miracle! I am so filled with gratitude I can barely express it!”

Wendy’s story highlights how the DNRS program offered a lifeline and a path to healing for her debilitating health conditions. Through training, community support, and perseverance, she was able to reclaim her life, overcome crippling health challenges, and experience a profound sense of empowerment and gratitude!

“I’ve gone from a person who was filled with fear and anxiety and vulnerability at the hands of the illness that I was suffering with, to someone who feels completely empowered to live a full and beautiful life in every way.”

“I can’t think of a bigger gift to receive!”

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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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Autumn had experienced symptoms associated with limbic system impairment since the day she was born. “The hospital staff put a gown on me that had been washed in fragrant detergent, and I broke out into a rash. I suffered symptoms all throughout my childhood–allergies, anxiety, lots of infections. Things really ramped up, though, when I reached my tipping point later as an adult. I got pregnant with my daughter and had a traumatic birth experience, all while living in a house that had a mold problem in the basement. I was never the same after that.” It was then that Autumn began searching for answers in hopes of regaining her health. “I started with my family doctor and progressed to various specialists: gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, neurologists, rheumatologists, psychiatrists and therapists, dermatologists, gynecologists, allergists, and mast cell and POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) specialists. I reached a dead end with those, and started seeing integrative doctors, mold specialists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, naturopaths, and diet coaches. I tried several elimination and gut-healing diets. Then I started trying the various protocols of famous doctors and ‘biohackers’. By the time I started DNRS, it seemed I was starting a new protocol every other week.”

Overwhelmed and losing hope, Autumn decided to try the program that she had heard about several times through the course of her illness. One story in particular stood out to her, inspiring her to give DNRS a try. “My interest was finally piqued when I heard about a woman from a mold support group on Facebook who had gone through the program and was fully recovered, off all meds and supplements, and living in her old house again. At that point, my expectation of recovery was to find a protocol of supplements, dietary restrictions, and environmental circumstances that I could tolerate for the rest of my life. It blew my mind that someone could truly recover and live a normal life again. At the same time, it confirmed a suspicion I’d always held that something about all of these mold-detoxing, hormone-balancing, gut-healing protocols just didn’t add up–that there was a root cause that I was overlooking.”

Since implementing the program, Autumn’s recovery has been nothing short of incredible. She recently shared her inspiring story of recovery on our Community Forum:

In December 2018, I moved out of my house because I was too unwell to live there anymore. I couldn’t take care of my 3-year-old daughter on my own. I ate homemade broth-based soups with spoonfuls of fat and a handful of veggies and soft meats for 3 meals a day. There was no exercise gentle enough for my body to handle. I couldn’t use any beauty or hygiene products. I lost my livelihood (professional singer and voice teacher), my home, and my family, and my daughter and I moved in with my parents while my husband continued to work and live 13 hours away.

Last weekend, almost 11 months into my DNRS journey, I moved back into this very house I left and we are–at long last–a family again, living and thriving together in a way we never dreamed was possible only 1 year ago. 

I spend all day long with my daughter. I laugh so much with her. I run around the house and the playground with her. We dance, we play soccer, we play games, and we are silly all the time. I am patient and understanding and gentle with her. I make her meals and I take her places. Every night before bed, I describe a happy memory and then I sing her a song.

I eat absolutely anything I want. Not just pizza, ice cream, and egg McMuffins, but delicious, healthy, nutritious things like huge salads with nuts, vinegars, and berries. I haven’t had a broth-based meal in months. I receive a local farm share every week and I love planning and preparing meals with every single ingredient that comes in that box–cucumbers, squash, snap peas, cabbage, beets, leeks, corn, tomatoes, onions, everything!

I do Zumba or yoga every day. Sometimes for a full hour! I dance and smile the whole time and sometimes I get to the end and feel like I could keep going. The first time I completed an hour-long Zumba class, I cried tears of joy during the cool-down.

My house is full of wonderful smells: hand soap with lavender essential oils, body soap with rosemary, and shampoo with flower extracts. Not just the products in the house, but the house itself. The musty basement smell, the coat of fresh paint in the bedroom, the gasoline smell of the garage, the cleaner on the windows, and just all the wonderful smells of cooked food, fresh bread, cut grass, outdoor breezes, and our daily activities mingling together to make the wonderful smell of home.

I am singing again. Every day, I use my voice and I fill the house with my strong, confident, clear singing voice. When the opportunity returns, I will fill the halls of churches and theaters again with my trained soprano. And this time, I will know what it took and what it means to have that gift to share with the world.

Annie Hopper, do you know what a gift you have given our family? I think not only about the families you have restored, but the human beings you have given back to the world. We, who became shells of our former selves, restored to grateful, compassionate, resilient individuals who are able to make a difference and contribute a thing of beauty and hope to the story of this world.

And to my DNRS coach, Emily, if you’re reading this, please know that your suggestions are, every time, immediately helpful.  

I have achieved my defining moment–this was the scenario I envisioned, but didn’t think was possible when I started DNRS 11 months ago. And I am so grateful for the ones who have gone before me. Your success stories are the reason I persisted to this day.

What is Autumn’s message to those who are still suffering? “You don’t have to believe this program will work for it to work. Doubt is a natural, and I’d even say healthy, part of the process. So many of us come into DNRS wanting certainty, and learning to be okay with uncertainty was, for me, a huge part of the recovery process. That being said, watching others’ success stories gave me so much hope and motivation to keep going. It is a slow process and it’s a lot of work. There are ebbs and times you’ll feel you’ve made no progress. But you commit to this, you give yourself no other choice–it’s either this or be sick the rest of your life. You maintain that determination and you will fully recover.”

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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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