Angela Wilson

I’d battled with ME/CFS and headaches for years. My health would be up and down in a seemingly random fashion. I often wondered whether there was something fundamentally broken. (There wasn’t.) A while ago, I made some progress with a couple of other programs, but full recovery was still elusive.

MBR has helped me to stop the battle and start to follow the compass of my body. The approach makes sense to me. It felt as though I didn’t have to squeeze myself into a method that didn’t fit or that MBR was trying to turn me into someone else. I don’t have to constrain myself in order to be healthy. I can be completely me.

I learned that listening to the needs, emotions and signals of my body isn’t something to wait to do until health returns – it is a vital part of recovery.

The process feels like an adventure story. With each chapter, I discover something new about myself: what makes me tick; what brings me joy; what leaves me bored and where I need to say “no”.

Curiosity and playfulness are vital to the story. MBR has helped me to understand the importance of paying attention to my own needs; setting boundaries and overcoming perfectionism. I have learned that boredom and a lack of joy are important messages from the body, not things to be ignored.

This is still an ongoing process. The adventure story continues …

I enjoyed working with Angela immensely. Her insights, strength and fabulous sense of humour brought me great joy throughout our work together. We worked hard and had a lot of fun. Angela continues to keep me honest with myself.

I have been ill with ME/CFS for 21 years. I was impressed with Angela’s story of being bed-bound and ill for 20 years then getting better following the Mind Body Reconnect process. I thought “I need to get me some of that.” Angela herself has been a practitioner in this for around 20 years now and has trained many people.

She helped me to get in touch with my emotions and start to really listen to my body, which I had previously treated harshly as a machine. She trained me in the various tools that the process uses until such time as I got the hang of them and could venture out on my own. Angela is warm, encouraging, fun and knowledgeable and I always really looked forward to our sessions. She keeps her client base small so that she can put in a lot of care and attention to each person beyond the contact time. This I particularly appreciated and made me feel very cared for.

Whilst I’m not yet at 100% I went from energy levels at around 30% to around 80%, and from an emotional default setting of being miserable to a default setting of feeling pretty ok and often perky, in just a few months. For anybody with chronic illness they will know that such a level of improvement over that timescale is impressive. I am somebody who has tried oh so many different approaches over the years and this one was certainly the one that gave me the biggest bang for my buck.

The tools can seem deceptively simple at first and it’s easy to have doubts that they will work, but in all honesty it’s best to cast doubt aside and fully commit because what else have people in our shoes got to lose? In the very early days of my illness I was convinced I had a physical disease and needed a drug, but there wasn’t one then and there still isn’t one now, so why wait? Now I understand more how the body and mind can miscommunicate and get out of kilter. Most importantly, this is a training in life skills and in the end, recovery is just a lovely by-product.

Working with Angela through the MBR method was nothing short of miraculous. When I started, I was desperate and completely bed-bound with severe ME/CFS and a toddler to care for. Within just a few weeks, I was walking again. Soon after, I was dancing. The shift felt incredible.

After a lifetime of chronic symptoms since childhood, I am now the healthiest I have ever been, I feel whole and alive. MBR has given me my life back, and I will be forever grateful to Angela for helping make that possible.

I’m 14 and I have struggled with anxiety mostly related to school for multiple years, in this time I have spoken to GP’s, school nurses, teachers and therapists however none have impacted me the way working with Angie has.

After 7 sessions with Angie my school attendance has nearly doubled as well as comments from friends and family acknowledging difference in my day-to-day frame of mind and overall mood. I can absolutely say that I would not be where I am now without the past few months of sessions, I have received from the MindBody Reconnect.