Our ClientsIn Their Own Words

I’d suffered from autoimmune conditions and symptoms of ME/CFS for almost all of my adult life, and my fatigue, malaise and viral infections had been worsening steadily throughout my 20s and 30s. By the time I discovered the Mind Body Reconnect, I had been unable to work for five years, completely housebound on and off for two years, and completely bed bound for several weeks. Within six months of working with my MBR practioner (Clare Caldwell) I was living a normal life again – in fact, an even more active and vibrant life than I’d ever had before.

The Mind Body Reconnect tools have allowed me to connect with my authentic emotions and experience them not as something to endure or suppress, but as guides that constantly point me towards a rich, fulfilling and connected life. I now have a fundamentally different understanding of my body’s physical and emotional responses and their purpose as helpful messengers – my body’s way of communicating when something isn’t meeting my needs.

This new knowledge has been the biggest blessing and liberation – I no longer live a restricted existence in fear of symptoms. I have a busy, active and fulfilling life full of friends, work, and travel – as well as activites I never thought I’d be able to do, like surfing, hiking, and horseriding. It’s no exaggeration to say that MBR has completely changed my life for the better.

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.

A Truly Life-Changing and Beautiful Experience

I cannot recommend Clare Caldwell and The MindBody Reconnect highly enough. Clare is a truly beautiful soul, and working with her has been an absolute blessing. She possesses an incredible depth of knowledge, skill, and an innate ability to substantially help anyone who crosses her path.

Beyond her immense professional expertise, what makes Clare so exceptionally special is her deep, authentic kindness. She has a rare gift for keeping things uplifted, and she made me smile and laugh so often during our time together. From the very beginning, I felt incredibly understood, valued, and safe in her care.

If you are looking for someone who is not only a master of her craft but also a deeply compassionate, joyful, and supportive guide, Clare is that person. I am profoundly grateful for her presence in my life.

Before starting this therapy, my daughter was really struggling. She felt overwhelmed by depression, constant tiredness, sleepiness during day and anxiety. As a parent it was heartbreaking to see her like that and not know how to help. Working with Amy through MBR has been truly life-changing for us.

I’ve struggled with IBS and back pain for 4 years. I decided to see Anna and see if she could help me.

Anna taught me so much about the mind and body connection and helped me work through emotions and see the link to flare ups.

Since working with Anna, I have been able to come off all the IBS medication.

There are times now when something happens and my back will hurt and I know how to identify the link to my emotions and what to do to work through it so the pain leaves my body really quickly.

Anna worked with me until I was able to do the work on my own and she encouraged me to take longer breaks between sessions to see how I went.

I would go back to see Anna in a heartbeat, she is so warm and understanding and shares her own experiences openly, which is really helpful.

Anna and MBR has been life changing for me.

10 years of feeling lost, burnouts, searching for answers has ended, and I never thought it would.

The sessions have been honestly life changing (i cant say this enough) Not only has my quality of life changed but my relationships have improved too.

Thank you Anna.

Working with Anna has transformed my life from the foundations up.

Over a 4 month period (8 sessions) she took me from debilitating long covid to being well enough to adopt a second child!

Working with Anna is easy and refreshing. She builds rapport and trust quickly. Her kind nature and honesty shines through in how she runs her sessions.

Like a good massage she isn’t scared to push in the right places to undo hard knots and help you unravel complex patterns which are keeping you stuck.

Anna helps you see how your experiences are shaping your world but also shares insights from her own experience in a reflective manner. It’s easy to have honest discussions and frank conversations about your realities. Anna creates a safe space where everything can be heard and judgement doesn’t enter the arena.

If you are wanting things in your life to change but unsure how to make this happen, Anna is ready to help with the dismantling and rebuilding. Strength is one of her assets.

Working with Danny has been an excellent experience. He’s a thoughtful, caring coach who truly understands the ups and downs of the rewiring process. His insights are consistently valuable, and he brings a refreshing mix of curiosity and humour at just the right moments. I would definitely recommend partnering with him as a coach.

I have really enjoyed going through the MBR process with Danny. His sense of humour and kind manner helped me relax while his diplomatic observations were greatly appreciated. I generally felt lighter after a session and loved the emphasis on finding joy. MBR has equipped me with invaluable insights, a renewed sense of self and hope and a framework to help me moving forwards.

Working with Simon marked my pivot from my darkest winter into spring. I went from feeling mostly lost and confused in my struggle with Long Covid to feeling safe, clear, and on a healing path.

And safety and clarity are EVERYTHING when it comes to coaxing an overly sensitive nervous system back to balance.

I have learned how to gently expand my activities, of course, but I’ve also learned how to bathe myself in the kind of compassion I once felt was IMPOSSIBLE.

This self-compassion has in turn allowed me to set boundaries in my life in new ways. He has brought a sense of ease, of elasticity, of spaciousness into my life — and he has done it with so much humour and the best kind of irreverence.

Session by session, Simon teaches me the most important skill anyone can learn in this life: how to trust and honour myself. And with these changes come leaps in functionality.

I am completely re-engaged in my life again, instead of watching it from the sidelines.

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.