Project Description
Miranda, BC, Canada
“Everybody has traumas. I have C-PTSD, which, you learn, can come up in all sorts of symptoms and labels, whether it’s a DHD or BPD. Nutrients [deficiency] and unhealed trauma can lead to those things. And I learned here that my nervous system was just wired, and my organ screen and my live blood analysis showed that I was lacking in nutrients. All the different body work, the counselling, the yoga, the meditation, the food – it gives you a safe space to release a lot. It’s not always easy, but it is worth it.”
Improvements with: ADHD, Anxiety, Arthritis, Bloating/ Indigestion, Caregiver Burnout, Childhood Trauma, Constipation, Depression, Diarrhea, Digestive Health, Emotional Trauma, Frozen Shoulder, Grief, Heartburn/ Acid Reflux, IBS, Insomnia/ Sleep Issues, Low Energy/ Chronic Fatigue, Muscle and Joint Issues, Post-Accident/ Fall Recovery, PTSD, Sciatica, Stomach Pain, Unhealthy Lifestyle Habits, Weight Loss/ Obesity, Wine Patterns.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Anxiety Score: 18 (low, almost moderate) | Anxiety Score: 9 (low) |
| Depression Score: 35 (severe) | Depression Score: 2 (no depression) |
| Traumas and Self-Negligence: I had a lot of childhood trauma and then repeated traumas throughout my life. Over and over. It seemed like I didn’t know where grief started or ended. I had been a caregiver for years. Some of it was codependency issues. It got to a point where I was so concerned about myself and my thoughts of not really wanting to be around, that I was going to start some antidepressants. I didn’t have enough motivation to use the tools that I had or the things I could do, because it’s hard to treat your body well when you’re not really caring about yourself at all. I started watching just too much TV just to turn my brain off. It felt toxic. I had tried some medications a few months ago, but I quit after about a month. I had a really bad experience about a year ago with some medications that made me suicidal, so I had to stop those as well. When I first got here, I was very nervous. I even tried to back out. I was very anxious. I thought maybe I wasn’t cleansed enough to be cleansed, and I was calling, maybe I should put it off. | Traumas and Self-Negligence: I had a lot of childhood trauma and then repeated traumas throughout my life. Over and over. It seemed like I didn’t know where grief started or ended. I had been a caregiver for years. Some of it was codependency issues. It got to a point where I was so concerned about myself and my thoughts of not really wanting to be around, that I was going to start some antidepressants. I didn’t have enough motivation to use the tools that I had or the things I could do, because it’s hard to treat your body well when you’re not really caring about yourself at all. I started watching just too much TV just to turn my brain off. It felt toxic. I had tried some medications a few months ago, but I quit after about a month. I had a really bad experience about a year ago with some medications that made me suicidal, so I had to stop those as well. When I first got here, I was very nervous. I even tried to back out. I was very anxious. I thought maybe I wasn’t cleansed enough to be cleansed, and I was calling, maybe I should put it off. I had a wonderful counsellor here. I had Supreme Court-ordered counsellors since I was nine years old. I learned at a very young age how to lie to them or tell them what I think they wanted to hear. And then in my teens, whether it came to social workers or youth counsellors, I knew that there were certain things you had to say so that you weren’t taken away, and then I got back in foster care. If you said the wrong thing, you would be separated from my father or my sister. So you sort of learned to. Not speak your truth, just to keep your family safe. And here I clicked with the counsellor so quickly. I think because of the safe space and the intention, I was able to open up with her in my first session in ways that I haven’t ever really opened up with anybody. I’m not saying that I haven’t had good counsellors over the years, but it’s tough when you meet a new person and you get one hour a week and you go back to work, whereas here, the whole environment around you is safe and warm and you’re being cared for and you open if, if you’re willing to open up and you open up your heart. I had four sessions in my two weeks, and it was game-changing. She was absolutely lovely, supportive and full of good tips and tricks. I opened up, I was my true self and told my true story, and by doing that, I was able to accept it and also realize that everybody has a past. And she made me feel like I could tackle it. So she gave me so much good advice and was just kind and treated everything I said with love and a fresh, good perspective. And no judgment. There’s no judgment anywhere here. |
| Panic Attacks - I could recognize them and I could deal with them. It doesn’t mean that they were fun, and they were starting to come more and more often. | Here, I haven’t had panic attacks, except one, which, while felt very similar to a panic attack, was more the trauma release. There was the shaking and crying, but the difference was that I was able to breath through it and release it. |
| ADHD - I have C-PTSD, which you learn can come up in all sorts of symptoms and labels, whether it is ADHD or BPD. Nutrients and unhealed trauma can lead to those things… I could not sit still for the life of me. | I learned here that my nervous system was wired and that I was lacking nutrients. Using different body work, counselling, yoga, meditation and food, it gives you a safe space to release a lot… I once again can sit at the ocean and be present with my thought, with myself, and not racing my mind and thinking, I need to be somewhere else, to go somewhere else, or I don’t have time for this. I can handle issues better and not be affected by the chaos; instead, to attract a calmer lifestyle… Addressing the “creatures” that take you over your intestines, whether parasites or candida, better sleep and being creative – all those things can really calm where you do not need medications. |
| Body Pain and Stiffness - I was stiff in my shoulders and my neck; so stiff in my lower back area that I was scared I wouldn’t gonna dance and I wouldn’t be able to dance again. I was worried. I was about to do some procedures where you cauterize nerves. Because I couldn't see being out of pain… I was so tense and in so much pain, it didn't seem like how am I supposed to exercise? How am I going to lay on a mat? How am I gonna do a push-up? | I realized that a lot of that pain isn't just physical, and it's emotional. And with the help of somatic therapy and everybody, I could actually loosen and meditate and feel my body. I could feel my spine align. There's motion in parts that were stuck together. It's not by any means absolutely perfect yet, but I feel hopeful. I can bend, I can shake my hips. I was joking. oh my, still have hope to be a model. |
| Sharp pain down the leg – I would be getting it and then clenching up and then being scared that my whole day was gonna be and then crying, and they it would set me off in a bad way. | Now I just lay there and don’t even think more than two minutes. I can speak to my body I tell it to be relaxed and get up slowly. And since then, I’m getting very little of the sharp pains. Wow! I cannot be more grateful. My sharp pains get to the point where I don’t feel them anymore. I can lift my leg. |
| Rib Pain - it would pinch out and I would feel my shoulder and my thumb going numb. | My pain is down a lot. During my somatic therapy, the rid popped into place by itself, with small movement. Without a chiropractor doing anything. If that's not proof that your body, your mind, and your body can heal itself, then I don't know what it is. |
| Inflammation and Pain - the pain [mostly it had to do with my SI joint and my whole back, the slipped disc, and arthritis in my low back] felt like 8 or 9, sometimes 10 [out of 10]. Sometimes it was just absolutely excruciating. It was scary. The shooting pains were, I believe, sciatic that was shooting down my leg. | Now, the pain is 2 or 3… It makes me feel hopeful that with less pain, it's going to give me the ability to want to work on getting a stronger core and stretching. My hips started moving more and more. So it was really just telling my body that it was okay to calm down and relax and that we could work together, be friends and figure it out. |
| Sleep Issues and Violent Dreams. I've had a really strange relationship with my sleep my whole life. My first memories are dreams. My dreaming has been a battle. I've tried to do some analysis, but I couldn't; it would take over my days. I would've had night terrors, sleep paralysis, waking up throughout the night, not being able to fall asleep, not wanting to fall asleep. Having an unhealthy relationship with sleep, sometimes I would avoid it subconsciously because I have my extreme dreams and then wake up exhausted. I had night sweats. I was waking up many times a night. I had been many times waking up from violent, scary, or just busy extreme dreams. I'd wake up. My dad, it used to break his heart. I'd wake up in the morning crying often, just I've been through so much. After such night I had no energy to tackle the day. And I felt like nobody understood how exhausted I was from what I was experiencing. I stayed up too late and slept in too late. I can't really say, I truly can't say what my sleeping pattern was like because I was having such an unhealthy lifestyle. I would sleep some nights, one or two hours, some nights not at all. Some nights, 12-14 hours. Some days I wouldn't get out of bed. There was no true pattern. There was no proper rest. | At first, especially when you're cleansing and have a lot going on in your system, I had a tough time falling asleep. I've gone down to some nights not waking up at all. And if some nights I wake up briefly, I fall right back asleep. I'm going to bed earlier. I've woken up this past five or six days before my alarm. Every morning at six, I feel refreshed. I get up and I I feel prepared for the day. I've officially gotten on a new cycle and it feels great. I've also learned that I wasn't allowing myself to do the healing it needs by staying up so late. And I love sunrises and all that. It's a game-changer. It makes me understand why rest is important, whereas I didn't allow myself to rest at all before in many ways. Now I sleep six to eight hours every night, mostly now without waking up at all. My dad would be proud of me. He would always say, you have an internal alarm clock. And I wake up before my alarm within minutes every morning, and it feels great. I think I actually got eight hours last night my but seven seems to be a good number for me. I feel rested. I don't feel I overslept or underslept. I feel great. |
| IBS and other digestive issues. I had serious digestive issues, even as a little girl. At nine years old, I went to the doctor, and they didn’t know what was going on in my stomach and gave recommendations of the strangest things. With depression, I let it get out of control. I felt extreme IBS symptoms. I always joked, when the doctor said Do you ever get constipated or have diarrhea? I would say I can get both those things in one day. I had gut-wrenching pains, buckling-over pains. I would eat and need a bathroom immediately. And then I would be in pain on the toilet. I had started getting really bad acid reflux. I was bloated. I felt backed up. Just nothing was right. I felt gross, and it came with a lot of pain, which changes your relationship with food. | I have not had any digestive issues here. I might've had brief heartburn once and bloating the first week, but it was in the beginning and due to adjusting to such a healthy diet, probably. But now, after the wonderful treatments, I have a way better relationship with my bowels and my digestive system. I don't feel the bloat, I don't have the pains, I don't have heartburn. I haven't had any major cramping… You get a different relationship with your body and you start learning what it needs, why it's uncomfortable, and um, plus you get so cleansed out. I feel lighter in all of the ways: physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I'm just lighter. I feel regular. There were no bowel movements that were painful; they're great. I love my pooping. I haven’t been constipated. When it comes, I want to get it out. I’m not holding it. So, regular bowel movements and peaceful and not painful is probably the way it’s supposed to be. |
| “Stress Stomach”: I was nauseous often. I had a sort of “good relationship” with gravel. I was tired of being nauseous, and I would take gravel, but it {which isn’t said) makes people really drowsy. It wasn’t making me drowsy because I was taking is so often. I felt sick all the time. | I don’t feel nauseous. There was some nausea during the healing and the detoxing, but it went away quickly with charcoal. I just don’t have the same knots or stress stomach. I feel much better. |
| Unhealthy Habits. I was at the stage where I didn’t care anymore and was just putting whatever in my body. | I am so excited to treat my body better and I have no desire to go and drink alcohol or eat a cheeseburger, unlike in the past. |
| Bladder issues. As a child, I had frequent bladder infections. At four years old, they did a surgery in that area, after which I started to hide my bladder infections, because I did not want to have it done again. | I delved deeper into my relationship with that area. I don’t feel like I have to run to the bathroom. I’m frequently peeing here because we are so hydrated and we drink so much to flush, but I am not having those urges of needing to go, or cough and something comes out. |
Experience Highlights:
- Art
- Walks
- Group
- Workshops and classes
- Food
- Somatic Therapy
The information above is based on the following resources:
- Unedited Video Testimonial Materials
- Before and After Self-Assessment
- Program Participation and Progress Sheet
- Before and After Emotional Wellness Tests
Disclaimer : Results of participants differ and the Fresh Start cannot guarantee that you will experience your improvements in the same way as in this testimonial. The Fresh Start is not an allopathic medical facility and does not claim to either diagnose or treat any disease. The Fresh Start does not guarantee a recovery from any specific disease or a health symptom.
