Back in 1996 I was diagnosed with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome).

This wasn’t the first time I had been diagnosed with a chronic illness.

Several years before in 1988 I had been diagnosed with clinical depression.

Finding myself unexpectedly ill set me on my journey to find solutions to illness which didn’t involve having to take medication, which didn’t agree with me in terms of the side-effects I noticed, or my growing philosophy of ‘well if I’m ill, there must be a reason, and I’d like to find out what that is, and solve it from there, rather than cover it up with medication, or prop myself up with supplements’.

Making Progress... and not

After working with counsellors after the depression diagnosis, I thought I was on my way to getting better, and whilst in some ways I was, in other ways I wasn’t, but I didn’t know it, because as I was to find out, illness - and the journey back to health - really is a journey of...