How did you get into this?
NAET didn’t just treat my allergies, it changed my life, well to be precise it gave me a life worth living. So I trained in it, to do the same for other people.
People often ask why I left Engineering to do this, well the truth is I haven’t. Instead of finding out why electronics don’t work, I use my skills to find out why people aren’t working the way they should.
I started out life thinking I was going to be an Engineer and I did! I was and RF and Digital Design Engineer for a company that developed Radios for Military contracts. How does that fit into NAET? I had a huge personal loss and started on a path that would lead me to who and what I am now.
I felt I couldn’t be in Engineering any more due to the loss, so I moved into Project Management with the same company just a different site. I enjoyed Project work and I was very good, I was full of life and would organise social events for my team and friends on a regular basis. 18 months in and I ripped a hernia near my belly button. It took 3 months to diagnose and I was left with nerve damage and a candida Alb infestation of my gut. In total I was house bound/unable to work for a year and could only stay awake for 2hrs at a time. I didn’t want to see people that knew me, as I wasn’t me any more, so I shut myself away. Luckily I have a very loving and supportive partner.
“what do you have to loose? exhaustion, no life, constant reactions and pure misery”. Well, when you put it like that
Once the nerve damage eased (Tens machine) I headed back to work, this was an uphill struggle and took 4 months to get back to full time, but I was by no means the person I was, I didn’t organise events any more, I couldn’t even think about to attending, by this I mean I could either use the energy I had to work or to socialise but I couldn’t do both, I was the grand old age of 30! Redundancy came up and I jumped at it! Maybe I just needed a rest….. Please say that’s all I need….. The dark thought was I would be like this for the rest of my life.
The dark thought was I would be like this for the rest of my life.
I took a few months off and was then offered a testing contract for an EMC test house, perfect! the job was less stress, that was all I needed (still struggling to stay awake and feeling ill all the time).
My Mum found an article in a magazine about Candida and it’s symptoms. I had a look at the article and realised that I fit every symptom on the page! at last the answer! of course, it was obvious! all the clean thoughts I had when cameras were put in every part of my body and a few new ones, I never took Pro biotics! Candida is in all of us and when the balance of the bowel goes out (no natural bacteria) candida goes crazy.
“how does waving your arms and legs around, then going up and down your back do anything?” Oh boy would I eat my words
I instantly started on my own candida diet, using helpful books to guide my steps. That’s when I ate (in desperation to eat something) a hand full of almonds. My throat swelled up, it was at this point my ever loving partner lost it “For goodness sake your allergic to nuts now! when will you go and do NAET”. I must explain I knew one of the 1st NAET practitioners to train, Fitz Larsen, he was on my 1st project! Fate? probably. But been the Engineer I was I couldn’t get my head around how the technique worked “It’s weird!” “how does waving your arms and legs around, then going up and down your back do anything?” Oh boy would I eat my words.
Under duress I called Fitz, he put me in contact with a practitioner close to me, Ann Blair, She had been an IT Manager before finding that NAET worked for her, she was a no-nonsense woman and wasn’t intimidated by this stroppy know it all Engineer. Ann told me in plain English what the technique was and that yes it’s weird, but it works and “what do you have to loose? exhaustion, no life, constant reactions and pure misery”. Well when you put it like that. She went through my history, which as it turned out could be mapped easily and I could see how I got so ill and a little depressed. She told me in a very firm tone, “you will do the protocol and you will get better, if you don’t you won’t, its up to you” Ok that worked for me, but I was still sceptical.
“what do you have to loose? exhaustion, no life, constant reactions and pure misery”. Well when you put it like that.
I went through the protocol and she was true to her word! It was like someone was switching all the lights back on in my head. It was the day, 4 treatments in, when I got home from work and asked my partner if he wanted to go out that night, he fell off the chair “what! your not off to bed?”
Ann was right I did the protocol and I got better and better, just like my old self again… well actually better, I had never felt this good. It was then that I realised I wanted to do this, make people like me feel well again. I though there was no hope, because I wasn’t given any until NAET. I started my training with the British Institute of Allergy and environmental therapy, BIAET, so I could fully understand what allergies meant and did, I know very Engineering, I then trained in NAET and Kinisiology so I had a full tool box for my clients.