Vera's SEVERE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E.) FULL RECOVERY Story!

For those interested in the Ayurveda podcast episode Vera mentioned in this video, you can find it here: www.lavendaire.com/lifestyle-59/

Biggest Takeaway "SWITCH DOCTORS!!!" If yours isn't listening...get a new one. Thank you Vera & Raelan.

Love this, Vera states the TRUTH!!! CFS is a "stress illness" (from a maladaptive stress response on overdrive/limbic system impairment in the brain/oversensitized amygdala). As horrible as the symptoms are and although it often takes a matter of years (and usually recovery is not linear)---everyone can fully recover!!!

When she said the first few sentences... that she had to becone engeneer or that she was in the orchestra without even liking it I immediatly knew the she had selfish and abusive parents!! My mum is like that too... I am 32 years old and still struggle to know what I really want and if I am really allowed to want something. Also I struggled all my adult life with fatigue and overwhelm. Hoping for healing

15:44 You ladies are on to a good point: in school we are trained to believe authority over ourselves. Having punitive parents doesn't help as another early life experience. We need to stand in our own power, all of us on earth do, and take authority over our own lives back. We can cooperate in the system we live in while still being self-governing.

My symptoms have included frequent urination at night, over production of cortisol, use of sugar to try to regulate moods, extreme tiredness, inability to do housework for more than 5 minutes at a time. It started when I was 35 when I'd show up to the dr complaining of tiredness, but when I was about 52, it started in earnest. I'm 59 now and I've adapted to it as best I can but now I realize that overdoing anything isn't going to help me at all. Some things make me feel better, sugar always makes me feel worse. I believe I'm treating symptoms but I stress having a good night's sleep and napping whenever I need to. And also avoiding stressful people and with a past of abuse, that means many people. And staying calm, also meditation helps. I also remember the need for sunlight which people thought was strange. I used to work in office buildings in rooms with no sunlight so I believe this and the job stress contributed to it.

Stress has led to my CFS. My brother assaulted me in 2012 and my mother and sisters hurled abuse at me for years afterwards as I refused to forgive him. I eventually found the strength and cut my family out. I had therapy and realised just how toxic my family were and how mentally and physically abusive they’d always been. Stress and toxic relationships were definitely the catalyst to my illness. Well done Vera for walking away 💖

I can relate to parts of her story, having been bed bound for some time myself ( off and on for a few years- the longest stretch 7 months), I know how horrible it was just to try and lift my head or walk to the bathroom. I can't imagine going through that, that long. I've always been fascinated by ayeruveda. She is so wise beyond her years! Thanks so much for sharing this!!!

Wow the point of not eating until your hungry & not snacking is huge. I always felt worse as well with too much in my stomach. Thank you, thank you!!

"Always be yourself", I am in tears 🙏

What a beautiful open and honest girl. And I always love the space Raelan creates to let someone tell their story

Such a sweet soul, thank you for sharing this.

I'm so happy for you Vera! You are such a wise soul and have so much life ahead of you! 💕💕💕

💛 What a precious soul this young woman is! And, always Raelen 💖

THANK YOU Vera and Raelan for this awesome interview. So helpful :)

Two of my fav youtubers😍thank you

This is so inspirational! And I love Vera's headset =)

Lovely video. Thanks Vera and Raelan. Rambling thoughts on leaving toxic relationships: If you're not in an overtly abusive relationship, but are merely feeling dismissed / unseen, I've found it to be complicated. For me, ME/CFS hit 10 years ago and friends slowly left. I had two friends left, neither very understanding of ME/CFS. One just stopped talking to me recently because I made the tiniest inroads to explaining to her I don't like having my illness minimized or dismissed. So another friend gone. My family mostly doesn't want to understand this illness. I asked my dad if he knew the name of my illness, and he said no. End of convo -- no desire on his part to even know the name after 10 years!! This hurts terribly but I keep him in my life because being totally alone is worse and I love him. (I know this isn't as bad as many relationships and of course people should always leave abusive situations, but there can be gray areas where you feel dismissed and unseen.) My point is that when years of illness leaves you with very few people in your life, it can be difficult to weed out people who may be considered "toxic" or who can bring up discomfort or mixed emotions when you think of them -- because the alternative is simply to have NO ONE. Wondering if people can relate to this.

So much wisdom from someone so young. Vera's story really resonated. Thank you.

Her suggestion at the end to do a capsule wardrobe of your three favourite colors... Very interesting, and probably life changing.