Testimonials as of Aug 2024

This is an overview note to express my gratitude to you and your program for how my life has transformed over the past 12 months. I discovered your programme quite early into my nervous illness and having previously "recovered" some years ago thought I quickly understood the messages and would have a straightforward path to recovery. What I learned, through painful experience, however was that my previous recovery was based on "winning the argument" against all the stupid thoughts that anxiety threw my way and armed with a multitude of books, I had taken a CBT /NLP with a bit of acceptance thrown in approach. It had kept me very happy and content for a number of years after my first experience of anxiety, but after a sustained two year period of stress at work it was unravelling fast. I couldn't settle on one approach and my battle to fix this was making me worse. I felt I was spiralling out of control and at one point felt so utterly desperate that I believed even your program, which seemed to work so well for everyone else, had failed me. I really felt that there was no way back for me. How wrong I was!

I finally got it through to my mind, which wanted to "fight, fight, fight", that it was my very desire to be rid of my anxiety which was prolonging its stay. You'd been telling me this for ages and it was certainly a very regular theme of your program, but although I heard your words and understood them I didn't truly embrace them.

The miracle of your program is that once you acknowledge and "be with" the feelings, however horrific they may be (and believe me, they WERE horrific) they slowly but surely melt away, like the mist on a cold dawn.

Now I know we all must discover this for ourselves; it is not enough simply to be told. If it were, we would all recover immediately. Your program has given me the tools, but it wasn't until I started to use them that I found myself heading to recovery.

What I have experienced over the past 12 months is sustained improvement to the extent that I am now longer in an anxiety state. It hasn't been an easy journey and I've had many bumps in the road, but ever since I truly understood your message and went out of my way to embrace the feelings I have lost my fear of them. And once this happens, recovery starts to happen pretty rapidly.

My life has been back to normal for some time. You encouraged me to get back to work, which was tough at first, but a few months back I took on a bigger and better role at a new business – unthinkable only 10 months ago. I am enjoying life, living in the moment and not over thinking things and loving being with my young children as they grow up. I actually find that I am moving to a far more content place than I was before my nervous illness.

So, am I fully recovered? No, I'm not. But that doesn't matter to me, because I know that I will. And I genuinely use those moments when old feelings start to resurface as practise. I need more practise before I get over the line, but that's fine because the practise no longer matters.

If you're reading this, feeling in despair and hoping to find a miracle cure, I'd urge you to go on David's program. Not because it's a miracle cure, but because the miracle comes in understanding that it is your response that is keeping you in this state. And David's program is the key that will enable you respond the right way, to get to that place where you are no longer trying to think yourself better and are getting on with your life with anxiety there. And then the miracle starts to unfold...

Thank you David!
Rob

On this day... This note or post has a very special meaning to me. As time goes by, I feel such gratitude for David Johnson and his coming into my life. David, I'm moved... Even to tears... Light hearted tears, yet also profound... Tears of thankfulness and of authentic inner peace and happiness.

I owe you David - Thank you beyond any words. I know these feelings are the same as so many of us here. We see so many 'songs of praise' and thanks for all he's done, from each of us on this forum. As we personally come to know, these are not empty, casual or overly dramatized words.

Hasn't each of our lives taken on more and more meaning every day that goes by? I, like so many of us, no longer fear, nor have unnecessary worries, nor self doubts, nor ugly background jabber inside my head. On the other side of the coin I now have confidence, inspiration, ambition and motivation, goals, better health, more friends, and a better relationship with my husband, family and friends. In other words... I now Have So Much.

It will be 6 years next month since I joined the forum and started the program with Freedom From Fear. I can't believe how time has flown by. It's been almost 4 years since I recovered.

I had no doubt about my recovery. I did wait to 'announce' it until I was sure. I guess it scared me to make it official. Finally I felt confident enough. (The last vestige of 2nd fear) So I took the plunge and told the world. I knew I'd never have another symptom.

I have to tell you all of this because you are the only ones who really get it. You know the value of being truly free! I never knew this feeling until I recovered because I had never been symptom free for even a moment of my then 48 years of life. So when I was released from that prison finally, I could not believe the emotions of exhilaration I felt.

Of course I don't feel this every minute of every day. I'd be exhausted if I did. This incredible feeling that comes over me every now and then though, reminding me of my recent and newfound freedom, as each of you who have recovered or are nearing recovery have felt, makes me want to shout it from the rooftops. But no one else gets it! I find it frustrating at times, to not have someone else to share the passion of the experience with, face to face, one on one. Alas, we are a rare breed, aren't we?

Well a couple of months ago, when my husband and I were on a camping trip with friends, riding our horses in the mountains, the feeling came over me and I did not care if my friends thought I was crazy. They already know I am anyway! And I just could not contain the joy I felt at that moment. Of course being on my horse is always a cause for joy, but this was more than that.

In that fraction of a moment I remembered ever so nimbly, how encumbered I used to be. I was inhibited, blocked from experiencing joy in any event. I was plagued by the annoying background jabber that was literally killing all joyful affairs. It was as if I were being constricted by a boa every minute of my life. Every presentiment (and there were many) depleted me. I had nowhere I could escape to. There was no letup. I was a prisoner in the truest sense of the word and it was torture.

So what did I do in that fraction of a moment of realization? I raced on the back of my horse with my hands flying above me, feeling free and confident, and I yelled at the top of my lungs - "I'm so happy!!!" Simple words? Big deal? Yes to both. This declaration embodies my current existence. That is a very big deal to me. I never knew I could feel this way. Not only that, I feel happy every single day that I wake up in spite of any worries or concerns I may have at the time.

Thank you David. You have my eternal gratitude. You've given me something more valuable than what any other person now on this Earth could ever give me. I couldn't ever repay you and wish I could. Funny thing is, I don't think you want repayment. You have the same gratefulness to yet another person – Dr Claire Weekes. And the legend goes on..........

Linda.
Keep life beautiful. Practice Freedom from Fear.

I have been blessed to be living within the cutting edge. As I have grown older and wiser I have realized that most all my life I have desired truth. The truth at all costs. No monkey business - just a straight shot between two points minus any detours.

Recounting all the ways this has proven true in my life would take more time than I have, and you wouldn't be interested anyway. But I will share these parallels with you.

Miscarriage problems years ago. I wanted answers. Not the so called answer the doctor gave me after assisting with the first miscarriage. A pat on the hand stating that these things happen for unknown reasons and we have no answers. It perplexed me enough to find the answer, which changed my path to a path of true healing. Required patience as my body healed and detoxed, and my hormones balanced. Four beautiful daughters were the result of 5 years of dedication to healing the right way minus band aids. True hard earned healing.

Another parallel would be the emergency fibroid removal that saved my life. The first doctor told me I would die if I didn't allow an immediate hysterectomy. I didn't believe he had the right answer and asked him why the fibroid couldn't be removed and my female organs spared. He said he was not trained in fibroid removal so I asked him who was. This led me to another hospital not 30 minutes away...with a surgeon who was skilled in this area. Yes he saved my life and saved my female organs as well.

After getting stuck in nervous illness, I wanted answers. Not a band aid and definitely not drugs. Answers. Rock solid answers. A straight shot between where I was and where my recovery could be found.

David Johnson spoke truth to me on that cold December evening in 2009, and I knew it when I heard it! He knew the way out of the state I was in and I believed him. He knew me better than anyone and knew why I was suffering.

So my question is, what kind of time investment are you willing to enter into to obtain true healing, minus crutches and band aids? And more importantly, do you believe David and all the souls that have recovered the right way?

Do you believe you have in your hands a cutting edge program that is the only cure for nervous illness?

I pray you do, because it is your cure. Always was, always has been, and always will be. The method is the ruby slippers on your feet, that contains the power to heal you and the peace of mind and heart you desire.

Recovery land is worth everything it takes to arrive there and be forever free. You wouldn't want it any other way. When it arrives, you will know it.

Keep going!! Keep trusting the method! It is your cure!!

Sheila V.

Hi David,

I am writing simply to say thank you for creating this wonderful programme
that provides the tools and teaches us how to recover from anxiety.
Your contribution in taking the teachings of Dr. Claire Weekes, and making
them accessible to people in this way with a wonderful, supportive forum of
fellow sufferers is priceless.

You have no idea (well maybe you have some idea ;) ) how many things I have
tried in over 30 years to find relief from my anxiety.
This program has transformed my life!!

Words cannot express the depth of my gratitude or the feelings I am now
experiencing as I approach that final station.
I stated in a recent post that for the first time in my adult life my first
thoughts when faced with a new opportunity are "do I want to do this?"
instead of "how can I cope with my anxiety if I decide to do this?"  This
has opened up so many possibilities for me that previously I could not even
consider.

My outlook, demeanour, experience of living, and the responses from those
around me, have been completely transformed.  I can LIVE LIFE. J

I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas, and a joyous New Year.


Kind regards,
Carl Anders