Putting fatigue behind you Group Programme

Supporting and accelerating your recovery from CFS, ME and Long Covid

This is your 8 week programme to kick start your most important journey: recovering from fatigue caused by chronic fatigue, ME or Long Covid. You deserve to feel energised and ready to live your life fully once again. It will also be beneficial for those who are experiencing fibromyalgia.

This programme is being hosted by both myself and Lucy Harper, a Nutritionist who has had specific training in supporting people with CFS, ME and fibromyalgia.

This programme is for you, if

• You are completely fed up with being tired or exhausted all the time, which leaves you feeling frustrated and angry that you can’t live the life you want

• You feel guilty that you can’t support your family in the way you used to because you don’t always have the energy you need.

• You can’t think clearly anymore, and making everyday decisions and getting through the working day can feel a real challenge at times.

• Your social life has gone down the pan and you wish you had the energy to go and meet up with friends like you used to.

• You are wondering ‘why me’, ‘what’s causing this’ and it’s starting to get to you, causing you to feel anxious and down.

• You are wondering if you will ever feel well again.

And it is for you if you …

• Believe you can get better.

• Want to be proactive in supporting your way back to feeling well again and more energised naturally.

• Are open to making some dietary and lifestyle changes

• Are happy to take appropriate nutritional and/or herbal supplements to support your recovery

• Want to explore how mindfulness and meditation can support your emotional health and wellbeing.

• Are open to having some core beliefs challenged.

How would it feel if you ….

• Had the energy to get through the day without feeling completely exhausted and felt you were living your life again?

• Could see how it could be possible to start living and enjoying your life again with your family and friends?

By the end of the 8 weeks you will know:

• How to support your body and mind to help accelerate your recovery.

• The foods that could help you to feel more energised and feel confident about making changes to your diet.

• The herbs, mineral and vitamin supplements that could help you to have more energy, boost your immunity and reduce tension and anxiety.

• What you can do to help you to get a better night’s sleep.

• How to support and nourish your emotional wellbeing through meditation and mindfulness practices.

• Which quick and easy breathing and mindfulness techniques are best able to help you to feel calmer and get you through life’s stresses and challenges.

This programme doesn’t promise to get you running a marathon by the end of the 8-weeks. What it will do is take you through the changes you CAN make to your diet and lifestyle that could help you to put fatigue behind you and start living the life you want to again.

Here’s how we will do it

Your 8 weeks programme to accelerate your recovery from fatigue

We will look at what could be contributing to your fatigue and the changes you can make to help your body to recover

It will be an interactive 8 weeks with practical exercises, questionnaires and discussions, so you will feel fully engaged and in charge of your own recovery.

Each session will be for 60 – 90  minutes and classes will be recorded, so you will be able to listen to the recording if you are unable to make the session or want to listen to it again.

At the end of the 8 weeks you will have a personalised plan to help you move from tired and weary to energised and back to normal.

Week 1 - Let’s get started – starting your recovery journey

This week week you will:

• Go back to basics and look at the potential causes of fatigue and chronic fatigue, to help with awareness of what has contributed to you feeling worn out and a shadow of former yourself. Hint - it’s often more than just one thing.

• Dive into the recovery strategy looking at the 6 phases of recovery from CFS and long covid.

• Look at why and how it’s important to support both our physical mental and emotional wellbeing in order to overcome fatigue and how we are going approach it over the 8 weeks.

• Start our journey by diving in and trying some easy breathing practices that have been shown to reduce stress and could help you to feel more energised.

• Start the all important recovery action plan

Week 2 - Foundation and Building blocks – Nutrition

What you eat can influence your energy levels for the better or it can contribute to fatigue. Research is showing how important eating a nutritious and balanced diet is for our health and wellbeing.

This week we will discuss eating to recover, focusing on:

• Foods to remove from your diet or reduce the amount you are eating and drinking.

• Foods to include in your diet to support your recovery.

• Making the changes easier by introducing healthy and nutritious swaps.

 Week 3 - Supporting a healthy gut and gently cleansing the body

Research is showing just how important our gut health is to our health and wellbeing and how imbalances in gut flora and environmental toxins can result in fatigue and ill health.

This week we will explore:

• The role of toxins in CFS and how to cleanse the body easily, gently and safely. – juicing is not mandatory!

• The importance of supporting your gut and how to make easy changes that can help.

• Herbal and nutritional supplements that that may help support your gut health and gentle cleansing.

Week 4 - Boosting energy and giving your immune system a helping hand

When you have CFS/long covid, the immune system may not be working effectively. It is therefore important to support the immune system to help your body to regain its natural vitality.

This week we will explore:

• What can affect immune system function and look at what you can do to help it to recover

• Herbs and Supplements that have been scientifically shown can help to support immunity.

• Food choices to help you to feel more energised.

Week 5 - Reducing stress and anxiety & brain fog

Long term or chronic stress and anxiety can cause fatigue and impact on your overall wellbeing. For many people with CFS or long covid, physical and emotional stress and anxiety is a contributing factor to the illness. Managing & reducing stress is important for your journey back to health and vitality.

This week we will look at:

• Herbs and supplements that could help to reduce your feelings of stress and anxiety.

• How practices such as mindfulness, meditation and yoga nidra can aid relaxation, reduce stress and help you to feel better.

Week 6 - Supporting your sleep

Many people with CFS/long covid can struggle with sleep, either too much, or not getting good quality sleep.

This week we will look closely at:

• What could be causing your sleep problems

• What you can do to support better sleep.

• Supplements and herbs that could help you get to and stay asleep.

Week 7 - The role of trauma

Research has shown that traumatic events or childhood traumas can cause problems with your health resulting in conditions like CFS later in life.

This week we will uncover:

• The role trauma and negative childhood experiences can play in fatigue, CFS and long covid.

• Strategies and support to help resolve mild trauma

• Sign posting to further support.

Week 8 - Putting your recovery plan in place

During the 7 weeks you will have learned about what could have caused your CFS or long covid and importantly the steps you can take to help your body to recover.

This week we will:

• Finalise your recovery action plan that will enable you to feel well again.

• Explore strategies to help you to stick to your plan.

• Discuss how effective pacing and prioritising can help you to manage your energy whilst you recover.

• Discover personality types and how working with your personality type can help your recovery

• Look at how visualisation and affirmations can support you on your recovery journey.

• Discuss the follow up help and support to help you stay on track.

Offering you added value ….

Each session will ALSO include a: 

• Mindfulness and meditation practices to support your emotional and mental wellbeing.

• Q&A session

Please note: As this is a group programme, Lucy or I will not be able to offer specific tailored advice to individual attendees during the weekly sessions, but I will offer recommendations on the herbs, foods and supplements that have been scientifically shown to support detoxification, sleep etc.

However, Lucy and I will be offering a discounted offer to work with either of us 1:1 to enable you to receive a personalised treatment and tailored advice on supplements and nutrition based on your specific needs.

Where and when

In person and online options

The programme will include all this:

• 8 x 60 - 90 minute live classes

• Access to the recordings if you can’t make it or want to listen again.

• All course materials including recipes, nutrition advice, supplement and herb recommendations, questionnaires, recordings of meditations and mindfulness exercises.

• A private group chat to ask questions and share experiences between sessions

• 15% discount offer off all supplements and herbs recommended on the workshop

• Advice and recommendations from a fully qualified nutritionist trained in trauma awareness and a fully qualified herbalist, naturopath and meditation and mindfulness teacher.

• A 20 minute follow up telephone call with Melisa or Lucy to check on your progress, a month after the programme has finished.

• Discounted offer to work 1:1 with me or Lucy to and receive a personalised treatment and tailored advice on supplements and nutrition based on your specific needs.

  On booking, for your peace of mind, you will receive a contract with the terms and conditions and outlining what’s included in the programme.

Your presenters - why we can help you

I am Melisa and I help people like you to put persistent fatigue and chronic fatigue behind you so you can regain your energy and vitality and start living your life again.

I know, from personal experience, how fatigue can really impact your life. Trying to live your life whilst struggling to find the energy to do everyday tasks and to work is a real challenge. I understand too, that persistent fatigue and chronic fatigue not only affects you physically, but it can hit you hard emotionally as you grapple with lots of complex emotions like “why me”, struggling to understand what you did ‘wrong’ to feel like this and feeling guilty for being so tired all the time.

This is why I am passionate about helping my clients to put persistent fatigue and chronic fatigue behind them.

Lucy Harper is a trauma informed nutritional therapist and wellbeing coach, running a busy clinic based in Bristol. Over the past 6 years, Lucy has been providing both nutritional advice and health and wellbeing coaching to her clients to help them to change their diet and lifestyle to support their recovery and help them to stay well.

Lucy is an ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia Specialist with the Chrysalis Effect having undertaken specific training in understanding & supporting clients with unexplained pain and fatigue so is very well placed to support those in recovery from these chronic conditions. With more and more research indicating the role that trauma can play, Lucy is also trained in trauma awareness.

Lucy is a registered member of BANT (the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine), the CNHC (Complementary Natural Healthcare Council) and the Chrysalis Effect

It IS possible to recover from CFS and get more energy into your life and this programme will show you HOW you could get back on track to feeling like your old self again.

Your investment to support you on your journey to feeling more energised:

£397

How does this sound?

A discount will be available to people who are experiencing financial hardship due to their condition. Please contact me to discuss.

If you answer YES to the following:

• Are you ready to leave fatigue, exhaustion and worry behind and start to live your life again?

• Do you want to support your recovery in a natural and sustainable way?

• Do you want to be supported by health and wellbeing professionals, trained in nutrition and herbal medicine who know just how you feel who will treat you with empathy and kindness in a safe space?

Then this group programme could be just what you are looking for.

Important Information:

If you are experiencing persistent fatigue, it is very important you first speak to your GP, as fatigue can be a symptom of many serious conditions and illnesses, which will need to be ruled out by tests, including blood tests.

You should also seek advice from your GP or other health care practitioner as to how best you can be supported back to health and take their advice before taking any new supplements or making lifestyle changes.

If you have a diagnosed mental health condition like anxiety or depression or are taking medication prescribed by your doctor for this condition, you should always consult your GP or a healthcare practitioner before starting any meditation and mindfulness practices.

 Book with confidence - cancellation policy

Whilst I hope you will be very happy with the group programme, you are entitled to a full refund within 14 days of booking the course. If after 14 days you have decided the course is not for you, a full refund, less a small administrative charge will be made.

If you decide the course is not for you after starting the programme, you will receive a refund for the programme less the cost of the classes you have attended, plus an administration fee.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will I get better after 8 weeks?

A: Fatigue can be caused by many different factors, some of which will result in an improvement in energy levels in some people more quickly than others. Improvements in energy levels will also be dependent on the action and changes you make to your life style.

This programme is designed to give you information, guidance and tools and techniques on changes and practices you can make to your diet and lifestyle that could help to improve your energy levels. All the information and guidance is based on scientific study or traditional use for improving energy, health and wellbeing, and whilst a significant number of people will see improvements to their energy levels from following this guidance, each person is different and will recover at a different rate. Whilst many people could expect to see an improvement to how they feel, as each person is an individual, no guarantee can be made that you will feel better at the end of the 8 weeks or after an extended period of time.

If you are experiencing CFS or ME it is important to remember that CFS is a chronic illness it is unlikely that you will feel completely better after 8 weeks, as recovery often takes from anything from 3 – 12 months, depending on the severity of your symptoms.

Long Covid is a new illness with many similarities to CFS and ME, and recovery times are very individual depending on the number and severity of the symptoms.

This programme gives you the steps and the information you need to make the changes that could help you to gradually reduce the symptoms you are experiencing and recover from CFS, ME or Long Covid.

Q: What if I miss a session?

A:  All sessions will be recorded, and you will receive the link within 24 hours of the class.

Q: Where can I buy the herbs and supplements you discuss on the programme?

A: Many of the supplements can be purchased from health food shops or online. I am able to offer participants a 15% discount code for supplements purchased through the Natural Pharmacy or purchased directly through me.

Q: Will you give me specific advice on what I need to do to recover my energy levels?

A: As this is a group programme, Lucy or I will not be able to give you specific information on what is best for you, but we will give recommendations on what herbs/supplements have been shown to help with your symptoms. In order to give specific advice, we will need to understand your medical history and any medication you are taking. Because we know that some people would like additional support to that provided on the programme, we are offering a discount to all programme participants who want to have a 1:1 consultation with either of us to receive tailored advice and treatment. We will give more information on the course.

Q: Is there support available between the sessions?

A: We know that questions may arise after each session, so a private chat group will be set up to answer any questions you may have.

Q: What follow up support is available?

A: We recognise that feeling supported is very important when you are recovering from CFS, ME or Long Covid, that is why we are be offering all programme participants a free 30 minute follow up telephone call approximately 1 month after the programme has completed to see how your recovery is progressing and if you need any further support.

Q: What if I sign up but don’t believe the course is for me?

A: You are entitled to a full refund within 14 days of booking the course. If after 14 days you have decided the course is not for you, a full refund, less a small administrative charge will be made. If you decide the course is not for you after starting the programme, you will receive a refund for the programme less the cost of the classes you have attended and a small administrative charge.