In the three days of doing the Lightning Process with Jenny, and over the weekend that followed, I made more positive change to my life than I’d done for many years. Even better, I knew I’d been equipped with skills to make my life what I wanted it to be. Everyone needs this training. There is no need to read any further – just book with Jenny and learn the techniques for yourself! But if you like a backstory, here’s mine…
On a hot Wellington evening in January 2018, I was enjoying the transition from summer holiday mode back to term time. My husband had just headed off on a work trip, my boys were preparing themselves for primary school, and I was zooming around the house tidying up and looking forward to getting back into my work – life was full and fulfilling. Next minute I sustained a head injury that was to dramatically change my life in an instant. I merely picked up the washing basket over-enthusiastically and cracked the top of my head into a metal beam. I was a bit woozy and nauseas straight afterwards but I hadn’t blacked out so I was hopeful the injury wasn’t too bad. Over the weeks that followed I learnt that the haziness I was experiencing was concussion and that the haziness quickly turned into dizziness, headaches, nausea, exhaustion, sleep disturbance and absolute overload if I tried to live my normal life.
I entered ACC’s “stay-at-work” program and was coached into pacing myself carefully, being patient, and getting used to a “boom and bust” cycle of existence. For two years I was the best patient I could be – following all the advice I was given and lapping up all the support. I had really useful help from doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, osteopaths and friends and family. Somehow, I still ended up sick, run-down, anxious, unable to work and resting every hour or two just to get through.
Then I did the Lightning Process with Jenny. She was the first person to tell me I could get 100% better FAST. At the time of the training, I focused on the neuro-fatigue I was experiencing. I went from needing day rests or sleeps totalling 3 hours per day to no day rests required. It felt revolutionary. Uplifting. Exciting. I was getting my life back. I have since used the Lightning Process to say goodbye to all the symptoms, medication, limitations that had seemed like immovable parts of my concussion recovery. My quality of life is better now than it was before my head injury.
People may hear about the results of the Lightning Process and react with disbelief or a concern that there’s something “woo-woo” about it. There’s not. As a research scientist myself, I looked into how it works. It’s all based on neuroscience and using the plasticity of the brain to our own advantage. It puts you in charge of your own recovery – giving you an active coaching role instead of a passive “waiting” patient. I’m not saying that the Lightning Process can “fix” the physical damage of a head injury but it can put your mind and body in the right place for the healing to happen and enable you to avoid the all-too-common ongoing symptoms of concussion.