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Breaking Free

A Guide to Recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid Symptoms

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With 265,000 cases in the UK alone, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is more common than people may think, yet is poorly understood. Breaking Free fills this gap in knowledge, providing a route to recovery. Across 9 chapters, it shows that the cycle of exhaustion, poor concentration, loss of memory and pain can be broken and that there is real hope of recovery. In addition to covering CFS, the author outlines connected areas of Post Viral Fatigue (PVF), explaining how to tackle protracted symptoms that can arise following contracting Covid. Given that in November 2021 it was reported by Office of National Statistics that a staggering 1.1 million people in the UK were experiencing Long Covid symptoms, Breaking Free is more essential than ever. Listeners will benefit from the clear and tested step-by-step guide offered by a woman who has not only done it herself, but who has helped 1,000 people fight their way out of a serious condition back to a healthy and productive life. With the support of a media campaign, listeners will find that Breaking Free offers a comprehensive, informative, and supportive guide to recovery from CFS and Long Covid Symptoms that sustains its relevancy and importance.

©2022 Jan Rothney (P)2023 Arkbound Foundation Physical Illness & Disease
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if my gp had told me what jan knows it would have saved me months of mental suffering, isolation, confusion, helplessness. instead I works have had answers, and had a plan. and would have recovered so much faster instead of trying this and that and supplements and googling depressively. this book is incredible.
some reviews here are scathing, defensive thinking the content can not be true. I have suffered from long covid for 1.5 years and started a similar approach a few months before reading this and found results. Jan addresses important causes , triggers and perpetuating factors in these chronic diseases and give practical ways to improve. there are many recovery stories out there so i KNOW recovery is possible. the book also has amazing insight into unconscious patterns we all have and how to change them. I'll take away valuable, no, ESSENTIAL tools for life. I had to find my own meditations on YouTube and some support from recovery Facebook groups but this is so so brilliant to anyone who doesn't know these conditions are due to a nervous system disorder. I am so much better. this book is a must read.

ESSENTIAL book for anyone with CFS/long covid/ fibromyalgia. wish all medics knew all this

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This book and the programme have been instrumental in my recovery. I found I enjoyed the book even more the second time and Jan read it in such a lovely way it was lovely to listen to!

fantastic resource for anyone with cfs

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If you want to know how, with the science to know why, this book is for you. If you’ve been told you’ll never get better and have lost hope this book is for you. Never ever give up. This book was the light I needed to gain control of my body again after 6 years of being bedbound …. I was a mess but Jan’s kindness, insight and profound knowledge was the key that set me free. I will be forever grateful to this incredible ladies help. I know this will help you too. Thank you Jan for being you.

Outstanding. A life changing book that literally saved my life.

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This book starts out falsely claiming that there is no brain/spine inflammation in ME/CFS. This is factually incorrect, as multiple studies show, and makes it hard to have confidence in anything else the author claims. This is not even getting into the lack of evidence backing up the rest of the claims the author makes. I listened to the whole book to give it a chance, but came away frustrated at the brazen spreading of misinformation about an illness that is already so deeply misrepresented and misunderstood.

Scientifically inaccurate and misleading

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How this nonsense gets published I'll never know. Where to start? If you want to gaslight yourself that you're not recovered after acute viral illness simply because you're stuck in fight or flight, then this book is for you. For everyone else, steer well clear.

Gaslight yourself into believing g you're not ill

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