Who am I?

For years, I suffered from the same neck complaints, which gave me headaches every day. It started when I was around sixteen. After many tests, the conclusion was clear: cause unknown. I learned to live with it; it became part of me.

Years later, I ended up with a burnout and discovered I had been living with PTSD symptoms for a long time. My body was one big knot of tension and I was completely exhausted. After I had worked through the PTSD in my mind, I could still feel the tension in my body. My body had forgotten how to relax.

After trying many things, I decided to give BSR a chance. And I am so incredibly glad I did, because it completely changed my life. My neck complaints disappeared, and with them the daily headaches. What mattered even more to me was that my nervous system was finally able to shift into rest-and-digest. It had been stuck in survival mode for so long. For the first time in ages, my muscles felt what it was like to relax. My breathing became deeper and calmer, the constant feeling of being 'switched on' faded, and I began to feel like myself again.

To be honest, I was surprised that it worked, because it is such a gentle technique. And that is exactly what I find so beautiful about it: it is a technique that works with the body, not against it. I also hadn't expected it to help me with both physical and emotional complaints.