Category: Recovery

  • Liz shares her story of overcoming emetophobia and depression

    Liz Shares her Story 5 years ago, Liz was almost giving up believing that her life and her mental health would ever change. Battling depression, anxiety, emetophobia and carrying the weight of some hugely negative experiences in her past, Liz felt at rock bottom. Fast forward to today and she is positive and happy, fully…

  • Sometimes our Thrive Trainees deserve a special mention…

    A Special Thriving Mention Just received another lovely email from a stranger. I have permission to share her email and some of her diary maps.. You can clearly see the amount of effort and determination this lady has put in to changing her life. She deserves the freedom she has created. Dear Rob,I am a…

  • Mary thrives again in her local paper!

    Mary Thrives Again Again Mary is picked up by her local paper as an amazing story of achievement for overcoming her debilitating fear of being sick. It is not surprising that Mary won Thrive Trainee of the Year considering her remarkable journey. And in case it is not clear, that’s her trophy she’s holding in…

  • Laura Transforms her Life with the Help of Thrive

    Laura Transforms her Life Laura (or Birdie as we know her) has come a tremendously long way from where she was just a few short years ago. Having had a poor childhood, Laura made a life changing (or ending decision) having had enough. Astoundingly after she threw herself in front of a lorry in full…

  • Mary overcomes her fear of being sick and makes the newspaper!

    Mary Overcomes her Emetophobia Mary is notably one of our biggest supporters having dedicatedly overcome her fear of being sick last year. After 75 years, Mary decided enough was enough and that it was time to do something about it. After researching about her fear of being sick and discovering Cure Your Emetophobia & Thrive,…

  • Another ex-Emetophobe..

    Another ex-Emetophobe.. Claire, 45 from Cornwall “After 40 years of debilitating emetophobia I came across Thrive out of sheer desperation. My life was becoming narrower and my behaviours more and more restrictive to the point where it really was all I could think about each and every minute of every day!! I found it so…

  • My own experience of Thrive – by Alecea White

    My own Thrive experience “I use thrive with many of my clients because I believe in it. I have recently had to become a thrive trainee again and apply the principles to myself all over again. Just a few days ago I was driving along the m25 200 miles from home heading back to our…

  • Are you Thriving? Rob is. Hear his story.

    Rob is Thriving! When we finally decide that we need to do something differently to get out of the rut we find ourselves in, these days we usually search on the internet. Its always useful to hear other peoples stories and how useful they have found particular approaches. So here is a great testimonial by…

  • It was my time to change – THRIVE has given me a new lease of life!

    A New Lease of Life “At 8 years old I developed an ever growing fear of sickness, although I’m not sure what it was that started it exactly. Since then my emetophobia had developed a growing debilitating presence in my everyday life. I developed obsessive cleaning and sanitation habits as I was terrified of getting…

  • Best book for Emetophobics

    “Best book for Emetophobics” “This book was a lifeline in the stormy ocean that was emetophobia. I’ve written a book on this subject and at the time I was in hell because of this addiction and could see no way out. I’d had different attempts to help/cure me and nothing came even close. I bought…