Scientist Bree overcame her Emetophobia in just TWO WEEKS!

In this brilliant episode, scientist Bree explains that she developed Emetophobia around the age of 7 after witnessing a traumatic incident. Bree believed that because she had witnessed the event at a young age there was nothing she could do to get rid of her Emetophobia, and she was stuck with it for life.

Bree struggled for over 20 years with Emetophobia, agoraphobia and depression. As a child she would go to bed at 5:30pm as she was scared of the night time, drink soda water all the time, and not eat meat. Her family were unaware of her phobia and thought she was a shy child.

When she became a teenager it became even more debilitating, as she was unable to drink alcohol or go to parties, and she developed fixed routines that she had to stick to. She didn’t allow other people to cook for her and didn’t want to be around friends in case they were sick.

Three years before she opened it

Once she started working she started having panic attacks, as she was afraid either herself or her co-workers were going to be sick. Bree actually got into university to become a teacher but ended up dropping out, as she was so scared of children being sick. She now works as a scientist in pathology.

Bree bought The Cure Your Emetophobia manual (now named the Emetophobia-Free Manual) THREE YEARS before she eventually decided to open it and start. Bree explains that she was too anxious to start the programme, as she didn’t think she would be able to cope with going through it with how anxious she felt at the time. It was only when Bree’s partner eventually looked at the manual and said ‘you need to do this!’ that she took the plunge.

Bree is now loving her life, totally over her Emetophobia, and has recently completed training to become a licensed Thrive Programme Coach and is now seeing clients around her job.

This episode featured discussion between Michelle Johnson and Bree Billington.