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Testimonials & Case Studies Life Story - Self-image and self-control. Lesley discovers her "real self" and empowerment. I was a self-confessed workaholic, yet highly successful in my sales career. For years I had pushed myself to the limits in everything I did to cover up for the lack of self-esteem and self-worth that I lacked. I think this feeling came from the fact that I am dyslexic but was never diagnosed until I was in sixth year at school. I always had this feeling of not being good enough. I had to be the best at what ever I did, highly competitive, number one in the company, the funniest and loudest person at any party, until I woke up to the realisation that I was 33, single and very lonely and was being something I wasn’t. It took until that Sunday morning for me to try again to sort out my life. Aged 33 I have tried stress management, faddy diets, spiritualist, kinesiology, homeopathic remedies, and another counsellor (who actually offered me a job, I left straight away because she was not listening to me!) anything that I could think of to try “get my self better”. I thought there was not a lot wrong with me, I was successful, had a fantastic family, brilliant friends, the only thing I went to Neil about was to sort out my stress levels and see if I could go out at night without having to drink too much to compensate for my fear of going out. It has taken me years to find someone like Neil, I felt very comfortable and he just asked me a few questions and then I was off, 2 hours and lots of hankies later I emerged from Neil’s exhilarated. He listened to me intently; I felt I was just waffling, going from one topic to the next with no thread to what I was saying. However after the 2 hour session, Neil very calmly suggested where all my problems originated from and that I had a lot of issues to go through but we would get to the bottom of things. I have always felt that there is something that has bothered me. I have suffered from depression on and off for years however work and being successful made me blank out all of this. Like a lot of people I threw myself into work to compensate the fact that I had no one to share my life with. I felt so much better speaking with Neil and knew that between us we could work out a lot of stuff. Initially I thought it would take three or four sessions, in fact I don’t know how many sessions I have had but I have seen Neil from February to August and now have my life, I feel in balance. Work which was everything to me is now is “a job” which I will do my best for and am now happy to achieve 100% and I don’t actually need to hit 160% of target to feel good. My manager has commented very positively in the change, delighted that I have now managed to achieve a work life balance which is so important. Some of my friends have taken to the change some haven’t but I think again this is natural. All I know is that I no longer have sleepless nights, I am no longer stressed, I am no longer comfort eating (looking forward to seeing a change in my clothes!) and the feeling of being useless has gone, in fact the knot in my stomach which I have always had is slowly getting slacker and slacker. Neil has helped me a great deal, but it has taken a lot of work to get through it, a lot of tears but a lot of laughter too. I am so pleased that I have taken this time for myself and invested in my future. Although it is scary still thinking of going out, I have been doing it and the best thing is I don’t need or want to be centre of attention, at last I have been able to find the real me. Thank you so much Neil, you have helped me find the real
me……and I quite like her now!
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