Me, Beth and the children
From chronically anxious artist, to developer of the world's only accredited anxiety disorder recovery therapy & educational organization
I was born in Worcestershire, UK in February 1968.
Dad is a Civil Engineer, mum a Nurse Practitioner. I have one brother who is four years younger. I am married to Beth and have two amazing children, the kids I never thought I would have, Charlie (Likes to be called Chaz) and Florence (Flo).
My background is in media. I am an artist and photographer, although I worked in television as a producer/director in my late teens. I have two professional qualifications. One in Graphic Design from a German University and one in Electronic Media and TV.
I suffered from anxiety issues from age 4 till I was 27 and it ruined 23 years of my life experience.
I had OCD, panic disorder, agoraphobia, separation anxiety, health anxiety, eating disorders, panic disorder, derealization, depersonalization, low mood, ROCD, HOCD and a massive range of, ever changing, symptoms and thoughts.
I had been told that
- I would have to manage high anxiety and mental health issues for the rest of my life
- I would have to compromise on my career and perhaps do part-time charity work my entire life
- I would always have to take medication
- I would never be able to have children because I wouldn't be able to provide for them fully
- my illness would worsen as I got older
- all of my conditions were incurable and just part of who I was
In 1997, medicated and having had years of psychotherapy, psychiatry, CBT, NLP and much more, in under a week I became anxiety disorder free.
Not just coping... fully recovered.
PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY...
I am not a psychologist but I suffered for 27 years and have since helped well over 20 million people with my materials... 200,000 plus with the home learning program alone.
This isn't some concocted BS 'self-help' program, it's the ONLY accredited, dedicated recovery therapy.
FEEL REASSURED - The reason that everything else has failed to cure you is because NOTHING available through psychology or medicine CAN cure you... it's science is wrong. The practitioners (mostly) haven't got a clue how you feel, why you feel it or what to do about it.
You are told that you must manage your anxiety, learn coping strategies and continue to suffer because of practitioner incompetence, not because it's true.
If it were true, I wouldn't have gone from chronic to completely recovered and the tens of thousands of people we have helped to recover would still be suffering.
You suffer because you haven't yet been shown the solution and the reason for that is simple... you've been speaking to the wrong people, despite what they might say to you.
Why do you suffer? What is the solution?
I record these 'off the cuff' videos so that you get a true sense that my words aren't a sales pitch or rehearsed in anyway... just heartfelt, honest and experience-based logic, reassurance and guidance. Charles
So how did I feel the day I recovered?
It's very simple because I still feel the same way today.
First the 'ists'.
The almost Masonic-style brotherhood of people who often cause havoc in people's lives, all dressed up as professionalism... we have heard THOUSANDS of stories of the most unbelievable behaviour, flawed science and horrendous treatment of people.
Look there are 'ists' with good intentions but that doesn't make them good practitioners... similarly, there are 'ists' who learn the truth and use appropriate and correct science with some success... some work with us... but we administer the true scientific recovery in the correct way and our staff are 'ists'... they are just very experienced, highly qualified, correctly trained ones.
These bad 'ists' attack us mercilessly when we cure their clients and remove their 'cash-cow'. Some of these people are Doctors and Professors of psychology, hell bent on undermining us... why would they bother? Because they KNOW that what we do works and they know that what they do doesn't so they dedicate their sad lives to trying to remove the truth so that they don't get found out.
- most mental health practitioners, unless they suffer(ed), have not got the first clue what they are talking about.
- most psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists and doctors do not understand the neurology and psychophysiology of anxiety disorders.
- most 'ists' couldn't tell you what 99% of the symptoms are, what they mean, why they manifest or how they are generated.
- most psychologists use CBT and either don't know its science is flawed, or if they do this, practice it anyway for the money.
- psychology and psychiatry have absolutely no relevance in the treatment of anxiety.
- OCD is NOT depression. Anxiety is not depression. Depression and anxiety have no neurological relationship whatsoever.
- none of the formal learning that these practitioners undertake has any relevance in anxiety recovery.
Now the facts...
- every single anxiety sufferer can recover.
- medication cannot remove the neurological responses and cure an anxiety disorder.
- no talking therapy works. It can't. It is scientifically flawed.
- flooding or exposure therapy will not cure an anxiety disorder. It can't.
- hypnotherapy cannot cure anxiety disorders.
- there is NO evidence for the curative efficacy of CBT - no trial data, no real people testimonials. *Only peer reviews.
* 'Peer reviewing' is the way that practitioners ask other practitioners to state that what they do works, even in the absence of real evidence. They believe that if they do something and ask a friend to state that they saw it 'working', they have evidence... no, they just have compliant friends.
Long story short - Since I recovered I have helped over 20 million people to understand their conditions and through the Educational Organisation we now run, we deliver recovery practitioner accreditation at a professional level and we offer home access, workshop, residential and corporate/schools/university recovery courses.
