Great weekend!

I have been starting to travel without the help of my healer, Seka Nikolic, whose treatments used to wipe out my ME symptoms for up to two weeks at a time. This weekend is the second time I've been away without that, just using the Lightning Process (self-coaching technique) to keep me on track ie symptom-free, and it worked really well. I travelled to London, did a follow-up course session for 3 hours in London, where I realised some more useful stuff, then went to Colchester to see my friends Angie (see left) and Lucinda, and spent a couple of hours catching up. The next day I was well, which given last year I couldn't talk for more than five or ten minutes at a time without triggering symptoms next day, is amazing!

I went for a walk round the Roman wall and the excellent city park, with Norman castle and a moatful of spring flowers, and parents and children filling the playground nearby. Then Angie took me to West Mersea, an island in the estuary. It was wonderful to hear the sea and walk on the little beach, picking up oyster shells. Families were catching crabs from the pontoon-like pier, and fishermen were around their boats. We ate scallops wrapped in bacon for supper, which felt like a celebration of our visit, and of my first ever outing with anyone where I stayed well all the way through!

Then despite feeling tired, I went back to London and went round the Tate Gallery, then home via tube, train, bus and lift, and was still well! I feel like my world is opening up - with work at using the Process, however I feel in charge of that - this is real, not someone doing it to me.