TREI come from a Military background, with everything that entails, and have for the last 25 years set up and run my own business, which has created a different range of stresses and challenges, which I have managed with varying degrees of success. This period of over-functioning led to a significant health challenge 3 years ago, which left me very open to managing my stress in a more effective way than I had up to that point.

I have been practising TRE twice a week for nearly 18 months now, and I can confidently state that my stress levels are much lower than they were, and the residual health complications are virtually absent these days, and I am sure this is due to TRE I am not normally good at sticking to things, and tend to get bored quite quickly, consequently I have been surprised how I have been happy to persist with my TRE practice, and in fact if I cannot do a session, I can feel as if I am really missing out on something worthwhile.

The principles behind TRE are really very simple to understand, and what is particularly attracted me apart from the scientific simplicity, was the fact that the practice is very easy and uncomplicated to learn, and the benefits start to flow really very quickly.

As men we tend to be less good at looking after our health and wellbeing than women. My journey has been driven by necessity rather than choice, but for any man reading this, who might share any of my experiences or challenges, I can but encourage you to try this, it might just be the best money you could spend.

C.W.

TRE is a powerful and effective tool for washing away cares and stress. I found it really energising and uplifting. It's simple, straightforward and has the added bonus of being talk free! Recommended.

Anon

Re TRE - I have found it incredibly relaxing and grounding. It reminds me to connect with my breath. I feel calmer and more balanced since starting TRE. 

Hayley, Bath

I met Deborah in 2014 when she visited my childcare setting offering Yoga for children. She told me about TRE at this time and I was intrigued, because it made perfect sense to me. Who wouldn’t want to clear out any past traumas that their bodies were hanging on to, with minimal or no angst?

The following year I noticed a workshop in Frome offering a day’s training and I chose to go along.

The first time my body tremored at the workshop, it felt very alien and a bit odd, but harmless. But, equally, very exciting, realising that your body can do things that you had no idea about, a bit like the first time a woman gives birth, but without the pain!

I continued practising tremoring around 3 times a week for a while and then gradually life took over and I forgot to do it. But after a stressful period in my life, I remembered TRE and picked up where I’d left off.

But joining Deborah’s classes have been great at focusing my mind, so that I drop everything else and just concentrate on me, away from home life.

For me, TRE has been a physical and non-emotional experience, but I am aware that other people have memories returning or have emotional releases and that I might experience these at some point.

Over a period of two years, it has mainly been my legs that have tremored but very recently, the tremoring has very gently and gradually started moving up to my pelvic area and then abdomen.

For me, TRE has made me a much calmer grounded person and the more I practise, the calmer inside I become and therefore the less I’m likely to become stressed by life’s challenges.

Deborah is a very calm and nurturing person and is the perfect person to be by your side while you have these amazing experiences.

Just do it!

Anne, Bath

I started attending TRE sessions with Deborah last year, then continued fairly regularly at home following the same pattern. However gradually my practice lapsed and weeks turned into months. Recently I contacted Deborah and was really pleased to be able to book a couple of follow-up classes (including one at her lovely new space in Radstock), which reminded me of the many benefits of TRE and helped to get me back into practising again. The tremors are sometimes small and at other times feel more powerful. Occasionally I cry from deep within (without knowing what they are about), but with Deborah close at hand I feel fully supported. During, and for a while after, the class I usually feel very re relaxed without a care in the world

Caroline Barry

Pain and Headaches

"I have suffered from terrible headaches for the last 10 years or more. They seem to have stemmed from putting my back out, from lifting heavy things, lifting awkwardly and being stressed and tense in my body. I have had chiropractic treatments almost weekly at times and each headache made it really hard to function and would last 24 – 48 hours. I have now been practicing TRE for three months and my headaches have virtually disappeared and my pelvis has become mostly stable. I can lift awkwardly, carry heavy things and still not trigger what I was experiencing before. I came to TRE to release emotional trauma; I hadn’t expected to have released this physical tension, which I had really thought I would just live with for the rest of my life. A week ago I was doing a week of travelling by train; I was lugging a very heavy case on and off the trains, up many flights of stairs and down again and my back remained completely strong. It is so good to be free from the disabling headaches and to be more free in how I move in my body. I plan to keep practising to keep on releasing the tension – and the thought of having my body and mind more relaxed as time goes on, is very exciting!"

Kate Westcott, Bath

“I have suffered from a chronic pain condition for many years as a result of surgery. I hadn’t found any solutions or respite from the pain, despite appointments with numerous specialists. As a single parent of two young children, a business owner and with a desperation to ‘get better’ I have delved into numerous conventional, holistic and alternative therapies which have given very little benefit. When you are as desperate as I was, despite the numerous disappointments, when you hear about something new, you feel compelled to give it a try.

The literature I received didn’t give much explanation as to how the process would heal you, but having attended a comprehensive group course, I now know that this is because every experience is different – not only between participants, but also in your own experience between sessions.

In all honesty, I really struggled with my first session. Moving around is difficult for me anyway, I’d had a difficult morning just trying to get to the session, and the ‘trigger exercises’ were too much for me with my physical pain condition. However, Deborah was incredibly intuitive and understanding and put an alternative, bespoke, plan in place for me, so I was able to benefit as the rest of the group had done.

By the second session, with my tailor made plan, designed around my capabilities, I found the session to be not only relaxing, but also very comforting. I was floating… as though my brain was in a theta state – similar to the feeling you get after a long and incredibly luxurious spa massage!

As the sessions progressed, I found I was more relaxed. I felt I wanted to become more in-tune with my body and started to practice home tremoring alongside mindfulness.

As time went on, I began to feel calmer, and less stressed emotionally. I also felt energy surges throughout my body. This has resulted in less muscle tension, which, in turn has lessened the pain.

I cannot recommend Deborah or TRE highly enough. It has already made a significant difference to my life, and more importantly, I now have a tool to ease pain, that I can use forever. The only downside is that my course has now come to an end, so not only will l miss Deborah’s valuable input and reassurance, I will also miss her incredibly soothing voice! Fortunately, I know that the professional and personal service she offers, means that she will always be available to contact if I need her.”

Victoria

Chronic Fatigue & Complex PTSD

'I arrived to start Deborah’s TRE Course having spent a year off work in recovery from PTSD and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After years of medical intervention which really probably aggravated my conditions, I chose to self-heal this time, yet after a year, I had become aware of a sizable blockage of emotion and pain I simply couldn’t shift with my toolbox of therapies, exercise and diet. I was really desperate to move on and experience life in freedom. I have worked and lived in the mental health field for 20 years, so I am no newcomer to trauma or treatments.

TRE is astounding. In the future, we will teach this to our children before we teach them the alphabet. With TRE, I have worked through grief, anger, loss and trauma, unpeeling layer after layer, from the first powerful session. It is such a natural process. I am feeling clear enough to return to work, and I have chosen a new, more authentic career. I knew there were some good plans waiting for me behind that stuck pain!

Here are some of my notes from my TRE Journal, taken after sessions with Deborah:

‘Immense release. Other-worldly. I was observing the griever, the healing one, the ‘hater’, the angry one, and watching her heal and release. Beautiful and intense and magical and profound.’

‘Beautiful, blissful, freeing…. Very grateful, very in awe of this process and tool.’

‘So glad to be able to witness thoughts arise (of troubling things) and have the TRE release them…in a flash. As the session finished, a thunder storm began to crash outside and I went out and stood in the warm rain feeling my old emotions all wash away.’

Deborah is an absolutely incredible TRE Practitioner. I feel she was born to do this work, and her dedication to life’s truths makes her so wise, compassionate and strong. I have seen many, many therapists over the years, and Deborah is the first who I have felt can hold space for healing without getting unnerved or startled in the least. She truly gets every level of complexity and opportunity, and is teaching me so much as I do the course with her. Thank you, Deborah – I am truly grateful to have met you.

I hope that anyone reading about TRE and feeling inclined towards giving it a go, will just do it. The more of us who walk this planet cleared of old emotions, the sooner we will have a truly loving world.'

A.T.