If you’ve been told your future is about managing symptoms rather than recovering, Sara understands how that feelaand offers a different possibility.

After years of debilitating chronic symptoms and a series of diagnoses, including Functional Neurological Disorder, Central Sensitivity Syndrome(often associated with Fibromyalgia), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, chronic tension headaches, and extreme sensitivities to food and screen use, she was repeatedly told that recovery was not an option. At her lowest point, she spent five months away from work, facing the weight of a future defined by limitation.

Her mission became simple but consuming: could recovery actually be possible? By exploring recovery stories and identifying the patterns they shared, she discovered that healing was not only possible, but achievable and went on to experience that recovery herself. That personal mission became something bigger. Now, drawing on her lived recovery experience and SIRPA training, Sara’s mission is to support others who are ready to look beyond symptom management and reconnect with a hope they may have lost, that real, lasting recovery is within reach. If you’re feeling frightened, exhausted, or ready to try a different way, her work offers a supportive path forward.

Diagnoses: Functional Neurological Disorder, Central Sensitivity Syndrome,often associated with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, chronic tension headaches, and extreme sensitivities to food and light and screen use

How they affected her:

• Feel intense fear, sadness, terror in the body
• Insomnia
• 5 months off work
• Eventually could function during the week but would shut down weekends
• Some days the energy crashes meant I could not move from the couch, yet other days I could walk miles.
• Lost 2 stone due to food intolerances
• Social circle shrunk – isolated self
• Struggled to be around fluorescent lights
• Could not plan ahead

Sara talks to Georgie Oldfield MCSP about her journey from this point to regaining her life and becoming a SIRPA Practitioner to help others struggling with chronic, neuroplastic conditions.

After years of debilitating chronic symptoms and a series of diagnoses, including Functional Neurological Disorder, Central Sensitivity Syndrome (often associated with Fibromyalgia), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, chronic tension headaches, and extreme sensitivities to food and screen use, she was repeatedly told that recovery was not an option. At her lowest point, she spent five months away from work, facing the weight of a future defined by limitation. Checkout how she regained her life and became a SIRPA Practitioner in order to help others.

Join people who have found relief through the SIRPA approach to chronic pain.