Everyday Alex

Alex Howard guides a ten-minute meditation without music on grounding for stability and connecting to your body. This meditation can be used to help calm and settle an anxious mind or body and bring a sense of comfort and trust by bringing the attention down from a busy mind.

Alex Howard shares a mini-documentary with Simon Limpus, the first employee of the Optimum Health Clinic. The story includes how Simon went from living with ME/CFS alone in a caravan at the end of his parent's garden, to doing a 2500km motorbike challenge across Siberia after making a full recovery.

Alex Howard talks about the importance of coming into the body to help cultivate a healing state, and offers suggestions to help encourage this. When living with chronic illness or discomfort leads us to try to escape our body, we're often re-inforcing unhelpful energy or activity and contributing to further anxiety. When we connect to the body and settle into what we're really feeling, we can get better information about the next best step. Alex offers some further tips on how to get into more comfortable feeling states and where we might direct our energy when experiencing discomfort.

Alex Howard talks with nutritional therapist Julia Alderman about the role of supplements in recovery from chronic fatigue and whether they are safe and work.

Alex Howard works with CFS patient Sarah to help understand where she is on the healing journey and why things are not moving forward despite her previous successful experience with pacing and resting. Sarah has been ill with CFS for over 20 years, with some long periods of remission or being symptom free - in this interview she discusses how she's not recovering as quickly as before and Alex offers some insight to how she might approach her symptoms.

Alex Howard offers a guided meditation to help calm the nervous system, based up on the mantra that where the mind goes, energy flows.

David fell ill with ME/CFS while at university living in an accomodation with toxic mould, he suffered with IBS, anxiety, and contracted glandular fever leading to a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnosis. Over the years, David found gradual recovery with the help of Dr. Smith's methods and The Optimum Health Clinic and shares his story with Alex Howard on Secrets to Recovery.

Alex Howard talks about why consistency is important in sustaining change, and what helps create it.

Alex Howard talks with Julia Alderman (nutritional therapist at OHC) about why supplements can be important and diet alone is often not enough in recovery from chronic fatigue, ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. Find out more about The Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com

Alex Howard talks to Liarne 10 weeks on from their first session and she talks about the progress she has made, and they discuss how much activity she should now be doing. Watch Liarne's first session, Understanding why the body shuts down, at https://youtu.be/cLg9ATrMvww