Participant Support Newsletter

Online Issue No. 132

June 2, 2011

Tammi’s Journey to Wellness

Tammi experienced bouts of depression throughout her teenage years–something that others wrote off as just “typical teenage behavior”. Looking back now, after years of counseling and seeing psychiatrists, Tammi realizes that it was much more.

In her twenties, Tammi started experiencing mania along with her depressive episodes. She was usually able to cope with the symptoms well enough; however, at age 30, after having both her children, Tammi experienced a very serious bout of depression and was formally diagnosed with bipolar ll disorder.

In the next two years, Tammi was hospitalized three times—a total of six months. “I had a loving husband, lived in a beautiful home, had a good job…I just didn’t belong there,” Tammi says, “It just wasn’t the place to get well for me…[And] the medications made my condition way worse than before I was medicated.”

Tammi began looking for alternatives. She was introduced to EMPowerplus by her mother, who had read an article about Autumn Stringam’s book, A Promise of Hope, in the Vancouver Sun. Tammi and her mother subsequently attended a seminar in Vancouver, where Autumn told the story of her journey to wellness and read a portion of her book. “That was a day that really changed my life,” Tammi recalls, “I sat there and I listened to Autumn’s story…and I just cried and cried because she was reading my life out loud.”

In November 2007, Tammi began taking EMPowerplus and started tapering off the six medications she was on. By the end of January 2008, she was completely off of all her medications and was just taking EMPowerplus.

“[Truehope] saved my life,” Tammi says. “Because of [Truehope] my husband has a wife and my children have a mother.”

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Yours in health,

The Truehope Staff

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