Hey, I met an old friend today. This ‘meeting people from the past thing’ is getting to be quite a habit. I trained with her, in the early eighties, to teach exercise to music. We were together for about a year until we became fully-fledged aerobics teachers.

She looks just the same as when I last saw her years ago – the result of a healthy lifestyle I suspect. She teaches body balance and yoga classes and works for the NHS training the trainers who deliver the “stop smoking’ programs we see advertised on TV.

We had ‘the traditional’ natter about our children. It’s quite amazing how quickly the years go by and it’s lovely to hear what they’re all doing now. Then we got to talking about what we’ve been up to in the intervening years. She’s developed her fitness repertoire and still has a passion for teaching and loves the training aspect of her work with the NHS.

I told her about my work in school and the coaching, NLP and Clean Language approaches I’ve been exploring in the context of the classroom – and with my adult coaching clients.

I explained how my aerobic teaching had stopped when I’d become ill with post viral syndrome in 1996. As I told her about the illness and my recovery from it, I found myself reflecting again on the wonderful progress I’ve made.

Lisa thought the story of my recovery would be a help to others (my doctor did tell me at the time to write it all down because it might be a help to others – but I was too busy recovering at the time and then – well life took off!)

Anyway if you’re interested I’ll put it all down here on the blog and if it’s useful to anyone I’ll be glad.