She Spent Months Looking for Signs. She Was Missing the Real Question.

Published with permission. Names have been changed to protect my clients’ privacy.

“I think I’m going crazy.”

That is how Toni puts it when she books her online Oberon session. She is in her early sixties, and she does not describe herself as ill. She describes herself as someone who no longer trusts her own mind.

“I’ve always been the one who remembers everything,” she tells me. “I’m organised, I’m sharp and people rely on me. Lately, though, I walk into a room and forget why I’m there. I lose words halfway through a sentence. Sometimes my mind just goes completely blank.”

She has started doing sudoku puzzles in the evenings to train her brain. Nobody suggested it to her. She is frightened enough to have started on her own.

She smiles as she tells me, almost as if she is trying to make light of it. Then she looks into the camera and quietly says, “My best friend has early Alzheimer’s.”

Suddenly everything falls into place. It is not the brain fog that is frightening her. It is what she believes the brain fog might mean.

When someone close to you is diagnosed

When someone close to you is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it is almost impossible not to compare yourself. Every forgotten word feels important. Every misplaced set of keys becomes another reason to worry.

As we talk, I ask Toni when she first notices these changes. She is constantly on the go, always thinking about the next thing that needs doing. Like so many women, she has learned to keep going even when her body is asking her to slow down.

What I am actually looking at

When we begin her Oberon session, a bioresonance reading, what I am interested in is understanding why Toni no longer feels like herself. So together we look at the bigger picture: Her nervous system, her sleep, her digestion, her stress load, her hormonal balance and her cellular energy.

Because the brain does not work in isolation. It is part of a beautifully connected system.

One of the things I explain is that the brain is one of the most energy-hungry organs in the body. It relies on deep sleep, healthy mitochondria, balanced blood sugar, a resilient nervous system and good gut health. When several of those are under pressure at the same time, the brain is often one of the first places where we notice it.

That is the body asking for support, and support is something we can actually give it.

From looking for proof to becoming curious

As we go through her findings together, I see something change. Her shoulders begin to relax. She is no longer searching for proof that something terrible is happening. Instead she is becoming curious.

Before we finish, she smiles. “I’ve spent months looking for signs that I have Alzheimer’s,” she says. “I never stopped to ask what my body is actually trying to tell me.”

I think about those words often.

Fear makes us jump to conclusions. Curiosity helps us ask better questions.

What I would say to you

If you are experiencing changes in your memory, please do not ignore them, and do speak to your doctor, especially if your symptoms are progressing or affecting your daily life. That conversation matters and it belongs with them.

Alongside it, there is a great deal worth understanding. Sometimes it is sleep that has stopped restoring you. Sometimes it is years of a nervous system running on high alert. And sometimes it is your body’s gentle way of asking you to pay attention.

That is why I love this work. Not because I have all the answers, but because I have the privilege of helping women move from fear to understanding. That is often where things begin to shift, and it usually starts with looking at the whole picture rather than one frightening possibility.

Common questions

Why am I losing words mid-sentence in my sixties?

Word-finding is unusually sensitive to sleep quality, stress load and blood sugar, so it is often one of the first things to slip when several systems are under pressure. It tends to fluctuate rather than steadily worsen, and that pattern is worth noticing. If it is progressing, bring it to your doctor.

A close friend has early-onset Alzheimer’s. Should I be worried about myself?

Friendship is not a risk factor, though the fear it creates is very real and very common. What tends to help is replacing the watching-for-signs habit with something concrete: Understanding your own sleep, stress and energy, so you have information rather than a running commentary in your head.

What does an Oberon session look at for memory concerns?

The systems the brain depends on: Sleep, cellular energy, gut health, blood sugar and the nervous system. You get a report and screenshots afterward, and we can measure again later to see what changed. It sits alongside your doctor’s care, not instead of it.