Nerva reviews

I’m 3 1/2 weeks in and it’s already helping improve my severe, lifelong IBS. However, I don’t see why they only offer a 1 year subscription ($179 CA) but don’t publish it as an audio book. The program is just short readings and short audio recordings. Charging 10 or 25 bucks for an audio book version would make it far more accessible. Yes, the 1-year program has support available. I’ve tried it out and was disappointed. They basically gave me the same info you see in the readings, which is basically the same info you see in the ads. Though I agree with said info, it feels like it gets repeated ad nauseam: “Hypnotherapy works, here’s why, etc.” There’s more useful info than just that, but it’s stuff I’ve previously read and learnt through other programs* & audiobooks* that were cheap or free. Still, I would give Nerva 3 1/2 stars if I could. The only reason it’s not 5 is the high price point. My suggestion for users? Start the free trial, record all the hypnotherapy sessions you can, read all the readings you can, and cancel the subscription. Listen to the sessions for six weeks like they recommend, and only then decide whether the full year would be worth it for you. * Programs like group therapy for IBS, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (my fav) and meditation. * Audiobooks like ‘When the Body Says No’ by Dr Maté, and ‘Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life’ by Dr Hayes (my fav—tho I should recommend it’s better as a book rather than an audiobook)

Updated in week 4: I discussed it with my primary care physician, and we decided that it is not for me. Hypnotherapy did not make me regular. It made my system go all over the place. So it did have an effect. I just don’t like the effect that it had. I would rather visit the restroom every day even if it’s multiple times rather than skipping days because my body would then go haywire and I was really sick to catch things up. Updated in week 3. Maybe this app isn’t for me. She’s now repeating the visualizations too. I’m not an outdoorsy type person. Imagining I’m clearing my way through overgrown brush or bathing in a hot spring of mineral waters gives me anxiety. It does NOT relax me at all. I’m finding myself skipping parts of the repeated sessions or verbally disagreeing out loud with the “narrator”. I think I wasted my money. Is it too much to ask for fresh material every day? Original review: I like the app and the idea of gut-related hypnotherapy. I just wish the same verbal prompts weren’t repeated at the same points in the session every day. It’s distracting in that I’m repeating what she’s saying along with her. I have the “text” memorized. Only the visualization portion changes each day so far (I have done 7 days of it). I’m not sure whether to subscribe for the full year or not, but I am seeing some benefits. Repetitive prompts and wording are why I stopped using the headspace meditation app. He said the same thing every day, and I wasn’t focusing - I was repeating the words along with him. Only a small portion of his program changed. I went to using Calm for meditation because she changes it every day. She doesn’t say the same words over and over again. Nerva subscription is expensive. I’m hoping she doesn’t say the same thing every day for six weeks.

I think this is a great idea and fantastic that it exists as an app as in-person hypnotherapy isn’t available to all & pricier. While I like the concept and the accompanying articles, I find that the sessions could be improved. 1) The starting relaxation comes in different formats - the first week it’s a body scanned relaxation, then others are added like counting breaths or sensory dimming (not sure what it’s actually called now). I wish there was a way to choose for oneself after trying them all which beginning to have each day. Personally, the only one that seems to work for me well is the progressive relaxation body scan. The others I find useless so I get really impatient, which beats the purpose… they should also realise that once you’ve had one kind of relaxation, there’s no need to repeat “you could do this by… (giving examples)” 2) The middle part/visualisation starts to be reused from week 2. By week 5 there have been three repetitions I think. I am not a fan of this, because some of them I didn’t enjoy so much so at the start I already presume that this isn’t gonna be a great session. 2) The reused ending starting with “positive changes are happening” is often louder than the previous recording. A few sessions’ middle part end in “positive/healthy changes are happening” just to be followed by the same phrase again, making it seem poorly put together. 4) I’m at the end of week 5 now; I have had some improvements the past week, however, this coincided with a holiday, so we’ll see if the changes stick once I’m back home. To be updated.

Like many others I was surprised to find that this is 6 recordings repeated (7 repeats over 6 weeks). However the trial period times out just at the moment you realise this so not a good start on feeling a bit conned but putting that aside is it worth it? Yes it probably is. But that’s only because, if like many other reviewers, lying awake at night with unbearable pain you’d give anything for a bit of relief. Which was me several months ago after years of suffering flare ups. I managed to apply myself with the programme fully for two or three weeks but soon after found it impossible to concentrate I was so bored and unmotivated. I often also fell asleep. I stopped at week four finding that twenty minutes a day felt like an eternity. I have noticed an improvement in my flare ups - they do seem to be less severe. However... I would strongly suggest that some of the benefit is simply from stopping, lying down and doing a simple breathing exercise. I’m not 100% convinced that the hypnotherapy suggestions are having the effect. But either way, if you’re reading this, £50 is probably worth it because no doubt you’ve tried everything else. But having said that the subscription model is nonsensical and to be honest so is the app which adds nothing at all. It includes little bits of reading etc but it’s all garbage, with or two minor exceptions. It would make much more sense to release as an audio book on audible for £50 or £60 rather than have a subscription model.