Nerva reviews

I found the entire Nerva program extremely unsatisfying. I often found myself stressed and angry as a result of doing a session, especially when it explained how calm I should be feeling, when I fact I was actually feeling pain and extra anxiety/stress from doing a session and being unable to feel the things I was being told to feel. I have small children and a busy life, and often I found myself not having time to do a session for 3-4 days, often doing it too late in the evening and wanting it to be faster or feeling obligated and not in the right headspace for a session, ending sessions in anger and frustration and not being able to relax. The way the app is designed is it assumes you do it every day, so if you skip days it feels like you have to catch up, or feel like you missed important sessions. I found zero benefit to my symptoms, not a single difference, even when I managed to do the sessions regularly for a two week period. I feel like it was a complete waste of money and I am angry I spent so much on no benefit. It needs to adapted to more busy people and be designed in a way that doesn’t require commitment to do it every day, including the app design/structure. The sessions themselves shouldn’t talk so explicitly about how someone should be feeling, as people like me who weren’t feeling that way feel like they are doing it wrong or have something wrong with their brain. It’s hard to not take the instructions literally. Needs more disclaimers in the sessions that feeling certain ways is ok. I’m incredibly disappointed. I ended up giving up and not doing most of the program and feeling like I wasted my money. The only benefit I got from it was having a holistic view of myself focusing on my body and stress and how it relates to my IBS, which is saving it from a one star review. I must be an outlier in the 20% who don’t find the benefit, I also think perhaps my brain does not suit hypnotherapy, I couldn’t shake the feeling the whole time that it was not scientific and not going to work despite working extremely hard to be positive and not skeptical. :(

Hi fellow IBS sufferers! You might have given in to a sponsored ad on your social media - how do they get us? - and decided to try out Nerva. This is my own experience after 4 weeks of Nerva, before unfortunately giving up. I’m a big sceptic by nature but wanted to try yet another potential therapy to cure my IBS-D which I’ve had for about 10 years +. First thing, don’t know much about hypnotherapy but I’d say this app is lazy: they play you the exact same recordings every week! What is the point of paying for the subscription? You might as well record the scenarios with your phone during your free trial then play them again for the following 5 weeks and save yourself £50. They ask you at the beginning what type of IBS you suffer from, as if they’re going to personalise the stories to you. This is not happening, everyone gets the same thing. So I keep hearing “you’re going to empty your bowels easily and effortlessly” despite the fact that I suffer from diarrhoea everyday. I read an article online saying the app got an investment of £1 million. Really? That’s the price for 6 recordings? The voice actress must be Meryl Street (I wish). The positive points are some of the readings they post everyday: it starts with common things you know already as an IBS sufferer but eventually brings up interesting thoughts and concepts so worth a read. I’m afraid hypnotherapy didn’t work on me and I’d rather have 15mn meditation instead. Thanks anyway to the people who created the app as i appreciate that there’s a big need for more tailored solution for IBS and I do hope that it helped others.