Lauras Story V3
Laura Giles · Rooted Recovery
There is no moment in this story.
Pages like this usually open on the night something changed. Laura Giles is a therapist who works with PTSD and complex PTSD, and she doesn’t have that night. She has a room, a device that runs in it, and a habit of saying exactly what she saw and no more.
What this story does not have
Every place an origin story usually catches fire, Laura’s stays at room temperature. She was asked the questions that produce the big moments. Here is what she said instead.
- A condition of her own that drove her to it“I don’t have any chronic issues.”
- not here
- A skeptic’s conversion“I wasn’t risking anything to try it, so I did.”
- not here
- A slow, hard-won decision to recommend it“Immediately.”
- not here
- The one client whose life turned“No, not one in particular.”
- not here
- A cure“It hasn’t been a cure.”
- not here
Take all of that out and what remains is the rarest thing on a page like this: a clinician who watches her clients across a session, reports what she sees, and refuses to round it up.
How it actually started
No search, no desperation. She already owned a PEMF device. An ad went past.
I own a different PEMF device and came across an ad for the VIBE. It claimed to be better and was a whole lot cheaper and smaller, so I wanted to know more about it. I contacted Mark Fox. He was very accessible and forthcoming with lots of help. Since the VIBE had a 30 day money back guarantee, I wasn’t risking anything to try it, so I did.
Laura GilesThat is the whole origin. Curiosity, a phone call, and a decision that cost nothing to make. If you are waiting for the part where she was won over, there isn’t one. She tried it the way you would try a new brand of anything.
What is left when nothing is dramatic
I work with people with PTSD and complex PTSD. Healing takes time and they want fast relief, natural solutions, and something easy. The VIBE takes care of all those things.
Laura GilesHer clients want fast relief. She can’t promise it and won’t pretend to. What she can do is put something in the room that asks nothing of them, and then watch.
I don’t have any chronic issues, but travel can disrupt my sleep and bathroom regularity. VIBE is very good for that. I use it in my office with clients during one hour sessions. By the end of the session, I’ve seen lessening or complete relief of neck pain, complete relief of tinnitus, and lessening of anxiety.
Laura GilesRead the temperature of that. Neck pain, tinnitus, anxiety — lessened, gone, lessened. No adjectives. Not “incredible,” not “life-changing.” A list of what she saw by the end of an hour, in the order she saw it, said the way you would describe weather.
That flatness is not a lack of enthusiasm. It is what a trained observer sounds like. The device runs at a level you cannot feel — between 1 and 1,000 hertz, effectively zero on a logarithmic scale next to your phone — so there is nothing to feel and report. There is only what changes in the person across from her, which she is professionally trained to notice.
The one place it should have caught fire, and didn’t
Resona Health runs the largest PTSD study in the world using energy therapy and reports a 98% success rate. Laura works with PTSD every day. If her story was ever going to produce a big moment, this is where. She was asked, directly, what had been slower than expected or hadn’t worked at all.
Since I work with PTSD and the claim for PTSD relief is very high, I was hoping that it would work better for that. I haven’t had any clients get cured from PTSD, but they may not be using it regularly or the study may not be looking at complex PTSD, which is what most of my clients suffer from. VIBE helps with the symptoms, but it hasn’t been a cure.
Laura GilesNotice she doesn’t react to that either. No disappointment, no defence. She offers two possible reasons — that her clients may not be using it regularly, and that complex PTSD may not be what the study looked at — and marks both as guesses. Then she says the one thing she can stand behind: it helps the symptoms. It hasn’t been a cure.
A page that wanted a moment would have cut this. It is here because it is the most credible paragraph on the page.
A recommendation with no heat in it
Asked when she started recommending it to clients, and what made her comfortable doing that:
Immediately. I talked to Mark, liked him, and trusted him. I trusted the money back guarantee. A few clients have returned it and had no issues, so it seems to be a no brainer to at least try it. Nothing works for everyone, but if you can have relief without drugs or side effects, I don’t know why you wouldn’t try.
I have given one to both my parents. My father has lots of aches and pains and sleep issues. The VIBE helps with both.
Laura Giles“Immediately” is a strange answer from someone this careful, until you see why. She wasn’t vouching for a result. She was vouching for a person she had talked to, and a guarantee she later watched a few of her own clients use without trouble. The recommendation was never “this will work.” It was “there is no reason not to find out.”
The closest thing to warmth in her whole account is a father with aches and pains and sleep issues, and a daughter who says it helps with both. Even that is delivered in two flat sentences.
Why there is no miracle client
Asked whether there was one client where it changed the arc of the work they were doing together:
No, not one in particular. The ones that use it regularly benefit the most. I think that for most issues, effectiveness comes down to whether or not the person uses it, uses the most effective protocol, and uses it correctly (not too much or too little).
Laura GilesShe was handed the easiest opening on the page — one story, no names, change whatever you need — and declined it. What she says instead is more useful than any story would have been: it is not the device that decides, it is whether you run it, on the right protocol, at the right dose. Three to four sessions a week, about forty minutes, for thirty days. That is the whole variable.
Human beings are also bad witnesses to their own improvement. A chiropractor Mark has known since kindergarten videotapes every new client, because by the time they are carrying a lap dog instead of leaning on a walker, they will tell you they could always do that. They couldn’t. Write down where you are on day zero. Laura’s advantage is that she doesn’t need to remember — she watches. You will have to write it down.
The devices, without adjectives
The VIBE is the one that runs in Laura’s office. The other two do narrower jobs.
VIBE
$299 $399
Sixty protocols, listed alphabetically. Scroll, press play, put it in a pocket. Works through clothing. The same device for people, dogs and horses.
See the VIBE
VaguVibe
$249 $349
Vagus nerve only. On and off. Worn over the heart rather than at the neck, and it does not shock you to get there.
See the VaguVibe
BlueVibe
$349 $499
40 hertz light and 40 hertz PEMF together, for cognitive impairment and memory. Has to touch skin. One button.
See the BlueVibeAlso in the shop: the Dog Vibe Vest Bundle ($328.99), FulVic Acid ($44.95), RejuvaSync Cream ($39.95) and the Kario Wellness Watch ($149) for tracking your thirty days. Browse everything.
Thirty days. Then you’ll know.
$299 $399
VIBE device · 30-day money-back guarantee
Three to four sessions a week, forty minutes each. No moment required. If it didn’t do anything for you, send it back and get your money back.
Get the VIBEResona Health is the rare company in this field with a phone number and people who answer it.
Important information. The VIBE, VaguVibe and BlueVibe are FDA general wellness devices. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Individual results vary. The experiences described on this page are those of the individuals involved and are not a guarantee that anyone else will have the same outcome. Nothing here is medical advice.
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