We are three sisters born into a childhood of British post-war ruin and humiliating poverty, to parents who were already too emotionally broken and financially ill-equipped to cope with four babies born within five years of one another. Because Dad was often sick and could never keep a job for long we were constantly short of money, and frequently falling behind with the rent and bills we were, as children, continually moved from town to town, often going to sleep in one place and waking up in another, with-out ever knowing how we got there or where we were when we awoke.

Any pets or meagre belongings we had accrued were usually left behind in our hurry to flee the creditors, so to this day there does not survive a toy, a photograph or a family memento to show that we even existed as children. These constant moves left us feeling disoriented, alienated and detached; as if we had left a piece of ourselves behind in each house we had furtively absconded from, to leave us with just enough presence to be seen by others, but not enough to believe ourselves to be real or feel truly visible. Not a fragment of our past remains - except for faded or flawed memories and overwhelming, destructive negative beliefs that severely impacted our adult lives.

Always struggling for money we were sometimes hungry, our clothes were hand-me-downs, and we lived in sub-standard living conditions, sometimes with five of us sharing one room. Because we were left on our own to fend for ourselves a lot of the time, two of us were sexually abused by family ‘friends’ and because of this neglect we were compelled to become self-reliant and independent very early in our lives.

Despite our difficult upbringing we were gifted with good intelligence, and through sheer hard work and determination, and surely to prove to ourselves and others that we were ‘good enough’ and that we could overcome the difficulties we had experienced throughout our childhood, we were driven to and did succeed in developing excellent careers.

But however well we did professionally, our personal lives seemed doomed. Our adult lives were plagued with broken marriages and unhealthy relationships, with depression and despair a recurring curse. And as single parents, the continual financial struggle to make ends meet. The overuse of drugs and alcohol, attempted suicides and chronic illness added more weight to our overloaded emotional stress.

Looking for answers to our self-defeating patterns, we spent thousands of dollars on Self-Development courses, sessions with mediums, channelers, and years of therapy with Psychiatrists and Psychologists. For many years we also studied Psychology, Counselling and Hypnotherapy, read hundreds of self-help books and attended dozens of relationship, communication, spiritual and new-age courses to try to find some relief for our increasingly onerous emotional burdens. The constant negative patterns we repeated over the years were only to keep validating the power of our parents’ and societies’ beliefs - that ‘life is hard’ and ‘things always go from bad to worse’.

Twenty years later, fed up, exhausted and sick and tired of the struggle, we had to eventually accept that although we had gained many insights into our negative emotional patterns, nothing we had done had removed the deep emotional pain and hopelessness we suffered. It had all been a waste of time and money, because we still felt empty, unloved and without purpose.

In 1995 providence was to change all this for us and we were to discover the Negative Belief Removal Process (NBR) that would transform our lives and our future. The more we used the NBR process and our own depression and despair lifted and we realized that we were indeed feeling lighter and happier, we became more and more convinced that the NBR process worked permanently. Friends and family started commenting on the changes they saw in us and asked if we could help them. So we started practicing with them and found that the process worked for them too.

Because of the extraordinary results we were getting for ourselves and others, seven years ago we established 'Beyond Belief Personal Development' and since then we have successfully worked with hundreds of clients, from all walks of life, suffering from addictions, depression, child abuse, or simply those who wish to improve themselves, whose lives have been profoundly changed for the better – see our Testimonials page.

Annie Moyes, Ruth French and Barbara French