For over 40 years, a social worker suffered from severe migraines. No medication or conventional therapies alleviated her suffering. She only experienced improvement at an AUSWEGE/WAYS OUT therapy camp – a second one freed her from her pain.
The fourth of five sisters raised on a farm, Marianne* associates her childhood with “a lot of work,
little attention, and appreciation—we had to meet our parents’ expectations.” One grandmother beat her with a stick “to break my will.”
The 59-year-old Austrian attributes her hellish migraines, which have plagued her more and more frequently since the age of 17, to this sad history. From 2011 onwards, the suffering became chronic – and so unbearable that it drove Marianne into burnout and made her severely depressed. She became extremely sensitive to light and noise, feels constantly tired and weak, and developed visual disturbances. She lost a lot of weight and, at 5’8″, weighed just over 44 pounds.
Psychotherapy did not help her, nor did antidepressants and painkillers, which caused severe side effects and made her dependent on medication. Since 2021, the certified social worker has been on early retirement; several doctors declared her “resistant to therapy” and certified her inability to work.
Marianne “did everything she could to get out of my predicament,” but by then she felt “at the end of my
strings. I have been looking for people to catch me for a long time. I urgently need a break in a protected, competent environment.” She therefore found the concept of the ‘Auswege’ therapy camps ideal”
When she heard about them in 2022. After attending her first camp in the summer of 2023, “I actually felt much better for 6 to 8 weeks, I was almost pain-free,” Marianne wrote to us in October 2024. “I didn’t have any migraines at all.”
But soon after, “the pain slowly crept back in, and no attempts at healing had any effect.”
In the first half of 2025, “I was not doing well at all. The chronic migraine pain kept me trapped in a terrible state of anxiety, which made everything even worse.”
A wonderful, profound experience
And so, in June 2025, Marianne attended an “Auswege” camp for the second time. Over the course of six days of treatment she booked 18 healing sessions in which she was exposed to a variety of unconventional medical approaches, as she had been the first time: from Bach flower therapy, homeopathy, medicinal herbs, Aura-Soma, spinal massage according to Dorn/Breuss, yoga, autogenic training, water shiatsu (“Watsu”) and “nature therapy” in the picturesque surroundings of the camp
to spiritual psychotherapy and spiritual healing, supplemented by nutritional counseling. And this time, the healing success was resounding: “My symptoms have completely disappeared,”
Marianne noted in a patient questionnaire at the end of the camp. Once again, it was “a wonderful, profound experience for her to be welcomed here in such a loving atmosphere.
Even my husband, Even my husband, who actually only came along as a companion,
was so kindly included and allowed to participate in many therapies that he was able to open up. It was a wonderful, healing, and also challenging process for us, from which our relationship has benefited enormously.”
(*: pseudonym)
(Harald Wiesendanger)