16-week supported journey · Trafford
For people in Stretford, Sale and Sale Moor who are ready to reconnect with themselves, rebuild confidence, and begin moving towards what comes next.
Living with chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety or a long-term health condition can slowly make your world smaller. You might have stepped away from work. Lost confidence in what you're capable of. Become more isolated. Or simply feel as though your health has been making the decisions for you.
Breaking Beyond Diagnosis is about beginning to change that.
The starting point
It's about helping you rediscoverwhat's already there.
When you've spent months or years managing symptoms, appointments, responsibilities and uncertainty — or simply trying to get through the day — it's easy to lose sight of the person underneath it all.
Your confidence can change. Your relationships can change. Your connection with the outside world can change. And sometimes even imagining employment, education, volunteering or trying something new can feel enormous.
That's why we don't start there. We start with you.
Over 16 weeks you'll have space to understand what's been holding you back, build practical tools to support yourself, reconnect with other people, and gradually explore what your own next chapter could look like.
There is no one-size-fits-all destination. Your progress might look completely different from somebody else's — and that's exactly how the programme is designed.
Who’s behind this
“I know what it’s like when your health starts making the decisions.”
I’m Reanne, founder of The Phoenix Movement CIC. Before any of this existed, I was someone sitting with a fibromyalgia diagnosis, wondering what my life was going to look like now.
I know the exhaustion that sleep doesn’t touch. I know what it is to cancel the things you’d been looking forward to. To feel your world getting quieter and smaller, and to wonder whether this is simply how it is from here.
It isn’t.
What changed things for me wasn’t one big breakthrough. It was understanding how my nervous system actually worked. Finding tools that fitted around my energy instead of fighting it. And slowly — genuinely slowly — building back a life that felt like mine again.
I won’t tell you I found a secret nobody else has. What I will tell you is that I live very differently now than I did then, and everything I learned getting here is what this programme is built from. Not from a textbook — from living it, and then training properly in the things that helped, so I could walk it alongside other people.
I’m not here to fix you. I’m here to sit alongside you while you work out what’s possible.
Reanne Murray Founder · The Phoenix Movement CIC · Fibro 2 Phoenix
What makes this different
This is not 16 weeks of somebody telling you what you should be doing. We'll meet you where you are.
The programme combines online support, in-person experiences, group connection and individualised support, so you build from your own starting point. You'll be encouraged to take manageable steps rather than giant leaps.
Not by expecting you to suddenly “get back out there.” And definitely not by treating everyone as though they need the same thing.
As the weeks progress, we begin to look beyond simply managing today, towards a bigger question:
What would you actually like your life to look like next?
Your 16-week journey
The shape of the journey is the same for everyone. What you do inside it isn't.
Phase one — Reconnect
We begin gently.
You'll meet the group, explore where you currently are in life, and begin understanding some of the patterns that may be influencing your confidence, energy, stress and wellbeing. You'll be introduced to practical approaches around nervous-system awareness, self-management, and recognising what your body may need.
The aim: greater understanding, connection and hope.
Phase two — Rebuild
This is where we begin building.
Through online sessions, coaching, workshops and practical exercises, you'll explore tools that help you navigate challenges differently. We may look at confidence, habits, boundaries, stress, self-belief, emotional wellbeing, communication, and reconnecting with your own strengths.
The aim: to feel increasingly equipped rather than powerless.
Phase three — Expand
As confidence grows, we begin looking outwards.
What interests you? What strengths have you forgotten about? What would you love to try? What feels realistic now that perhaps didn't at the beginning? This might mean reconnecting with your community, learning something new, volunteering, exploring opportunities — or simply doing something independently that previously felt out of reach.
The aim: possibility.
Phase four — Your next chapter
The programme doesn't end with us simply saying goodbye.
We'll help you recognise how far you've come and create an individual progression plan for what happens next. Depending on your goals, that could include connections into community opportunities, volunteering, adult learning, further support, employment services or enterprise.
The aim: you leave knowing your next steps — and believing you're capable of taking them.
Online and in person
We know rigid programmes can be difficult when your energy isn't predictable. Some sessions take place online, so you can take part from your own space. Others happen in person, creating room for genuine connection, community and new experiences.
You won't be expected to navigate the journey alone.
What you'll experience
15
Places, maximum
Something else important
We don't want you disappearing into a room full of people, or becoming another number on a spreadsheet. We want to know your name. We want to understand what matters to you.
And we want enough space in the programme to recognise that 15 people can arrive with 15 completely different stories.
Somebody may want to return to employment. Someone else might want enough confidence to volunteer. Another person may simply want to stop feeling so isolated and begin reconnecting with their community.
All of those beginnings matter.
After 16 weeks
We want you to feel more like yourself again. By the end, our aim is for you to leave with:
And perhaps most importantly — evidence to yourself that your diagnosis doesn't get to write the rest of your story.
Could this be for you?
You don't need to have everything figured out. And you certainly don't need to know what you want to do for the rest of your life.
What we're looking for isn't perfection. We're looking for willingness. A willingness to show up. To explore. To try something different. And to commit to the 16 weeks alongside us.
Not sure whether you qualify? Get in touch anyway. We'd rather have the conversation than have you rule yourself out.
Before you apply
The programme is fully funded, which means there's no financial cost to eligible participants. But there is one thing we ask you to invest: your commitment.
Places are limited, and we want them to go to people who genuinely want to take part. You'll be joining both online and in-person elements across the programme, so please consider whether you're able and willing to commit to the journey before applying.
You don't have to arrive feeling fearless. You just have to be willing to begin.
Why “Fibro 2 Phoenix”?
Not returning to the person you were before life became difficult — but discovering who you can become because you've lived through it.
Your experiences matter. Your strengths matter. Your future matters.
And whatever diagnosis, circumstances or challenges brought you here — there can still be more.
Ready to find out what your next chapter could look like?
Expressing your interest doesn't mean you have to have all the answers. We'll talk with you about the programme, your circumstances, and whether Breaking Beyond Diagnosis is the right fit. Spaces are limited to 15 participants.
We’ve received your details and are so pleased you’re interested in Breaking Beyond Diagnosis.
A member of The Phoenix Movement CIC team will be in touch within 5 working days to talk you through the next steps.
We look forward to connecting with you.
You are more than a diagnosis. Let's discover what's possible beyond it.