Trust is a publishing requirement

Evidence & editorial policy.

Health information can affect real decisions. This policy makes the source, uncertainty, author and review state visible—and prevents an automated draft from becoming a published claim on its own.

Preview status · 19 July 2026. This workflow is implemented in the new content model. The three rewritten articles have sources attached, but independent clinical sign-off has not yet happened, so the temporary site remains blocked from indexing.

Our commitment

We aim to be accurate, proportionate and clear about what is known, what is uncertain and what comes from personal experience. This is a counselling website, not a medical publisher, and it will not present counselling or a self-guided product as diagnosis, medical treatment or a cure for ME/CFS, FND or another condition.

Source links sit beside the claim they support, with a full reference list at the end of each article. A link is context, not decoration: it must support the specific wording used.

Four claim types stay separate

Health claim: a statement about a condition, symptom, cause, risk, diagnosis or treatment. It requires an appropriate source.
Practice note: how Sureyya describes or conducts her counselling. It is not presented as scientific evidence.
Lived experience: Sureyya’s own reported story. It is labelled as anecdotal and never generalised to another person.
Service detail: a factual, owner-verifiable statement such as a price, venue or session length. Mutable details are checked before launch and at scheduled intervals.

Source standard

Sources are selected in roughly this order:

Current UK clinical guidance and public-health bodies, including NICE and the NHS.
Systematic reviews, meta-analyses and high-quality clinical consensus.
Relevant primary research, with design and limitations stated.
Professional registers for credentials and first-party records for service facts.

A preprint, press release, testimonial, commercial wellness page, search snippet or AI-generated answer is not used as clinical proof. Observational association is not described as causation, population evidence is not personalised, and one study does not erase conflicting evidence.

Core reference points currently include the NICE ME/CFS guideline, an open-access clinical review of FND and Sureyya’s BACP register entry.

Automation stops at the publication gate

A human-approved brief defines the audience, scope, risks and questions.
Sources are collected with publisher, date, study type, URL and a note about limitations.
The draft stores claims as individual paragraphs, each tagged by claim type and linked to source IDs.
Automated validation rejects missing citations, unknown sources, broken data and prohibited outcome language.
An appropriately qualified, independent human reviewer checks medical interpretation and potential harm. Their name, credentials and review date will appear on the article.
Sureyya approves the practice language, lived-experience wording and service details.
Only then can the article be marked publishable and included in the production sitemap.
Materially updated guidance triggers review; corrections are logged below.

Automated tools may help find candidate sources, compare versions, structure citations and prepare drafts. They do not serve as the accountable medical reviewer and cannot schedule autonomous health publication.

The preview currently enforces status and citation rules at build time. Before automation is connected to production, reviewer approval must move into a headless CMS with role-based access and an audit log; an editable name in a content file is not sufficient proof of sign-off.

Claims we will not make

That a personality trait, trauma response or “dysregulated nervous system” is the universal root cause of ME/CFS or FND.
That counselling, tracking, visualisation, movement or a course cures a medical condition or guarantees symptom improvement.
That a person must push through post-exertional symptoms, follow fixed activity increases or ignore medical assessment.
That a testimonial predicts another person’s outcome.
That a professional counselling registration is equivalent to specialist medical expertise.

Marketing claims are also reviewed against the CAP Code rules for medicines, medical devices, health-related products and beauty products.

Legacy-content queue

Seven posts were found on the WordPress site. Three higher-risk posts have been rewritten with claim-level sources for clinical review. The following four are withheld from the new journal until they receive the same treatment:

“The Hidden Cost of People Pleasing” — 11 June 2025.
“The Truth Between People Pleasing and Perfectionism” — 26 July 2025.
“R.I.S.E: My Journey from People Pleasing to Personal Power—and How You Can Get There Too” — 20 October 2025.
“The Mind and Body Connection in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)” — 20 October 2025.

Withholding is intentional. Preserving an old URL is useful for migration, but it is not more important than avoiding an unsupported health claim.

Corrections and review record

To report an error or a source that has been superseded, email hello@sureyyahester.com with the page URL and supporting evidence. Substantive changes will be dated and explained; spelling-only changes may be made without a log entry.

Current correction log: no published corrections. This is policy version 0.1, created for the migration preview on 19 July 2026.