Anna de Vries' Story
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 4 years
- Published
- Undated
Summary
She recovered from post-viral ME/CFS using Jan Rothney's Reset to Thrive programme, introduced via Rothney's book Breaking Free, combined with trauma therapy, somatic work including Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) and haptotherapy, and brain-retraining and nervous-system-regulation techniques such as breath-focused practices. Anna de Vries was ill for about 4 years after Epstein-Barr virus triggered her illness, with severe fatigue, headaches, rapid heartbeat, dizziness and brain fog that fluctuated and worsened to being barely able to sit up in bed for two months after a later COVID-19 infection. She says she is now fully recovered, able to spend a day at Disneyland and the next in Paris, adding I am me again. She now works full-time in neuroscientific research, and the story reports no relapse and no ongoing required practice.
Read it in their words
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What they credit
Credits Brain retraining, Trauma & somatic work, Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust), Trauma work (EFT, EMDR, TRE).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Brain fog, Headaches & migraine, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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