After one year and 10 days I realized that I was done with COVID! The mind-body connection was the final piece in my healing
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- 1 year
- Published
- Feb 2022
Summary
Combined neurofeedback, a concussion protocol, a five-hour session with an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner, EMDR, shiatsu, meditation and journaling as part of a broader mind-body approach to her illness. She had more than 18 Long COVID symptoms for "one year and 10 days" after catching COVID in early November 2020, at her worst unable to stand for more than 30 seconds, needing a camp chair propped with pillows to eat, and experiencing seizure-like episodes and suicidal ideation. She says "the mind-body connection was the final piece in my healing," declaring herself "done with COVID" and now "traveling, hiking, working out...dancing," adding "I can do ANYTHING now." She describes being "at about 95% but still having some mini setbacks," including a period during wildfire smoke season when "it was as though I went back to square one" with debilitating anxiety, which she presents as part of the path to her eventual full recovery rather than her current state.
Read it in their words
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What they credit
Credits Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Neurolinguistic programming (NLP), Trauma work (EFT, EMDR, TRE).
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