Recovering from Long Covid Using Neuroplasticity Coaching or Therapy
Below are webinar-podcasts I hosted with two figures who are leaders in helping people recover from Long Covid from a neuroplastic, or mind-body healing, perspective.
Using neuroplasticity-based coaching or therapy is an effective way to recover from Long Covid, and I have helped a number of clients with Long Covid unlearn fatigue, pain, and fear to become symptom-free or largely symptom-free.
Dr. Becca Kennedy, MD ran the Long Covid Specialty Group at Kaiser Permanente in Oregon before launching a private practice.
Kent interviews Rebecca Tolin, in the webinar below, about her personal experience overcoming over a decade of debilitating ME/CFS, and about her work as a teacher helping Long Covid patients recover with the same brain science and healing principles she relied on.
From Bedbound to Running Again — A Long Covid Recovery Story
In the video podcast above, Kent interviews journalist Emma Zimmerman who tells the story of going from competitive distance runner to bed-bound with Long Covid — more symptoms than she could count, nearly a year of doctors, supplements, and treatments that didn't work. She was sure the mind-body approach was pseudoscience. Then she recovered using it. In this post-screening conversation about This Might Hurt and recovery from Long Covid using neuroplastic (mind-body) principles, Emma and Dr. Becca Kennedy — who led the Long Covid specialty group at Kaiser Permanente — talk honestly about skepticism, anger, why patients are told to rest when they shouldn't be, and what the recovery process actually looks like day to day. Recorded live at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York City.
Psychedelics and Long Covid
Case study for a woman successfully treating Long Covid with psychedelics
Looking for recovery stories, articles, studies about healing from Long Covid? I put together a relatively comprehensive list of resources on my other site for the film I made, This Might Hurt. You can access it with this link.
Alan Levinovitz recently published a thoughtful article in Wired Magazine, “The Painful Truth about Long Covid,” about the controversies around defining, diagnosing, and treating Long Covid. One of the ideas I found compelling in the article is how he points out that people who have recovered from Long Covid, especially after trying a neuroplastic or mind-body treatment, are often dismissed and gaslighted by some in the Long Covid advocacy communities.