I had long Covid. I have fully recovered
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 8 months
- Published
- Oct 2021
Summary
In May, Rachel Whitfield did a three-day Lightning Process training course for long COVID that began with a mild case testing positive in December, followed by boom-bust cycles of "crippling fatigue, covid toes, covid strangle throat, burning back, anxiety, tight ribs" and breathing dysfunction that left her housebound through much of March and needing a month off work; she also joined a yoga group for COVID recovery and worked with Kelly Mitchell, "The Breathing PT," alongside her own NLP training. She says "I've now achieved" her goals of running 10 miles in July and a half marathon in August, and reports cycling most days, running three times a week and strength training. She frames recovery as learning to "influence" her symptoms through the mind-body connection, presenting it as complete with no relapse mentioned. She explicitly states, "I've never made money out of it," clarifying that the leadership training courses she runs for organisations are unrelated to any COVID or ME recovery coaching.
Read it in their words
recoverynorway.org — a recovery advocacy site.
What they credit
Credits Lightning Process, Pacing, Lightning Process, Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Neurolinguistic programming (NLP).
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