We need to heal, all of us, individually and collectively. Let’s talk, get to know one another as fellow humans, shall we? Set aside all the labels we wear, the ones we rue, and especially the ones we ascribe to others. How’s your imagination? Mine is quite vivid, so I’d…

Self-care is critical with long COVID. Since my second COVID infection in January 2021, I’ve had a persistent feeling that my body is trying to force me into a state of dormancy or semi-hibernation until it has finished recuperating. Most people who have long COVID and/or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue (ME/CFS)…

Emotions have a profound impact on our health if we let them control us, versus managing them so we don’t get lost in them. This has been especially true with long COVID. Anger: brutal, long-lasting pain that nothing seems to relieve. Fear and anxiety: even worse than anger. Worry, frustration…

COVID, in both its acute and intractable states, is a whole-person illness. It infects nearly every body system, if not all of them: respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular, circulatory, gastrointestinal, endocrine. Long COVID, the seemingly permanent version of it, goes much deeper than any body system though. It leaves nothing untainted. My…

“If you want to feel better, you just have to beat yourself up,” I heard myself think earlier this week. I was chilling out, laid back in the recliner, listening to music on earbuds, and pounding my thighs with my fists. It’s true. I first discovered the power of percussing…

Life with long COVID is hell. If you don’t already have firsthand knowledge of what that means, I sincerely hope you never do. I’m from the original crop of long haulers, first infected in December 2019 before anyone ever heard of coronavirus and again in January 2021. Life has been…

With profound gratitude to the many authors who helped me along my path so far, I am truly happy to be able to confidently proclaim that I am a neuroplasticity success story. I discovered this on February 2, 2021, when I opened Daniel J. …

I haven’t written for The Art of Healing from Trauma for several months. Frankly, my life shattered into tiny pieces scattered about the country because of this pandemic (and Donald Trump). …

Writing can change your life. It changed mine in ways nothing else could have, but it took great effort to learn a process that grounds me in writing. We all experience traumas big and small, relationship problems, emotional dramas, and other barriers to personal fulfillment. You can write your way…