Georgia Lupi shares what she’s excited to wake up for with us. She recounts getting COVID in 2020, developing worsening long COVID symptoms with reinfections, becoming house- and sometimes bed-bound, and stopping work in 2023 before beginning recovery in early 2024. Lupi and Brad discuss the anxiety and trauma that can persist during physical recovery, the scientific mind-body connection, and how nervous system regulation, brain retraining, and visualization became central to her healing. She describes publishing a New York Times visual op-ed using her symptom data, the messages it sparked, and how a conversation prompted her to commit to brain retraining, leading to slow but meaningful functional return and recent confidence saying she’s fully recovered, alongside an ongoing reintegration into work, creativity, and life.

Links:

• Giorgia Lupi
• "1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid" — NYT Visual Op-Ed
• Dear Data
• Caravan Palace
• Parov Stelar
• Kormac
• DNRS (Dynamic Neural Retraining System)
• Gupta Program
• Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM)
• Limbic System / Vagus Nerve / Nervous System Regulation
• Psychedelic Therapy & Neural Rewiring
• Subway Map as Information Design
• Music Notation

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Morning Excitement Check