Welcome to the final episode of Season 3 of the Long Covid Hope Podcast! In this episode, we are joined by Giorgia Lupi, an award winning Italian information designer and partner at a NYC design firm Pentagram. Giorgia caught Covid in March 2020 and developed Long Covid, which worsened after vaccinations and also a reinfection in 2022.

Giorgia has painstaking recorded all of the data around her symptoms and recovery journey, which formed the basis of the incredible Op Ed for the New York Times she did, 'My Life with Long Covid' covering 1374 days of Long Covid - and becoming a celebrity in long hauler circles in the same moment! She has since recovered a great deal and is sharing her recovery story with me in this episode. You can also find her discussing this in her recent TED Talk 'What Long Covid Taught me about Life (And Data)'.

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Giorgia Lupi's Op Ed 'My Life with Long Covid' in New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/14/opinion/my-life-with-long-covid.html
Giorgia's 1374 Days of Long Covid: https://giorgialupi.com/1374-days-nyt-visual-oped
Giorgia's Moleskin Foundation Piece: https://giorgialupi.com/moleskine-foundation
TED Talk 'What Long Covid Taught me about Life (And Data)' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFl9kFms7nA&ab_channel=TED

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah is joined by Jon, a railroad professional located in Northern England. Jon caught Covid quite dramatically at a friend's wedding in late 2020 and he developed fatigue, POTS, myocarditis, cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance as part of his Long Covid condition. Jon caught Sarah's eye as he was sharing online how he was returning to exercise with long hikes in the Peak District and had recovered 90-95% of his pre-Covid baseline. In this episode, Jon explains how he has reached this point in his recovery and what he looks forward to in future.

Did you know that the full video episode is available for our Patreon Members? Patreon members receive the full episode without any ads a whole week in advance, alongside many other member benefits including the Long Covid Hope Support monthly Zoom call. Check it out: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/LongCovidHope⁠⁠

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Jon on Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/Wright1983Jon/⁠

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah is joined by Mary Ladd, the creator and joint-publisher of The Long Covid Reader, a living history from the stories, essays, and poems of 45 long haulers. Mary describes her Long Covid experience and how her prior advocacy work as a breast cancer survivor gave her the idea for The Long Covid Reader. We discuss how it was developed and the community effort that brought it to reality. This episode is punctuated by extracts of the audio edition of The Long Covid Reader.

Did you know that the full video episode is available for our Patreon Members? Patreon members receive the full episode without any ads a whole week in advance, alongside many other member benefits including the Long Covid Hope Support monthly Zoom call. Check it out: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/LongCovidHope⁠

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Long Covid Reader Website: https://www.maryladd.com/

Long Covid Reader on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Long-COVID-Reader-Writing-Haulers/dp/1735655384/

Long Covid Reader on YT Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZD2FcgOItA&ab_channel=GreenAppleBooks

Long Covid Reader on NPR: https://www.kqed.org/news/11968196/new-book-chronicles-life-of-those-living-with-long-covid

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, we speak with Lucy, a disability and mental health advocate, working in the charity sector. Lucy caught Covid in April 2020 and developed Long Covid with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which lasted nearly 3 years. She was house-bound for much of that time, couldn’t work for almost a year, and experienced multiple relapses. Now she is fully recovered and has been symptom-free for more than a year and back to working full time and renovating her house!

Did you know that the full video episode is available for our Patreon Members? Patreon members receive the full episode without any ads a whole week in advance, alongside many other member benefits including the Long Covid Hope Support monthly Zoom call. Check it out: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/LongCovidHope⁠

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Long Covid SOS - Message in a Bottle: https://www.longcovidsos.org/film

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah is joined by Sita, known online as Mama Sita, a tireless and outspoken advocate and support of Long Haulers, and a founding member of the Long Covid Moonshot Movement. Sita developed Covid and Long Covid in the Summer of 2021, and describes how her condition developed rapidly into Dysautonomia, Mast Cell Activation (MCAS), exercise intolerance and more. Sita describes her process through her recovery journey and explains how reframing her perspective on her condition using radical acceptance and gratitude has been helpful to her. We discuss how the Long Covid Moonshot movement began and her experience advocating in Washington, and the advocacy landscape more generally. This is a great episode, check it out!

Did you know that the full video episode is available for our Patreon Members? Patreon members receive the full episode without any ads a whole week in advance, alongside many other member benefits including the Long Covid Hope Support monthly Zoom call. Check it out: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/LongCovidHope⁠

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Sita on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamasitaa__/

Long Covid Moonshot website: ⁠https://longcovidmoonshot.com/

Op-Ed in Nature by Lisa McCorkell & Michael J. Peluso: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03225-w
NYT Article, 'Could Long Covid be the Senate's Bi-Partisan Cause?': https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/long-covid-research-funding.html

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah speaks with Chris, known online as Chris GeoCK, who is a Geoscientist, cyclist and adventurer, side-lined by Covid in December 2021. Chris shares his story of how he got from very severe POTS symptoms along side many other LC symptoms, to the place where he feels 85-90% recovered (and continuing to improve - check out his recent Twitter posts for his cycling exploits!). We have a very wide ranging and information-rich conversation where Chris shares his experience with HBOT, the Nicotine Test experimental therapy and the Mind-Body connection. Chris actually credits "lose any fear or concern for his symptoms" as the biggest help in his recovery to date.

Did you know that the full video episode is available for our Patreon Members? Patreon members receive the full episode without any ads a whole week in advance, alongside many other member benefits including the Long Covid Hope Support monthly Zoom call. Check it out: https://www.patreon.com/c/LongCovidHope

Trigger warnings: suicide ideation, medical gaslighting

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Chris on Twitter/X: https://x.com/GeoEduOne
Long Covid Physio - https://longcovid.physio
Workwell Foundation - https://workwellfoundation.org
Bateman Horne Center - https://batemanhornecenter.org
Gez Medinger - https://www.youtube.com/@RUNDMC1
Long Covid Podcast - https://www.longcovidpodcast.com
Canadian Consensus Criteria for ME/CFS - https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Consensus_Criteria
Fiona Lowenstein’s Article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/21/long-covid-recovery-coronavirus
Jared Younger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWM6duVScE
Alex Howard's books:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Me-Journey-Health-Happiness/dp/1901447170
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decode-Your-Fatigue-Clinically-Transform/dp/1788174593
Raelen Agle on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RaelanAgle
CFS Recovery on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh610cYKG5yfXlTT8Se97Vg
The Nicotine Test links (experimental, approach with caution!): https://linktr.ee/thenicotinetest

Return to Sport Guidance (BMJ): https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/19/1174

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah speaks with Julia Claire Taylor, a professional opera singer living in New York City. Julia caught Covid and developed Long Covid in 2022, and we talk through her personal experience with Long Covid and how, fortunately for her, Julia has had access to a wealth of healthcare resources in New York, including the leading Mount Sinai Long Covid Clinic. Julia shares that while she is still on the recovery journey from Long Covid, there is plenty for her to be hopeful about!

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Julia's website: https://www.juliaclairetaylor.com/story

Mount Sinai LC Clinic info: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/covid19/center-post-covid-care

Dr David Putrino 'Long Covid: What Can you Do?' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUVa4jK-qho&ab_channel=TheLongCovidClinic%3AWhatYouCANDo

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah speaks with AK Davidson about her full recovery from Long Covid and about her wonderful poetry collection: Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions: Short Poems from Long Covid. Anna shares about her Long Covid experience including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, heart issues, and breathing difficulties. She shares about how brain retraining assisted in her recovery, and Sarah does ask some clarifying questions around the Lightning Process. Anna reads some poems from her book, which Sarah found to be uplifting and thought provoking in equal measure. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
This ad-free video is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!
Links:
Anna's author website: https://therightword.co.uk/
Link to buy the book from all retailers: https://books2read.com/poetryforlife
Anna's Poetry account on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mondayispoetry/
Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

In this episode, Sarah speaks with Cathy, who is a health coach and mum of two, who managed to fully recover from Long Covid and is now offering services to assist others with Long Covid. Cathy is a First Waver (another Friday the 13th-er) whose recovery from Long Covid took 3-4 years and one of her main symptoms was myocarditis revealed in the CoverScan Long Covid Study. They talk LDN, the Perrin Technique, Reiki and the Mind-Body Connection in her recovery journey.

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:

Find Clarity Consulting: ⁠https://www.find-clarity.com/services-1⁠

Cathy on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mycorona21/⁠

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.

Let's start Season 3 with a bang with a very exciting guest!

In this episode, we have the wonderful and brilliant Dr Raven Baxter, aka Raven the Science Maven joining the Long Covid Hope Podcast. Raven talks about her full recovery from Long Covid, how it took a lot longer to cognitively than previously discussed and what she used to get herself back to where she was pre-Covid.

We talk about so many important issues, such as Raven's recent new job at Mount Sinai using her skills to help other long haulers as a health communicator, as well as the inequalities facing people of colour in healthcare.

Unfortunately, Raven was reinfected during this episode, but insisted on still appearing (and despite Sarah's many offers of rescheduling!) She is now back to full health, thankfully!

This episode is also infused with Reiki from Sarah. If you are interested and would like to accept the healing, simply state out loud that you welcome the healing energy. If not, never mind!

Links:
Dr Raven the Science Maven Website: https://thesciencemaven.com/
Dianna Cowern LiveStream (Physics Girl): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8HWt9g4L0k
The Science of Life with Dr Raven Baxter podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RHjAg8y7Jnr1Q7BadWCar
Dr Raven on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/raventhesciencemaven

Elevate app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUVa4jK-qho&ab_channel=TheLongCovidClinic%3AWhatYouCANDo

Disclaimer: please note that Sarah or any of the guests speaking on this podcast are not health professionals and this does not constitute medical advice. Always speak to your doctor before starting any new treatment or exercise programme.