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BODY SONGS
A Journey of Healing the Body with the Mind
An insightful and deeply moving memoir about illness and recovery through a radical healing approach
In 2022, Emma Zimmerman contracted COVID-19. What she believed would be a mild case of the virus quickly morphed and took on daily, debilitating symptoms that she would soon learn were long COVID. Overnight, Emma became one of the millions of people with a chronic illness. She would suffer for months, seeking out specialists and experimental trials, buying supplements, and trying alternative medicine treatments suggested on patient forums, all with the hope of healing herself, to no effect. Until she discovered the neurocircuit approach.
About a year later, Emma would make a full recovery and return to her life, which she had once believed would be impossible, all thanks to the neurocircuit approacha treatment model predicated on the understanding that the brain can create and perpetuate symptoms in the body in the absence of any physical, structural damage to the body itself. Through conscious interventions like meditation, visualization, and management of fear and anxiety around symptoms, the brain can heal the body, and success stories like Emma's show just how effective the approach is.
BODY SONGS is an exploration of neurocircuit conditions and how our minds are the most powerful tools in healing our bodies. Emma uses the fascinating and powerful story of her own recovery as a starting point to dive into the science of neurocircuit conditions like long COVID and other chronic illnesses, showing how our understanding and treatment of chronic conditions could be changed for the better if we learn to think differently about how illnesses arise within the complex relationship between the mind, the brain, and the body.
Vividly written, deeply researched, and shot through with curiosity and nuance, BODY SONGS will shift how we think about our bodies, minds, and health. It is a moving, eye-opening, and hopeful testament to the power of our minds and what we are capable of when we set out to live a more conscious life.
Emma Zimmerman is a writer and freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in Outside, Runner's World, The Boston Globe, The Maine Monitor, Women's Running, Trail Runner, Taproot, and more. She covers topics ranging from sports and the outdoors to health, gender, sexuality, reproductive justice, and the environment. Emma holds a BA in political science and environmental studies from Grinnell College and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from NYU.
About a year later, Emma would make a full recovery and return to her life, which she had once believed would be impossible, all thanks to the neurocircuit approacha treatment model predicated on the understanding that the brain can create and perpetuate symptoms in the body in the absence of any physical, structural damage to the body itself. Through conscious interventions like meditation, visualization, and management of fear and anxiety around symptoms, the brain can heal the body, and success stories like Emma's show just how effective the approach is.
BODY SONGS is an exploration of neurocircuit conditions and how our minds are the most powerful tools in healing our bodies. Emma uses the fascinating and powerful story of her own recovery as a starting point to dive into the science of neurocircuit conditions like long COVID and other chronic illnesses, showing how our understanding and treatment of chronic conditions could be changed for the better if we learn to think differently about how illnesses arise within the complex relationship between the mind, the brain, and the body.
Vividly written, deeply researched, and shot through with curiosity and nuance, BODY SONGS will shift how we think about our bodies, minds, and health. It is a moving, eye-opening, and hopeful testament to the power of our minds and what we are capable of when we set out to live a more conscious life.
Emma Zimmerman is a writer and freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in Outside, Runner's World, The Boston Globe, The Maine Monitor, Women's Running, Trail Runner, Taproot, and more. She covers topics ranging from sports and the outdoors to health, gender, sexuality, reproductive justice, and the environment. Emma holds a BA in political science and environmental studies from Grinnell College and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from NYU.
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