
Recovery Wall
Welcome to our recovery wall - an inspiring sea of recoveree faces: people who have healed chronic neuroplastic symptoms of many types using neuroscience and
mind-body approaches.
If you have your own neuroplastic recovery story, are based in the UK and would like to add another brick to our wall to inspire others, we would love to hear from you. Reach out to hello@livingproof.org.uk.
Let's build this recovery wall together, brick by brick!


Dan
Hindsley
Back Pain & Sciatica
Dan recovered from chronic back pain & degenerative disc disease. He has written about his recovery in
this article and his new book.

Vanessa Wilhelm
Long Covid, CFS, POTS, MCAS
Vanessa recovered from
over fifty chronic symptoms
using a neuroplastic approach.
Learn all about her
remarkable recovery journey
in this interview on our blog.

Julie
Black
Long Covid
Julie used a mind-body
approach to recover from
long covid - and shared her
story on our blog.

Miriam Gauci Bongiovanni
Chronic Pain
Miriam recovered from
shoulder pain, sciatica,
piriformis syndrome &
neuropathic pains & shares
her story & healing insights
in this article, as well as in
her book, The Pain Secret.

Nora
Rodden
Chronic pain, digestive difficulties & insomnia
Nora used a mind-body
approach to recover from debilitating chronic
symptoms. She then built
the Nervana app to help
others on a similar healing
journey. Her inspiring
story is told here.

Eleanor
Kirby
Long Covid
Eleanor recovered
from long covid using
neuroplastic approaches, in particular brain retraining.
Her story is told on

Catherine
Chronic Pain/POTS/Long Covid
Catherine used a mind-body approach to heal multiple
chronic diagnoses. Her story
is told in interview
with SIRPA.

Gemma
McFall
Chronic Lower Back Pain
Gemma recovered from
debilitating chronic back
pain thought to be caused
by a prolapsed disc - and
returned to a full and active
life. Watch her story here.

Susie
Bonczyk
Migraines & more
Susie used mind-body
approaches to heal from
chronic migraines, psoriasis, generalised anxiety related to undiagnosed AuDHD,
neck pain, nausea &
general malaise. She shared
her story on our blog.

Sarah
Interstitial Cystitis
Sarah recovered from severe
and debilitating chronic bladder
pain and other forms of chronic pain. Her inspiring story is
shared on our blog

Dr Sarah
Gawthorpe
Long Covid
Dr Sarah recovered from
long covid using a neuroplastic / lifestyle-medicine approach
and shares her story here
on our blog.

Rachel Whitfield
Long Covid
Rachel has shared her
recovery story in various
interviews with Nicole Sachs
and Dan Buglio and on the

Tanja
Degitz
Fibromyalgia & more
Tanja recovered from
fibromyalgia, IC, IBS &
other chronic symptoms.
She shares her story
on our blog.

Anna
Holtzman
Migraine
Anna recovered from
chronic migraine using a neuroplastic approach and
shared her story on the

Lucy
Feighery
Fibromyalgia, CFS
& Long Covid
Lucy recovered from
Fibromyalgia, CFS &
Long Covid using a
neuroplastic approach.
She shares her inspiring
story in this interview.
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Eve
Ferguson
ME/CFS, Long Covid, POTs
Eve used mind-body
methods to recover from
numerous diagnoses. Her
and here, inspired Eve to create
Recovery Road - a free,
positive online community
for anyone affected by
chronic symptoms with a
focus on mind-body
healing approaches.

Isabel
Benatar
Back Pain & Sciatica
Isabel recovered from
debilitating back pain
using neuroplastic approaches.
Her recovery story is
told on her website -
and in this interview
with Living Proof.

Jackie
Baxter
Long Covid
Jackie healed long covid
using mind-body
approaches. She tells her
inspiring story
here on her podcast.

Steph
POTS & ME/CFS
Steph recovered from
severe and debilitating POTS, ME/CFS & head pain using neuroplastic approaches
including JournalSpeak.
She tells her story here
on our blog.

Sally
Tether
Chronic Migraines
Read Sally's moving and
inspiring story of recovery
from chronic debilitating
migraines (up to 18
a month) on our blog.

Matty
Psoriatic Arthitis

Lynne
Sutherland
Anxiety

Umisha
Bhatia
Chronic Pain
Umisha used the neuroplastic approach to recover from
chronic back pain - & to treat
the pain of endometriosis.
Her story is told here.

Karen
Ash
Migraine
Karen recovered from
chronic migraine, burnout
& other chronic symptoms
using a mind-body/neuroplastic approach. Find her story on the Migraine Oasis Podcast
& her interview with
Dr. David Clarke

Lorna Nicholson
POTS
Lorna recovered from
POTS using a neuroplastic
approach. She shared her remarkable story with
SIRPA here.

Narinder
Sheena
Migraine & Chronic Pain
Narinder recovered from
migraine and chronic pain
using a neuroplastic
approach. Her full story is
told in her book,
& in this podcast

Ilke
de Lange
Post-viral Fatigue
Ilke recovered from
debilitating post-viral
fatigue using a
mind-body approach.
You can read her
remarkable story on

Lara
Myofascial Pain Syndrome & other chronic symptoms

Ed
Giles
Chronic Shoulder Pain (Bursitis)
Ed discusses his recovery
journey in this interview
with Living Proof - and more information can be found
on his website.

Katie
Rothwell
Chronic Back Pain
Katie fully recovered from
chronic back pain and
degenerative disc disease
using a holistic, mind-body approach. Listen to her story

Lindsay Masvaleix
Chronic Lower Back Pain
Chronic debilitating lower
back pain shrunk Lindsay's
world. Eventually she
recovered using mind-body approaches - and tells
her story here.

Alison
Chronic Illness (many forms)
Alison recovered from PTSD
and 50+ chronic symptoms
using mindbody medicine.
She tells her remarkable
story to Raelan Agle here.













