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.
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Chapters:
- (00:00) - Morning Excitement Check
- (00:25) - Yoga Team Gratitude
- (01:18) - Long COVID Journey
- (02:46) - Trauma And Body Trust
- (05:38) - Brain Retraining Turning Point
- (06:18) - NYT Visual Op Ed
- (08:41) - Feeling Fully Recovered
- (15:02) - Reintegration After Recovery
- (17:11) - Returning To Creative Work
- (19:29) - Presence Priorities And Limits
- (23:21) - From Darkness To Acceptance
- (25:57) - Art Data And Experience
- (28:56) - Art Beyond Words
- (30:22) - Branding as Narrative
- (32:28) - Sketching to Think
- (33:25) - Designing Shared Languages
- (35:42) - Healing and Tracking
- (38:16) - Vulnerability and Sharing
- (39:27) - Dear Data Origins
- (43:36) - Learning Through Speaking
- (48:23) - Finding Your Style
- (52:31) - Obsessions as Projects
- (56:31) - Electro Swing Picks
- (57:40) - Where to Follow
- (58:03) - Closing Reflections
