My Story of Recovery & Soulful Healing

For decades, I lived with chronic illness — and then LongCovid. This is my story of soulful healing through the mindbody connection.

I’m Amari Love — a coach, writer, and filmmaker who recovered from decades of chronic illness, including what is now known as LongCovid.

For years I lived with unexplained symptoms, eventually receiving a long list of diagnoses, but it wasn’t until Covid triggered a complete collapse that I discovered the missing piece: how stress, stored emotion, and hidden survival patterns shape the mindbody system.

What followed was a deep and personal journey through somatic healing, emotional integration, and brain rewiring. It changed everything. Today, I support others walking this same path — especially those who, like me, developed long-term symptoms after a viral illness or life collapse.

Before becoming a health coach, I spent years as a filmmaker and acting teacher — work that gave me a unique insight into how emotions live in the mind and body. I saw firsthand how the nervous system holds on to fear, expression, and survival strategies. Years later, I realised those same patterns were affecting my health — and could be transformed.

For much of my life, I cycled through diagnoses — Chronic Back Pain, IBS, Depression, Anxiety, CFS/ME, Fibromyalgia, and even Cancer. Each label came with a new treatment, a new hope. But nothing lasted. My body always returned to illness. I felt trapped — until I began to understand the deeper role of stress, emotions, and the mind-body connection in chronic illness.

Along the way, repeated traumas intensified my symptoms. My grief was overwhelming, and my hope was often crushed. I wrestled with painful questions about the purpose of life. And then, after a viral collapse, I spent three years housebound with LongCovid — much of that time bedbound in a dark room. I tried everything: diets, treatments, supplements, mind-based protocols, functional medicine, acupuncture, energy healing, shamanism. But nothing held.

It wasn’t until I began working gently with brain rewiring and nervous system regulation that I started to feel real shifts. And even then, it took time. Only when I had enough internal stability could I begin the emotional integration work that truly changed everything.

When I was bedbound and my body was breaking down, I began to seek from the heart. I explored healing across traditions — studying neuroplasticity, somatic approaches, emotional healing, and spiritual wisdom. I undertook professional training in trauma recovery, somatic healing, mindbody practice and meditation. But it was only when I brought all these pieces together through lived experience that my real transformation began.

It was on this foundation of soulful healing that I began to experience physical relief and mind-shifts.  I discovered the role of the Mind, Body and Spirit in chronic systemic illness and began rewiring and reintegrating my whole system with a blend of cognitive, somatic and heart-based practices. 

Through my own healing journey, I came to understand something profound: true and lasting recovery isn’t just about one piece of the puzzle — it’s about bringing mind, body, and heart into full alignment.

I know now that this journey isn’t about forcing a transformation. It’s about creating the conditions where the mind-body system can restore itself. My work is about helping others do just that — through understanding, through deep emotional integration, through brain and nervous system rewiring, and through uncovering the inner wisdom that makes real recovery possible.

Over time, I began to get my life back: from bedbound to sitting up, then walking, then traveling, and then building my coaching business. As my neurological capacity opened up, I intentionally processed grief and began drawing protective boundaries, both of which ushered in more healing.

I began to build on my research, feeling blessed to be able to travel to study in-person under thought-leaders in healing and spiritual masters alike. I had always been deeply committed to education and growth, with honours and postgraduate degrees from my early life, and this felt joyous to be able to do. 

Today my focus is to honour and resource body, mind and soul by offering holistic mindbody practices for the nervous system, brain, and heart.

Healing isn’t just about reducing symptoms — although that is the  important first stage; it’s also about reclaiming life. Today, I get to live a life that once felt impossible. I split my time between Europe and the U.S.A, spending my time near the ocean, feeling deeply connected to nature and the simple joys of living. But what matters most is not where I am, but how I feel — peaceful, present, and whole. And that’s the kind of transformation I want to help you experience too.

I am so glad you’re here.

A message for you

If you’ve found your way to this page, you’re likely searching for answers — just as I once was. Healing is possible. It’s not instant, but it happens step by step with the right support. If you feel ready to take that first step, I invite you to explore my coaching offerings. You don’t have to walk this path alone.