Notes from ThriveNinety
You don’t need big changes to feel better — you need the right small ones, delivered with care. These weekly notes share simple tools, steady encouragement, and clear next steps you can take without overwhelming your system.
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How Your Nervous System and Immune System Talk to Each Other
Explore recent research on how the nervous and immune systems communicate - and what this means for recovery, resilience, and high-performance.
A new 2025 review in Nature Reviews Immunology offers one of the clearest explanations yet of how the nervous system and immune system communicate — n...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennen —
Oct 04, 2026
resilience
symptom management
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Keeping Up at Disney: What We Learned About Recovery
A practical reminder that supporting your body and brain can help build the capacity to do more of what you want to do.
What does a family vacation to Disney World have to do with resilience? More than you might think. This summer, 15 of us spent eight days park-hopping through 100-degree hea...
by Katie Brennan —
Sep 20, 2026
symptom management
What Can an Ultramarathon Teach Us About Living With Chronic Illness?
Join us September 15 for a live conversation with Matt Fitzgerald about endurance, Long COVID, adapting to changed capacity, and what he learned along the way.
Last week, we shared Matt Fitzgerald's story as part of a bigger conversation about recovery, resilience, and reconnecting with the par...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Sep 13, 2026
symptom management
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Finding Clarity in a World of Options
Why following a structure with essential elements enables more progress than trying multiple different options.
Whether you're trying to manage Long COVID symptoms, improve your health, or build resilience, there is no shortage of advice.
New articles, videos, podcasts, supplements, recovery th...
by Andrea henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Aug 09, 2026
resilience
symptom management
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What New Research Reveals About the Gut, for Long COVID Recovery and Resilience
And why it is relevant not only for people with symptoms
A recent preprint from researchers, supported by the PolyBio Research Foundation, adds to growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 may persist in the gut tissue of some people living with Long COVID*. By analyzing intestinal biopsies, research...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Aug 02, 2026
symptom management
What Happens After Long COVID Is Identified?
Finding a path forward with Long COVID can feel uncertain. Here's why – and where to start.
For many people, reaching a point where their symptoms are recognized as fitting the pattern of Long COVID brings relief. After months or even years of searching for answers, there is validation that wha...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jul 26, 2026
symptom management
When the Numbers Don't Tell the Whole Story
New research highlights the challenge of measuring a condition that affects people in very different ways.
For years, many people living with Long COVID have found themselves in a difficult position.
They know something has changed. Their energy is different. Their ability levels are different....
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jul 19, 2026
symptom management
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Why Recovery Can Look So Different
Understanding the conditions that help the body to become more resilient over time.
If you've been living with Long COVID or another post-infection condition for any length of time, you've likely asked yourself a difficult question:
"Why am I doing so much and still struggling?"
Many people work ...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jul 12, 2026
symptom management
thriveninety support
Connection that Supports Recovery and Resilience
Why the right people – in the right amounts – help your body feel safer and steadier.
Long COVID and other post-infection conditions can make connection more difficult. Limited energy levels, fluctuating symptoms, and concerns that activity may lead to setbacks often lead people to spend more ti...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jul 07, 2026
resilience
symptom management
Why We Often Stay With What Isn’t Helping
The nervous system often prioritizes certainty before improvement – and that shapes more of our choices than we realize.
There may be moments when you recognize that the way you’re getting through your day isn’t really helping anymore. And yet, you stay with it.
Not because you want to. Not bec...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jun 28, 2026
resilience
symptom management
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Research Spotlight: Long COVID: Why There Probably Isn't Just One Answer
New research highlights the complexity of Long COVID and why recovery often requires looking at the whole picture.
When people ask why Long COVID can be so difficult to understand, a new review published in Communications Medicine, by Mark Faghy and co-authors, offers part of the answer: Long COV...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jun 21, 2026
research
symptom management
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The Hidden Systems Behind Energy and Performance
Why the way your systems function shapes what you can handle, build, and enjoy in life.
There’s a sentence that became famous during the 1980 Olympics here in Lake Placid, NY, and is used in elite sport:
“You don’t have enough talent to win on talent alone.” (USA Men’s Hockey Coach Herb Brooks,...
by Andrea Henkel Burke, Katie Brennan —
Jun 14, 2026
resilience
symptom management
thriveninety support
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