About the Event
Join us for a short reading and conversation with Emma Zimmerman, writer, journalist, and author, as she discusses her upcoming book Body Songs: A Memoir of Long Covid, Chronic Illness, and Unconventional Recovery. Zimmerman will discuss her personal journey with illness and recovery from Long Covid, as well as research on the brain’s role in chronic illness, the legacy of hysteria, and the mind-body connection. In this conversation, Zimmerman will explore how retraining the brain and nervous system rather than treating symptoms in isolation shaped her own unconventional path to recovery and is reshaping how patients and researchers think about chronic illness.