Mandy Mercuri: An Introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Somatic Tracking
Guest blog by Mandy Mercuri Mindfulness & Pain Recovery Coach & My Health Story Advisory Member If you’re living with ongoing musculoskeletal pain, it’s completely understandable to feel frustrated, confused, or even hopeless at times. Many of us spend years being told to “manage” pain rather than understanding the root cause of why it’s happening or how to help it change. The good news? Pain can change. And today, I’d love to introduce you to two approaches that have helped me and many others: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Somatic Tracking. […]
Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025, a huge success
Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals aim to create spaces where everyone feels welcome — no matter age, background, or experience. Whether it’s through expert talks, hands-on workshops, cooking demos, fitness sessions, or creative activities, the events are designed to make health approachable and engaging – and the Geelong Health Festival did exactly that. Whether you wanted to learn about fertility, fitness, chronic pain, physiotherapy or find helpful products to help you manage your health condition, it was all available to you in one location. My Health Story was very excited to meet up with Banksia Medical, Be Puri, CIDLA, Diabetes Vic, [...]
Geelong Advertiser: Pain Turns into Runway Success Story
Misdiagnosed for more than four years after a 2007 accident, Soula and Theo Mantalvanos have fought on to develop a patient-driven health record system that is now an award winner, Cam Ward writes. The ingenuity that saw Soula and Theo Mantalvanos begin a new career after a devastating accident may soon be helping others facing a similar burden. The couple have run the Queenscliff Gallery for a decade, having been forced to give up their Melbourne graphic design business when Soula, an artist in her own right, was injured in 2007 after a fit ball she was sitting on collapsed and dropped her onto a [...]
Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025
Join My Health Story at Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025 Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals idea began with a simple belief: when people come together to share knowledge and talk openly about wellbeing, communities grow stronger. What began as a small local event has blossomed into a vibrant celebration of health, bringing together families, health professionals, and community leaders from all walks of life. Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals exit to create spaces where everyone feels welcome — no matter age, background, or experience. Whether it’s through expert talks, hands-on workshops, cooking demos, fitness sessions, or creative activities, the [...]
Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht
My Health Story (MHS) friend, Evelyn Hecht (and a great comrade of the pelvic pain world), who created PelvicSense has an invitation for MHS followers. If you are experiencing persistent pelvic pain, urgency, or burning symptoms and need help learning more about these issues and how to manage them (yes, you can!), then here’s a must-attend event for you. MHS Founder, Soula Mantalvanos, understands that these events can be difficult. ‘I’ve often sat and stared at the thing I know will help me, but for some reason, remain frozen and unable to reach out and do something about it. I get it!’ However, this is a [...]
My Health Story Wins Runway Incubator Cohort 16
It’s been an extraordinary 16 weeks participating in Runway’s incubator program. For My Health Story (MHS) founder Soula Mantalvanos and her partner, Theo, it was totally worth every minute of committing to learning, listening, studying, re-evaluating, reassessing, re-questioning, and enduring the moments of pain to reassure their vision for a global patient-driven health record. And reassurance they got, coming out as winners as judged by LaunchVic and Global Power Generation Australia of Runway’s Cohort 16. […]
