About Brandy Gillmore

From debilitating pain and disability to a discovery that changed her life.

Brandy Gillmore is a best-selling author, award-winning podcast host, and mind-body healing expert whose work began with her own search for answers after an injury left her disabled and in excruciating pain.

Today, her work includes published research and mind-body healing demonstrations documented using medical thermal imaging.

Explore Brandy's Story

Award-Winning
Podcast Host

Heal Yourself.
Change Your Life.™

Published
Research

Mind-body healing
work published in Health

Documented Demonstrations

Changes captured using medical thermal imaging

Speaker &
Educator

TEDx, documentaries,
docuseries, interviews, and events

The Story Begins

In 2005, everything changed

After a car accident and a subsequent fall, Brandy found herself living with debilitating pain and physical limitations that completely changed her day-to-day life.

On her better days, she relied on a wheelchair, walker, or cane just to get around. On her worst days, the pain was so severe that she was confined to bed.

She went from doctor to doctor and specialist to specialist, searching for answers. She received multiple diagnoses and underwent a variety of treatments, procedures, injections, and therapies. When those didn't provide the results she desperately wanted, she explored alternative approaches too, from acupuncture and nutrition to supplements and other healing modalities.

But despite everything she tried, the pain remained.

Eventually, Brandy became fascinated by research showing that the mind could influence the physical body. The placebo effect especially caught her attention.

If the mind really had the ability to affect the body, could she somehow learn to use that ability intentionally?

That question gave her hope. So she committed herself to working with her mind. She meditated for hours. She visualized herself healed. She practiced affirmations and gratitude. She focused on feeling as though her body was already healthy.

She was doing everything she thought she was supposed to do.

And still, she wasn't healing.

Brandy's own thermal scan, taken during her illness.

Her pain was real, and measureable

During those years, Brandy's pain was not only something she felt. It could be measured. This is her own medical thermal scan from that time. The heat spread across her back and spine is the pain itself, made visible.

Brandy's own thermal scan, taken during her illness.

Then came a moment she would never forget

Her sister's wedding.

In July 2005, Brandy had the honor of being a bridesmaid in her sister's wedding. It should have been nothing but a joyful day. And in so many ways, it was.

But Brandy had also quietly set a goal for herself. She desperately wanted to be well enough to walk down the aisle alongside her sister. When the wedding day arrived, she still couldn't.

She was there in her wheelchair, smiling because she was genuinely happy for her sister, while privately carrying the disappointment of realizing that despite everything she had tried, she still had not been able to heal.

It became one of those moments that stayed with her. Not because it made her want to give up.

Brandy at her sister's wedding in 2005.

Getting Her Life Back

From struggling to get around to rebuilding her strength.

As her pain eased and her mobility returned, Brandy began doing things that had once felt completely out of reach. At first it was small. Standing a little longer. Walking a little farther. Then she was moving through her days without the wheelchair, the walker, or the cane she had once depended on.

Before long she was exercising again, and then back in the gym, slowly rebuilding the strength she had lost during the years she was disabled. Over time she was lifting weights, and eventually even training alongside bodybuilders, something that once would have seemed impossible for a woman who had struggled just to get across a room.

For her, it was never only about getting fit. It was about getting her life back.

The People Who Helped Her Through

A little piece of my journey that still touches my heart.

Through the hardest years of her life, Brandy was carried by people who believed in her long before the results arrived. These are a few of them, and she is grateful for them to this day.

Brandy with her longtime neighbor Rita.

Her neighbor

Rita, like her second mom

Brandy with her longtime neighbor Rita.

This video was recorded many years ago, but it still touches my heart every time I watch it. Rita was my neighbor and truly like a second mom to me. She saw me through some of the hardest years of my life, when I was struggling with so much pain and disability.

She had seen how much I was struggling, and like many people at the time, she couldn't imagine that I would ever fully recover. Then she watched my life change. I'm incredibly grateful for Rita, and for all of the people who loved me, helped me, encouraged me, and supported me along the way.

Her training partners

The friends who cheered her back to strength

Brandy with Rodger and Donna from the gym.

As Brandy began rebuilding her body, she found encouragement in an unexpected place, the friends she trained with at the gym. After years of barely being able to move, she was lifting weights alongside bodybuilders who cheered her on every step of the way.

She is still so grateful for them, and for how much lighter life felt with people like this beside her.

Brandy with Rodger and Donna from the gym.

Brandy with her physical therapist, Livnat Wilcox.

Her physical therapist

Livnat Wilcox, a Godsend

Brandy with her physical therapist, Livnat Wilcox.

When it seemed that everyone else had given up, Brandy's physical therapist, Livnat Wilcox, never did. Brandy describes her as a Godsend and the best physical therapist with the biggest heart.

Even when answers were hard to find, Livnat kept helping her think of new ideas and look for solutions. In this video, the two of them talk through some of those ideas together.

So what was she missing?

“If the mind really could influence the physical body, why wasn't everything I was doing working?”

Instead of concluding that the mind-body connection wasn't real, Brandy began questioning whether her understanding of how to work with the mind was incomplete. That distinction became important.

She began studying her own mind and emotional patterns differently. She started noticing connections and distinctions she had previously overlooked, and experimenting with what happened when she changed them. This wasn't one sudden realization. It became a process of observation, research, experimentation, and refinement.

Her pain started changing. Her body started changing. And little by little, Brandy began getting her life back.

What happened next?

Could what she discovered help someone else?

At first, Brandy's entire focus had been on healing herself. But her transformation didn't go unnoticed. The people who had watched her struggle for years could see the difference. Friends began asking questions. People wanted to know what she had done.

That opened an entirely new chapter. Brandy became increasingly curious about whether the distinctions she had discovered could help other people create changes too. She began working with others while continuing to study, observe, experiment, and refine what she had learned.

And as she began seeing changes with other people, another question emerged. Brandy knew how easy it was to be skeptical of something you couldn't see. She had once been skeptical herself. So stories alone weren't enough for her.

She wanted a way to visually document what was happening in the body.

That search eventually led her to medical thermal imaging.

She wanted more than stories

She wanted something people could see.

Brandy began using medical thermal imaging during mind-body healing demonstrations to observe physical changes occurring during the process. In this example, a participant had experienced back pain for more than a year. At the beginning of the demonstration, he reported his pain at 5 out of 10. Twenty eight minute and thirty one seconds later, he reported 0 pain.

Before

Pain 5 / 10 · 10:19:12

AFTER

Pain 0 / 10 · 10:47:43

Pain 5 / 10 → 0 / 10

Time between scans: 28 minutes, 31 seconds

For Brandy, this became an important part of her work, because it
gave people something they could actually see.

Explore The Research and Evidence

And her work didn't stop with her own healing

More people. More experiences.
More to explore.

As Brandy continued working with others, she had the opportunity to work with people from a variety of backgrounds and with different experiences. These sessions became an important part of her ongoing exploration of the mind-body connection, and helped shape the work she continues to share today.

“I highly recommend this work. It's centering, balancing, healing, and moreover, self-empowering.”

Sharon Stone

Actor, Producer, and Artist

“This is empowering and has the ability to
transform the way the world sees health and healing.”

“This is empowering and has the ability to transform the way the world sees health and healing.”

Jack Canfield

Co-author of the Chicken Soup for the
Soul® series and The Success Principles™

“Her extraordinary gifts can see to the source of any problem and illuminate the path to recovery.

Brandy is truly one of a kind! Her fierce commitment to the truth and her ability to live a life of freedom are both inspiring and admirable. I just love this girl!”

Lisa Garr

Host of The Aware Show and
Author of Becoming Aware

“Brandy can help me track my pain back to the thought that caused the pain within a matter of moments. It's been blowing my mind. Brandy has a superpower, unlike any other healer I've worked with, and I've been at this for a couple of decades. So if you have a chance to study with Brandy to better understand how your thoughts are manifesting in your body, I would say run, don't walk. She's absolutely freaking amazing.”

Sage Lavine

Author & CEO of Women Rocking Business

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From personal discovery to her life's work

She wanted to understand more.

After her recovery, Brandy wanted to understand her discoveries more fully, and explore how they could be applied in a clear, practical, and repeatable way.

Because there was no conventional certification for what she had discovered, she spent years pursuing education and certifications in areas related to her work, including health, nutrition, spiritual counseling, and natural medicine. At the same time, she continued working with people, studying the mind-body connection, and refining her understanding of the patterns and distinctions she had uncovered.

What began as one woman's determination to get her own life back gradually became something much bigger.

It became her life's work.

Her Work Today

From a personal discovery to work shared around the world.

Published Research

Mind-Body Healing Research

Brandy's work has been published in Health and includes results documented using medical thermal imaging and proven with results.

Award-Winning Podcast Host

Heal Yourself. Change Your Life.™

Through insights, conversations, and volunteer sessions, Brandy explores the mind-body connection and shares her work with people around the world.

Speaking & Media

TEDx, Documentaries & More

Shared through TEDx, documentaries, docuseries, interviews, conferences, wellness events, spiritual communities, and other stages and platforms.

Her Mission

What began as a search to heal herself became something much bigger.

Brandy knows what it feels like to desperately want answers. She knows what it feels like to try everything you can think of and still feel stuck. And she knows how extraordinary it feels when something finally begins to change.

Today, her mission is to help people better understand the power of the mind-body connection, and to share clear, logical, and practical tools that can help people create meaningful changes in their lives. She is especially passionate about helping bridge the gap between science and spirituality, making these conversations more grounded, understandable, and accessible.

What started as Brandy's own search for answers has become a mission to help others discover what may be possible when we learn to work with the mind in a different way.

Are you ready to discover what's possible for you?

If Brandy's journey has sparked something in you, the best way to understand her work is to experience it for yourself. In this free 90-minute mind-body healing training, Brandy shares key insights behind her work, what she discovered through her own journey, and some of the important distinctions that can make a difference when working with the mind-body connection.

You'll also have an opportunity to see her approach in action.

Watch The FREE Self-Healing Training