Let’s keep building your health story.

This site is part of our patient education programme. You may already have sat with us, and stood inside your own body in virtual reality.

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Where you are now

This is what comes after the session.

You have been shown what is happening inside you. This is where you can go back to it — as often as you like, at your own pace, and read about the things that shape it.

  1. Confusion
  2. Clarity
  3. Confidence
  4. Action
See the eight
What shapes it

Eight things shape your heart, and not one of them is a place.

Sleep, movement, stress, smoking, fats, sugar, blood pressure and weight. You can look at any of them from the inside, or read them here.

The eight

Everything that shapes it, in one place.

Each one is a short read and a short thing to try. Take whichever is yours — they are in no order.

In the room

This is what a session looks like.

You sit down and put the headset on. Someone is beside you the whole way, in your own language.

  • Someone wearing a virtual reality headset, hands raised in front of them, reflected in a mirror set into a wall of pale oak slats.
  • Someone in a headset reaching upward from an armchair, beside tall windows with plants and London rooftops behind.
  • Someone in a headset laughing, one arm stretched above them, with blue sky and rooftops through the window behind.
  • Someone in a headset laughing with both hands raised, in an armchair by a sunlit window.
Dr Edward Gonzalez, arms folded, at The Messina Clinic
Who is behind this

Dr Edward Gonzalez

General practitioner, The Messina Clinic

Edward is a general practitioner in London, and Inner Story Health is his idea. He sees patients at The Messina Clinic, which is where the sessions run. The thought behind it is a simple one: you should be able to see what is happening inside you.

The clinic

If you have not been in yet.

A twenty-minute session at The Messina Clinic in London. Warm room, no rush, no jargon, and someone beside you in your own language.

Where
The Messina Clinic, London
How long
About 20 minutes
Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese

Keep going, at your own pace.

Everything here stays open. Come back to it whenever you want, or send us a question first.