Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
Ton Mazzone, director of Traumality, joins me on The Trauma Therapist Podcast, Guest Host series. Ton created the independent documentary film "Traumality" about the role of trauma as a link to mental health diagnoses. It's a terrific film and this post contains our 20 minute podcast along with a 90 ...
Traumality producer and videographer Ton Mazzone filmed, funded and edited this powerful, inspiring, deeply trauma-informed documentary. It started because the health professionals he saw for help with anxiety, social anxiety and depression never mentioned the role of trauma. When he discovered that ...
I'm presenting a Master Class live next Tuesday, August 4th and I'd love for you to join me. It's online, and will be recorded. The Master Class is hosted by the Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH) and is called: The 10 Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs) Early ...
I recently had the impulse to use play as a way to invite more support for healing complex PTSD and attachment trauma that are getting stimulated as I take over my mother's financial and personal life because she is losing self-agency due to dementia. Painting is a big resource for me that I rarely ...
I recently followed the whisper of an impulse to take a 2 hour online painting class. I've been experiencing overwhelm and a lot of painful feelings as I support my 92 year-old mother who has been developing dementia, and I didn't feel like painting. But I know it can be fun for me. I didn't quite ...
I am in the midst of creating my first online course for the blog. The process has been kicking my butt for 2 months now and consuming all of the juice I normally put into blog posts. It's been an exciting, at times joyful experience. It has also been fascinating to be bumping into one trigger ...
The role of trauma and adverse life experiences is still frequently underestimated and considered to be controversial in many chronic illnesses, including Parkinson's disease (PD). This post presents 4 examples of traumatic events triggering the onset of Parkinson's disease, different from injuries ...
Some of you have told me how you wish you'd known you were at risk of developing the chronic illness you live with so that you might have had the opportunity to do something about it - whether to try to prevent it or get help to decrease the risk or delay onset. A new screening test is now ...
Among the most striking studies I've uncovered is a series of observations about trauma before the onset of Parkinson's disease (PD). I found these 25 years ago when I first began to explore whether adverse experiences might be a risk factor for chronic illness. A large number of case reports ...
