The chronic illness books listed here support recovery through stories and by highlighting the new science. The research is discovering that risk for diseases of all kinds is affected by adverse life experiences and other sources of threat and overwhelm. Because these change our body's natural ...
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Book Recommendation: Are You a WOMI?
Are you a WOMI (a woman with a mysterious illness)? Or a MOMI (a man with a mysterious illness)? A person of any orientation with an autoimmune disease? Or chronic fatigue syndrome (which research is beginning to suggest may also be an autoimmune illness)? Or who is not responding to treatment, or ...
How I Overcame Years of Severe Food Intolerances in 5 Days (+20 years healing complex PTSD)
On my return from time with my parents for my annual summer visit in the early 2000s I finally connected the dots to realize that my unquenchable thirst and dry mouth were not solely from living at 5000 feet in the arid climate near the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Eating desserts and vinegary ...
22 Encouraging Tips for Healing Chronic Illness from a Trauma Perspective
There's nothing quite as exhilarating as a home remodeling show that transforms a special space from drab or defective to contemporary, functional and gorgeous in 30 minutes. When you have a chronic illness it's natural to want a quick fix too. As the homeowner, however, you realize that ...
Healing Chronic Illness: 11 Tools for Addressing Nervous Systems Perceptions of Threat and Finding YOUR Pathway to Healing (2020 Covid Updates+)
11 Tools for Healing Chronic Illness Our bodies have an underlying drive to heal and be well. They also have an innate blue print for health, even when we are sick with a chronic disease. Healing chronic illness from a nervous system perspective supports this powerful mechanism that every body ...
Comfort, Chronic Illness and Covid-19 (How Comfort in the Little Things Helps and Heals) Covid – Post 2
Over the past 5 weeks since the lockdown here in Oregon and around the world - my biggest craving has been for comfort. The smell of the soap I brought that reminds me of home gives me comfort. "Old home" - it’s from the area where my grandmother lived and whose comfort was delivered in deep dish ...
9 Tips for Inviting Safety: Calming Fear in the Time of The Coronavirus (Covid-19 Post 1)
Over the past year I've followed a number of very subtle, thin-as-air, "whiffy," seemingly over-the-top, yet very clear impulses. Some have come during trauma therapy sessions and some as part of listening to my body in my ongoing process of working with my chronic illness and gradual ...
Transforming Chronic Illness: 20 Metaphors and Tips From Gardening With Your Soul
Right now, with all the painful, difficult stuff streaming into all of my newsfeeds and throughout so many of my social media channels, I need something gentle, compassionate and positive to read. Something that gives me hope and reminds me of all the good in people and in the world. Something that ...
18 Stealthy Ways to Act Out & Heal Fight, Flight, Freeze and Disease
Getting stuck in states of fight, flight, freeze or faint can lead to physiological changes that drive disease. Regaining the ability to come out of survival states is one way that helps us resolve chronic illness. We can experience stuck states of F/F/F/F as high or low blood pressure, high or ...