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Healing Complex PTSD and Chronic Illness

My Biggest Insight of the Summer (Healing Complex PTSD and Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 24, 2021 · 7 Comments

Spring in my garden is a riot of color. I caught the above pic of my poppies just past their peak after deciding to replace them and wanting to document the process. Because uprooting a cheery, bright colored perennial that makes me happy in order to take the chance that something else might do an ...

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Chronic Illness Healing Fact Sheet

Why it’s Important for People with Chronic Illness to Limit Stress and Set Boundaries (Free Healing Fact Sheet to Inform Friends, Family & Your Doctor)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · May 28, 2021 · 15 Comments

I made today's downloadable Healing Fact Sheet in response to a reader who asked if I could create a simple guide that she and others could give to friends, family, neighbors, landlords, lodgers, acquaintances and others. Someone had recently disbelieved her and put her down when she had set a ...

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Mending Chronic Illness: 17 (More) Antidotes from Gardening with Your Soul

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 15, 2021 · 6 Comments

As many of you may know, I'm a big fan of listening for your impulses in support of mending chronic illness. The kind of impulses that can seem insignificant, sneak up on you and brighten your day. The kind that add a little more ease to the journey. The kind that lightened the lethargy I was ...

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Chronic Illness Recovery Books for Healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma #MS_CITS_Mead

Chronic Illness Books for Healing Trauma (That Will Help Your Symptoms) + Free Resources List

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 29, 2021 · 14 Comments

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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Are you a womi? Lady's Handbook for her mysterious illness by Sarah Ramey, Book recommendation Mead CITS

Book Recommendation: Are You a WOMI?

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 4, 2020 · 2 Comments

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 ...

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Overcoming Food Intolerances ACREs Mead CITS

ACREs II: How I Overcame Years of Severe Food Intolerances in 5 Days (+20 years healing complex PTSD)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 27, 2020 · 26 Comments

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 ...

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22 Encouraging Tips for Healing Chronic Illness from a Trauma Perspective #autoimmune #T1D #asthma #me/cfs #lupus #ms #fibromyalgia #PTSD #traumaticstress #ACEs #ABEs_Mead_CITS

22 Encouraging Tips for Healing Chronic Illness from a Trauma Perspective

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 6, 2020 · 6 Comments

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 ...

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Healing Chronic Illness Trauma Nervous System Mead CITS

Healing Chronic Illness: 11 Tools for Addressing Nervous Systems Perceptions of Threat and Finding YOUR Pathway to Healing (with Covid Updates+)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 25, 2020 · 12 Comments

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 ...

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Chronic Illness Comfort and Covid-19 Mead CITS

Comfort, Chronic Illness and Covid-19 (How Comfort in the Little Things Helps and Heals) Covid – Post 2

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 23, 2020 · 24 Comments

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 ...

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