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Resolve Chronic Illness by Acting Out and Healing Stuck States of Fight Flight Freeze Mead CITS

18 Stealthy Ways to Act Out & Heal Fight, Flight, Freeze and Disease

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 6, 2019 · 41 Comments

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 ...

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15 Steps Healing Chronic Illness Social Nervous System

15 Steps for Healing Through Impulse And Play (More Social Nervous System and Chronic Illness Tips)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · August 16, 2019 · 24 Comments

It's still summer time for just a little while longer and I've been talking and writing a lot about trauma. It's time to play and I want to introduce unexpectedly fun ways to support your social nervous system (also known as "The Vagus"). I've updated this 2016 post with new content and ...

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Shhh Do you Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling_7 Free, Easy tips to Heal social nervous system function that support pleasure to decrease hypervigilance and other effects of adversity and trauma to help Heal Chronic Illness #me/cfs #autoimmune #diabetes #MS #RA #RD #lupus #rheumatoid #IBD #fibromyalgia #chronicfatiguesyndrome #disease #asthma Veronique Mead Chronic Illness Trauma Studies

Shhhh… Listen! Do You Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling? (7 Tips for Healing Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 26, 2019 · 10 Comments

While treating trauma is an important tool for improving our health, following impulses for pleasure is an aspect of trauma therapy that can be used in everyday life. It is a way of working with an overactive nervous system. It's a way of listening so you can heal social nervous system functions and ...

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ACEs Fact Sheets to educate your doctor about Chronic Illness and Adverse Childhood Experiences

Chronic Illness ACE Fact Sheets To Educate Your Doctor (Free Downloads)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 9, 2018 · 15 Comments

The links between chronic illness and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) come from a set of studies that changed my life. The ACE studies are therefore near and dear to my heart and to my trauma-therapist-medical-doctor-and-gradually-recovering-from-chronic-illness-Self. The ACE studies ...

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Create a 1 Page Medical History That Will Empower You and Help Your Doctor Listen (Free Downloads)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 2, 2018 · 18 Comments

Even though I was once a family doctor, it wasn't until I developed a chronic illness and started having to make frequent office visits as a patient that I realized I needed an easy-to-read summary of my history to bring to new doctor appointments. This was partly because I didn't remember every ...

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Chronic Illness Making Time for Resources that Comfort, bring joy, include self compassion, nonjudgment #ME/CFS

Making Time for Chronic Illness Resources (Tips for Healing Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 12, 2018 · 10 Comments

The chronic illness resources in this post are about everyday little things that support healing the nervous system and patterns in our physiology that affect symptoms. Without much effort and without us ever quite realizing it. Making time for them is not a frivolous act but one of self love, ...

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Chronic Illness Recovery Trauma Therapies for healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #MS #IBD #depression #anxiety #PTSD #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma_CITS_Mead

Therapies for Chronic Illness: Healing Nervous System Responses to Stress & Trauma (Find a Therapist & List)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 29, 2017 · 61 Comments

These somatically based therapies for chronic illness are designed to work with the nervous system and are not about will power, "positive thinking," managing an illness, or healing through life style changes and behavior changes. Many of these things can help, but for many with chronic disease they ...

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6 Chronic Illness Holiday Tips_CITS_Mead

6 Chronic Illness Holiday Tips for More Ease, Joy and Connection at Christmas

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Thinking and writing about feeling loved for who I am is a really helpful and powerful reminder. A reminder that sometimes we don't have to go far or work hard to shift towards a mood that feels lighter and happier. These 6 holiday tips will make the season more fun, sprinkle your days with more ...

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Chronic illness christmas holiday tips_CITS_Mead #me/cfs #fibromyalgia #diabetes #IBD #RA #asthma

Chronic Illness Holiday Tips and Links Love

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 11, 2015 · 6 Comments

This is a random post just for fun because Christmas is coming and there are so many great links I want to share with you. Some that make me smile, others that make me cry in the best possible way and still more that soften my heart and help me feel connected as an antidote to all the pain that many ...

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