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How Trauma Shapes Disease

Podcast Guy MacPherson The Trauma Therapist Project

Chronic Illness and Trauma Podcast with Guy MacPherson (The Trauma Therapist Project)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 21, 2022 · 4 Comments

Guy MacPherson invited me to his Trauma Therapist Project for a chronic illness and trauma podcast. We talk about the science and some of my own story of how this became my passion. It was a joy and Guy's inviting style holds depth of curiosity and wisdom, with questions that get right to the heart ...

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Healing ABEs Fact Sheets Tips Books Mead CITS

A Compilation for Healing ABEs (Fact Sheet, eCourses, Exercises, Journal Article and more)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 30, 2021 · 4 Comments

If you have a chronic illness (or a chronic condition, a mental health condition or other symptoms), you may have wondered if experiences in your babyhood affected your risk, such as being born cesarean or not breastfeeding. Or if your mother being sick during her pregnancy with you, losing a parent ...

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Live webinar Veronique Mead chronic illness and trauma CITS

Live Webinar: How Trauma Affects Risk for Chronic Illness (Tuesday April 27, 6pm PDT with live Q&A)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 23, 2021 · 2 Comments

If you've been living with a chronic condition, understanding the role of adversity can help make better sense of your symptoms, flare-ups and why it started when it did. This new lens explains why having a chronic illness is not your fault, not in your head, and not because of what you did or ...

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ACREs and My ME/CFS Story Shame Chronic Illness and Triggers Mead_CITS

ACREs III: Chronic Illness Flares, Triggers and Shame (My ME/CFS Story)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 5, 2021 · 26 Comments

I don't really "want" to write about shame and other difficult emotions because it means having to feel into these feelings. And as many of you know, shame, in particular, can feel annihilating. But the origins of shame are sneaky and we tend to think it's because something is wrong with US. The ...

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Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Trauma and Chronic Illness Mead CITS

Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Adversity (and Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 8, 2021 · 6 Comments

There are empowering, encouraging things about understanding the role of adversity and trauma as risk factors for chronic illness. Among the most important are that it provides opportunities. Opportunities for making sense of symptoms. Opportunities for removing blame. And opportunities for planting ...

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90 Speakers Veronique Mead Trauma Mind Body Super Conference 2020

Supporting Resilience and Healing: The Trauma Mind Body Super Conference (Summit)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 26, 2020 · 9 Comments

A Little Story Have you ever heard that the aloe vera plant can be helpful in reducing the pain of a burn or even healing it? Then rubbed it on a your scalded skin for a few minutes, had nothing helpful happen, and tossed the idea out with the plant and chocked it up to some old myth? That was ...

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6 Principles Healing Trauma Mead CITS

6 Principles for Healing Trauma and Chronic Illness (Short Videos from The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 12, 2020 · 2 Comments

Gentle, nurturing support in the form of 6 mindfulness meditations for healing trauma. Each video highlights a core principle that has become a foundation for how I've come to think about and work with my own health, disease, and healing. The videos are presented by Kekuni Minton, Ph.D., senior ...

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Healing Digestive Pain Online Summit Mead CITS

Trauma, Chronic Illness and The Marie Kondo Effect – Insights from the Science of Adversity (Free Summit Healing Digestive Pain)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 5, 2020 · 4 Comments

I never thought I'd be UNable to chow down on salads for almost 4 years. Or that I wouldn't be able to tolerate apples or peaches or other fruit for even longer. Eliminating desserts and bread and other carbs? Not so hard to imagine. But I could not, in a million years, have predicted that I'd ...

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Cell danger response podcast Jannine Krause Veronique Mead CITS

Podcast: Chronic Illness and How Cells Respond to Trauma & More (with Jannine Krause, ND, LAc on “The Health Fix”)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · May 29, 2020 · 2 Comments

When my stove died some years ago at the time I was still living in my 1970s house, I preempted further disturbances in my kitchen by also replacing the ancient, old style dishwasher and the refrigerator that regular made noises as though it was in the throes of death (ps - a wee heads up in case ...

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