Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
You know how it is - you want to transplant the volunteer daisy that you very much want to keep but that is wayyyy too tall for the spot it chose. You want to move your sickly, slow growing, never-quite-doing-enough Guernsey Cream clematis from the prime spot it occupies 2 feet from where you always ...
I gave my first talk on ABEs at APPPAH - my first conference and my first talk in 15 years. This was an international conference in Denver with the Association for Prenatal Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH 2019). As as post on my chronic illness trauma blog I'll tell you a little about my ...
Links between ABEs and chronic illness are more important than most of us - including health professionals - recognize. Adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs) refer to trauma in a mother's life and to stressful experiences before and after conception. ABEs also include stressful and traumatic events ...
Many of us with chronic illness wish our doctors "got it" about trauma, believed us, took our symptoms seriously, and knew that it's not in our heads. Many of us have some sense that a difficult experience or series of adversities - surgery, an accident, the loss of a loved one, an infection - ...
