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How Trauma Shapes Disease

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 · 8 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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Avaiya PTSD Complex PTSD Chronic Illness Mead CITS

9 Paradigm Shifts in Chronic Illness, PTSD and Complex PTSD That Will Set You Free (Video)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · May 22, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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 ...

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APPPAH Presentation on ABEs and Chronic Illness Mead CITS 2019

ABEs at APPPAH Conference 2019 – Prenatal and Perinatal Trauma Increases Risk for Disease (& Worldwide Efforts for Prevention and Healing)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 15, 2019 · 14 Comments

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 ...

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Introduction to 10 ABEs Categories Mead CITS

ABEs and Chronic Illness: Introduction to the 10 Adverse Babyhood Experiences That Increase Risk (Free eBook)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 26, 2019 · 6 Comments

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 ...

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Podcast on research showing how 7 types of trauma increase risk for Chronic Illness and why it's not in your head Examples from Serena Williams hospital trauma, soldiers, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen and #IBD, ME/CFS and more. Therapy Chat Laura Reagan and Veronique Mead, MA MA CITS

Podcast: A Family Doctor and Trauma Therapist on How Trauma Increases Risk for Disease (& Why It’s Not In Your Head)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 4, 2019 · 3 Comments

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 - ...

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