Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
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 ...
Why chronic illness is not psychological even if you have a history of trauma Book 3 of The Chronic Illness and Trauma Connection series "Chronic Illness Is Not Psychological" introduces the new science about risk factors for chronic illness, explains why it's not in ...
This second ebook is for anyone struggling with symptoms that aren't resolving with standard, alternative or other approaches. Or that keep recurring even though you lead a healthy lifestyle and follow every recommendation for optimal health. This is for those of you with chronic ...
I made this video because so many of us living with a chronic illness have no evidence of trauma in our histories. If trauma is ever brought up, it can be used to blame people for being sick because it's still often thought to be psychological. But there are links between adverse multigenerational ...
Many people with chronic illness have a history of trauma and wonder if the two are linked. I created a video on this question because so many people with chronic illness develop symptoms soon after a traumatic event. Many wonder if trauma at other times in their lives could also affect risk. A ...
Have you ever wished for evidence that life events affect our health because they influence brain plasticity and gene function, rather than because it's psychological? The links between brain plasticity and chronic illness are real. Millions of neurons grow in our nervous systems and elsewhere in ...
This post introduces insights from links between adverse life events, epigenetics and chronic illness. It describes how this new science suggests that chronic physical diseases and other health conditions thought to be permanent may be instead be much more reversible than we've thought (("Metabolic ...
There are a lot of unanswered questions about chronic illness. Why do so many of us develop our diseases after periods of stress, for example? Why are we then unable to recover by addressing, removing or reducing the stress in our lives? Why do some people with type 1 diabetes, or chronic ...
