The Trauma and Insulin Resistance Surveys are here on one page to help you assess for less well known risk factors that have been well studied but are not often talked about.
These are the same surveys you’ll find on the Health and Life Events: HALE Surveys page but I wanted to give them a dedicated page for Diseases of Insulin Resistance (IR). You’ll find related links to IR at the bottom of this post.
Explore whether you’ve had experiences of prenatal stress and ACEs, both known risk factors for insulin resistance that you don’t hear about.
After completing a survey you will receive an email with your score and links to download your PDF Report for more context about each question and to see graphs of results.
***Add Your Health Conditions***
- Add your chronic Illnesses, mental health and chronic physical conditions linke to insulin resistance and any other conditions that are not
- If you are in good health add this to the survey, it is helpful for this research
- Get your PDF Report
- Learn about Dose and Adversity
- Why Having a Chronic Condition is Not Your Fault
- See results graphs
ABEs Survey: Adverse Babyhood Experiences
- Events before your 3rd birthday
- Your Mother ABEs – events in pregnancy, labor, birth and more
- Your Baby ABEs – born cesarean? incubator care? sick?
- Your Father ABEs – adverse events for your biological father
- Indicators of Prenatal Stress
- Indicators of Adversity & Bonding Disruptions
- Get your ABE Scores and PDF Report for context about your ABEs
- Birth weight
- See results graphs
- Learn more in this blog post on Prenatal Stress and Insulin Resistance (and examples of healing and possibilities for prevention)
ACEs and Multigenerational ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences & Parent ACEs
- Get your ACE score out of 10
- Get your Parent ACE scores for Multigenerational Influences (or skip this part)
- Get your Report in PDF for more context about ACEs
- See the results in Graphs
This Multigenerational ACE Survey uses the original 10 item adverse childhood experiences survey and will give you your ACE score.
ACEs+ Adverse Childhood Experiences Plus
- Look at new Adverse Childhood Experiences missing in the original 10 ACEs
- Get your PDF report
- After submitting your responses view all responses in the Views & Graphs
ACREs – Adverse Childhood Relationship Experiences (Developmental Trauma)
- Developmental trauma from experiences with caregivers in childhood
- Experiences such as emotional abuse or neglect
- One of the most important contributors to chronic illness risk including insulin resistance
- I refer to these as “Invisible ACEs” because they are easy to overlook and their effects greatly underestimated
APOEs – Adverse Pre-Onset Experiences
This adverse pre-onset experiences survey explores the role of adverse events in the period before the onset of chronic health conditions, which may affect risk as well as the timing of onset.
The survey asks about events such as injury, infections, loss, vaccines, hospitalizations and more. The survey aims to help better understand if, how and when such adverse events may have contributed to the onset.
The APOE survey includes a score for the number of different triggers you may have experienced before onset. A confirmation email provides information, links and resources along with a copy of your responses to the survey.
What is Helping on Your Healing Journey?
- What is helping on your chronic illness and conditions journey?
- Is there anything you wish you’d known?
- Sharing what helps so that others can learn too
Insulin Resistance Surveys: Why Does it Matter?
Insulin resistance, like other diseases, appears to be influenced by nervous system perceptions of threat following exposures to environmental stressors such as infections, chemicals, as well as physical and psychological trauma.
Research in epigenetics, brain development, embryology, the cell danger response, brain plasticity and more support a new paradigm that suggests symptoms of chronic diseases, including insulin resistance, may be more reversible than we have realized. This does not mean that symptoms are in our heads. It’s because life experiences become embedded in our bodies and affect how our genes function. This process, which occurs through epigenetics, has at least some degree of reversibility.
What You Can Do
The following posts offer tools that support healing from this new perspective of disease.
Therapies / Find a Trauma Therapist
Tips in Blog Posts for Working with Symptoms
Posts Related to Insulin Resistance,
Related blog posts on insulin resistance include:
- Introduction to insulin resistance as a body caught in what looks like states of hibernation in bears (and why it offers hope for healing)
- Prenatal Stress and Insulin Resistance: The risk factor no one talks about (more hope and tools for healing and potential for prevention)
- Trauma and Type 2 Diabetes: 8 categories of risk factors that offer hope and the potential for healing and making sense of symptoms
16 Clues About Trauma, Triggers & Flares in Chronic Illness
The Cell Danger Response: The New Disease Paradigm (Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, ME/CFS and Beyond)
My story of how understanding trauma and nervous system perspectives has been helping me on my journey with chronic fatigue may provide useful context or support.
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