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Overcoming Food Intolerances ACREs Mead CITS

ACREs II: How I Overcame Years of Severe Food Intolerances in 5 Days (+20 years healing complex PTSD)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 27, 2020 · 26 Comments

On my return from time with my parents for my annual summer visit in the early 2000s I finally connected the dots to realize that my unquenchable thirst and dry mouth were not solely from living at 5000 feet in the arid climate near the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Eating desserts and vinegary ...

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Healing Chronic Illness Trauma Nervous System Mead CITS

Healing Chronic Illness: 11 Tools for Addressing Nervous Systems Perceptions of Threat and Finding YOUR Pathway to Healing (with Covid Updates+)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 25, 2020 · 12 Comments

11 Tools for Healing Chronic Illness Our bodies have an underlying drive to heal and be well. They also have an innate blue print for health, even when we are sick with a chronic disease. Healing chronic illness from a nervous system perspective supports this powerful mechanism that every body ...

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20 Metaphors Transforming Chronic Illness by Gardening with My Soul CITS Mead

Transforming Chronic Illness: 20 Metaphors and Tips From Gardening With Your Soul

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 21, 2020 · 7 Comments

Right now, with all the painful, difficult stuff streaming into all of my newsfeeds and throughout so many of my social media channels, I need something gentle, compassionate and positive to read. Something that gives me hope and reminds me of all the good in people and in the world. Something that ...

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Resolve Chronic Illness by Acting Out and Healing Stuck States of Fight Flight Freeze Mead CITS

18 Stealthy Ways to Act Out & Heal Fight, Flight, Freeze and Disease

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 6, 2019 · 41 Comments

Getting stuck in states of fight, flight, freeze or faint can lead to physiological changes that drive disease. Regaining the ability to come out of survival states is one way that helps us resolve chronic illness. We can experience stuck states of F/F/F/F as high or low blood pressure, high or ...

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15 Steps Healing Chronic Illness Social Nervous System

15 Steps for Healing Through Impulse And Play (More Social Nervous System and Chronic Illness Tips)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · August 16, 2019 · 24 Comments

It's still summer time for just a little while longer and I've been talking and writing a lot about trauma. It's time to play and I want to introduce unexpectedly fun ways to support your social nervous system (also known as "The Vagus"). I've updated this 2016 post with new content and ...

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Shhh Do you Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling_7 Free, Easy tips to Heal social nervous system function that support pleasure to decrease hypervigilance and other effects of adversity and trauma to help Heal Chronic Illness #me/cfs #autoimmune #diabetes #MS #RA #RD #lupus #rheumatoid #IBD #fibromyalgia #chronicfatiguesyndrome #disease #asthma Veronique Mead Chronic Illness Trauma Studies

Shhhh… Listen! Do You Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling? (7 Tips for Healing Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 26, 2019 · 10 Comments

While treating trauma is an important tool for improving our health, following impulses for pleasure is an aspect of trauma therapy that can be used in everyday life. It is a way of working with an overactive nervous system. It's a way of listening so you can heal social nervous system functions and ...

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6 Chronic Illness Holiday Tips for More Ease, Joy and Connection at Christmas

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Thinking and writing about feeling loved for who I am is a really helpful and powerful reminder. A reminder that sometimes we don't have to go far or work hard to shift towards a mood that feels lighter and happier. These 6 holiday tips will make the season more fun, sprinkle your days with more ...

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Healing IBS: Art, Therapy and Unexpected Outcomes

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Last summer I focused some more on healing IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and long-standing severe constipation from a trauma perspective. This is an update to the process of following my impulses and using art as an approach to listening, which I first wrote about in October. I'll tell you about ...

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Listening to your inner voice is a way of working with chronic illness and symptoms such as ME/CFS and IBS

Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome And Subtle Trauma By Listening To Your Inner Voice

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 30, 2015 · 4 Comments

With no improvement in my longstanding symptoms of constipation despite daily walks, almost 2 years on the strictest version of the GAPS diet, stress reduction, mindfulness practices, and more I have started rooting into the role of trauma with greater focus and intention. I see my gut symptoms and ...

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