Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
If you have a chronic illness it's likely that someone has told you the cause has to do with your lifestyle choices involving diet, activity levels, smoking or the overuse of alcohol. There is a very different risk factor for insulin resistance and chronic illness that no one talks about despite the ...
If you have a chronic illness (or a chronic condition, a mental health condition or other symptoms), you may have wondered if experiences in your babyhood affected your risk, such as being born cesarean or not breastfeeding. Or if your mother being sick during her pregnancy with you, losing a parent ...
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 ...
Do you ever wonder if your chronic illness or other health condition was influenced by prenatal stress? Or from being born prematurely or by cesarean, or both? Or why, if you're a mother, you didn't feel that sense of connection to your baby that you'd dreamed of or that your friends experienced? I ...
