Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
Traumality producer and videographer Ton Mazzone filmed, funded and edited this powerful, inspiring, deeply trauma-informed documentary. It started because the health professionals he saw for help with anxiety, social anxiety and depression never mentioned the role of trauma. When he discovered that ...
"Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound?" Trauma Care Practitioner Stacey Uhrig of the Flip Your Mindset Podcast invited me to talk about the underestimated role of trauma as an important contributing risk factor for chronic illness. We look at why medical treatment, which can save our lives and be ...
Trauma Care Practitioner Stacey Uhrig of the Flip Your Mindset Podcast shares her RA story (rheumatoid arthritis) with me on her own podcast in this chrillog. Chrillog is a term I created for "chronic illness web logs" where people share their stories of living with a chronic illness from a trauma ...
This was a moving podcast for me. One the Ven. Sucandra's questions took me to a vulnerable place I haven't shared in public before and I cried as I felt the grief of a caregiving experience I'm having this year (starts at 29:06 minutes). You can download the transcript for this podcast at the ...
When I learned of singer and activist Sinéad O'Connor's death last year I was struck by three things in particular: how young she was (she was only 56), that it was unexpected and she'd been found unresponsive in her private home, and that all that was known was that it did not appear suspicious. * ...
Missing ACEs represent adverse experiences not included in the 10-item Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). As many of you know, the ACE studies were first published in 1998 to assess effects of trauma before your 18th birthday. Missing ACEs highlight why it can be so challenging, time-consuming and ...
I recently analyzed the data from the 10-item ACE survey (adverse childhood experiences) on my blog. This blog summarizes the most striking finding about the 2 most common ACEs and additional surprises. The new ACE survey is now available in a format that asks you to register so it's possible to ...
Guy MacPherson invited me to his Trauma Therapist Project for a chronic illness and trauma podcast. We talk about the science and some of my own story of how this became my passion. It was a joy and Guy's inviting style holds depth of curiosity and wisdom, with questions that get right to the heart ...
This is Harper’s chronic fatigue syndrome story, also known as CFS, myalgic encephalomyelitis or "ME", ME/CFS, and CFIDS (chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome). I call her personal story a #Chrillog, which stands for “chronic illness weblogs,” in which we look at our journeys through a ...
