Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
This chronic illness and trauma FAQ addresses the most common questions I get asked. The answers explain where to find therapists to work with chronic illness from a cell danger response / nervous system / trauma perspective, where to learn more about the science, how to find my free ebooks, ...
Having had a chronic illness for 20 years, it has sometimes felt like I've had a volcano inside of me - out of my control, traumatic, and life-altering.But research explaining links between chronic illness, trauma and the nervous system has made sense of my illness. It has also helped me ...
The links between chronic illness and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) come from a set of studies that changed my life. The ACE studies are therefore near and dear to my heart and to my trauma-therapist-medical-doctor-and-gradually-recovering-from-chronic-illness-Self. The ACE studies ...
If you've heard of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and have a low score (such as 1 or "zero ACEs"), you may still suspect that trauma has somehow affected your health but feel like your doctors and the research are missing something important. Or you may have a high ACE score and feel that ...
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 ...
