As many of you may know, I'm a big fan of listening for your impulses in support of mending chronic illness. The kind of impulses that can seem insignificant, sneak up on you and brighten your day. The kind that add a little more ease to the journey. The kind that lightened the lethargy I was ...
Impulses and Resources
22 Encouraging Tips for Healing Chronic Illness from a Trauma Perspective
There's nothing quite as exhilarating as a home remodeling show that transforms a special space from drab or defective to contemporary, functional and gorgeous in 30 minutes. When you have a chronic illness it's natural to want a quick fix too. As the homeowner, however, you realize that ...
18 Stealthy Ways to Act Out & Heal Fight, Flight, Freeze and Disease
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 ...
15 Steps for Healing Through Impulse And Play (More Social Nervous System and Chronic Illness Tips)
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 ...
Treating Chronic Illness #9: Intuition, and Why I Left Medicine
Intuition has helped me learn to trust the wisdom of my body and, ultimately, to begin to better understand and trust myself. By following my intuition through the doubts and fears, hanging out with the lack of clarity when I often see only one step ahead of me, I have found ways of working with and ...