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AMEs (Adverse Multigenerational Experiences)

Chronic Illness Recovery Books for Healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma #MS_CITS_Mead

Chronic Illness Books for Healing Trauma (That Will Help Your Symptoms) + Free Resources List

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 29, 2021 · 14 Comments

The chronic illness books listed here support recovery through stories and by highlighting the new science. The research is discovering that risk for diseases of all kinds is affected by adverse life experiences and other sources of threat and overwhelm. Because these change our body's natural ...

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Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma 8 Categories of Adversity Mead CITS

Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma: 8 Categories of Adversity Increase Risk (+Tips, Fact Sheet and Why It’s Not Your Fault)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 21, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Get the Free Fact Sheet & Post The forms will appear momentarily Chapters Preface A New Model The New Model: Weight is Not the Cause There is a profound and deeply shaming stigma assigned to larger bodies or having type 2 diabetes (T2D) in our culture. T2D is ...

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Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Trauma and Chronic Illness Mead CITS

Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Adversity (and Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 8, 2021 · 6 Comments

There are empowering, encouraging things about understanding the role of adversity and trauma as risk factors for chronic illness. Among the most important are that it provides opportunities. Opportunities for making sense of symptoms. Opportunities for removing blame. And opportunities for planting ...

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Healing multigenerational trauma with Family Constellations to heal chronic illness_CITS_Mead_2019

My Adventures in Healing Multigenerational Trauma and Chronic Illness with Systemic Family Constellations

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · July 12, 2019 · 6 Comments

In the few months before writing this article, I had an exacerbation of symptoms which I came to recognize as a trauma response. It had slowed me down to a crawl and to the point where I couldn’t even write a blog post. Here, I describe how symptoms can stem from trauma in a family system and ...

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Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, Trauma and the Nervous System _ANS_parasympathetic_sympathetic_fight_flight_freeze_polyvagal_#autoimmune #chronicIllness #MS #ME/CFS #fibromyalgia #chronicfatigue #lupus #RA #RD #T1D #IBD CITS_Mead

Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, Trauma and The Nervous System: Keys to Quelling the Volcano

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 29, 2018 · 6 Comments

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 ...

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adverse multigenerational experiences (AMEs) may be risk factors for rheumatoid disease / arthritis and me/cfs

Adverse Multigenerational Experiences (AMEs), Rheumatoid Disease and ME/CFS

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 31, 2014 · 5 Comments

My paternal grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I discovered some secrets about his life when I looked into his story because there are links between multigenerational trauma and chronic illness. This is because trauma that occurs in our parents' or grandparents' lives or in their family's ...

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The Trauma and Chronic Illness Model: Summary of the Science: #stress before onset, #triggers, multigenerational trauma, trauma in childhood; insights for treating chronic disease

Trauma and Chronic Illness: 19 Characteristics that Can Make Sense of Symptoms (Summary of the Science)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 16, 2014 · 14 Comments

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 ...

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