Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
Understanding the connections between trauma and ME/CFS (myalgic encephalitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) has helped me begin to heal and change the direction of my life in the best possible ways. I never realized that I'd experienced adversity until I left medical practice, retrained as a trauma ...
In today's installment of my journey with chronic fatigue I want to tell you what I've been learning about the art of listening. Because it turns out to be a much more complicated task than we realize. And because, in unexpected and potent ways, it's what has enabled me to find a pathway to healing. ...
There were a number of ripple effects following the onset of my chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and the accompanying symptoms of back pain and grief (see my CFS story 1). The first was that the discomfort of my symptoms quickly became stronger than my fear of following my heart. And so I started ...
When I explored ways of alleviating my initial symptoms of chronic fatigue, low back pain and grief 20 years ago (see post 1 in my Chronic Fatigue Story series) it lead me to a path I hadn't known existed. In looking back I can see how each new step was a testing of the waters as I looked for ...
My First Symptoms Of Physical Exhaustion The onset of my chronic fatigue was so gradual that I didn't realize what was happening. In the first few years that I experienced the symptoms of physical exhaustion that would later become diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), I went ...
