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“Your Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, It’s So You!”

December 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

One of my favorite experiences so far this Christmas season was feeling loved for who I am. All because of my soft spot for (yet another) Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. Well, that and my latest thing

Our Wedding Anniversary Celebrations

June 19, 2015 4 Comments

A week ago David and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary in Rocky Mountain National Park, where we've gone each year since getting married there. The picture above was on the night before our

Ever wonder if stress triggered the onset of your chronic illness? Whether childhood events affected your health? Or how flare-ups can be influenced by the simplest of things?

I'm Veronique, a former family physician and assistant professor who retrained to learn more about the intelligence of the body. I have been researching the role of the nervous system and how it learns to perceive threat as an important and under-recognized contributor to chronic illnesses of all kinds. Not because chronic illness is psychosomatic or that being sick is our fault. But because life events shape our genes and biochemistry as well as how our nervous systems and physiologies function.

I present the science I never knew as an MD. I also write about my experiences with my own chronic illness and share tips for making sense of and working with your symptoms.

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A Chronic Illness Path