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Trauma Therapies

Avdeep's chronic fatigue story and Chrillog Mead CITS

Chrillog #3: Avdeep’s Chronic Fatigue Story (“I Feel Better Than I Have in 15 Years”)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · May 7, 2021 · 5 Comments

This is Avdeep's chronic fatigue story, a chronic illness also known as CFS, for chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis or "ME", ME/CFS, and CFIDS (chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome). I call her story a #Chrillog, which stands for “chronic illness weblogs,” in which we ...

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Chronic Illness and Trauma FAQ: Top Reader Questions About Treatment Healing and More Mead CITS #autoimmune #ME/CFS asthma #IBD #RA #PTSD #fibromyalgia #depression #anxiety #mentalillness #obesity #addictions #cure #treatment

Chronic Illness and Trauma FAQ

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · July 24, 2018 · 4 Comments

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, ...

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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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Chronic Illness Recovery Trauma Therapies for healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #MS #IBD #depression #anxiety #PTSD #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma_CITS_Mead

Therapies for Chronic Illness: Healing Nervous System Responses to Stress & Trauma (Find a Therapist & List)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 29, 2017 · 61 Comments

These somatically based therapies for chronic illness are designed to work with the nervous system and are not about will power, "positive thinking," managing an illness, or healing through life style changes and behavior changes. Many of these things can help, but for many with chronic disease they ...

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Kane is a sweet, gentle great dane with a trauma history who recovers in a session with Cesar Milan

Trauma Therapy for Chronic Illness: Video Example of Working With Fight, Flight, Freeze (Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan and “Kane”)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 23, 2015 · 6 Comments

A gentle, spacious, insightful example of how helpful and straightforward trauma therapy for chronic illness can be and feel. Providing an overview of the what is done and why, the importance of going at a person's pace, and how it's about following the intelligence of the body. Using an example of ...

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