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Healing Complex PTSD and Chronic Illness

My Biggest Insight of the Summer (Healing Complex PTSD and Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 24, 2021 · 7 Comments

Spring in my garden is a riot of color. I caught the above pic of my poppies just past their peak after deciding to replace them and wanting to document the process. Because uprooting a cheery, bright colored perennial that makes me happy in order to take the chance that something else might do an ...

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Overcoming Food Intolerances ACREs Mead CITS

ACREs II: How I Overcame Years of Severe Food Intolerances in 5 Days (+20 years healing complex PTSD)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 27, 2020 · 26 Comments

On my return from time with my parents for my annual summer visit in the early 2000s I finally connected the dots to realize that my unquenchable thirst and dry mouth were not solely from living at 5000 feet in the arid climate near the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Eating desserts and vinegary ...

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22 Encouraging Tips for Healing Chronic Illness from a Trauma Perspective #autoimmune #T1D #asthma #me/cfs #lupus #ms #fibromyalgia #PTSD #traumaticstress #ACEs #ABEs_Mead_CITS

22 Encouraging Tips for Healing Chronic Illness from a Trauma Perspective

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 6, 2020 · 6 Comments

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 ...

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Inviting Safety Tips to Heal Trauma Increase Resilience by Working with Fear Trauma Complex PTSD Chronic Illness Covid19 Mead_CITS

9 Tips for Inviting Safety: Calming Fear in the Time of The Coronavirus (Covid-19 Post 1)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 27, 2020 · 8 Comments

Over the past year I've followed a number of very subtle, thin-as-air, "whiffy," seemingly over-the-top, yet very clear impulses. Some have come during trauma therapy sessions and some as part of listening to my body in my ongoing process of working with my chronic illness and gradual ...

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20 Metaphors Transforming Chronic Illness by Gardening with My Soul CITS Mead

Transforming Chronic Illness: 20 Metaphors and Tips From Gardening With Your Soul

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 21, 2020 · 7 Comments

Right now, with all the painful, difficult stuff streaming into all of my newsfeeds and throughout so many of my social media channels, I need something gentle, compassionate and positive to read. Something that gives me hope and reminds me of all the good in people and in the world. Something that ...

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Resolve Chronic Illness by Acting Out and Healing Stuck States of Fight Flight Freeze Mead CITS

18 Stealthy Ways to Act Out & Heal Fight, Flight, Freeze and Disease

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 6, 2019 · 41 Comments

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 ...

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15 Steps Healing Chronic Illness Social Nervous System

15 Steps for Healing Through Impulse And Play (More Social Nervous System and Chronic Illness Tips)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · August 16, 2019 · 24 Comments

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 ...

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Shhh Do you Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling_7 Free, Easy tips to Heal social nervous system function that support pleasure to decrease hypervigilance and other effects of adversity and trauma to help Heal Chronic Illness #me/cfs #autoimmune #diabetes #MS #RA #RD #lupus #rheumatoid #IBD #fibromyalgia #chronicfatiguesyndrome #disease #asthma Veronique Mead Chronic Illness Trauma Studies

Shhhh… Listen! Do You Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling? (7 Tips for Healing Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 26, 2019 · 10 Comments

While treating trauma is an important tool for improving our health, following impulses for pleasure is an aspect of trauma therapy that can be used in everyday life. It is a way of working with an overactive nervous system. It's a way of listening so you can heal social nervous system functions and ...

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16 Clues About Trauma,Triggers & Flares in Chronic Illness

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 1, 2019 · 17 Comments

Past trauma triggers flares in all kinds of chronic diseases as can infections, mold, and other exposures. This understanding builds on the cell danger response (CDR) and other science I share on this blog. It enables you to see how you can begin to change your health. Included below are 16 ...

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