An Epidemic of Chronic Illness: How Stress, Trauma & Adversity Early in Life Impacts Our Capacity to Heal

for most of us who have these conditioned patterns of physiological dysregulation, doing the work to rebalance our nervous system is necessary before we can truly change our deep-rooted beliefs.

What are these patients trying to cope with? What are their internal or external resources? How do they calm themselves down? Do they have caring relationships with their bodies, and what do they do to cultivate a physical sense of power, vitality, and relaxation? Do they have dynamic interactions with other people? Who really knows them, loves the

If the healing process can’t run to completion, the person’s nervous system is never able to relax all the way back down to the ground state, and their body continues to hold some chronic tension.

Learning to live through states of high arousal (no matter what their source) allows us to maintain equilibrium and sanity.