ACEs, Developmental Trauma, and Chronic Illness with Veronique Mead
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.6 • 141 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"Once we understand [how adverse childhood experiences impact our development]… it removes blame and shame and judgment because it's not something we've actually done." - Veronique Mead
Our host Sarah Buino is joined by somatic therapist Veronique Mead, a former practicing physician and assistant professor of family medicine.
For 20 years Veronique has been researching and integrating science with her personal journey of chronic fatigue syndrome, finding powerful evidence of the connection between childhood adversity and chronic illness. Veronique's findings align with the growing body of research about the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on our health.
As Veronique and Sarah explore the topic of developmental trauma and its impact on long-term health, they find much overlap between the way Veronique frames her understanding and the NARM model. Both perspectives are based in a non-pathologizing orientation and view symptoms as intelligent, survival responses to environmental failures.
Veronique and Sarah conclude the episode discussing the beauty in understanding and recognizing our own trauma and adversity experiences, and how they affect us personally.
Veronique closes with her own feelings of hope: "Once we understand [how adverse childhood experiences impact our development]…it removes blame and shame and judgment because it's not something we've actually done…If we can shift the perception of threat that's gotten caught...it then gives us all these tools to work with that may really contribute to a much higher, greater capacity for healing and improvement...Then there may be a whole lot more encouraging, hopeful, empowering things we can do."
About Veronique: Veronique Mead was an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and practicing physician when she decided to change careers and retrained as a Somatic Trauma Therapist. For the past 20 years she has been integrating the science with her personal journey of gradual recovery from disabling chronic fatigue syndrome into a new model for making sense of chronic illnesses of all kinds.The research explains how effects of trauma are not psychological as is still often mistakenly believed. She shares the science on her blog, Chronic Illness Trauma Studies.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. I'm your host, Sarah Buino, and I'm delighted to have you join us today. The NARM Training Institute is offering a level two NARM therapist training online so that you can attend from anywhere. |
| 0:23.6 | The trauma field is evolving so quickly. |
| 0:26.6 | Trauma-informed therapists who want to learn how to address the long-term impacts of adverse childhood experiences |
| 0:32.6 | and complex post-traumatic stress disorder want to be trained in NARM. |
| 0:36.6 | This online NARM therapist training is starting in April 2021 and July 2021, and they're filling up fast. |
| 0:43.3 | So if you're interested, we'd encourage you to register now to reserve your spot. |
| 0:48.3 | For more information and to register, please visit www.narmtraining.com slash level two online. We look forward to you joining our |
| 0:58.1 | growing international NARM community and are inspired to work with you to bring NARM to your |
| 1:02.7 | clients and communities in order to transform trauma. I think you'll enjoy listening to today's |
| 1:09.6 | guest just as much as I loved speaking with her. |
| 1:12.6 | Veronique Mead was an assistant professor of family medicine and a practicing physician |
| 1:17.6 | when she decided to change careers and retrain as a somatic trauma therapist. |
| 1:22.6 | For the past 20 years, she's been integrating science with her personal journey of gradual recovery from |
| 1:27.8 | disabling chronic fatigue syndrome. She applies that integration to a new model for making sense |
| 1:33.7 | of chronic illnesses of all kinds. The research explains how effects of trauma are not psychological, |
| 1:39.9 | as is still often mistakenly believed. She shares the science on her blog, www. |
| 1:45.0 | www.cronic illness trauma studies.com. So please enjoy my wonderful conversation with Veronique. |
| 1:52.0 | Marleneke, welcome to transforming trauma. Hello. Hello to you, Sarah. Thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:59.0 | Oh, great to be here. Yeah and no one can see this but I'm |
| 2:02.8 | quite enjoying the lovely are those like a lily pad drawing in the background? Yeah they're |
| 2:08.1 | watercolors I've played with. It's very beautiful it's very soothing for me to look at so thank you. |
| 2:13.4 | My pleasure. The little things right? It is the little things. |
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