September 10, 2014

Last month, I presented a talk to the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) Annual convention entitled, "Scared Sick: Integrating Truama and Biography in the Treatment of People with Chronic Disease."

Scientific evidence is mounting that chronic fear experienced in infancy and early childhood lies at the root of chronic disease as well as contributing to emotional and behavioral pathologies.  Disease states may originate from the early conditioning of our minds and hearts due to our natural efforts to survive the story of what happened to us as the body-mind bears the burden. 

We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories - whatever stories we tell.  As the saying goes, "if you don't know your history you are doomed to repeat it."

Our fight-flight system, overworked in childhood, later becomes the root cause of chronic disease. 

All the latest findings on the impact of childhood trauma, mindfulness, neuroplasticity and epigenetics are increasingly pointing to the clinical importance for integrating our biography with our biology and treating the cell and the self which has become the primary focus of my doctoring, teaching and mentoring. 

I wanted to share some resources on this critically important topic. Every practitioner, and every person on their own healing journey, should pay attention to what we are learning about this aspect of healing.

Here is one of two articles I have published on this topic for the Naturopathic Doctors News and Review (NDNR):