Trauma in Childhood & Health in Adulthood

Stress & Trauma's Residual Effects in the Body

We are pumped about NPR's new health series, "What Shapes Health?" This series explores social and environmental factors that affect health throughout life. 

Of particular interest: Starecheski's latest installment, Can Family Secrets Make You Sick?  Here we are taken on a journey with Dr. Vincent Felitti, who has discovered a troubling relationship between childhood trauma and abuse and mental & physical health complications in adulthood.

While we all know that association does not result in causation, what we do know at the Bodymind Institute-IBSR is this: stress and trauma in the body truly does affect one's mental and physical health. As aptly put by Megan Gunnar, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota, traumatic experiences cause a ripple effect in the mind and body, rewiring the stress response system to overreact and decreasing the client's ability to regulate behavior.

We have seen similar results with our own clients, as have our trained therapists. Trauma and stress compromises health in the mind and body. Childhood trauma, time and time again, manifests itself in illness, whether physical or mental, in adulthood. And Integration Based Stress Removal (IBSR) has, time and time again, successfully removed this stress and trauma from the body, allowing clients to live their lives free from the residual effects of all forms of trauma - childhood included.

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