E215: Heal Your Unhealthy Past or Present Relationships to Heal MS!

so for decades conventional medicine has separated the mind from the body but science has caught up and it shows us that the body remembers everything these are things like chronic stress past childhood experiences which can be wounds and ongoing emotional trauma that doesn't just stay on our minds.

These traumas can get stuck in our bodies.

So when you experience trauma or live in a state of hypervigilance, your body gets flooded with inflammatory hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

So over time, this constant fire alarm response alters your immune system.

drives inflammation, and can act as a major catalyst for immune conditions like MS.

So I want to tell you about a foundational body of research that highlights this connection.

And this is the ACE study, the ACE study.

and it stands for adverse childhood experiences this test measures neglect abuse and household dysfunction experienced during childhood and this research constantly shows that a higher ace score directly correlates with a significant risk of autoimmune disease.

To give you an idea of what these experiences look like, here are five questions that are directly from the ACE questionnaire.

And by the way, these are just a few questions, but I want to give you just an idea and a foundation of what these questions are like.

Number one, emotional abuse.

Before the age of 18, did a parent or a parent figure in your household often swear at you, insult you, or put you down or act in a way that made you feel afraid of being physically hurt? Number two, physical neglect.

Did you often feel in your family that nobody loved you, thought you were important or special, or even looked out for one another? Number three, household mental illness.

Was a household member depressed, mentally ill, or did a household member attempt suicide? Number four, substance abuse.

Did you live with anyone who was an alcoholic or used street drugs? Number five, domestic violence.

Did you frequently witness your mother or stepmother being pushed, slapped, bitten, or threatened? If any of these resonate with you, please take a deep breath.

Having deep wounds from childhood is not a life sentence.

It's simply a map showing you where you might have been carrying an unfair load.

So recognizing that these unresolved childhood traumas is the first step in releasing these.

And you want to do this so that your nervous system within your physical body can redirect its energy towards repair and healing.

And trauma isn't always in the past.

Often adult relationships mirror or copy unresolved patterns of our youth trapping us in cycles of toxic stress.