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Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses

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By Annie Hopper — 2014

Wired for healing sheds light on how trauma causes the brain to disorganize neural circuits and shares triumphant stories of recovery of people who have been liberated from chronic and mysterious illnesses through remapping the brain.

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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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Jane E. Brody
2007
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7 Tips for Making Peace with Chronic Pain and Illness

New ideas for living well, even if our health is less than ideal.

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Toni Bernhard J.D.
2018
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NeuroMovement Revolution Podcast: Healing Trauma and Building Resilience with Neural Re-Narrating

In this episode, Anat Baniel and Donna Jackson Nakazawa discuss: • the smallest cell in the brain—microglia—how it works and its function as an immune system; • groundbreaking discoveries about the brain and how microglia link mental and physical health; • how chronic stressors and trauma...

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2021
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa: "The Angel and the Assassin" in Conversation with Prof. Beth Stevens

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa about her course The Brain, Inflammation, and Recovery during COVID

https://www.eeglearn.com/bir Emerging research shows that how safe we feel in the world has a profound impact on our mental, physical, and immune health. When we at last emerge from the pandemic, we are poised for a mental health crisis of epic proportions.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2021
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Ann Romney: The Unexpected Treatment that Changed My MS

So much of life happens unexpectedly. For me, one unexpected turn started with a phone call from a friend of a friend who also had multiple sclerosis (MS).

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Ann Romney
2015
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15 Secrets of People Who Can’t Work Because of an Illness

If you have a chronic illness, you may know what it feels like to be a “full-time patient.

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Paige Wyant
2017
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10 Steps for Coping with a Chronic Condition

It pays to organize your approach to heart disease or any chronic medical problem.

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Harvard Health Publishing
2017
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9 Common Types of Guilt People with Chronic Illness Experience

If someone were to ask you what the hardest part of living with chronic illness is, they might expect you to respond with one of the physical symptoms you experience, or perhaps how this symptom affects your ability to do certain activities.

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Paige Wyant
2018
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The Benefits of Meditation When You’re Sick or in Pain

People are forever extolling the virtues of meditation, but who wants to focus on their breath or body when they’ve got a runny nose or aching bones? Even those who are sold on the mindfulness practice might be inclined to skip sessions when feeling under the weather.

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Ephrat Livni
2019
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