The Restorative Blog
Trauma Lives in the Body. That Doesn’t Mean Healing Trauma Cures Chronic Illness.
Trauma can affect the body, but that does not mean unresolved trauma causes every chronic illness or that healing trauma will make someone nondisabled. This post explores the relationship between trauma, the nervous system, chronic illness, and mind-body healing without turning healing into blame, pressure, or a promise of cure.
Working Through the Shame Culture Puts on Disabled and Neurodivergent Bodies
Shame around needing rest, accommodations, support, or different pacing does not come from nowhere. For many disabled and neurodivergent people, it is learned through years of being treated as difficult, lazy, inconvenient, or too much. This post explores where that shame comes from, how it can become embedded in the nervous system, and what it can look like to begin unlearning it.
