Think Unbroken Podcast

In this episode, we have guest speaker Lindsay Mitchell, and we talk about rewiring the brain after chronic illness through neuroplasticity. I have my own experiences coming through chronic illness. I had asthma as a child had massive terrible debilitating migraines as a child; by the time that I was in my mid-20s, I developed sibo, I've had e coli, then I got diagnosed with PoTS postural tachycardia, the list goes on, I was from 26 to 30. I went over 45 doctors and spent probably well into the six figures on my medical expenses and needs. One of the things that happened that were fascinating in my journey was, coming across the research and literature around the ACE Survey and how adverse childhood experiences and development in the cortisol state which happens for a lot of people who come through trauma and that's whether it's trauma as a child or a trauma as an adult at all kind of leads down the same pathway where suddenly you're in your sympathetic nervous system the fight will use freeze or fawn respons