Mast Cells and The Mind with Deborah Bircham from Live Well With Chronic Illness

Thank you to the fabulous Deborah for sharing this informative and helpful session with the MCAS community. If you missed the live session, catch up with the recorded version.

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Great informative talk, thank you 🤓
Chronic illness and similar topics are crucial to be better understood, from a holistic point of view. Your in depth, personal experiences as well as studies and training based knowledge is much needed. Especially in the cultures where medicine and health care is so Western(ised), simplified, as well as underfunded 🙏
Also, just to note:
"Psychosomatic" doesn't mean 'just imagining it'.
Instead," (of a physical illness or other condition) caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress."
A high percentage of our illnesses are of this origin,
because we are holistic beings. Our bodies, minds, emotions and psyche are intertwined, communicate and affect each other constantly. The function inseparably, as one entity.
Indeed the various illnesses can be wonderfully, increasingly accurately described by medicine and neuroscience regarding what is happening in our bodies on the physical level.
At the same time, the complexity and the back and forth of cause and effect is due to our complex functioning.
Trauma studies, epigenetics and other fields also have immense contribution to gradually understanding the hows and whys of our physical, mental and emotional landscape.
Best wishes for the mission of mindfulness and helping others to live integrated and content lives within the human experience of joys and struggles 🌱🌏