EBOOK
About
When a child's body won't stop hurting and no one can fully explain why, parents are left navigating a medical system that was never designed for them. When the Body Can't Forget: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Trauma and Chronic Pain gives families the language, the science, and the tools they have been searching for.
Drawing on current neuroscience and trauma research, Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg explains the deep biological connection between trauma and chronic pain conditions - including Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS, CRPS, fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, and mast cell activation syndrome. These conditions share a common mechanism: a nervous system that has learned to amplify pain, threat, and stress signals far beyond what the situation warrants. For many children and adolescents, that amplification is inseparable from trauma. Understanding how the two interact changes everything about how parents respond, advocate, and heal alongside their child.
Written for the parent who has sat in waiting rooms, argued with insurance companies, and watched their child suffer in ways no scan has captured, this book moves through the biology of what happened, the invisible weight chronic illness places on young people, and the evidence-based approaches that actually help - from nervous system regulation and trauma-informed therapy to movement, medical advocacy, and rebuilding identity beyond illness.
When the Body Can't Forget is at once a clinical resource and a deeply human companion for families navigating the intersection of trauma and pediatric chronic pain.
Drawing on current neuroscience and trauma research, Dr. Stacey Lynn Lederberg explains the deep biological connection between trauma and chronic pain conditions - including Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS, CRPS, fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, and mast cell activation syndrome. These conditions share a common mechanism: a nervous system that has learned to amplify pain, threat, and stress signals far beyond what the situation warrants. For many children and adolescents, that amplification is inseparable from trauma. Understanding how the two interact changes everything about how parents respond, advocate, and heal alongside their child.
Written for the parent who has sat in waiting rooms, argued with insurance companies, and watched their child suffer in ways no scan has captured, this book moves through the biology of what happened, the invisible weight chronic illness places on young people, and the evidence-based approaches that actually help - from nervous system regulation and trauma-informed therapy to movement, medical advocacy, and rebuilding identity beyond illness.
When the Body Can't Forget is at once a clinical resource and a deeply human companion for families navigating the intersection of trauma and pediatric chronic pain.