How Trauma Impacts the Nervous System with Keesha Ewers, PhD, ARNP-C, IFM-C, AAP
What you'll learn from this expert talk:
- How adverse childhood experiences affect a person’s future health
- How trauma changes the brain’s architecture
- Is it possible to heal from these brain and hormone changes and live up to our highest physical, emotional and spiritual potential?
Keesha Ewers
Dr. Keesha Ewers is board certified in functional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine. She is a doctor of sexology, a trauma-informed psychotherapist, a family practice advanced registered nurse practitioner with a specialty in integrative medicine, a conscious dying doula and the founder and medical director of the Academy for Integrative Medicine Health Coach Certification Program.
Dr. Ewers has been in the medical field for over 30 years. After conducting the HURT Study in 2013 (Healing Un-Resolved Trauma), she developed the HURT Model for understanding how past childhood trauma impacts adult health. This led to the creation of the Healing Trauma Through the Chakra System online program and the You Unbroken online program for patients to heal their own trauma, and the Mystic Medicine deep immersion healing retreats she leads at her home on San Juan Island, WA.
Dr. Ewers is a popular speaker, including at Harvard and from the TEDx stage, and the bestselling author of Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle: The Woman’s Guide to Reclaiming Emotional Freedom and Vibrant Health, The Quick and Easy Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook: Anti-Inflammatory Recipes with 7 Ingredients or Less for Busy People and Your Libido Story: A Workbook for Women Who Want to Find, Fix, and Free Their Sexual Desire. You can listen to her Mystic Medicine Radio Show and find her programs at DrKeesha.com.
