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Transforming Trauma With Lifestyle Medicine.

James S Gordon¹, Tatiana Znayenko-Miller²

¹Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

|October 14, 2021

Summary

Trauma, or injury to mind and body, is universal, as demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence-based mind-body skills can reverse trauma

Area of Science:

Psychology
Neuroscience
Public Health

Background:

Trauma is often narrowly defined, but the COVID-19 pandemic revealed its universal impact.
Unaddressed trauma can lead to lasting physical and psychological effects.
Trauma's consequences may be heritable, passed through epigenetic modifications.

Purpose of the Study:

To highlight the universal nature of trauma.
To introduce mind-body skills as a method for trauma recovery.
To present the Center for Mind-Body Medicine's (CMBM) model for healing trauma.

Main Methods:

Reviewing the impact of widespread stress and anxiety.
Examining the potential for intergenerational trauma transmission.
Highlighting the efficacy of evidence-based mind-body interventions.

Keywords:

group support lifestyle medicine meditation mindfulness trauma

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