Veronique Mead, MD, MA, is formerly an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and practicing physician. She changed careers, retrained as a Somatic Trauma Therapist and shares the science she never learned in her medical training. The research she’s discovered explains how trauma is a risk factor for all kinds for chronic illnesses and why it’s not psychological as is still mistakenly believed. She is an author, speaker and blogger who integrates the research with what she’s learned from her own gradual recovery from a disabling chronic illness.