Dr. Will Cole

So we prescribe, if you will, things like meditation, breathwork, somatic practices.

Not that we have to do all the things, but we have to pick a consistent practice.

Like the panel that was before us, journaling is a massive way to metabolize stored trauma in the body.

What does it feel like to be me today?

And show up and do Nicole Sacks' work is a great way to start to

get that mental emotional spiritual things that are stored in the body like the body keeps the store eloquently talks about and be consistent with it but then i like wearables i like devices like the transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation devices that go on the ear on the neck because it's not another thing to do per se it's just you wear it and it stimulates the vagus nerve that i find it makes the meditation

or the breathwork or the somatic practice a lot more effective because the people that say meditation is not for me are typically the people that need to do it the most.

But they're so dysregulated that it's very uncomfortable.

So doing some device that's stimulating the vagus nerve helps to create enough of a window to allow the breathwork or the meditation to even be consistent.

Thanks, guys.

I didn't expect to clap.

We have to.

I mean, I have every telehealth patient fill out an ACE score, which is I think that's what we were talking about.

Adverse childhood experiences.

And it's talking about really heavy things like sexual trauma growing up, physical abuse growing up.

substance abuse in the home growing up, neglect, all these type of really heavy things.

But the research is clear that the higher somebody's ACE score, the more likely that I have things like autoimmune problems, metabolic problems, hormonal problems, and of course, mental health issues.

So it's not to...

you know, put, again, obsession or I'm screwed, there's no hope for me, I'm broken.

It's okay, no, we have to know what we're dealing with to do something about it.