Food Allergy Anxiety & Chronic Illness | Dr. Amanda Whitehouse on Trauma-Informed Care & Not Feeding Fear

About this episode

Dr. Amanda Whitehouse joins Nina to explore food allergy anxiety, trauma, and the layered losses that chronic illness brings.

What does grief look like when it lives inside a body that can't always feel safe? Dr. Amanda Whitehouse joins Nina to explore food allergy anxiety, trauma, and the layered losses that chronic illness brings. Summary: Grief doesn't only come from death. Sometimes it comes from a diagnosis. From the life you imagined slipping away, from food becoming a source of fear, from watching your child struggle to breathe and feeling helpless. That is grief, too. In this episode, Nina Rodriguez welcomes...

People in this episode

Host: Nina Rodriguez

Guest: Dr. Amanda Whitehouse

Topics covered

• food allergy anxiety
• chronic illness
• trauma-informed care
• grief
• mental health

Keywords

• grief
• chronic illness
• food allergies
• trauma
• mental health
• anxiety
• loss

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