LaidOPEN Podcast Being (Sick ) Enough: Pain, Resilience and Healing the Self with Jessica Graham
Jan 28, 2025
In this insightful conversation, Jessica Graham, an author, actor, and trauma resolution guide, shares her journey through chronic illness and trauma. She discusses her latest book, the impact of adverse childhood experiences, and her struggle with neurodivergence. The dialogue explores coping mechanisms for pain, the balance between pharmaceuticals and meditation, and the importance of self-compassion. Jessica also leads a guided exercise to help listeners manage pain through mindfulness, emphasizing flexibility in healing and self-acceptance.
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Protect Energy With Structured Writing
- Work in focused intervals like 50 minutes on and 10 minutes off to protect energy and clarity while writing or doing deep work.
- Schedule writing on days without client work and create cozy, restful spaces to support heavy emotional labor.
ACE Scores Reframe Illness
- Learning about the ACE survey reframed Jessica's health struggles as trauma-informed rather than personal failure.
- That realization reduced shame and clarified how childhood adversity raises later illness risk.
Becoming A Teen Alcoholic To Connect
- Jessica describes becoming a teenage drinking buddy to her father to secure connection and belonging.
- She later wrote in a journal: "I can never be more important than alcohol to my dad."
