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How Trauma Gets Trapped in the Body with Dr. Aimie Apigian

Therapy in a Nutshell

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The Stress Response to Overwhelm

Grief and gut health are so connected, which means that if you're holding on to grief and haven't been able to move through that, there's absolutely no judgment because our bodies get stuck in that trauma response. And it shuts down with the grief, but then what happens is that we develop gut problems. We go from being able to hold up a rock to having the rock crush us. That sense that life is crusted us is when a person fills their body going into that traumaresponse. It's fascinating how much people have stored emotions and stored trauma and don't even realize it.

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