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

Therapy in a Nutshell

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Ahmed: As I went through my medical training and even then started on my own process with therapy, it was still always this idea that trauma is in the brain. But as I was working with people...I started to realize like, no, like there's actually more to this. And I'm seeing that trauma is becoming their biology, which then becomes their symptoms, their health conditions and even their diagnoses. So what happened to me, I ignored my body long enough that it actually became significant enough that I couldn't get out of bed for a couple of months. Ahmed: What we're looking at is my body going into a trauma response on a daily basis right now in the present

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