Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself #424 How the Body Holds Fear, Pain and Overwhelm and How to Heal It with Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH
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Oct 22, 2025 Dr. Aimie Apigian, a double board-certified physician and expert in trauma biology, reveals how our bodies store stress and trauma beyond our minds. She shares her personal journey of healing from severe fatigue linked to unresolved trauma. The discussion includes the cell danger response and how it impacts our health. Dr. Apigian emphasizes creating a sense of safety to promote healing, illustrating practical ways to reconnect with our bodies. She suggests simple practices like microdosing safety to aid recovery from trauma.
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Adopting A Child Sparked The Journey
- Dr. Aimie adopted a four-year-old boy with severe early trauma while in medical school and expected time and love to heal him.
- She discovered attachment and later biology mattered as his body remained affected over years, prompting deeper research.
Crash Forced New Perspective
- In 2014 Dr. Aimie woke up unable to get out of bed despite prior high athleticism and performance drive.
- That collapse forced her to link her autoimmune diagnosis to unresolved trauma and change her healing approach.
Stress Grows; Trauma Breaks
- Stress helps us grow by challenging capacity, while trauma overwhelms and breaks structures that need repair.
- Trauma requires different responses than stress because the system has been pushed beyond adaptive limits.
