Trauma Expert: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma | ft. Aimie Apigian HTS w/ DrG #411

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Trauma rewrites your nervous system at the cellular level, creating changes often mistaken for personality traits. When stress becomes inescapable, it triggers mitochondrial shutdown that affects energy production and explains sudden crashes.

In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian breaks down the four stage pathway of startle, stress, freeze, and shutdown, where the crucial 15 second startle window determines whether responses become adaptive or automatic trauma patterns. She shares her retraining protocol using controlled activation and proper nervous system nutrition to rewire neural pathways faster than traditional methods.

Her philosophy shifts from trauma focused excavation to life focused emergence, concentrating on living fully today rather than digging through past wounds. When your system has sufficient safety and resources, healing surfaces naturally through life's synchronicities.

Stop trying to fix what's broken and start building what's alive.

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About Our Guest:

Dr. Aimie Apigian is a double board-certified physician in Preventive Medicine & Addiction Medicine and creator of The Biology of Trauma methodology. She's a leading medical expert on cellular-level trauma storage who pivoted from surgery to develop a revolutionary approach to understanding how trauma becomes stored in our biology, not just psychology.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/draimie/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-aimie-apigian

• website: https://traumahealingaccelerated.com

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

8:04 - The Foster Care Story That Changed Everything

12:48 - "Mommy, I'm Going to Kill You Tomorrow"

32:47 - Witnessing Her Own Trauma Response in Real Time

36:43 - The Freeze Response: What Happens in Your Body

47:47 - Gazelle vs Lion: Evolution of Trauma Response

58:34 - The Dog Experiment: Why Mindset Work Isn't Enough

1:04:09 - Practical Exercise: Retrain Your Startle Response

1:14:22 - The Biology of Trauma Book Release