Holistic Trauma Healing with Lindsey Lockett

Episode 4: Toxic Wellness Culture: How It Invalidates Trauma & Keeps Us Stuck & Sick

Oct 21, 2020

This podcast explores toxic wellness culture and how it invalidates trauma and keeps us stuck. It discusses the cycle of illness perpetuated by toxic wellness culture and the negative impact it has on mental and physical health. The speakers emphasize the importance of healing trauma and breaking free from the obsession with symptoms and external fixes. They challenge the idea that symptoms should be fixed and advocate for a paradigm shift in how we think about health and wellness. The podcast also highlights the importance of embracing one's humanity and intuitively healing trauma for holistic well-being.

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Toxic wellness culture invalidates trauma and keeps trauma survivors stuck in cycles of trying physical remedies instead of addressing the underlying emotional and mental aspects of their trauma.

True healing comes from acknowledging and addressing trauma, rather than fixating on diets, supplements, and protocols.

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Toxic Wellness Culture: How it Invalidates Trauma

Toxic wellness culture is explored in this episode, highlighting how it perpetuates a cycle of illness and invalidates those with trauma. It sells the idea that the answer to every symptom lies in more food restrictions, finding the right practitioner, or the right supplements. However, many chronic health issues are actually connected to trauma and manifest physically. The culture keeps individuals on a carousel, constantly seeking the next miracle fix. It obsesses over diets, supplements, and protocols instead of addressing trauma. The key to healing lies in acknowledging trauma and understanding that it impacts our physical well-being.

Introduction

3min

Toxic Wellness Culture and the Cycle of Illness

22min

Breaking Free from Toxic Wellness Culture

3min

Breaking Free from Toxic Wellness Culture

10min

Breaking Free from Toxic Wellness Culture and Embracing a Holistic Trauma Healing Journey

2min

Finding Healing and Embracing Humanity in Toxic Wellness Culture

3min

You've tried numerous dietary restrictions, have spent thousands on supplements, and have hopped from one natural practitioner to the next... and you're still chronically ill. Sound familiar? Did you know it never actually ends? The health and wellness industry has convinced us that we're sick and in need of special diets, numerous natural practitioners, supplement protocols, and cleanses to "fix" ourselves. This is a wolf in sheep's clothing that I refer to as "toxic wellness culture". Not only does it keep us over-focused on physical health, it also keeps those of us with trauma stuck in trauma loops -- trying to heal the manifestations of emotional, mental, ancestral, and mental trauma solely with physical means. Toxic wellness culture also invalidates trauma and keeps trauma survivors on a constant carousel, going around and around, trying supplements and restrictive diets, seeing little, if any, improvements. Are you ready to get off the carousel?

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