The Wellness Mama Podcast Healing Perception: Developing Primal Trust, Personal Responsibility and Healing with Dr. Cathleen King
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Jan 7, 2025 
Dr. Cathleen King, a physical therapist and trauma healing expert, shares insights on developing primal trust and personal responsibility in healing. She discusses how our perception affects the immune system and the importance of shifting mindsets for better health. King emphasizes the need to confront our inner narratives and cultivate awareness of our emotions. By examining chronic illnesses' roots in personal stories, she unveils how healing begins with understanding, acceptance, and redefining relationships with ourselves and our health.
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Perception Shapes Immune Reactivity
- Perception of the environment as dangerous drives an overreactive immune system and hypersensitivities.
- Retraining perception is key to calming immune reactivity and increasing tolerance.
Notice Stories, Then Boundary The Mind
- Cultivate awareness of when your mind is stuck in story and create a boundary around its meaning-making.
- Be with sensations and feelings without the story so the limbic system can downregulate and processing can occur.
Take Responsibility, Not Victimhood
- Choose radical personal responsibility and stop waiting for external saviors to fix you.
- Accept the reality of symptoms and attend to what the illness is signaling about disconnection or unmet needs.