What Is Trauma? The Mind-Mitochondria Connection with Dr. Keesha Ewers
Jan 13, 2024
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Dr. Keesha Ewers, a trauma-informed therapist, discusses the connection between trauma, emotions, and mitochondrial health. Topics include post-traumatic growth, problems with plant medicine, toxic mindsets, missing limbic system retraining, and the influence of past trauma on relationships.
Resolved trauma allows individuals to move beyond victimhood and develop resilience and a sense of empowerment.
Resolving trauma involves self-awareness, recognizing thought patterns, and mastering control over perception to create a healthier internal environment that supports mitochondrial function.
Willingness empowers individuals to confront their traumas, integrate new skills, and ultimately experience post-traumatic growth.
Deep dives
The Importance of Resolving Trauma
Resolve trauma is digesting trauma, where the story of trauma can be told without angst or tears. It involves recognizing how past events have shaped one's beliefs and behaviors, resulting in maladaptive responses. Resolving trauma requires self-confrontation, curiosity, and a desire to integrate new skills and perspectives. It is an ongoing process that may involve revisiting past experiences and embracing post-traumatic growth. Resolved trauma allows individuals to move beyond victimhood and develop resilience and a sense of empowerment.
The Connection Between Trauma and Mitochondrial Health
Mitochondrial health is influenced by trauma, stress, and psychological suffering. When trauma is unresolved, danger signals from the mind constantly activate the body's stress response, affecting mitochondrial function. Perception plays a significant role, as negative perceptions can trigger danger signals and hinder energy production. Resolving trauma involves self-awareness, recognizing thought patterns, and mastering control over perception. By healing emotional and psychological wounds, individuals can create a healthier internal environment that supports mitochondrial function.
Balancing Self-Reflection and Moving Forward
While it is important to confront and heal past trauma, getting stuck in endless self-reflection can lead to self-obsession and hinder personal growth. It is crucial to strike a balance between self-reflection and taking action in the present. Resolving trauma involves recognizing one's patterns of thought, identifying life-affirming and life-destructive thoughts, and actively working towards changing negative patterns. By mastering one's thoughts, individuals can create a healthier mental and emotional state and move forward with personal growth.
Willingness as the Key to Healing
The most significant factor in resolving trauma is willingness. It is essential for individuals to be open to the process of healing and personal growth. Willingness involves embracing the challenges and adversities that come with healing, rather than avoiding or denying them. It requires a shift in perspective, moving from being a victim to taking responsibility and recognizing the power to create change. Willingness empowers individuals to confront their traumas, integrate new skills, and ultimately experience post-traumatic growth.
The Limitations of Resolving Trauma for Others
While resolving trauma is a powerful and transformative process, it is important to recognize that not everyone may be ready or willing to engage in this work. It is not one's responsibility to force others to heal or awaken. Each individual must embark on their own journey and choose their own path towards healing. Resolving trauma requires personal commitment and self-discovery, and individuals should focus on their own progress rather than trying to change or heal others.
In this episode, I’m speaking with Dr. Keesha Ewers, a trauma-informed therapist who shares her deeply personal story that led to a life of self-transformation, education, and the mind-mitochondria connection.
In this podcast, Dr. Keesha and I discuss:
The life-changing differences between PTSD and post-traumatic growth…and how to skew your experiences toward growth versus stress
Current problems with plant medicine and the significant step this trend is missing
The toxic mistake you might be making (and passing on to your kids) that’s holding you back from healthy cognitive and emotional capabilities
The missing step of limbic system retraining that everyone’s missing!
The indisputable connection between your mind, emotions, and mitochondrial function…and a practical step to take you from muck to unstuck
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