Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself #436 ENCORE: Digging Deeper to Heal Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, and Autoimmunity with Don Wood, PhD
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This week on the Less Stressed Life marks the final week of our encore series, where weâve been revisiting listener-favorite episodes from 2025.
In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Don Wood to explore how unresolved trauma can keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode and quietly drive symptoms like anxiety, autoimmune conditions, and chronic pain.
We discussed how past experiences can remain stored in the brain as âhigh-definitionâ memories, keeping stress chemistry turned on and contributing to inflammation, immune imbalance, and physical symptoms long after the original event has passed. Don also shared how reprocessing these patterns can help the body return to regulation, improve performance, and free up energy that had been tied up in chronic stress.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- How unresolved trauma keeps the nervous system stuck in survival mode
- The surprising link between stress, DNA, and inflammation
- Why depression is often unresolved anger (and what to do about it)
- How past emotional wounds show up as physical symptoms
- A simple test to know if youâve fully processed past trauma
- What happens when you release stored trauma
ABOUT GUEST:
Dr. Don Wood discovered the link between unresolved trauma and chronic health issues while searching for answers to his daughter's autoimmune condition. This led him to develop the TIPP program, a neuroscience-based approach that provides immediate and lasting relief. His work has helped trauma survivors, elite athletes, and executives, including a double-amputee marathon runner who broke a world record and the first athlete with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman. He is also the author of You Must Be Out of Your Mind and Emotional Concussions.
WHERE TO FIND:
Website: https://www.inspiredperformanceinstitute.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdonwood/
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