Holistic Hub Podcast Episode 33 - Primal Trust with Dr. Cathleen King
Oct 24, 2025
Join Dr. Cathleen King, a physical therapist and founder of the Primal Trust Academy, as she unpacks the complexities of healing chronic illness through nervous system work. She highlights how traditional diagnoses can obscure real root causes and discusses complex conditions like Lyme and mold toxicity. Discover the profound connection between trauma and cellular protection, and learn practical steps for retraining your nervous system. Cathleen emphasizes the importance of gentle practices and offers free resources to support healing journeys.
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Survival Mode Is The Common Denominator
- Chronic illness often shares a single root: a system stuck in survival rather than separate isolated diagnoses.
- A persistent survival response prevents normal inflammatory resolution and perpetuates multiple symptoms.
Personal Recovery Sparked The Program
- Cathleen describes her own history with Lyme, mold toxicity, dysautonomia and many overlapping diagnoses that drove her to build Primal Trust.
- Her personal recovery motivated the program targeting immune, detox and endocrine systems via autonomic regulation.
Cell Danger Response Frames Chronic Illness
- The cell danger response explains why tissues stay in protection after an exposure and fail to return to homeostasis.
- Signaling safety (physiological and psychological) is required to move cells out of prolonged protection.
