6 Ways Trauma Rewires Your Nervous System and Alters Your Biology
Feb 26, 2024
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Discover how trauma rewires your nervous system and alters your biology, leading to chronic health challenges. Listen to Dr. Aimie's somatic healing techniques and stories of incredible transformations. Explore the impact of early attachment wounds on stress responses and learn how to rewire for better well-being. Dive into personal experiences of trauma healing and personal growth for empowerment and holistic healing.
Addressing trauma is essential to improving chronic health challenges like fatigue and pain.
Understanding the difference between stress and trauma can help in identifying physiological responses and symptoms.
Recognizing and working through core attachment pains can rewire beliefs and behaviors for overall well-being.
Deep dives
The Impact of Trauma on Health Conditions
Trauma experts reveal that trauma is the root cause of various health challenges such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. This connection highlights the importance of addressing trauma to improve health and well-being. By understanding how trauma affects the nervous system and biology, individuals can make significant shifts in their health and overall quality of life.
The Distinction Between Stress and Trauma
Exploring the difference between stress and trauma reveals distinct physiological responses in the body. Stress involves the body's readiness to take action against a perceived threat, while trauma response leads to a shutdown mode to conserve energy. Understanding this difference is crucial as trauma responses can manifest in various physical symptoms like sleep problems, GI issues, and chronic pain, emphasizing the necessity of addressing underlying trauma for long-term health improvements.
Identifying and Addressing Core Attachment Pains
Core attachment pains, including 'Hold me,' 'Hear me,' 'Support me,' 'See me,' 'Understand me,' and 'Love me,' impact individuals from early childhood and shape their attachment programming. These core pains can manifest in physiological responses and affect one's beliefs and behaviors. By recognizing and working through these attachment pains through somatic experiences and parts work, individuals can rewire their attachment programming and improve their overall well-being.
Trauma Healing Process: Stabilization as a Fundamental Step
Starting with the stabilization process in trauma healing is vital to ensure the safety and effectiveness of further interventions. Drawing parallels from medical practices like stabilizing patients before surgery or detox, the speaker emphasizes the importance of creating a stable environment within the body first. Without this stability, therapeutic interventions can inadvertently trigger additional stress responses or physical symptoms, hindering the healing process. The focus on stabilization sets the foundation for addressing trauma in a safe and structured manner, enhancing the body's receptiveness to subsequent healing techniques.
The Journey from Trauma Response to Living: A Holistic Approach to Healing
Transitioning from trauma response to living entails a comprehensive exploration of key aspects like freeze response, grief management, gut health, attachment patterns, stress responses, and self-discovery. By unraveling the freeze and trauma responses deeply stored in the nervous system, individuals can gradually release suppressed emotions and navigate through unresolved grief. Emphasizing the interplay between physical and emotional well-being, the process also highlights the significance of addressing baseline stressors and detoxifying harmful influences for sustained healing. Ultimately, shifting the focus from healing to actively living signifies a transformative shift towards personal growth and resilience, encouraging individuals to embrace their unique journey of self-discovery and holistic well-being.
Welcome to another EPIC new episode of Capability Amplifier with world-renowned trauma expert, Dr. Aimie Apigian that Mike thinks you are going to LOVE.
You'll discover the true underlying cause of many chronic health challenges like fatigue, pain, anxiety, autoimmunity and much more.
Dr. Aimie blew Mike's mind sharing the science of how past overwhelm and traumatic experiences literally reprogram our nervous system and change our physiology - leading to the symptoms and diagnoses that plague so many today.
She shared incredible stories of people completely reversing autoimmune diseases, ending lifelong chronic pain, restoring relationships, and totally transforming their health just by healing past trauma they've stored in their bodies and nervous systems.
The good news is she has developed a step-by-step process to unlock and rewrite this old trauma programming. Mike tried one of her somatic healing techniques on the show and it was really powerful!
She is brilliant, captivating and caring — the perfect guide for any trauma-healing journey.
So if you or anyone you know struggles with chronic health issues, pain, fatigue, anxiety, addiction or relationship problems, this episode will truly open your eyes to the incredible healing power that lies within.
Mike genuinely believes EVERYONE can benefit from learning this material — not only for physical healing, but for empowerment, joy and unleashing your full human potential.
Key Takeaways
(00:00) Scientifically decreasing depression and anxiety, increasing safety.
