Why and How to Heal Childhood Trauma with Niki Skye

Niki Skye, formerly known as Niki Gratrix, is an award-winning, internationally renowned functional health practitioner who is now a spiritual teacher and personal development coach. In 2005, Niki co-founded one of the largest mind-body clinics in integrative medicine in the UK, which won the award for outstanding practice in 2009. She has since completed over 10,000 consultations, helping people overcome fatigue, reclaim their lives, and live abundantly. Niki has spoken at over 50 online healing summits, reaching more than 1 million people worldwide. 

In this meaty and important conversation, Niki and I discuss the impact of childhood trauma, tools for identifying potential trauma, how to become aware of unconscious self-protective patterns that no longer serve you, and healing modalities available to support you in releasing these traumas.

Niki offers groundbreaking insights that will help you understand the connections between traumatic programming and health struggles and she provides a pathway to begin healing old wounds that may unknowingly be impacting your health.

*Note: Since the recording of this episode, Niki has transitioned to a new career as a Spiritual Teacher and Personal Development Coach.*

Quote: “The solutions are there waiting for you to pick them up when you’re ready.”

What's Inside:

02:47 A brief review of the massive and important ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study 

07:26 What is generational, cultural, and inherited trauma?

11:00 Developmental and attachment trauma vs. PTSD

14:25 Summing up “attachment trauma” and understanding what’s actually happening inside our bodies when we’re experiencing this traumatic stress response

21:47 A multifactorial approach to healing 

24:11 A glimpse into some of the key “bottom up” healing modalities

39:43 Ways that can help you identify how you adapted to your particular childhood trauma and environmental deficiencies 

48:55 Where our memories are stored in the body and therapies you can use to release these trapped emotions

1:06:00 Turning your pain into gifts and embracing personal transformation and all that that means in order to live in authentic alignment with yourself

Resources:

Niki’s free eBook: The 7 Step to Healing Childhood Emotional Trauma and

Building Resilience - https://palmerkippola.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Niki-Gratrix-7-Steps-to-Healing-Emotional-Trauma-eBook.pdf

About the CDC-Kaiser ACEs study: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html

Donna Jackson Nakazawa’s book: Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal -

https://amzn.to/45EDOSy

Niki’s new website for spiritual teachings and personal development: https://nikiskye.com/

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