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WHO THIS PODCAST SERVES
People feel stuck in stress, overwhelm, or shutdown
Traditional therapy helps, but something still feels "off"
There's a need to understand why the body reacts the way it does
Get out of survival mode and into truly living
We all seek trauma tools that actually heal—not just help
THE PODCAST THAT CHANGES THE TRAUMA CONVERSATION
Dr. Aimie Apigian exposes how trauma lives in the body and offers a new, science-backed roadmap for real healing
People are done dancing around the topic of trauma—they’re ready to face it head-on. Traditional systems often miss the root cause: trauma changes biology at the cellular level, creating barriers to the healing work people strive to do.
This Podcast is the missing piece of the puzzle—a practical living manual for navigating the human body in today’s modern, traumatizing world.
Join your host, physician and trauma expert Dr. Aimie Apigian, as she challenges outdated models of trauma and introduces a new, science-backed framework for true healing.
Discover the Science of Trauma Healing with Dr. Aimie Apigian
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Episode 50: 5 Supplements That Support Trauma Healing with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to learn which five supplements support trauma healing most effectively and how to match them to your specific symptoms and conditions. Discover why nutritional support matters for the Biology of Trauma® healing. Understand the difference between trying to supplement away trauma versus supporting your body during actual trauma work.
Your body needs specific nutrients to do the healing work you're asking of it.
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Episode 49: How Unresolved Anger Affects Autoimmune Conditions with Dr. Keesha Ewers
Listen to Episode 49 with Dr. Keesha Ewers → When Your Body Attacks Itself You've been diagnosed with an autoimmune condition and told your immune system is attacking your own tissues. Doctors prescribe medication to suppress your immune response. But nobody asks why your body turned against itself in the first place. What if the answer lies in stored trauma, chronic freeze response, and anger that had nowhere safe to go? Autoimmunity isn't just about your immune system malfu
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Episode 48: How to Heal Bracing and Hypervigilance with Cat Dillon
Listen to hear Cat's story and understand how childhood trauma creates chronic bracing patterns that persist for decades. Discover what it takes to help your body finally soften when bracing has become your baseline state. Learn why addressing the trauma underneath is essential for releasing chronic physical tension.
Your body is bracing against old threats that your nervous system hasn't learned are over yet.
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Episode 47: Link Between Nervous System, Physical Presence and Self-Expression with Bo Eason
Listen to Episode 47 with Bo Eason → When Your Body Betrays What You're Trying to Say You're trying to communicate confidence but your body is collapsed inward. You're attempting to connect with your child but your physical tension creates distance. You know what you want to say but somehow your message never lands the way you intend. The problem isn't your words but the physical state you're speaking from. Your nervous system state shows up in your body in ways you can't hid
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Episode 46: 5 Agreements to Keep Group Trauma Work Safe with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to learn the five agreements that make group trauma work safe for participants with dysregulated nervous systems. Discover why this structure matters for healing rather than retraumatizing. Understand how each agreement protects a different aspect of safety in group trauma healing.
Group work can be powerful when the structure protects everyone's nervous system appropriately.
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Episode 45: Can Adoption or Childhood Trauma Cause Bipolar Disorder? with Dr. Christina Bjorndal
Listen to explore whether bipolar disorder connects to early childhood trauma in ways psychiatry overlooks. Discover what holistic solutions exist beyond psychiatric medication alone. Understand how adoption and early separation create nervous system patterns that look like bipolar but might be trauma responses.
Your diagnosis might be describing trauma symptoms rather than a permanent brain disorder.
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Episode 44: How Quickly Can Lifelong Patterns Change? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to Episode 44 → When Decades-Old Patterns Start Shifting You've had the same nervous system patterns for as long as you can remember. The same anxiety response when triggered. The same shutdown when overwhelmed. The same relationship dynamics repeating endlessly. Everyone tells you that change takes time and years of work. That patterns developed over decades need decades to heal. That you should be patient with the process because transformation is slow. Lifelong patt
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Episode 43: Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis With Energy Healing with Donna Eden
Listen to hear Donna Eden's remarkable MS recovery story and learn how energy medicine can support trauma healing by balancing your body's energy systems. Discover practical techniques you can use yourself to work with your energies. Understand how trauma disrupts energy flow and what that means for your healing.
Your body's healing capacity is greater than conventional medicine acknowledges.
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Episode 42: Unlocking the Role of Disguised Grief in Health with Dr. Joan Rosenberg
Listen to understand how disguised grief affects your biology and creates health problems when it stays unprocessed. Discover why learning to feel your emotions for 90 seconds can change your health outcomes. Learn practical strategies for allowing difficult emotions to move through instead of getting stored as trauma.
Your body knows what you're feeling even when your mind refuses to acknowledge it.
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Episode 41: Solutions for Low Serotonin and GABA in Trauma with Trudy Scott
Listen to Episode 41 with Trudy Scott → When Your Brain Chemistry Can't Support Your Healing You're doing the trauma work and showing up for therapy sessions. You're practicing nervous system regulation and following all the guidance. But the anxiety never lets up and the depression won't lift no matter what you do. What if the problem isn't that you're doing trauma work wrong but that your brain chemistry can't support the healing you're trying to do? Low serotonin and GABA
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Episode 40: Chronic Conditions: What to do When the Protocols Aren't Enough with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand why protocols fail when trauma is your body's operating system and what to do instead of adding more supplements or interventions. Discover how to recognize when trauma is the roadblock to healing. Learn why addressing nervous system dysregulation must come before expecting chronic conditions to resolve.
Your body isn't broken but operating from a trauma-based system that needs addressing first.
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Episode 39: How Does Trauma Manifest in the Body with Gabor Maté
Listen to hear Dr. Gabor Maté explain how unresolved trauma manifests physically in the body and why understanding this connection is essential for profound healing. Discover the patterns he's observed across palliative care and addiction medicine. Learn where to start when you recognize your physical symptoms connect to stored trauma.
Your body has been trying to tell you something important through those symptoms.
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Episode 38: Where to Start With Trauma in a Holistic Model? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand where to actually start with trauma in a holistic way and why this prevents the relapses that come from symptom-chasing. Discover what my body taught me through repeated cycles of improvement and relapse. Learn why the sequence of healing matters as much as the modalities you choose.
Your body will show you when you've started wrong through symptoms that return or worsen.
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Episode 37: How to Integrate Somatic and Parts Work - Part 2: Mind-Body Dialog Questions with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to hear the specific mind-body dialogue questions three people used successfully to connect with parts behind their body sensations. Discover why exact wording matters for accessing different parts. Learn how to develop your own questions for connecting body awareness with parts work effectively.
The right question at the right time opens doors your thinking mind can't access alone.
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Episode 36: How to Integrate Somatic and Parts Work Part 1: Mind-Body Dialog Questions with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to learn the mind-body dialog questions that help you connect body sensations to the parts behind them and why this integration accelerates healing. Discover how to work with both body and psyche simultaneously. Understand the process for doing somatic parts work rather than keeping these modalities separate.
Your body sensations and your parts are trying to tell you the same story from different angles.
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Episode 35: 5 Ways How Polyvagal Theory Helps With Trauma Work with Stephen Porges
Listen to learn the five specific ways Polyvagal Theory transforms trauma work practically and what to do when your nervous system learned that safety itself is dangerous. Discover how to work with vagal pathways rather than trying to override them. Understand why functional diseases connect to trauma through vagal dysfunction.
Your nervous system needs to experience safety physiologically before cognitive work becomes possible.
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Episode 34: Polyvagal Lens on Attachment, Freeze and Functional Diseases with Dr. Stephen Porges
Listen to hear directly from Dr. Stephen Porges about Polyvagal Theory and how it explains the physiology underlying attachment, freeze, and functional disease. Discover how your two vagal pathways create different nervous system states. Learn why understanding this biology is essential for effective trauma healing.
Your nervous system has its own logic that Polyvagal Theory finally explains.
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Episode 33: When Trauma Is Hijacking Your Body: The 3 Essential Pillars For The Healing Journey with Jude Weber
Listen to hear Jude's story and understand how nervous system dysregulation can show up as multiple health and life issues that all share one root in stored trauma. Discover the three essential pillars that support healing when trauma has hijacked your body. Learn why treating symptoms separately often fails when the root cause is nervous system dysregulation.
Your body isn't randomly breaking down in multiple ways but trying to tell you one thing through many channels.
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Episode 32: What are the Ways the Body Communicates Stored Trauma? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to learn the three ways your body communicates stored trauma and why paying attention now prevents bigger problems later. Discover how to distinguish between stress responses and trauma signals. Understand what your body is trying to tell you through physical symptoms, emotional patterns, and energy levels.
Your body has been trying to tell you something important. It's time to listen.
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Episode 31: Am I Tired, Or Is This Trauma? The Roots Of Fatigue with Dr. Evan Hirsch
Listen to understand the difference between regular tiredness and trauma-based fatigue and why this distinction changes your recovery approach completely. Discover how stored trauma affects cellular energy production. Learn what Dr. Hirsch's recovery journey teaches about addressing the roots of chronic exhaustion.
Your fatigue might be your body's way of telling you about trauma it's still holding.
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Episode 30: Attachment Adaptations From Age 0 – 6 Months with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand what happens neurologically in the first six months of life and why early attachment adaptations matter for your healing now. Discover how infant experiences shape adult nervous system patterns. Learn why understanding your attachment history is essential for healing your Biology of Trauma®.
Your nervous system remembers what your conscious mind cannot.
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Episode 29: What is the Physiology and Neurobiology of the Trauma Response? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand the physiology and neurobiology of trauma and what actually happens in your body during traumatic experiences. Discover the five-step trauma response sequence that all humans share. Learn why knowing this biological foundation changes how you approach your own healing.
Your trauma responses make perfect biological sense when you understand what's happening beneath the surface.
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Episode 28: Practical Tips For Better Sleep to Help With Trauma Work with Misty Williams
Listen to get practical, trauma-informed sleep strategies that address the nervous system's need for safety before rest can happen. Discover why standard sleep advice fails trauma survivors. Learn how to build sleep capacity gradually while healing your Biology of Trauma®.
Your body wants to sleep, but it needs to feel safe enough first.
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Episode 27: How Does Brain Fog and Inflammation Affect Somatic Trauma Work? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand how brain inflammation affects your capacity for trauma work and why addressing it must come first. Discover why somatic exercises might overwhelm you when they help others. Learn what Tori's decade-long journey teaches about the relationship between brain health and trauma healing.
Your brain needs to be healthy enough to do the healing work your mind wants to accomplish.
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Episode 26: Doing Trauma Work Safely: The 1 Thing You Need To Do Before Processing Your Past with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand the one critical step before processing trauma and why skipping it keeps you stuck or makes things worse. Discover what nervous system stabilization actually looks like in practice. Learn from my mistakes so you can avoid wasting time and money on trauma work that retraumatizes.
Your healing has an order that your biology requires you to follow.
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Episode 25: Why is it so Hard to Slow Down? Could it be Stored Trauma? with Dr. Ameet
Listen to understand why slowing down triggers stored trauma and activates your nervous system's defense mechanisms. Discover how to build your capacity for the stillness that somatic healing requires. Learn why the thing you need most feels most impossible when trauma is stored in your biology.
Your body isn't broken for resisting rest but protecting you from what it learned rest would bring.
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Episode 24: What Professionals Need to Know About The Liver for Trauma Work with Dr. Ameet
Listen to understand how your liver and other organs affect trauma healing capacity. Discover why organ support might be the missing piece in your trauma work. Learn how to recognize when organ dysfunction is limiting healing progress and what to do about it.
Your body is an integrated system where every part affects every other part.
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Episode 23: What is The Parasympathetic State and Why Does it Matter? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to Episode 23 → Why You Can't Relax No Matter How Hard You Try You try to rest but your body won't let you. You lie down but your mind races. You know you need to relax but your nervous system stays activated no matter what you do. Everyone tells you to just calm down, meditate, or take deep breaths. You've tried all of that and nothing works because the problem isn't your effort or willpower. Your parasympathetic state controls rest, digestion, and healing. Without ac
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Episode 22: The Role Trauma Plays in Highly Sensitive People with Dr. Natasha Fallahi
Listen to understand how stored trauma affects highly sensitive people and amplifies their nervous system responses. Discover the biological reality behind high sensitivity. Learn how to turn your sensitivity into strength instead of overwhelm by addressing the Biology of Trauma® underneath.
Your sensitivity is real, biological, and potentially powerful when properly supported.
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Episode 21: What if You're Not Sure if You've Had Trauma? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to Episode 21 with Rhonda → When High-Functioning Becomes High-Cost "Trauma? I don't have trauma, right?" If you've said this to yourself, you're not alone. Many high-functioning people don't recognize their own trauma until their body forces them to stop. You keep going and push harder. You pride yourself on resilience and toughness. You look at others who've had "real trauma" and think your experiences don't count. Meanwhile, your body has been keeping score. Rhonda
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Episode 20: The Connection Between Money, Loneliness, and Trauma with Kiné Corder
Listen to Episode 20 with Kiné Corder → When Your Money Problems Are Actually Trauma Problems Money creates a lot of suffering, and most of it traces back to trauma. Your spending patterns, saving habits, and financial decisions aren't just about math or willpower or budgeting skills. They're about your nervous system and the patterns that got wired in childhood. They're about what you learned early about scarcity, safety, and worth. They're about trauma responses showing up
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Episode 19: Which Trauma Tools Can Increase a Counselor's Revenue Without Advertising? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to Episode 19 with Manisha Bilimoria → When Your Own Healing Becomes Your Best Marketing You're a counselor struggling to grow your practice. You're dealing with your own health issues while trying to help others. You're facing financial stress and wondering how to attract more clients without a marketing budget. Here's what most practitioners don't realize: Biology of Trauma® tools don't just help your clients but grow your practice organically. Manisha Bilimoria disc
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Episode 18: What Truth do Trauma Professionals Need to Know About Grains? with Dr. Peter Osborne & Dr. Tom O'Bryan
Listen to Episode 18 with Dr. Peter Osborne & Dr. Tom O'Bryan → When Food Becomes the Battle Food is not supposed to be a battle. But for many people, grains and gluten create one, and that battle affects your trauma healing. You're doing the nervous system work and addressing your Biology of Trauma®. You're practicing regulation and building capacity. But something isn't shifting the way it should. Here's what many trauma professionals miss: inflammation from food keeps your
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Episode 17: How Did This Pastor Move From Cancer, Burnout, and Depression to Living His Best Life in the Middle of a War? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to hear Marc's story and understand that burnout can become your breakthrough when you address the biology underneath. Discover how helping professionals can sustain their work without destroying their nervous systems. Learn what's possible on the other side of complete breakdown even in the middle of a war.
Your body isn't betraying you but protecting you. Listen to it before it forces you to stop.
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Episode 16: What is the Best Way to Help Our Families Heal From Their Traumas? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to hear Heather's story from student to mentor. Understand how to support family healing without taking responsibility for everyone else's nervous system. Learn what you can actually do to help the people you love.
Your healing matters more than you know. But it matters in ways you can't control.
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Episode 15: My Story: Bring The Fight Back To Trauma Work with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to understand what brought me to this work and why family stories matter for understanding the Biology of Trauma®. Discover how intergenerational patterns shape your nervous system. Learn why I'm fighting for what previous generations didn't get.
Someone has to bring the fight. Let it be us together.
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Episode 14: How to Not Traumatize Your Infant with Common Parenting Practices (Part 2) with Bette Lamont
Listen to Episode 14 with Bette Lamont → When Convenience Costs Development You want to be a good parent. You read the books, follow the experts, and do what everyone else does. Baby containers for convenience. Sleep training for your sanity. Scheduled feeding for predictability. These practices are everywhere. They're normalized. They're what modern parenting culture recommends. But modern parenting prioritizes convenience. Your infant's brain needs specific developmental ac
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Episode 13: Why Does Trauma Make it Difficult for Us to Say, "I Don't Know?" (Part 1) with Bette Lamont
Listen to understand why "I don't know" feels so threatening. Discover how early development created this protective pattern. Learn how this childhood adaptation still impacts your adult life.
Your difficulty saying "I don't know" makes sense. It's been keeping you safe.
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Episode 12: Where Do We Begin with Stored Trauma? (Part 2) with Alex Howard
Listen to understand why stabilizing your nervous system must come first. Discover how to know when you're ready for deeper work. Learn what nervous system stabilization actually looks like in practice.
Your healing has an order. Respect it, and the deeper work becomes possible.
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Episode 11: What is My "Why?" (Part 1) with Alex Howard and Dr. Aimie Apigian
Listen to Episode 11 with Alex Howard → The Breakdown That Changed Everything I was a general surgeon with the training, the career, and the expertise. I knew how to fix bodies mechanically, cut precisely, repair what was broken, and save lives in the operating room. But I kept seeing something medicine wasn't addressing including patients whose physical symptoms had no clear medical cause, bodies that stayed sick even after we fixed the obvious problem, and people suffering
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Episode 10: Addressing Unresolved Emotions to Help With Progressive MS? (Part 3) with Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Listen to Episode 10 with Dr. Arielle Schwartz and Laura Bautista → When Your Body Attacks Itself Laura Bautista was diagnosed with progressive MS. The doctors gave her the standard narrative including that your disease will progress, your symptoms will worsen, you should manage what you can, and accept what you can't. But something in her knew there was more to address, something beneath the autoimmune diagnosis and something her body was trying to tell her. Progressive MS i
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Episode 9: What is One Thing the Freeze Response Needs for Healing? (Part 2) with Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Listen to understand why time is essential for healing freeze. Discover how shifting to a listening relationship with your body changes everything. Learn why rushing keeps you stuck and why your body's natural rhythm is trustworthy.
Your freeze won't release until your nervous system believes it's safe. Give it the time it needs.
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Episode 8: Can Stored Trauma Cause Self-Sabotage in the Body? (Part 1) with Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Listen to understand how stored trauma drives self-sabotage at the unconscious level. Discover why cognitive approaches alone can't shift these patterns. Learn how body awareness creates the choice point that makes change possible.
Your self-sabotage isn't who you are but what your body learned to do to keep you safe.
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Episode 7: Identifying & Treating Copper Excess to Reverse Postpartum Depression (Part 3) with William Walsh
Listen to understand how copper excess and other biochemical imbalances create mood disorders. Discover why treating them as trauma alone keeps you stuck. Learn what testing reveals and how targeted treatment can reverse symptoms that seemed permanent.
Some depression lifts when you address the minerals. Find out if yours is one of them.
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Episode 6: The Role of Methylation & Epigenetics in Mental Health Outcomes (Part 2) with William Walsh
Listen to discover which of the five depression types matches your biochemistry. Understand why one-size-fits-all treatment keeps failing. Learn how methylation and epigenetics determine which interventions will actually work for you.
Your depression has a biochemical cause. Find the right cause and apply the right treatment.
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Episode 5: How Genetics & Epigenetics Affect In-Utero Development (Part 1) with William Walsh
Listen to understand how your Biology of Trauma® was shaped before you were born. Discover why biochemistry matters for healing. Learn why your depression might need a completely different approach than someone else's.
Your genes aren't your destiny, but understanding them changes your healing path.
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Episode 4: Overcoming the Freeze Response & Experiencing More Joy (Part 2) with Irene Lyon
Listen to understand why healing your nervous system doesn't require knowing the original trauma. Discover how to work with the patterns present in your body now. Learn how joy becomes accessible as freeze releases.
Your body knows how to heal. You just need to learn its language.
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Episode 3: Recognizing and Overcoming the Freeze Response (Part 1) with Irene Lyon
Listen to understand how early nervous system patterns form. Discover why functional freeze is so hard to recognize. Learn how somatic work can help you rewire patterns set in childhood.
You weren't meant to just survive. Your nervous system can learn to live again.
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Episode 2: The Long-Term Effects of Brain Inflammation with Dr. Peter Kan
Listen to understand how trauma creates brain inflammation. Discover why the gut-brain connection matters for cognitive function. Learn what you can do to support your neural health.
Clear thinking starts with healing inflammation.
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Episode 1: What Professionals Need to Know About the Chronic Freeze Response with Dr. Peter Levine
Listen to learn why freeze is protective, not pathological. Understand how to work with this response instead of against it. Discover why the body must lead the way out.
Healing from freeze happens at the speed of safety.
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I was struggling with clients who weren't responding to traditional trauma therapy. Dr. Aimie's podcast completely shifted my approach. Now I understand why we need to establish safety before processing. The Biology of Trauma framework has become essential in my practice. My clients are finally making progress.
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