Episode 24: What Professionals Need to Know About The Liver for Trauma Work with Dr. Ameet

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The Organ Your Trauma Work Is Missing

You're working with the nervous system and addressing stored trauma. Your clients are doing the exercises and showing up for the work. But something isn't shifting the way it should.

They're exhausted all the time and experiencing brain fog that won't clear. They have digestive issues alongside their trauma symptoms. They seem to hit a wall in their healing that nervous system work alone can't break through.

Here's what you might be missing: your liver doesn't just detox chemicals but processes stress hormones and affects your trauma response. Understanding this organ changes how you approach healing.

Dr. Ameet joins me to explore the mind-body connection through organs. We take a deep dive into four organs impacted by trauma and how they affect your body's trauma response itself.

Why Your Liver Matters for Trauma Healing

Your liver processes stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline constantly. When trauma keeps these hormones elevated chronically, your liver gets overwhelmed and can't keep up with the demand. This creates a backlog that affects everything else in your system.

Your emotions don't just live in your mind but affect specific organs throughout your body. Your organs then affect your emotional state in return, creating a continuous feedback loop. In traditional medicine systems, the liver holds anger and frustration, and modern science confirms this connection between liver congestion and emotional regulation.

When your liver is congested from processing chronic stress hormones, it can't effectively clear toxins, metabolize hormones properly, support immune function, maintain stable blood sugar, or provide energy for healing. This means trauma work becomes harder for your body to sustain because the biological infrastructure needed for healing is compromised.

Dr. Ameet explains how trauma impacts multiple organs beyond the liver. Each organ has its own response pattern to trauma and each needs specific support for optimal function. The heart responds differently than the kidneys, which respond differently than the digestive system, but all are affected when trauma keeps your stress response activated.

The Two-Way Street Between Organs and Trauma

This connection goes both ways in a relationship most practitioners miss. Trauma impacts your organs through chronic stress hormone elevation and nervous system dysregulation. But organ dysfunction also intensifies your trauma response by limiting your capacity to process emotions and reducing your resilience to stress.

You can't separate organ health from trauma healing because they're constantly influencing each other. When your liver is congested, your ability to regulate emotions decreases. When your digestion is impaired, your nervous system gets more reactive. When your adrenals are depleted, your capacity for stress resilience drops.

Some people can't progress in trauma work because their organs can't support the processing that trauma work requires. Their liver is too congested to handle the stress hormones released during trauma processing. Their system is too overwhelmed to metabolize what comes up. Their body doesn't have the biological capacity for the work you're asking it to do.

This is why clients sometimes seem stuck despite good nervous system work. You're working at the nervous system level while their organs are limiting their capacity at the biological level. No amount of somatic exercises will help if their liver can't process the hormones those exercises release.

Supporting Organs During Trauma Work

If you're only working with the nervous system, you're missing crucial pieces of the healing puzzle. Organ health affects trauma healing capacity in ways that directly determine whether your interventions will work. This is biology, not alternative medicine or woo-woo thinking.

When clients process trauma, stress hormones flood their system as part of the healing process. Supporting liver function helps their body handle this flood and increases their capacity to do deeper work. Supporting digestive function ensures they can absorb the nutrients needed for healing. Supporting adrenal function prevents complete depletion during intensive trauma processing.

The practical implications for trauma professionals include assessing whether organ dysfunction is limiting client progress, providing organ support before or alongside trauma work, recognizing when clients need to slow down for biological reasons, understanding why some interventions work for some people but not others, and collaborating with functional medicine practitioners when needed.

Dr. Ameet shares specific approaches for supporting organ health during trauma work. How to recognize when organ congestion is blocking healing. What signs indicate a client needs organ support before deeper trauma processing. How to integrate this understanding into your existing trauma practice without becoming an expert in functional medicine.

Understanding the Biology of Trauma® means recognizing that trauma healing happens at multiple biological levels simultaneously. Your nervous system doesn't operate in isolation from your organs, and your organs don't function independently of your emotional state. Everything is connected and effective trauma work must account for these connections.

This Episode Is For:

✓ Trauma professionals whose clients seem stuck despite good nervous system work 

✓ People with chronic fatigue, brain fog, or digestive issues alongside trauma 

✓ Anyone interested in the mind-body-organ connection 

✓ Practitioners wanting to understand why some clients can't tolerate trauma processing 

✓ Those ready to expand beyond nervous system-only approaches 

✓ Anyone experiencing physical symptoms that seem connected to emotional healing

What You'll Learn

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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Disclaimer

This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The information shared reflects my clinical expertise and research, but every person's biology and healing journey is unique. Always consult with qualified healthcare providers before making changes to your treatment plan or starting new interventions. If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact emergency services or a crisis helpline immediately.

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