Trauma

We all experience overwhelming things in life, and sometimes those experiences are so intense they leave us without resources to regulate our bodies or make sense of what we’ve been through.

Trauma symptoms can originate with experiences of unmet emotional needs, insecure attachment, absence of presence from caregivers, bullying, medical treatments, religion, rigid expectations, intergenerational trauma, capitalism, racism, patriarchy, individualism, family ruptures, chronic illness, autoimmune disease, life transitions, abuse, or neglect. Many other experiences can also lead to severe overwhelm in the body, it’s different for each person.

That might look like constant anxiety, depression symptoms, intrusive memories, nightmares, dissociation, persistent dysregulation in your body, unearned guilt, always feeling bad about yourself, feeling unable to feel positively, detachment from others, recklessness, self-harm, feeling like your always on the lookout for danger, feeling like you can’t focus, panic attacks, fears of abandonment, shame, or negative thoughts about ourselves we just can’t shake. Those symptoms are signals from your body and mind that those overwhelming and traumatic experiences need to be processed or integrated into your wholeness.

The neuroscience research we have now on how to recover from these intense experiences and symptoms shows us that we have to pay attention to the mind-body connection when a trigger occurs. The key is in what the body tells us. For example, when a trigger occurs do you feel a clench in your gut, do your shoulders, raise, jaw tightens, throat starts to hurt, do you feel like you want to run away? As we really pay attention to those sensations your body gives we can process, understand, and desensitize those things. Then your body can become more regulated more often.

For lots of us, it’s not just one trauma we’ve experienced, but a layers over a lifetime. Your body still knows what to do and what you need to heal. I can help you listen to those messages, understand them, and recover from the intensity, pain, and shame.