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medicine with master’s degrees in biochemistry and public health. As the founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated, she instructs individuals and practitioners on how trauma gets stored in the body and what to do once it creates a chronic health condition. Her signature methodology looks at the effects of trauma on cell biology, a missing piece in trauma therapy approaches. Patients begin with a six-week foundational journey before digging into deeper trauma work and the biology piece.
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Dr. Bessel van der Kolk uses three words to define trauma: overwhelming, unbelievable and unbearable. A trauma is something that overwhelms us in our ability to respond. We can’t believe it’s happening, and it’s so unbearable we disconnect from our body to not feel it—it’s things like loneliness, shame or abandonment. Tat’s why we numb, suppress, repress, distract or avoid. Te body shiſts from using energy to conserving it, so we only do the bare minimum to get through the day—and that includes thinking; many people will have decision fatigue. Also, the diaphragm loses its tone in the trauma response because our body goes into, “I’m going to breathe only enough to keep me alive.”
Why does trauma get stored in the body?
If there isn’t a completion of the trauma response, then the body will hold onto that trauma. Te nervous system never gets that completion that says, “Tat was awful, but it’s over now.” Te brain never stores it
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on Releasing Stored Trauma by Sandra Yeyati
imie Apigian is a double board-certified physician in preventative and addiction
as a memory of the past, which means that it’s always in our present moment. When our whole biology continues to operate in fear, this can affect our hormones, immune system, digestion and cardiovascular system. Without a reset back to safety, we stay in danger mode and the body will close down at the cellular level.
How can we achieve a sense of safety?
During the first week of my foundational journey, I have people learn seven somatic exercises intended to help them create an immediate felt sense of feeling safer in their body. So no matter where they are—at the grocery store, at home— if they lose their sense of safety, they have tools in the moment to get it back.
Courtesy of Dr. Aimie Apigian
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