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Nov 2024
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Trauma, Nervous System Health, and Attac...

Jennifer Wallace & Elisabeth Kristof
About this episode

Trauma isn’t just a single event—it’s the ongoing experience that unfolds afterward. Our access to resources, support, tools, and coping mechanisms greatly influences how our brain and nervous system are patterned in response to trauma, which in turn shapes our emotions and behaviors. By understanding these patterns as protective adaptations rather than flaws, we open the door to repatterning our nervous system and transforming our responses.

In today’s episode, we revisit a powerful conversation between Elisabeth and Jennifer, who explore what happens in the brain and body following a traumatic event. They discuss how trauma imprints in the body, creating activation patterns, and how healing is possible by building the capacity to feel and engaging with community.

We are highly impressionable beings—our experiences and perception of sensory inputs shape our reality. But this adaptability also makes healing possible. By repatterning neural pathways, reshaping nervous system responses, and shifting our perspective, we can build a life in which we respond consciously rather than react automatically.

If this topic resonates with you, be sure to tune in and explore what it truly means to carry trauma in the body and how to heal.

Don’t miss this enlightening episode!

 

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • How trauma manifests in the body as illness and disease

  • Bodily responses shaped by past trauma

  • The role of co-regulation with a trusted, safe person

  • How the brain constructs trauma experiences through sensory input

  • Trauma’s impact on activation patterns and frontal lobe shutdown

  • Chronic threat detection and its role in nervous system dysregulation

  • Tools from NSI to improve sensory processing accuracy in the brain

  • The significance of neuroplasticity in healing

  • Relational healing and addressing attachment wounds

  • Building the capacity to feel as a pathway to healing

  • Recognizing the collective dimension of healing

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