How the Nervous System Stores Childhood Trauma...

(and how Somatic Experiencing Supports Its Release)

Trauma isn't just what happened.

It’s how the body responded and how it continues responding long after the moment has passed.

For many people, especially those with childhood trauma, certain reactions don’t seem to match 

what’s happening right now.

• A tight chest when someone raises their voice.

• Feeling disconnected in the middle of a conversation.

• Exhaustion after saying “no.”

• Startle Response
• People Pleasing
• Difficulty trusting others and/or situations
• Feeling unsafe
• A harsh inner critic
• Chronic pain or health issues

These aren’t overreactions or overthinking.
They’re signals from a nervous system still carrying unfinished survival energy from the past.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body based healing approach designed to gently help the 

nervous system release that stored activation without re-traumatizing or pushing too far, too fast.

 Traum...

Sometimes it's really clear that you have childhood trauma. You might have lived through tragedy, abuse or traumas that are undeniable but not all childhood trauma is obvious. In fact, childhood trauma includes a whole array of things you might have lived through and deemed "normal" because of the home you grew up in or the coping skills you developed. It also doesn't mean you had "bad" parents, sometimes life happens and families go through difficult things that leave us with trauma, even when our parents did their absolute best.

Trauma is not just physical pain. It can also be emotional and mental pain.

As Gabor Mate says "it is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside of you as a result of what happens to you." If you had support, safety & access to other resources to help you make sense of what you went through, chances are you had a higher likelihood of moving through traumatic situations without them become trauma that is trapped in your body. 

But, in the absence...

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Abdominal Cramps: Fear. Stopping the process.
Abscess: Fermenting thoughts over hurts, slights and revenge.
Accidents: Inability to speak up for the self. Rebellion against authority. Belief in violence.
Aches: Longing for love. Longing to be held.
Acne: Not accepting the self. Dislike of the self.
Addictions: Running from the self. Fear. Not knowing how to love self.
Adrenal Problems: Defeatism. No longer caring for the self. Anxiety.
Alcoholism: Feeling of futility, guilt, inadequacy. Self-rejection.
Allergies: Denying your own power.
Alzheimer’s Disease: Refusal to deal with the world as it is. Hopelessness and helplessness. Anger.
Amenorrhea: Not wanting to be a woman. Dislike of the self.
Anemia: “Yes-but” attitude. Lack of joy. Fear of life. Not feeling good enough.
Ankle: Inflexibility and guilt. Ankles represent the ability to receive pleasure.
Anorexia: Denying the self life. Extreme fear, self-hatred and rejection.
Anxiety: Not trusting the flo...