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...

As an empath, we are naturally more sensitive to our own feelings & what's happening around us. It doesn't mean we are weak or overly sensitive but as kids, we naturally just feel things more deeply and read into the experiences we have & what other people are doing, more intensely.

Sometimes we get it right and we sense the things not spoken. 

And sometimes we get it wrong because after all, we were kids. 

But nonetheless, when we as empaths go through traumatic, stressful or painful experiences, the impact can weigh differently on us because we are so emotionally tuned into our experiences. Because we are so tuned in, we can also carry the weight of our Childhood Wounds in different ways, creating coping mechanisms, beliefs about the world & holding onto the emotional pain because we can't seem to understand WHY they happened. 

So, I want to share with you the 4 major Childhood Wounds and how they specifically can impact you as an empath and what you can do to start unwinding t...