The Revolution Starts in the Body: What Trauma-Informed Actually Means

In this deeply grounding episode of Essence Rising, Chanté Anderson unpacks what it truly means to be trauma-informed; beyond buzzwords, checklists, and performative wellness language. Together, we explore how trauma isn't just a story in the mind, but a pattern in the nervous system that lives in the breath, the muscles, the posture, the impulses, and the very rhythm, of daily life. 

Chanté dives into why healing must include the body, how traditional systems often bypass somatic wisdom, and how disconnection from the body is not just a trauma response, but a systemic one. We examine how systems like capitalism, patriarchy, and ableism teach us to override our instincts, suppress our needs, and call it strength. 

You'll learn:

• What is really means to be trauma-informed in an embodied way
• How trauma shows up as survival responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
• Why the body is a sacred access point for healing, agency, and liberation
• How reconnection to sensation, rest, and pleasure becomes a radical act
• And what embodied consent, regulation, and resilience actually look like

Whether you're a therapist, healer, a survivor, or someone on a journey back to yourself, this episode is a call to slow down, feel deeply, and remember that your body is not a battlefield, it's your home.

Tune in, breathe deep, and reclaim the wisdom that's always lived inside you. The revolution truly begins in the body. 

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