You Can Release the Trauma Stored in Your Nervous System Dr. Aimee Apigian on The Healers Caf

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Dr. Aimee Apigian about how our bodies store trauma in the nervous system and how to release it.

For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/dr-aimee-apigian2  

 

Highlights from today's episode include:

Dr. Aimee Apigian 

The trauma response is communicated through a different branch of our nervous system. It's not going to be communicated to the sympathetic chain. That is only the stress response. It only knows how to turn on the stress response and to initiate adrenaline. The trauma response then, is initiated by two triggers when that stress response has been activated.

 

Dr. Aimee Apigian 

Those are the two triggers, that our body will say, Hmm, we actually, we're not big enough for this, we're not strong enough for this, we're not smart enough for this, we're not fill in the blank enough for this. And our better strategy, better strategy for surviving this moment in time is actually to shut down.

 

Dr. Aimee Apigian 

And so, trauma is an energy problem. And it causes energy problems, it causes damage to our mitochondria starts to build up oxidative stress, not only outside of ourselves, but inside of ourselves. And just by the fact that the body is in the trauma response, it also shuts down our detoxification system.

 

ABOUT DR AIMEE APIGIAN:

Dr. Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH is the leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and restoring the body to its best state of health through her signature model and methodology, The Biology of Trauma™. She is a double board-certified medical physician in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She has a Masters in Biochemistry and a Masters in Public Health. In addition to her medical training, she is also a Certified Functional Medicine physician and has training and certifications specifically in neuro-autoimmunity, nutrition, and genetics for addictions, mental health, and mood and behavioral disorders. She has several certifications in various trauma therapies including the Instinctual Trauma Response Model  an art trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing & developed by Dr. Peter Levine, and NeuroAffective Touch & Dr. Aline LaPierre.