How the Nervous system translates emotions into symptoms

What if the emotions you were never allowed to feel are the same ones making you sick?

In this powerful episode of Trauma Rewired, we explore the lifelong impact of emotional neglect and suppression, and why emotional processing is often the hardest part of healing. From childhood modeling to nervous system adaptations, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof break down how early emotional neglect leads to emotional insecurity, chronic shame, and deep patterns of dysregulation that affect everything from gut health to fatigue.

We unpack how the nervous system stores repressed feelings like sadness and anger, and why “not feeling” is a survival pattern, not a personal failure. This episode walks you through how emotional repression becomes muscle tension, immune suppression, and gut dysfunction, and what you can do to begin feeling again.

You’ll learn gentle, neuro-somatic practices—like tapping, swaying, and interoceptive awareness—that help you mobilize emotions safely, access your inner signals, and rebuild your capacity to feel. This is not about forcing your way through; it’s about creating the conditions where your nervous system finally says, “It’s safe now.”

This episode is a compassionate guide to the emotional labor you never got to do—and the healing that begins when you finally do.

Topics discussed in this episode:

● The connection between emotional neglect and emotional insecurity
● Why emotional processing is stored in the nervous system—not just the mind
● How repression contributes to chronic pain, immune dysfunction, and gut issues
● Understanding shame, freeze, and the reflex to shut down
● Gentle tools for mobilizing emotion: tapping, swaying, movement
● How to train interoception and recognize internal signals
● What chronic fatigue may be telling you emotionally
● The emotional roots of “numbness” and “overwhelm”
● Why your body is holding what your mind avoided
● How to rewire your nervous system to feel safely
● Why healing is about expanding capacity, not fixing emotion

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