Sexual Abuse and Shame: How Trauma Shapes the Body and Boundaries

Shame doesn’t live in your head, it lives in your body. In this deeply vulnerable and enlightening episode, somatic practitioner Luis Mojica returns to Trauma Rewired to share the biological impact of trauma, the hidden costs of fawning, and how embodiment is not about peace, it’s about presence.

Together, we explore how unprocessed shame can drive chronic inflammation, gut dysfunction, and boundary collapse, long after the traumatic event has passed. Luis also shares his own story of sexual trauma, dissociation, and how learning to support his constriction, rather than push through it, changed his life.

We discuss how trauma responses like shame and fawning were once protective, and why repatterning happens not through digging up the past, but by feeling what’s here now.

This episode offers hope, clarity, and tangible insights for anyone healing from trauma, struggling with burnout, or navigating the complexities of somatic work.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Why shame is physically stressful to the body

• The connection between shame, inflammation, and the gut

• How fawning breaks your own boundaries to gain connection

• Why trauma healing is not about digging up the past

• Embodiment ≠ Peace — what it really means

• The power of witnessing and being witnessed

• Trauma’s impact on autoimmune responses

• Constriction as a nervous system signal

• The somatic difference between memory and sensation

• Why burnout happens from emotional override

• The role of titration in safe, sustainable healing

• How supporting constriction expands capacity

• What boundaries mean in the body — and how to set them

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