When Your Body Speaks: Physical Manifestations of Trauma Explained | NowShift August 14, 2025

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Your body keeps the score when your mind tries to forget.
 In Episode 5 of 7 in the Trauma Symptoms Mini-Series from Antifragilient OS – NowShift Daily Transmissions, Dr. Abhimanyou Raathore explores how unprocessed emotional wounds show up as physical symptoms.

"The body remembers, sometimes more clearly than the mind," Dr. Raathore explains, uncovering how survival patterns and unresolved pain can turn into chronic health challenges. From autoimmune conditions that mirror self-rejection to back pain scans can’t explain, each symptom tells a story.

We explore eight common somatic expressions of trauma — chronic fatigue, headaches, insomnia, digestive disorders, appetite changes, unexplained sensations, and more. You’ll also hear how perspectives from metaphysical anatomy and biodecoding offer deeper insight into what your body might be trying to communicate.

Rather than seeing these issues as random or “all in your head,” this episode reframes them as your body’s intelligent messaging system — one that deserves attention and compassion. Whether you’re facing unexplained symptoms, healing from trauma, or curious about the mind-body connection, you’ll leave with a new way to listen to your body’s language.

Next in the series: Episode 6 on sensory symptoms of trauma — how it changes the way you experience the world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today is August 14th 2025.
My name is Dr Abhimanyu Rathoreand I'm the founder of the
Anti-Fragilient Operating System.
Today's anti-fragilienttransmission for the day is

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episode number 5 of our traumamini-series, and today we focus
on the physical or somaticsymptoms of trauma.
So welcome back to our traumaseries and, as I said, today we

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focus on the physical or somaticsymptoms.
So, primarily, what is this?
This is the ways or way or waystrauma can live in the body and
express itself through healthchallenges, tension and
unexplained sensations.

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So what is physical and somaticsymptoms in simple terms?
See, the fact is this thattrauma just doesn't live in your
head.
The body remembers, sometimesmore clearly than the mind.
Body remembers, sometimes moreclearly than the mind.

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These physical signs are yourbody's way of speaking, the
language of pain and survival.
The first such way isautoimmune diseases, when the
body's defense system startsattacking itself, often linked
to a long-term stress orunresolved emotional wound, like

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in a body of knowledge calledmetaphysical anatomy, this can
reflect deep patterns ofself-rejection and inner
conflict patterns ofself-rejection and inner
conflict.
Then, the second way it showsin the physical or somatic

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symptoms is chronic back painPersistent pain that scans and
tests can't fully explain,sometimes tied to feeling
unsupported in life or carryingtoo much emotionally.
Third is chronic exhaustion orfatigue, a deep tiredness that

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rest doesn't fix, as if yourbody is constantly running in
survival mode.
That's also another way yourbody communicates with you.
The fourth could be headaches,you know frequent tension or
migraines, which, in biodecoding, can point to unexpressed

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emotions, mental overload orself-pressure.
Fifth way your body could becommunicating with you, or
trying to communicate with you,is insomnia, you know struggling
to fall asleep or stay asleepbecause your nervous system

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stays on guard even at night.
Then the sixth way the bodycould be communicating with you
could be irritable bowelsyndromes, ibs See digestive
discomfort bloating orirregularity.
You know the gut often mirrorsunresolved stress or stored fear

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.
Seventh way your body could betrying to communicate with you
could be lack of appetite.
Losing interest in food can beyour body's way of shutting down
when emotions feel too heavy.
And the last way, of course,every disease has got a link to

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some sort of trauma, somethingwhich has traumatized your parts
, but unexplained physicalsymptoms such as aches, pains,
sensations with no real or noclear medical cause.
These are body's hiddenmessages asking you to look
deeper.
Now.

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I did mention metaphysicalanatomy and biodecoding.
See, these are two bodies ofknowledge, okay, where every
symptom is seen as a messenger.
It's not just random.
It often holds the story of anold emotional wound, a survival
pattern.
Learning to listen to thesemessages can really open the

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door for your real healing tobegin.
And you know often the pain,especially the pain when it is
associated with body parts orwhatever.
That is also where your partsare living.

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You know the parts which areprimarily troubled a lot,
manager.
You know whichever manager itis so, firefighter or exiles.
So to conclude, let'sunderstand that your body is
always talking, sometimes inwhispers, sometimes in shouts,

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and listening to it is the firststep in healing.
In our next episode we willexplore sensory symptoms.
That is, how is it that traumacan change the way we experience
the world?
Trauma can change the way weexperience the world through our

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senses.
Do let me know how thismini-series is going for you and
how you're liking the podcast.
I would love to hear that.
Thank you very much and I'llsee you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.