6: How Childhood Trauma Can Define Your Health with Dr. Stephanie Davis

In this episode, you're going to learn how Dr. Stephanie Davis overcame her own health challenges and transitioned to functional medicine, why addressing emotional trauma is key to lasting health, the importance of identity in overcoming chronic illnesses, how tools like heart coherence and holographic manipulation therapy can help unlock healing, and why integrating emotional, physical and spiritual practices creates true well-being.

Dr. Stephanie Davis, Founder of Thrive Mama Tribe and host of the Thriving Mama podcast has spent over 20 years as a practitioner of functional medicine. Using a multitude of modalities from her years of training and working with patients, Dr. Stephanie combines aspects of chiropractic, heart-brain coherence, holographic manipulation therapy, and scientific principles to work with her patients and help them deal with the root causes of their health concerns. Dr. Stephanie believes there are physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual considerations to disease and its healing. With this in mind, in addition to her one-on-one work with patients, she has developed holistic healing programs that take her patients from surviving to thriving!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction

[06:12] Resolving health issues with diet and herbs

[08:00] The impact of emotional and spiritual work on healing

[09:28] Explanation of holographic manipulation therapy

[10:39] Overcoming the subconscious mind's barriers

[12:09] The role of heart coherence in healing

[13:50] Connecting trauma to physical sensations

[16:25] Revisiting initial trauma events for healing

[17:55] How parental emotions affect the fetus

[18:28] Identifying trauma from infancy

[19:33] Using metaphors to change brain perception

[20:30] Reducing emotional triggers through trauma work

[23:09] The importance of nervous system regulation

[25:40] Challenges faced by creative versus analytical minds

[26:26] Trauma responses in people

[27:51] Low-grade childhood trauma and its impact

[29:41] Shifting beliefs and identity through emotional work

[30:21] Balancing intuition and science in practice

[31:23] Meeting others with curiosity and compassion

[32:34] Preparing a safe environment for trauma work

[33:59] Addressing the connection between trauma and lifestyle

[35:14] The shift from physical to emotional root causes

[37:21] Integrating functional medicine and trauma therapy

[40:00] Moving beyond reductionist approaches

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