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April 23, 2025 42 mins

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/YdEz8etKYO0

 

How does trauma live in the body and influence our long-term health?

Can suppressed emotions contribute to chronic inflammation and illness?

What’s possible when we work with the body’s natural intelligence to heal?

 

In this episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities – Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health, Dr. Adriana Popescu is joined by holistic trauma specialist Veronica Merchak to explore the connection between trauma, inflammation, and healing. Veronica shares her unique approach to helping clients process trauma, combining modalities like BodyTalk, Trauma/Tension Release Exercises (TRE), and her own method called Quantum Field Talk Therapy.

Veronica brings personal experience and professional insight into how the body stores trauma and suppressed emotions—often beneath our awareness—and how those energetic imprints can manifest in physical dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and illness. She offers hope, perspective, and practical tools to support healing and transformation at all levels, empowering us to look at what’s possible when we reconnect with the body’s natural wisdom.

 

In this episode:

• How unresolved trauma gets stored in the body and contributes to chronic inflammation

• The role of the nervous system and cellular memory in trauma

• An introduction to BodyTalk and how it helps the body communicate and heal

• The power of TRE and the body’s natural shaking mechanism for trauma release

• Quantum Field Talk Therapy

• The importance of healing collective and intergenerational trauma

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Connect with Veronica on Instagram: @veronica_lets_talk

Email: veronica.letstalk@gmail.com

Learn more about BodyTalk: https://www.bodytalksystem.com/

TRE Information: https://traumaprevention.com/

 

About Veronica: Veronica Merchak is a holistic trauma specialist, presently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her primary focus is how trauma, suppressed emotions, and the situations relating to these emotions, are kept and held in the body. She assists clients in understanding how this can result in certain physical manifestations. She is a Body Talk Practitioner and Trauma/Tension Release Provider. She also uses a talk therapy, Quantum Field Talk Therapy and as a result, she has an innovative approach as she combines these modalities and tailors them according to the client's individual needs. With the objective being to assist clients in releasing the emotional charge of trauma, as well as allowing a safe space for clients to be vulnerable and receptive as they shift their perceptions of trauma and gain a deeper understanding that their bodies are always working for them to protect them, rather than against them. 

 

“Your body is not working against you, it’s working for you.” – Veronica

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast/)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, author, speaker and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide. She is the author of the book, What If You're Not As F***d Up As You Think You Are?

 

For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/

To find the book please visit: https://whatifyourenot.com/

To learn about her trauma treatment center Firebird Healing, please visit the website: https://www.firebird-healing.com/

 

You can also follow her on social media:

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrAdrianaPopescu/

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