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August 13, 2025

Julie Brumley thought her same-race domestic adoption was trauma-free until mysterious "flashbacks to nothing" began paralyzing her during intimate moments. Despite loving adoptive parents, she carried cellular memories from surviving two abortion attempts and four different caregivers in her first seven weeks of life.

Origins 
A professor's blunt warning that unresolved adoption issues would "harm people" sent Julie on a decade-long quest to uncover trauma stored in her nervous system. She reveals how traditional talk therapy missed 80% of the healing work happening in the body.

Recovery 
Julie explains her seven-phase somatic approach that transforms people-pleasing and external validation into authentic self-belonging. She demonstrates why adoptee anger typically masks deeper grief and how body-based therapies like EMDR access primal wounds.

Impact 
This episode shows that all adoptees carry trauma regardless of circumstances, but healing is absolutely possible when we address where trauma actually lives in the body.

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