Shutdown Before Stress: The Misstep in Trauma Healing That Often Gets Missed

Healing begins when we stop pushing and start listening to what our body is trying to tell us.

In this episode, Dr. Aimie walks through the science of how trauma is stored in the body and what that means for the sequence of healing, and what can go wrong when we don’t follow the steps in the right order..

You’ll learn the key differences between stress and trauma responses, why therapy can sometimes leave you feeling worse, and how to work with your body’s natural healing process instead of against it. 

Dr. Aimie breaks down why attempting to process trauma without following the correct steps can make you feel worse. She'll guide you through the steps for trauma healing, explaining why addressing shutdown responses in the body must happen before working with the stress response. Skipping this order often leads to frustration and can even retraumatize you.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why over 90% of people live “in their heads” (and what that means for healing)
• How to tell if the body is in trauma shutdown vs. stress
• What the Critical Line of Overwhelm is and its link to chronic illness
• How stored trauma may be behind chronic symptoms
• The essential healing sequence that works with the nervous system for lasting trauma recovery
• And more!

Whether you’re a practitioner or someone navigating your own healing journey, this episode provides insights and practical tools to help you reconnect with your body’s wisdom and begin the path to healing.

 

Guides, Tools & Resources:

• Biology of Trauma book - how the body experiences and holds fear, pain and overwhelm, and how to heal - at the time of this recording, The book Insider’s Circle is open and pre-orders have gone live. You will receive over $400 worth of bonuses if you pre-order now. And if you’ve already pre-ordered it on Amazon head over here to receive your bonuses!
• The Essential Sequence - my free guide that maps out the 3 steps for safely opening up stored trauma in the body, whether that is presenting as health issues, patterns of a chronic functional freeze or frequent triggers.
• 21 Day Journey - Let me guide you through The Essential Sequence with 21 days of structured somatic self-practices that you can learn for yourself, or apply in your work in those you help. It allows you access to do the deeper work with me because you have these skills of immediately creating inner safety.

Related Podcast Episodes:

• Episode 33: When Trauma Is Hijacking Your Body: The 3 Essential Pillars For The Healing Journey with Jude Weber
• Episode 108: How The Body Stores Emotional Trauma in the Fascia and Lymphatic System with Dr. Christine Schaffner

 

Disclaimer:
By listening to this podcast, you agree not to use this podcast as medical, psychological, or mental health advice to treat any medical or psychological condition in yourself or others. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice, diag