Gut feeling & trauma

You are born with your own navigation system. The famous gut feeling. 
The gut also happens to be the place we often store unresolved deep emotions and traumas.

When trauma hasn’t been somatically integrated it can be quite confusing to access the gut feeling, because your body has layers and layers of fixed self protective patterns. 

At times you might feel you are accessing your gut feeling when in fact you are answering to these fixed patterns.

Your gut feeling is sitting behind layers of self protection and for people who have been through a lot of trauma and/or long term stressful situations these protective patterns are quite “solidified”. 

There is nothing wrong with this. It’s a sign that your body and nervous system have been working FOR you. These protective layers were developed over time to help you avoid further trauma and pain. 

To reach your true gut feeling is extremely important to access these fixed patterns slowly, in a safe manner, to discharge residual stress responses, so that integration can happen in ways that are not retraumatizing.