Healing traumatic memories

The body keeps traumatic memories stored in the nervous system, cells, organs, muscle and fascia.

These unprocessed traumas can be understood as incomplete fight/flight/freeze/shutdown responses that are “stuck” in the body, waiting for completion. And this can have a negative impact on your mental, emotional and physical health.

Talk therapy can be helpful, but because it’s mostly dealing with the higher brain (prefrontal cortex), it doesn’t go deep enough in the areas of the brain that link to primal responses to trauma. That’s why it’s so important to tend to these signals somatically.

Once these unprocessed responses are completed, trapped energy is released from your nervous system. Then your body is able to reorganise and you start to feel a sense of well being and increased resilience.

This work is not a quick fix. Deep healing takes time, as pushing or going too fast will retraumatize your system.

It is also important to be aware that it took many ‘micro’ and ‘big’ traumas to get your system into the state of overwhelm that it’s presenting itself with now; so it will take a gentle, slow, yet a precise approach to get you back on track.