I want to speak to you this week about something very near to my heart: healing trauma and how this can affect our physical bodies, especially our digestion.
Many people have had at least one traumatic experience, and sadly, sometimes many. Loss of a loved one, especially to sudden or accidental death. Sexual, physical, or emotional abuse. Poverty. Witnessing violence in war or even here at home.
As I grow my practice, I’m finding that a lot of my clients with digestive challenges also have a background of trauma. How are they connected?
In essence, it’s about how your body is wired to respond to stress. Sometimes, when events you witness or experience are overwhelming, your nervous system can turn on an unremitting pattern of constant vigilance.
I’ve written and spoken before about how we need to be in a place of “rest and digest” for ideal digestion to occur.
But if you’re constantly on the lookout for the next threat, you may rarely or never reach that true place of relaxation and peace that allows your body to feel safe and heal.
If you are someone who has experienced trauma, in this week’s video I share what I’m doing to heal my childhood trauma as a strategy for healing my digestive challenges, and I hope that you might learn about some options that could help you, too.
More and more, I’m finding that this is an essential part of the healing process, even though it can be challenging and needs to be addressed with great care.
Check out the video, and let me know if this helped you.
If you’ve been wishing to find a practitioner who can help you learn what you’re body is telling you it needs, I invite you to schedule a free 30-minute Assessment Session with me. In this focused session, we’ll discuss where you’re at, and what I think would be your next best steps. If I can’t help you, I’ll be sure to give you a referral to someone who can.
If you’re ready to get started supporting your digestion on your own, download your free copy of Roadmap to Gut Recovery, where I share 7 steps you can take to heal your digestion.
Had EMDR sessions in the past and realized I needed to ‘reparent’ myself. Inner Child work helped. Rereading some of the work of John Bradshaw helped to support and reawaken for me, the imagery of inner child. Holding a photo of me as a child and talking to that image and dialoguing was healing.
Knowing how I was/am as a mother helped me to quickly access my parenting skills and easily was able to work on the ‘reparenting’. Asking for what I need is a way to respect the inner child in me and it’s how I parent that inner child by not being afraid to ask for help.