The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie

This episode explores how creativity, particularly poetry, can rewire the nervous system to promote healing, emotional safety, and self-love, featuring an interview with poet Adam Roa about his journey and impact.

This episode explores how attachment patterns from childhood affect the body's systems and offers insights into repairing attachment wounds.

This episode explores the biological mechanisms behind decision fatigue, explaining why even successful individuals can feel overwhelmed by simple choices like picking cereal, through concepts like neuroception and nervous system responses.

This episode explores how unresolved trauma manifests as physical symptoms like brain fog, challenging the notion of resilience when the body remains impacted by past experiences.

This episode explores how soul contracts and spiritual concepts intersect with biological trauma responses to build resilience and healing capacity.

This episode explores the biological mechanisms through which unprocessed trauma leads to chronic illness, focusing on how stress dysregulates the nervous system at a cellular level.

This episode explores how unresolved trauma from decades ago can biologically impact the body, featuring Harvard researcher Dr.

This episode explains why New Year's resolutions often fail due to biological survival strategies rather than lack of willpower, using the example of Rachel's repeated struggles with late-night eating.

This episode explores how essential oils, particularly through smell, can regulate the nervous system to help process grief and trauma, featuring Jodi Cohen's personal experience and scientific insights.

This episode explores why buried trauma resurfaces during menopause through the lens of Chinese medicine and nervous system science.

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This episode explores how nervous system dysregulation and trauma affect breast cancer risk in BRCA gene carriers, using a listener's personal story to examine why individuals with the same genetic mutation can have different health outcomes.

This episode explores how trauma and nervous system regulation can worsen symptoms of genetic diseases like MEN1, with insights from a physician and patient perspective.

This episode features an unscripted conversation about navigating family dynamics when personal growth creates tension with unchanged family members, focusing on practical strategies for maintaining boundaries and self-care.

This episode explores the physiological differences between stress and trauma, explaining how trauma gets stored in the body and affects long-term health through mechanisms like the gut-brain connection and inflammation.

This episode explores how stem cells can repair cellular damage from stress and trauma, featuring an interview with Dr.

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This episode explores how trauma disrupts movement and causes chronic functional freeze, using a patient case study to explain why even successful people can remain stuck in survival patterns and outlining a healing roadmap.

This episode explores the biological mechanisms behind why people often lose weight after leaving toxic relationships, focusing on stress responses and metabolism changes.

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This episode explores how childhood trauma shapes adult behaviors and coping mechanisms, featuring an interview with Dr.

This episode explores the speaker's personal struggle with goodbyes and closure, revealing how avoidance patterns stem from unprocessed grief and the importance of creating safety to understand these emotional responses.

This episode explores how understanding the biology of burnout and learned helplessness can help individuals recover from chronic stress and trauma, using patient stories and scientific studies.

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This episode explores how two mothers diagnosed with breast cancer found healing by addressing the underlying biology of trauma and nervous system regulation.

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This episode explores how traditional trauma therapy approaches focusing on mindset may overlook biological factors like cellular stress capacity and physical health limitations in emotional healing.

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This episode explores how being praised for resilience can actually indicate stored trauma that contributes to chronic illness, examining the biological differences between stress and trauma.

This episode explores the biological underpinnings of burnout through a personal patient story, challenging conventional self-care approaches.

This episode features Keisha's story of overcoming 30 years of chronic autoimmune illness through somatic healing and addressing trauma patterns in the nervous system.

This episode explores the physiological and emotional reasons why setting boundaries and saying no can feel dangerous, focusing on nervous system responses and family dynamics.

This episode explores how trauma history affects perimenopause symptoms and offers tools for healing, featuring an interview with women's health expert Dr.

This episode explores the biological role of dopamine in addictive behaviors and why people continue harmful actions despite knowing the consequences.

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This episode explains the biology of the freeze response, its connection to brain fog, and how recognizing it is crucial for addressing chronic trauma and overwhelm.

This episode explores how chronic functional freeze manifests as emotional avoidance during overwhelm, connecting it to biological responses like sugar cravings and sharing personal insights from the host's experience as a physician.

This episode explores why small demands can feel overwhelming by examining the biological concept of capacity and how the nervous system's energy reserves affect our ability to handle stress.

This episode explores alternative causes of depression, such as nutrient deficiencies and inflammation, and discusses lab tests to consider before relying solely on antidepressants.

This episode explores how chronic busyness and perfectionism can be signs of stored trauma in the nervous system, using a case study of a successful but exhausted mother to illustrate the biological mechanisms behind this pattern.

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This episode explores how a 2009 study revealed that mothers with insecure attachment show minimal dopamine response to their own babies, linking attachment styles to dopamine regulation and potential addiction risks.

This episode promotes time-sensitive bundles for the host's book on trauma healing, offering workbooks, courses, and intensives to help listeners understand and implement the concepts.

This episode explores how hustle culture can stem from a need to prove self-worth through overwork, discussing its roots in family dynamics and the importance of therapy for healing.

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This episode explores how autoimmune disease is linked to long-term trauma, particularly childhood trauma, framing it as a biological message from the body about safety.

This mini-episode addresses a listener's question about the biological effects of the cry-it-out method on babies, explaining how it programs brain immune cells for danger and links to later anxiety and depression.

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