The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie

I don't ask about your past. Here's what I ask

I do not ask about your past. I do not get out the checklist of adverse childhood experiences. I am not calculating your ACE score. And I know how strange that sounds com

Why Depression May Be an Early Sign of Autoimmunity

Your labs confirmed the autoimmune diagnosis. The hardest symptom turned out to be the one nobody prepared you for. Dr. Aimie goes solo on depression and autoimmunity, a

Gut or thyroid first in chronic freeze? Dr. Amie Hornaman

You have been doing the work. The therapy, the somatic practices, the self-care. And your body still will not come online. You have also been doing the gut protocol. Mo

Stuck in Freeze? The Thyroid Piece Nobody Checked

You have been doing the work. You understand your patterns. And you are still waking up unable to face the day. When the body decides survival is the priority, it stops

Can I Recover From Medical Trauma? Dr. Jim Jackson (Part 2)

Most trauma has a place you can avoid. Medical trauma lives inside your body, so there is nowhere to go. Dr. Aimie sits down with Dr. James Jackson for the second half o

Medical Trauma Has a Name, with Dr. Jim Jackson (Part 1)

A hospital saved your life, and now you plan your route so you do not drive past it. That has a name, and the name is medical trauma.  Medical trauma is a trauma respons

What Type of Anxiety Do I Have? Dr. Nicole Cain (Part 2)

A new mom was losing weight without trying. Her heart raced. Waves of panic arrived without warning. Her doctor congratulated her on the weight and offered her something

Why Do I Feel Anxious for No Reason? with Dr. Nicole Cain (Part 1)

You feel anxious. Nothing has happened. Nothing is wrong on paper. Dr. Aimie learned in the emergency room that anxiety is never one thing. Someone would come in and say

Is Not Trying Laziness, or Survival? With Josh Trent (Part 2)

You know the thing that would help. You have known for a while. You still have not done it. Dr. Aimie recognized herself in the research on learned helplessness. For a

Josh Trent on Why We Escape Instead of Rest (Part 1)

You finally have an evening with nothing in it. Twenty minutes later you are on your phone. Josh Trent spent most of his life in a body that did not know how to rest. A

Why Do I Crash Every Time I Finally Slow Down?

Why do I crash every time I finally slow down? Maybe you feel fine all week, then crash on the weekend. Maybe an open Saturday fills you with a quiet dread. So you fill i

Grieving Is a Skill: HRV, Intention, and the Biology of Resilience with Dr. David Rabin (Part 2)

Most of us were told to grieve, to rest, to be present. Nobody taught us the skill. In Part 2, Dr. Aimie and neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin get into heart rate variabilit

Why Stress Was Never the Enemy, with Dr. David Rabin (Part 1)

Stress was never the enemy. Your body was built to use it. What wears the body down is chronic stress with no recovery on the other side. Translational neuroscientist Dr.

EP 181: What Your Food Cravings Reveal About What You Survived | Dr. Tian Dayton

Cravings point to a need underneath. This episode covers the three unmet needs behind food. It looks at the childhood roots of reaching for it. And it helps you tell stre

EP 180: Is Your Acid Reflux a Nervous System Problem? | Molly Pelletier

An early read on your nervous system explains why reflux holds on. This episode covers reflux hypersensitivity, lost hunger and fullness cues, and the somatic tools that

EP 179: Why Do Adoptees Struggle With Addiction? | Lisa Coppola

This is where adoption, attachment, and addiction meet. An early attachment rupture leaves the nervous system braced and hypervigilant. A substance can feel like the firs

EP 178: What Your Eyes Reveal About Your Attachment & Stress | Dr. Bryce Appelbaum

Vision is one of the primary signals your nervous system reads for safety or danger. Under stress, peripheral vision collapses and the body locks into central focus. Dr.

EP 177: Beyond Anxious and Avoidant: 6 Attachment Wounds Your Body Learned Before You Had Words

Attachment is a survival imprint that lives in the body, encoded before you had language. In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian walks through the 6 hidden attachment pains,

EP 176: Smart, Strong, and Still Crashing? Why Regulation Matters — 3 Women's Stories

Information alone does not resolve nervous system dysregulation. The body comes out of stored trauma in a precise three-step sequence: Safety, Support, Expansion. Skippin

EP 175: What Fear Does to Your Immune System: 4 Adaptive Patterns

Metabolic syndrome, long-haul syndromes, hypersensitivity, and autoimmunity are four ways the immune system adapts to a nervous system living in fear. Each one is the im