Trauma is life events that are too much, too soon, or too fast for our nervous system to complete a successful survival to safety response.

My name is Andrea and this is an adult child. What's making you're holding on to? Just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Welcome back to an adult child,

where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy, my dear shit shows for any new listeners, my name is Andrea.

I am a total incomplete shit show. I am the captain of this Hot Mess Express and this is where we talk about what the hell to do when you realize that your childhood

fucked you up a whole lot more than you initially thought it did.

We curse here, you've been warned.

I'm an acquired taste, you've been warned.

So welcome aboard, buckle up, it gets weird here sometimes, okay? So today we are

diving deep with Carden Raben, so he is a somatic practitioner. He is the the co-founder of Somea International where he offers various nervous system regulation courses.

He is also the author of the newly published book y'all, the secret language of the body.

Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, free your mind.

That's a pretty solid subtitle there.

Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, free your mind.

Who the hell wouldn't want that, right?

So if you listen to this past shit show Saturday's episode,

chronic neck and shoulder pain

for many, many years,

it does not like keep me from doing anything, but by the end of the day, every day, I'm hurting. It's been slowly getting worse and I've been meaning to deal with this for years.

I've been meaning to go to physical therapy for it and so finally a couple months ago I started going to

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