Hi, everybody and welcome to Coach's Corner.

Today I'm really excited to welcome my guest, Dr. Amy Epigian.

Oh my gosh, she is such an incredible resource.

She's a physician, trainer, and speaker who brings such a unique blend of science, medicine,

heart, and real life experience to the conversation of healing.

She's double-billard certified and preventative and addiction medicine and also holds a

master's degree in biochemistry and public health. In addition to her conventional medical

and surgical training, Dr. Amy has studied psychosomatic medicine, functional medicine,

and mental health nutrition. Her clinical work draws on

extensive training in somatic and relational therapies, including somatic experience, neuro-effective touch,

the instinctual trauma response model, and relational trauma repair with psychodrama. Her passion for

this work first emerged during medical school when she became a foster,

adoptive mom, an experience that gave her both a professional and personal understanding of

how deeply our biology is shaped by stress and adversity. She is the host of the Biology of Trauma

podcast, and her expertise has been featured all over the place. You can find her teaching

and sharing on YouTube, Instagram, and through her the place. You can find her teaching and sharing on YouTube,

Instagram, and through her website. And you can find her book, The Biology of Trauma, where

books are sold. Just a trigger warning before we dive in here, Dr. Amy shares a personal story

from her childhood, a traumatic moment, and how she healed that, how she basically

gave herself now, which she couldn't give herself then. But for any of you that don't want to hear

the details of that story, when she starts talking about being younger and going into the story,

you might want to skip the details of that part and pick up around 40 minutes and 51 seconds as she goes into the next topic.

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