This is feminist wellness and I'm your host nurse practitioner functional medicine expert and life coach Victoria Albina.

I'll show you how to get unstuck, drop the anxiety, perfectionism and codependency so you can live from your beautiful heart.

Welcome, my love. Let's get started. so you can live from your beautiful heart.

Welcome, my love.

Let's get started.

Hello, my love.

I hope this finds you doing so well. Welcome back. We're continuing our

multi-part series on trauma and intuition. If you haven't listened to the

first two episodes Trauma 101, Intuition 101, then you know you do you, you're grown, but I would invite you to consider pressing pause and going to listen to those episodes and then coming on back here after that.

Maybe make a cup of tea, check in with your breath along the way.

So as a quick recap, trauma is our mind bodies super amazing and totally natural normal

mammalian response to nervous system overwhelm. When the world presents more

than our nervous systems can integrate.

When we don't get the co-regulation or calming support we need to feel okay in a scary moment,

then our nervous systems get activated into the sympathetic state known as fight or flight

ruled by adrenaline and eventually cortisol our stress hormones and if we continued to

feel scared, alone,

unattuned to, we can go into dorsal,

the freeze state of the nervous system.

And we call that a trauma response. Trauma can present itself in in your face waves like

the after effects of being involved in a major car crash for example or in the

equally intense but slow burn response to being chronically undercared for or cared for in ways that don't actually resonate for us by the grownups in our lives, as is so often the case, in homes ruled by emotional outsourcing.

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