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Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,

where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.

Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the

capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,

we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.

So, are you ready to recover from reality?

When you experience trauma at any point in your life, but especially in the first seven

years or even up to the first 12 years, your limbic system and your brain actually gets damaged,

and those traumas get stored there and what happens is, later in life, you get triggered by

things whether consciously or unconsciously, and that sets you in this limbic system trauma loop,

where your body is constantly flooding you with adrenaline and cortisol inappropriately,

in situations that don't call for that level of chemical download for protection, right?

So, going back to pre-domestication, you run into someone from an opposing tribe and there's

a standoff and you know, the threat of violence or even there is violence or you become prey for

animals out in the wild, etc. and then your nervous system activates in order to protect you and

then that threat subsides and you're able to recover and move on with your life, but because of

the way we live, especially those of us that live in cities, we have this trauma that's never healed

or worked out of our bodies and ever healed in our physical brain, and then we continue to live in

an environment and create relationships and patterns out of that initial trauma that continues to

traumatize us.

That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Luke's story. I'm going to give you guys a

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