The Impact of Trauma on an Empath

Enlightened Empaths

Samantha Fey and Denise Correll

Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Samantha and Denise discuss the physical, emotional, and spiritual impacts of trauma. As empaths we tend to feel things on such a deep and visceral level, the short and long term effects of trauma are no exception.

According to Dr. Rochelle Suri, in an article found on Strengthtoheal.org, all causes of trauma have three aspects in common:

An external cause: It is believed trauma is inflicted from someone or something else, not self generated. There is often a suddenness and unpredictability of the situation or experience.
Violation: This refers to a feeling of being invaded, physically, emotionally or psychologically with an unwelcomed and unexpected person or situation that causes major distress.
Loss of control: Because the traumatic experience is unexpected and sudden, individuals, more often than not, are unprepared for the situation potentially resulting in a sense of feeling overwhelmed and helpless, leaving someone feeling extremely vulnerable and exposed.

Physical effects of trauma include exhaustion, confusion, sadness, anxiety, agitation, numbness, and dissociation. After experiencing trauma, the muscles can often restrict and become fatigued. Trauma stimulates the central nervous system which can cause all sorts of problems. For starters, it makes us create more cortisol which releases more sugar and impacts inflammation creating a domino of negative side effects of the body.

Though trauma and it’s effects are unique and individual to the person, it is important to recognize the impact it may have had or be having on your life in order to be able to start to heal and move forward.

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Body Never Lies by Alice Miller

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Healing the Shame that Binds by John Bradshaw

Emotional Child Abuse: The Family Curse by Joel Covitz

What Happened to You by Oprah

If you have a story or comment you’d like to share with us, please send us an email: enlightenedempaths@gmail.com or message us on our Facebook page: Enlightened Empaths. Thank you for listening and being a part of our community!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened
0:04.9	empathy, where we discuss, explore and connect with fellow
0:11.0	empathy, healers, Intuitive, and Seekers.
0:18.8	Hello enlightened Empaths, we're so happy to have you join us once again this week. We're going to be discussing trauma and what trauma does to the body, mind, and spirit.
0:29.0	So I know this can be a difficult topic for many people, I think as Empaths it's a really
0:34.8	important one to study and recognize and to really learn how it appears in
0:40.2	your life and when we talk about trauma, Denise, I don't think we're talking about trauma like getting mugged on the street. I feel like what I'm talking about and I hope we're on the same page here is more rooted in childhood trauma or feelings of being
0:56.4	abandoned, neglected, or left out.
0:58.8	Right, and I think another part to that is it may not necessarily just be from childhood.
1:06.2	We always equate deep rooted trauma and the impact of it to things that happen when we're little people but it could be something that happened in your teens in your 20s in a marriage that went sour after many years because but the thing that really is interesting is on strength to heal.org there's an article by
1:28.0	Dr Rochelle Surrey and she said all causes of trauma have three aspects in common that there's an external cause.
1:36.3	So this is that it's not inflicted on one some.
1:39.8	We don't put trauma on ourselves.
1:41.8	It's something there's an external cause or catalyst
1:45.0	that it happens to us.
1:47.2	The suddenness and unpredictability of a situation
1:49.8	or experience are often key components when we do see something as traumatic.
1:55.0	There's also a feeling of violation and this may be an intrusion into your life.
2:01.0	So you may feel that your physical emotional or psychological self into your
2:05.0	physical, emotional or psychological self has been invaded by something very unwelcome or unexpected
2:10.0	and it causes major distress.
2:12.0	And the third aspect that she mentions and it causes major distress.
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