Trauma Expert: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma | ft. Aimie Apigian HTS w/ DrG #411

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Sponsored By: → JASPR | For an exclusive offer go to jaspr.co/DRG and get $200 OFF for a limited time. → BiOptimizers | For an exclusive offer go to bioptimizers.com/drg and use code DRG to get 15% OFF Sign up for our newsletter! https://drchristiangonzalez.com/newsletter/ Trauma rewrites your nervous system at the cellular level, creating changes often mistaken for personality traits. When stress becomes inescapable, it triggers mitochondrial shutdown that affects energy production and explains sudden crashes. In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian breaks down the four stage pathway of startle, stress, freeze, and shutdown, where the crucial 15 second startle window determines whether responses become adaptive or automatic trauma patterns. She shares her retraining protocol using controlled activation and proper nervous system nutrition to rewire neural pathways faster than traditional methods. Her philosophy shifts from trauma focused excavation to life focused emergence, concentrating on living fully today rather than digging through past wounds. When your system has sufficient safety and resources, healing surfaces naturally through life's synchronicities. Stop trying to fix what's broken and start building what's alive. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D.Follow Doctor G on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ About Our Guest: Dr. Aimie Apigian is a double board-certified physician in Preventive Medicine & Addiction Medicine and creator of The Biology of Trauma methodology. She's a leading medical expert on cellular-level trauma storage who pivoted from surgery to develop a revolutionary approach to understanding how trauma becomes stored in our biology, not just psychology. • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/draimie/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-aimie-apigian • website: https://traumahealingaccelerated.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 8:04 - The Foster Care Story That Changed Everything 12:48 - "Mommy, I'm Going to Kill You Tomorrow" 32:47 - Witnessing Her Own Trauma Response in Real Time 36:43 - The Freeze Response: What Happens in Your Body 47:47 - Gazelle vs Lion: Evolution of Trauma Response 58:34 - The Dog Experiment: Why Mindset Work Isn't Enough 1:04:09 - Practical Exercise: Retrain Your Startle Response 1:14:22 - The Biology of Trauma Book Release

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0:00.0	So many different stories of this aspect of, I don't want to look. I don't want to see it. But yet what
0:04.7	happens is that we then become programmed to go from that startle all the way into the trauma response.
0:10.6	And it happens in milliseconds because it's become our neural pathway that's been learned over time.
0:16.0	If you ever feel stuck in patterns that you cannot break constantly, like anxiety, feeling emotionally numb or even exhausted,
0:22.7	and you don't have a clear reason. You know, you're probably dealing with something that most
0:26.5	people don't understand, and that is a nervous system that is stuck in a survival state. Today I'm
0:31.5	talking with Dr. Amy Apogian, a double board certified physician who has left conventional medicine
0:36.4	after discovering that trauma
0:37.9	is not just in your head. It is literally stored in your body cells and she will walk us
0:43.6	through what's actually happening inside your nervous system when you freeze, when you shut down,
0:48.3	or when you just feel like you're going through the motions of life. We're diving deep into the
0:51.9	biology of trauma, including a simple technique
0:54.2	that you can practice right now to retrain your startle response and break those automatic
0:59.9	patterns that keep you stuck in survival. Dr. Amy, hi, welcome to the show. To the show. I'm so
1:05.7	excited to be here. I'm really excited to be here. I feel like I am in the presence of someone who's
1:10.1	great, who's on the presence of someone who's great,
1:11.2	who's on the cutting edge, who has foresight. And so it really means a lot for me to be,
1:16.1	to be here and in your company. My heart is exploding. And my heart's also exploding because
1:20.9	I'm excited to ask you these rapid fire questions that I wrote up for you. Are you ready? Rapid
1:24.9	Fire? Let's do it. Okay. Really quick, what is the biggest myth about trauma that keeps people suffering unnecessarily?
1:32.7	That it's only in their mind and not something that their body holds.
1:36.7	If you can't afford therapy, what's one technique that someone can start healing through trauma?
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