This is an I-Heart podcast.

I just was like a knee-jerk reaction. I was a nerve walking around reacting to this

external stimuli that I thought it's everything

outside of me is what's ruining my life. I had no sense of like self-responsibility and

because of that, no sense of like self-efficacy.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Unine Therapy podcast. My name is Kat and I am the host of this podcast. If you don't know me, hello, it's nice to, um, what is this virtually? Is this virtually? I don't know what it is,

but it's nice to kind of somehow meet you. Um, I'm going to make this intro really, really short

today because the episode is pretty long, but it is a good freaking episode. So today, we are

talking all about trauma and the body and messaging and this thing called somatics.

And it's a lot of good information.

So I have my friend on.

Her name is Elena.

And we talk about how we met in the episode.

But she's one of my friends that I met working at a treatment center.

And in this episode, you'll hear her tell part of her story and then how she found her own

journey of healing and what worked for her.

And we kind of explain the connection of the body and the brain and movement with trauma

and with our messaging.

So I'm going to let the episode do all the work.

It is an amazing episode.

I do want to say I'm so grateful for Elena and taking a big chunk of time out of her day to come in and not come in because we did this over Zoom, which you can kind of tell with the audio

part. But I'm so grateful that she took a big chunk of time to do that. She is one of the most

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