What if I told you that trauma isn't just something soldiers bring back from war or victims

carry from violence, but something most of us are carrying, quietly, invisibly, every day?

What if I told you it can show up as perfectionism, people pleasing, procrastination, or even ambition?

Today we're not just talking about trauma.

We're unpacking the invisible luggage we didn't even know we were dragging through life.

And by the end of this episode, you might just start to understand why you feel the way you do

and what healing really looks like.

That and more on the Almost Awakened podcast.

Healing begins in the body, but awakening touches everything, relationships, purpose, identity,

pleasure, and truth. Join Bill Real and Teresa Hobbs as they explore the real work of becoming a healthier you.

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And I am Teresa Hobbs.

And grateful for the chance to sit down with you today.

Last week we talked about the nervous system, and we discussed trauma and how our body response

to that trauma.

Some of those responses are in the what's called dorsal or shutdown sort of reactions.

Some of them, the ventral or ventral vagal is sort of the standard healthy way that we

show up and handle things that happen to us. What's the third one where we want to fight and we want to

yell and scream and push back against something. Yeah, that's our sympathetic

part of our nervous system and that's our fight flight. And then we also have a combination,

which is the freeze response, which is a combination of sympathetic and that dorsal shutdown

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