What Is Trauma? The Mind-Mitochondria Connection with Dr. Keesha Ewers

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Chronicfatigue, Energy, Hypothyroidism, Fatigue, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Chronicfatiguesyndrome, Adrenalfatigue, Howtoincreaseenergy, Adrenals, Hashimotos

4.7 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m speaking with Dr. Keesha Ewers, a trauma-informed therapist who shares her deeply personal story that led to a life of self-transformation, education, and the mind-mitochondria connection.

In this podcast, Dr. Keesha and I discuss:

The life-changing differences between PTSD and post-traumatic growth…and how to skew your experiences toward growth versus stress
Current problems with plant medicine and the significant step this trend is missing
The toxic mistake you might be making (and passing on to your kids) that’s holding you back from healthy cognitive and emotional capabilities
The missing step of limbic system retraining that everyone’s missing!
The indisputable connection between your mind, emotions, and mitochondrial function…and a practical step to take you from muck to unstuck

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint Podcast.
0:09.6	With me today is Dr. Keisha Ewers, who is a board-certified functional medicine practitioner,
0:14.6	a doctor of sexology, a trauma-informed psychotherapist, a MAP certified MDMA assisted psychotherapy therapist, a conscious
0:23.5	dying doula, and the founder and medical director of the Academy for Integrative Medicine
0:28.7	Health Coach certification program. Dr. Ewers has been in the medical field for over 30 years,
0:34.6	and after conducting the Hurt study, the H-U-R-T study in 2013, that stands for
0:41.3	healing unresolved trauma, she developed the Hurt model for understanding how past childhood trauma
0:49.3	impacts adult health. This is a wonderful conversation. I think you get a lot of value from it,
0:55.8	especially hearing her thoughts on trauma and psychological and emotional resilience. So
1:03.3	enjoy this podcast with Dr. Kisha Ewers. Dr. Ewers, welcome back. It is such a pleasure to get to
1:09.7	chat with you again. you're one of my favorite
1:11.8	people to have a conversation with so um welcome thank you it's so great to be here and likewise
1:17.5	okay so first of all you have a very very interesting background a very diverse background you've done a lot
1:26.4	of different stuff you've been involved in trauma, in psychotherapy. You are a death doula, which I think is super cool and is a really important aspect of, I think it's a really important aspect of human life that we are really neglecting in the modern Western world. And so I think
1:48.1	it's amazing that you've gone deep in that area. Tell us your story. I want people to hear
1:55.2	your background and how you came to do what you do. Well, like everyone, there's always a reason, right?
2:03.7	So I started out as a as an RN at the age of 19, and I was kind of pulled towards the high
2:12.1	adrenaline junky sort of life in the ICU and did a lot of skydiving and marathon running in that decade of my life.
2:21.5	And then I got diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was in my early 30s.
2:26.0	I'd had four children.
2:27.9	And I was in that like trying to be perfect wife, perfect mother, perfect everything, people
2:34.0	pleasing. All
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