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Dissociation

Dissociation is one way that our brain keeps us safe from things that may cause us stress or harm. Whether it’s a simple moment of daydreaming or constant state of dissociation in an abusive relationship, being cognitively and physically disconnected is not conducive to healing.

During this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer and Elisabeth discuss the spectrum of dissociation and how it can affect the interoceptive system, or how we process and send information to the brain. They go over the symptoms of dissociation, sharing their personal experiences of dissociation related to childhood trauma.

Our survival brain sees healing as a threat, but there are ways to rehab the deficits in the nervous system to give more clear information to the brain, helping us to think and see more clearly. For example, training our interoceptive system can fight our hypersensitivity to threats and bring us out of disassociation.

To learn what tools can help you retrain your nervous system and the learned conditioned responses that are no longer serving you, tune in to this episode!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Misconceptions about dissociation
The definition of dissociation and its symptoms
Dissociation as a protective mechanism
How the interoceptive system works
Dissociation and the freeze response
How dissociation affects the body and how we feel pain
The link to avoidance behavior
Tools to bring yourself back from a state of dissociation
Body dysmorphia and deficits in the visual system
Living in the body to find a safe place to feel and heal
Dissociation as an effect of peak somatic experiences

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enDecember 18, 2023

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Attachment is the Root of Complex Trauma

Our last episode introduced the brain as a social organ, and how this topic relates to the neurobiology of relationships. Today, we dive deeper into how the brain develops through social interactions, why social connection is a survival need, and what happens in the body when we experience connection with other people.

Matt Bush is joining Jennifer and Elisabeth to discuss the impact of trauma on the brain’s functioning, and therefore, our relationships, expression, sense of safety, and overall health. They talk about what happens when you’re not primed for connection in childhood, how the brain is wired to be part of the social structure in relationships, what part of the brain guides us toward dysregulation and protective outputs, and lots more.

If any of this sounds confusing, be sure to listen for Matt’s definitions of attachment schema and C-PTSD from a neurosomatic perspective, which make it easier to understand how these systems and inputs come together for integration.

You’ll also finally learn why complex trauma is an attachment would, and most importantly, that change is possible and how you can get started NOW. Tune in for all this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

The impact of attachment patterns on brain function
How the brain develops through social interactions
The role of the insular cortex
John Bowlby’s attachment theory
How a mother’s nervous system impacts a child’s
The resiliency of our nervous system
Attachment styles and Bowlby’s experiment
Matt’s neurosomatic definition of attachment schema and C-PTSD
How we can rewire attachment

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enDecember 04, 2023

Dissociation

enNovember 08, 2022

What is CPTSD?

Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is only recently beginning to be recognized thanks to the Healing Revolution but its roots actually go back to Freud in the 1800’s. Complex CPTSD sets itself apart from PTSD by five distinguishing trauma responses and likely stems from an adverse childhood experience, a developmental trauma, a failed environment.

With brain science coming so far in the past twenty years we are now more clear about how trauma affects a developing young brain. Stress, trauma, and unresolved stress responses create a dysfunctional brain. When our bodies are more stressed it can create a chronic illness or disease state within the body. It’s all just one giant loop.

How can we understand this in our own life? Maybe you will find yourself within Jennifer and Elisabeth's stories or their clients' stories. And understand what you may have thought was a personality trait is actually a trauma response.

This conversation discusses

What is CPTSD
The difference between CPTSD & PTSD
Dr. Judith Herman, Dr. Pete Walker
Emotional Flashbacks, Toxic Shame, Self Abandonment, Inner Critic, and Social Anxiety
Possible causes of CPTSD including early childhood sexual trauma
Our experiences with CPTSD
Emotional neglect is a core wound
Development of the fundamental belief system
Babies don’t have complex understanding of the world around them
All abandonment is self abandonment
Working with your nervous system to build awareness and recognize trauma responses
Nervous system regulation
How does CPTSD challenge society?

This conversation is the beginning of a long conversation about CPTSD as we will be breaking down its components individually.

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enSeptember 20, 2022

Navigating Grief, Trauma, and Healing; Jennifer's story

Please meet my client Jennifer who shares her journey of grief and nervous sytem healing in this candid conversation.

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enSeptember 13, 2022

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Safe or Unsafe

Today's short focuses on safe or unsafe? The question your old brain is asking at a rate that we can't even comprehend. This primal part of your brain is only focused on one thing - your survival - relying on all of the input systems, past experiences and much more. Learn how it doesn't know the difference between a real threat or percieved threat.

This short references Illuminated S1 E24 The Neurology of Pain with Elisabeth Kristof.

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enSeptember 09, 2022

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Freeze: the Trauma Resposne

enSeptember 06, 2022

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Intuition & Your Nervous System

enAugust 30, 2022

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Fight: Trauma Response

It is our brain’s job to protect us against danger. Whether that is a real or perceived threat, the brain will activate and will result in an action, or inaction. This isn’t the most effective way to be protected for people who have experienced trauma, because that trauma is stored so deep in our subconscious, that the threat response can activate in the absence of a real threat but in the presence of a trigger.

There is no way to avoid having your trauma retriggered and your nervous system regulated at all times. These are lived experiences that have sown their way into our nervous systems, but we can implement tools to regulate in the face of a response that may be harmful to others or yourself.

Specifically the fight trauma response. This can be one of the most damaging to our relationships and our bodies. Creating chaos in moments of intimacy with others, or chaos within our bodies, can lead to living an unfulfilling life. There is a way out of this, and that is what we want to talk about on today’s episode.

Jennifer and Elisabeth sit down to speak about fight response and how it manifested in their lives. As well as tools you can use to help yourself move the anger through your body. They worked with their nervous system and learned how to identify when they were in fight mode and how to regulate it in that moment. They now want to share this knowledge with you.

Tune in to hear their stories and how you can start your journey to a regulated nervous system.

Topics discussed in this episode:

What happens in your body when in fight response
How fight response is automatic without cognitive awareness
Benefits of creating a new relationship with fight response
Four ways people respond to anger
How feelings of unsafety in yourself can make others feel unsafe
How trauma responses can be misidentified as a personality trait
Reparenting yourself during a trauma response
How to move anger through the body
What happens to your body when you express emotion
The truth about how dysregulation does not stop

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enAugust 16, 2022

Neurosomatic Intellligence II

The untapped potential of the nervous system is a point we want to address. The way we move through our lives can be exponentially improved by implementing the right tools to train the brain to regulate itself in times of usual distress. These tools can be life changing and could possibly even save someone’s life.

Neurosomatic Intelligence coaching is a joint effort between Melanie Weller, Elisabeth Kristoff, and Matt Bush, who have created this program for anyone that creates space working with people in a therapeutic or non therapeutic environment. This type of coaching can be integrated in your current coaching paradigm to amplify the results you are trying to achieve.

The premise is that everything starts and ends with your nervous system, so no matter where you are implementing this type of work, it will be impactful. Neurosomatic Intelligence can help people feel safer in their bodies, whether they have big T or small T trauma, everyone can benefit greatly from this work.

In today’s episode, join us in conversation as we discuss the Neurosomatic Intelligence coaching program and how it has impacted our lives as well as the lives of our clients. We discuss how it can be implemented and its effectiveness in treating a wide range of issues from mental health to physical pain.

Tune in to hear how you can level up your services by providing this deep level of healing!

Topics discussed in this episode:

How Neurosomatic Intelligence can positively impact your business
Being able to trust with a regulated nervous system to allow for safe spaces
Productivity and focus amplified with a regulated nervous system
How practice and integration is key to allowing your subconscious to regulate
A story about self abandonment
How Neurosomatic Intelligence allows for integration at a rapid pace
Importance of dosage and pace of intervention
Ineffectiveness of medication in depression
How the Neurosomatic Intelligence coaching program came about
The untapped potential of the nervous system

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enAugust 09, 2022

Addiction and Trauma

Society paints addiction as an individual character flaw, pointing the blame solely on the person who is experiencing the addiction. However, addiction is much more nuanced than that. Especially since we live in a highly dysregulated world, addiction should be expected. Trying to function in society while needing to dissociate has become a part of our collective culture. Since our nervous systems are on overdrive with the amount of sensory overload that is thrown our way, coupled with unresolved personal and collective trauma, finding ways to regulate the nervous system can become a means for survival. So, in that sentiment, addiction is far more than an individual character flaw, it's a systemic issue, which should be part of the conversation.

In today’s episode, co-host Elisabeth Kristoff gives her personal account of dealing with addiction and mental health issues, and how Applied Neurology helped in her healing journey. Elisabeth goes over how addiction played out in her life as well as what happens to the nervous system and brain at a neurological level when dealing with addiction. Although alcohol helps to depress the nervous system, the trauma that is being dampened in that moment still lives in the body and needs a way out. After many hospital visits, Elisabeth is now in sobriety and able to tell her story to help others who are in the same place as she used to be to heal from their trauma and addiction.

Tune in for a vulnerable conversation about what addiction really means on a personal and neurological level as well as tools that could help in coming out of addiction and into sobriety.

Topics discussed in this episode:

What is addiction really
The protective nature of addiction
Why we get stuck in addictive behaviors
Difference between dependence and addiction
Elisabeth’s addiction journey
The connection between alcohol and food addiction
The neurology of addiction
Addiction as a spectrum
The areas of the brain that are driving addictive behaviors
What is the celiac plexus and its role in addiction
How we live in a dysregulated society
How Applied Neurology and somatics helped
How socioeconomic status and race play a role in addiction
Addiction as a nervous system blanket

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enAugust 02, 2022

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Flight: The Trauma Response

Flight: A Trauma Response

Season 02, Episode 07

Arriving early, leaving late, overthinking, can’t sit still, breathing quickly, and always keeping busy, are just a few examples of how the flight trauma response can manifest in our lives. This response is biologically built in to keep us safe from harm, but what if that harm is perceived and doesn’t require fleeing the scene? This can be detrimental to our personal and professional lives and keep us in a state of high alert with stress hormones coursing through our bodies that can be quite harmful.

In order to combat this trauma response, the nervous system must be regulated, but it is difficult to do that when we can’t pinpoint whether the response is flight or what the trigger is. The first step is to understand the response, and come back to the body to understand the sensations that come with it.

This is where applied neurology has proven beneficial to create a safe container for nervous system regulation to allow those of us with this response to come out on the other side with the tools and ability to self regulate. Regulate so we can have that hard conversation without leaving half way through or to be able to finally relax and dig our feet in the sand while soaking up the sun.

In this episode, hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff of Brain Based Wellness share their personal experiences with flight response and how it affected their lives when they didn’t have the tools to regulate.

Tune in for information about tools on how to recognize and regulate the flight trauma response sensations to be able to live a full and expansive life!

“Living a life of growth and expansion is as simple as living in your nervous system.” - Jennifer Wallace

Topics discussed in this episode:

What is a flight trauma response
What you can do to develop an awareness of this response and how to regulate it
What role does respiration play
Behaviors associated with flight response
Jennifer and Elisabeth’s personal experiences with flight
The physiological response that happens during flight response
How applied neurology can help regulate the nervous system
How breathwork during flight may not be right for you
Best tools to get out of flight response
How to deal with triggers in relationships

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enJuly 19, 2022