Trauma Rewired

It's the fourth and final day of Jennifer's ayahuasca retreat and, in this short and sweet episode, she shares why she bridges neurosomatic intelligence with psychedelic integration.   By training and reprogramming your nervous system, you will discover that anything is possible. You already embody the capacity for change. Add a powerhouse plant medicine like ayahuasca, which only increases that c...

Humans are a social species, and we crave human connection and intimacy. Even when our nervous system has been severely affected by trauma, we ultimately need to socialize in order to feel fulfilled and meet all of our survival needs.   But how does someone living in a chronic state of stress, cycling through the stages of a dysregulated nervous system, balance this need for socialization while al...

This account of Jennifer's second to last ceremony is arguably the most profound, in that it highlighted the complete integration and release of the previous ceremonies, and there is hope.  In today's short episode, you will hear Jennifer so eloquently narrate the journey through "jaw surgery" in the maloka, and her resurrection from the experience. The clarity, bliss, and awareness, created a new...

In the first short episode detailing Jennifer's ayahuasca experience, she shared her intentions for healing. In this next installment, you'll hear her firsthand account of how she, with help from two shamans, was able to retrieve her soul and restore a feeling of safety.   After drinking the ayahuasca tea and being enveloped in the impassioned sounds of Maestros Maricella and Francisco singing ica...

In this short episode, Jennifer recounts her powerful healing experience at an ayahuasca retreat on the beaches of Costa Rica. Contrary to Western medicine, ayahuasca treatment focuses on the energetic body to open a pathway to healing.   Containing the potent psychoactive DMT, this psychedelic is brewed with tea and drank to induce altered states of consciousness. Ayahuasca can bring undiscovered...

Emotional Flashbacks: CPTSD Element Season 02, Episode 21   The nervous system is our body's control center, telling us when to move, think, and breathe. Disorders like CPTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder), put our bodies in a state of dysregulation that can have profound effects on how we feel and react.   Human emotions are a full system experience, affecting the entire body by way of...

The Magic Tea & the Tumor  Season 02, Episode 20   We, as humans, are more powerful than we can fathom. We have the ability to heal with our minds and our bodies at such high levels, only when given the opportunity.    Sometimes, to get to that awareness, it takes opening up parts of our minds that have been dormant for a long time. That is where plant medicine comes in.    Plant medicine, when us...

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...

Mental Health Crisis, Trauma, Psychedelics .... big words during these times. Plant medicicne is not a quick fix and the lack of support on the backend during integration is staggering. I know because I've been to the best centers and even theyre trying to figure it out. There are people who understand integration but they aren't often trained in nervous system regulation and healing.  Join me as...

Please meet my client Jennifer who shares her journey of grief and nervous sytem healing in this candid conversation.    Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren't serving you!   Work with Jennifer:     https://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Insta...

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 Neu...

What we do we get better at. It's neither good nor bad it just is. Same with neuroplasticity. So after exploring this simple principle and the physiological truth that is neuroplasticity can you turn to your own life with a better understanding?  It's just you and me for this little quickie.  Find me on IG: @trauma.rewired    Free Consultation  https://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Athletic Greens off...

Remember the first time we told you Bingeing is a surivival output from a well functioning nervous system? Well, we're back to talk about what it looks like to resolve our disordered eating and what it's like to eat intuitively.  This is a follow up conversation to the very first episode we recorded. You will find Part 1 in Season One of Illumianted.    Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intell...

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 presenc...

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...

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 detriment...

Trauma Rewired: The Science of Applied Neurology Season 02, Episode 05 The same tools you use to rehabilitate your knee can also be applied to decreasing anxiety. Our bodies are incredibly intelligent machines wired to keep us alive and thriving, but what if that same wiring that is there to protect us, works against us in ways we aren't aware of? In the same breath, what if that same knowledge is...

In this episode we will be discussing the least understood, and most insidious four F's in trauma response, fawn.  This survival adaptation is difficult to pinpoint, because fawn can often be confused with empathy or general care, but if not dealt with, can get to a toxic level for the fawner. Neglecting yourself for the sake of others can cause chronic issues, not only in the body, but in creatin...

Did you know you can measure your life expectancy by taking a short quiz about childhood experiences? Depending on the score, your lifespan either increases or decreases by 20 years!  Advances in science have found a link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and poor physical and mental health later in life. This distinction has been difficult to prove, but thanks to Dr. Vincent Filetti's...

Trauma Rewired: How Trauma Lives In The Body Season 02, Episode 02] There is a fundamental key to healing trauma that is often overlooked, but crucial to move from survival mode to a balanced fulfilling life. That is, understanding that our bodies have a highly intellectual memory system that holds on to trauma for years. We focus so much on the mind, but neglect the intricacies of our physiology...