Dr. Aimie

Dr. Aimie 🩺Medical Expert on Stored Trauma In the Body
💜 Here to safely guide you down a clear path towards healing.

Childhood Trauma & Attachment Physician
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My new family. Gozo and Kiva.I was not planning on getting two and now it seems perfect.They both urgently needed homes....
06/04/2026

My new family. Gozo and Kiva.

I was not planning on getting two and now it seems perfect.

They both urgently needed homes. Kiva coming from a family who loved her well since a puppy, but circumstances have changed.

Gozo is coming from a very rough start to life. What a survivor. He is still healing. He was very sick, nurtured by a foster family for the last month, and now gets to experience, calm and cuddles – something he never had in his early life but now can’t get enough of.

So we three misfits have become a family overnight.

The house is louder, hairier, and a lot more alive.

Kiva has brought a steady presence. Gozo has brought joy.

I wish Amada were here to see this and be part of this family. But every day I send her love and gratitude for the time with me. She will always be in my heart as I start this new chapter.

Is it the most fragile ones that break down? Or is it the ones who have needed to be the strongest? We tend to assume th...
06/03/2026

Is it the most fragile ones that break down? Or is it the ones who have needed to be the strongest?

We tend to assume the people whose bodies break down were the more fragile ones. The sensitive ones. The ones who couldn't handle it.

It's usually the opposite.

It's usually the strongest ones. The capable, the dependable, the ones who kept going long after they should have stopped.

Sherry is a clinical psychologist. Tricia is a leadership coach. Alexia is an early-childhood specialist. Three women, three countries, all of them accomplished, all of them doing everything right.

And their bodies still gave out. Trecia spent about three years mostly in bed. Alexia kept getting diagnoses she couldn't make sense of. Sheri got her doctorate and crashed again, back into a pattern she'd known since she was a little girl.

Being the strong one has a cost. It forms a biology of trauma that keeps us stuck.

When they each started working with their nervous system, they described the same shifts. In the same order.

There is a science and sequence to regulation
Their stories are in this week's episode of the Biology of Trauma® podcast.

Comment 176 to listen or watch - whatever your preference!

06/02/2026

Here is what most people get wrong about stress.

It is your growth zone. It is the energy that helps you rise to a challenge.
Your muscles grow.
Your body can come back from it stronger.

The trouble starts when you cross into overwhelm. That is the physiology where you burn out, where discouragement and depletion set in, where the health issues flare.

So the next time you catch yourself numbing, avoiding, or distracting, read it as information.

Your body is doing its job. It has crossed a line and it is asking for support.

The question that changes things is not “what is stressing me out.”

It is “what is overwhelming me.”

Save this for the next time your body sends that signal.

I am speaking at the AAND 2026 Conference this Saturday, June 6.The theme is Sustainable Healing in a Changing World.My ...
06/02/2026

I am speaking at the AAND 2026 Conference this Saturday, June 6.

The theme is Sustainable Healing in a Changing World.

My breakout explores the nervous system science underneath it. Together we will look at the biology of trauma and what the body needs.

It is an honor to share this work with naturopathic doctors in Calgary.

Registration is linked in the comment section. 💜

You used to be more resilient. Now travel, food, poor sleep, and stress set off bigger reactions than they used to.Menop...
06/01/2026

You used to be more resilient. Now travel, food, poor sleep, and stress set off bigger reactions than they used to.

Menopause stress tests a sensitivity that was already there. As estrogen drops, your immune system loses a buffer it leaned on. What stayed quiet for years gets louder.

This is one of the ways a Biology of Trauma shows up in the body. So knowing what to do for it matters even more through perimenopause, and after, when your body stays more sensitive.

Your body is showing you what it has been silently struggling with all along.

Comment 175 and I’ll send you the link to listen or watch the latest Biology of Trauma® podcast episode on the neuro-immune connection.

Part of what makes my work so meaningful is to receive gifts from those whose lives I have touched in some way. I receiv...
06/01/2026

Part of what makes my work so meaningful is to receive gifts from those whose lives I have touched in some way.

I received this amazing mug from Karen Bruns after she interviewed me for her neuroscience Summit

I absolutely love receiving feedback on how my teachings and book land for people, and this is one of the neatest forms of feedback I have received!

Make sure to scroll through and actually look at the illustrations on this mug 🤓

I feel so rich in friends. It doesn’t feel like that long ago that I would feel lost in a crowd and a conference. At the...
06/01/2026

I feel so rich in friends. It doesn’t feel like that long ago that I would feel lost in a crowd and a conference.

At the biohacking conference, I couldn’t walk the hallways and NOT find someone I knew or someone who had read my book or been a student of mine.

I feel so rich in friends

05/29/2026

POV: you spend a few days in Austin talking about trauma, healing, and the nervous system with people who deeply care about changing the conversation. 💜

Some really important podcast conversations are coming soon.

Behind the scenes with Josh Trent and Luke Storey.

So grateful for these moments, these conversations, and the people helping bring this work into more spaces.

Can’t wait to share these episodes with you.

What if fatigue is how your body says no when you can't?Many of us chase each symptom on its own. The fatigue. The brain...
05/28/2026

What if fatigue is how your body says no when you can't?

Many of us chase each symptom on its own. The fatigue. The brain fog. The flares.
We treat them like separate problems.

What I've found is this. When the nervous system still senses danger, the body keeps adapting. Fatigue is often the conservation strategy.

Once we see the pattern, the pieces stop feeling random. They start pointing to the same root.

In Episode 175 of the Biology of Trauma® podcast, we trace that pattern. How neuroimmune adaptation links what looks like separate struggles.

Comment 175 and I'll send you the link. 💜

New research - says that antidepressants during pregnancy actually do NOT appear to cause autism or ADHD. That’s a diffe...
05/27/2026

New research - says that antidepressants during pregnancy actually do NOT appear to cause autism or ADHD. That’s a different story than previous research has told us.

So what changed?

We looked at the whole picture.

When they controlled for:
maternal mental health,
family environment,
and parental factors…

…the perceived causation of the antidepressant largely disappeared.

In fact - some interesting findings that are going to change the conversation:

The same increased risk appeared when fathers were on antidepressants.

And when mothers had stopped the medication before pregnancy.

Last time I checked - a father’s medication does not cross the placenta 🤔

Which means this conversation becomes much larger than medication exposure.

Though of course that remains important, it reinforces the Biology of Trauma® lens that shows:

Nervous systems develop inside an ecosystem.
Stress, relationships, attachment, inflammation, environment, social context, neurodevelopment, toxin exposures, biology, genetics, epigenetics and diet.

It all matters. It’s all influential.

The question can then become - what do we do about it?

If someone were exposed to an antidepressant in-utero, there’s nothing we can do about it to change it.

Yet -if all of these things influenced the development of a nervous system - then we have a lot of levers to help repair, support and make healthy again.

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