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Trauma Healing Accelerated Dr. Aimie, MD brings you cutting edge neuroscience and the most effective methods for trauma solution

10/19/2026

Over half of the people taking my Patterns Quiz are saying yes to the same thing:

They hold on longer than they know is good for them.

Maybe it’s a relationship you’ve outgrown. A job that’s costing you more than it gives. A situation you keep promising yourself you’ll walk away from.

If that’s you, this may not be about willpower at all. It could be a sign that something from your past is still shaping your life, your relationships, and even your health.

The quiz takes just a couple of minutes. It walks you through 5 patterns so you can see which ones are showing up for you.

Would you be in that half too?

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10/18/2026

(Turn on audio- I explain the science) When you freeze and your energy immediately drops, your body’s trauma response just told your mitochondria to turn down their energy production.

It’s not just mental. Or emotional.

Overwhelm is a whole body response down to the cellular level.

At PLMI this weekend, Dr. Robert Naviaux explained what triggers a Cell Danger Response and why it gets stuck there.

It explains so much of the chronic symptoms of a prior trauma experience and why they linger.

Healing is supposed to move through a sequence of stages.

When the body’s trauma response never completes, the cells stay in the middle of that sequence.

That is why I now describe unresolved trauma as a disease of recovery.

The programming has changed, in the nervous system and in the mitochondria.

And the mitochondria are not damaged. They are following the signals they receive.

👉the Hope. When the signal changes, the state changes, and so does how our cells make energy.

The healing rhythms are already within us, waiting for enough safety and support (resources) to finish what they started.

10/17/2026

A hard start in life can show up in your gut decades later.

I asked Dr. Emeran Mayer about a baby born premature. Delivered by C-section. Weeks in the NICU, under lights, getting pokes and procedures.

What puts that baby at higher risk of digestive symptoms as an adult?

His answer: increased stress responsiveness. Expose a hundred people to the same severe stressor and about ten will carry its impact, mentally or physically. Early life adversity is one of the major factors behind it.

The first 1,000 days are when your gut microbiome is programmed. What happened to you then didn’t stay in the past. It shaped how strongly your body reacts to stress now.

And as he says in the episode, a hard start doesn’t mean you’re doomed. Your body adapted once. It can keep adapting.

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10/16/2026

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Why do you crash every time you finally slow down?

I used to keep my calendar full on purpose, so there was never room to stop. It looked like productivity. It was a wall.

When the collapse finally came, it was never the rest that brought it on. Resting simply gave my body the space to feel what I'd been carrying all along.

This is one of five patterns stored stress can leave in the body, and depletion is the most common. I made a short reflection to help you see which one has been shaping your days. It is a gentle reflection you can explore at your own pace.

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I'm an addiction medicine physician, and I believe the body holds unresolved trauma. That is not what conventional medic...
10/15/2026

I'm an addiction medicine physician, and I believe the body holds unresolved trauma. That is not what conventional medicine teaches, so here is what I mean by it.

When something overwhelms us, the body starts a protective response. When that response never gets to complete, it doesn't simply go away. It lives on as a pattern of response to change, stress and threat.

Over time, that pattern becomes your biology, such as chronic muscle tension, inflammation and changes in how your cells make energy. It becomes your beliefs about yourself and the world. And it becomes your intuition, the sense that something is wrong even when you are safe.

This is why one approach on its own often isn't enough. Completing those responses takes every layer, mind, body and biology, to create a biology of safety.

I explain how trauma becomes stored in the body in Chapters 8–10 of The Biology of Trauma.

Do you believe the body holds unresolved trauma? Comment YES or NOT SURE. And if you've seen it show up in your own body, I'd love to hear how.

10/14/2026

In seconds, I’m dying, homeless and alone.

That’s my catastrophizing part.

But catastrophizing has never made a headache go away. In my experience, it makes the symptoms worse.

Here’s why. That part attaches a meaning to the symptom. Feeling tired means a three-day crash. Brain fog means I won’t finish my work. And it’s the meaning, more than the symptom, that tells the body this is a threat it can’t escape.

When the body feels powerless in the face of a threat, it goes into its trauma response. In the 5 steps of the body’s trauma response, that’s freeze and shutdown. More fatigue, more fog, more pain.

Interviewing my mentor, Dr. Howard Schubiner, I realized I had let this part back in the driver’s seat.

So now I don’t argue with it. I hear it. “I hear you. You’re scared. And actually, I’m okay.”

The part doesn’t need to be silenced. It needs to feel safe enough to stop driving.

What’s your catastrophe part’s favorite line? Mine ends with homeless and alone.

10/13/2026

I had to stop him mid-sentence. What? Our gut bacteria know when we're stressed?

Microbes in your gut have receptors for stress hormones like norepinephrine. When those hormones reach them, the microbes change their genes and become more aggressive toward the gut wall, the gut barrier and the immune system in the gut.

This is one of the clearest pictures I know of how a biology of trauma forms. When a body has lived in survival stress for years, that stress doesn't stay in the mind. It reaches all the way down to the bacteria in your gut.

That is why gut symptoms that seem to come out of nowhere so often have a nervous system story underneath them.

Dr. Emeran Mayer has spent decades researching early life adversity and the gut-brain connection, and in this episode he walks through what that means for your gut, your mood and your health.

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10/10/2026

Every time your body hurts, it asks you one question. Most of us answer it in a way that turns the pain up.
The question is: are you okay?

Dr. Howard Schubiner explained it in Part 2 of our conversation. When the brain sends pain, fatigue or anxiety, it is sending a signal with a question attached, and it waits for your answer.

Most of us answer, “No. This is horrible. I’m not okay.” The brain hears that and sends more pain, more anxiety, more fatigue.

There is another answer: “I’m having pain, but actually I’m okay.” You show your brain that answer with compassion, calm and curiosity, and through action: moving, listening to music, playing a game with your children.

This is why I teach creating a feeling of safer. Your brain responds to what your body feels.

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