Somatic Symptoms

We don't just "get over" or "move on" from trauma. We are forced to make space for it in our brains, our nervous systems, our organs, our muscles, our dreams. We carry it inside of us. We experience it even when we are lucky enough to sleep. We experience it in nervous system dysregulation when something in our waking hours triggers us. We learn to live with it. And, sometimes, we even thrive because of it. ~ Holly Nelson

Making Space For Our Trauma
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Anxiety From a Threat Response Perspective

Anxiety From a Threat Response Perspective

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Anxiety is a bio-physiological response of the body to threat. In other words, a somatic response, coming from the threat perception system in our brain (the amygdala). This threat is subjective and in response to feelings spawned from an event that does, or appears to, endanger human connection. We were created to be in connection. […]