How Complex Trauma is Stored and Integrated

Trauma is stacked in the neurophysiology ~ in the brain and the body. 

Memories and emotions are stored in the limbic region of the brain, with affiliating stories, emotions and survival trauma or shock being also held in the cellular memory of the body, or soma ~ fascia, blood, cells, bones, lymph, organs, skin, tendons, immune system, etc.

These stories and cellular memories become fragmented, stacked and frozen in the body, often stored without cognitive recall in the brain in order to protect us, to keep us alive.

These stories are held in the tissues ‘out of time,’ meaning old stories play out in present time as adaptive neurobiological conflict, disease, depression, anxiety, etc.

Over time, unaddressed complex trauma acts out as auto-immunity, chronic illness, complex challenges, unhealthy coping strategies, disease, depression, anxiety, somatic fixation, functional freeze, collapse, etc.

If you have C-PTSD or other complex challenges, either physical, emotional or mental, you might be feeling overwhelmed with where to begin healing your story.

In our consent-based, somatic approach, the body decides where it is ready, has capacity, to begin.

Trauma is integrated layer by layer through a bottom-up approach of somatic dialogue & processing ~ a skill for life ~ brain, body and mind working together to reclaim choice in present time.

A felt-sense of safety is created each time a person with trauma finds empowerment in unearthing & integrating painful memories or stories, making room to dream forward and live with greater wholeness.

The memories remain, but the emotional charge they carry and the relationship to them changes. 

We can’t get rid of trauma, but we can integrate it, heal with it and learn to live well despite what happened to us, becoming whole again.