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The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
People are done dancing around the topic of trauma. They're ready to face this square-on. None of the current systems are getting to the root of the issue in the current model. Their biology has been affected on a cellular level, and that is now what's preventing the important work that they're trying to do. The Biology of Trauma® podcast is the missing piece to that puzzle. It's a practical living manual for the human body in a modern, traumatizing world. Join your host, Dr. Aimie Apigian—a…
Episodes
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Why Depression May Be an Early Sign of Autoimmunity
Your labs confirmed the autoimmune diagnosis. The hardest symptom turned out to be the one nobody prepared you for. Dr. Aimie goes solo on depression and…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Gut or thyroid first in chronic freeze? Dr. Amie Hornaman
You have been doing the work. The therapy, the somatic practices, the self-care. And your body still will not come online. You have also been doing the gut…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Stuck in Freeze? The Thyroid Piece Nobody Checked
You have been doing the work. You understand your patterns. And you are still waking up unable to face the day. When the body decides survival is the priority…
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Can I Recover From Medical Trauma? Dr. Jim Jackson (Part 2)
Most trauma has a place you can avoid. Medical trauma lives inside your body, so there is nowhere to go. Dr. Aimie sits down with Dr. James Jackson for the…
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Medical Trauma Has a Name, with Dr. Jim Jackson (Part 1)
A hospital saved your life, and now you plan your route so you do not drive past it. That has a name, and the name is medical trauma. Medical trauma is a…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
What Type of Anxiety Do I Have? Dr. Nicole Cain (Part 2)
A new mom was losing weight without trying. Her heart raced. Waves of panic arrived without warning. Her doctor congratulated her on the weight and offered her…
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Why Do I Feel Anxious for No Reason? with Dr. Nicole Cain (Part 1)
You feel anxious. Nothing has happened. Nothing is wrong on paper. Dr. Aimie learned in the emergency room that anxiety is never one thing. Someone would come…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Is Not Trying Laziness, or Survival? With Josh Trent (Part 2)
You know the thing that would help. You have known for a while. You still have not done it. Dr. Aimie recognized herself in the research on learned…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Josh Trent on Why We Escape Instead of Rest (Part 1)
You finally have an evening with nothing in it. Twenty minutes later you are on your phone. Josh Trent spent most of his life in a body that did not know how…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Why Do I Crash Every Time I Finally Slow Down?
Why do I crash every time I finally slow down? Maybe you feel fine all week, then crash on the weekend. Maybe an open Saturday fills you with a quiet dread. So…
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Grieving Is a Skill: HRV, Intention, and the Biology of Resilience with Dr. David Rabin (Part 2)
Most of us were told to grieve, to rest, to be present. Nobody taught us the skill. In Part 2, Dr. Aimie and neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin get into heart rate…
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Why Stress Was Never the Enemy, with Dr. David Rabin (Part 1)
Stress was never the enemy. Your body was built to use it. What wears the body down is chronic stress with no recovery on the other side. Translational…
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EP 181: What Your Food Cravings Reveal About What You Survived | Dr. Tian Dayton
Cravings point to a need underneath. This episode covers the three unmet needs behind food. It looks at the childhood roots of reaching for it. And it helps…
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EP 180: Is Your Acid Reflux a Nervous System Problem? | Molly Pelletier
An early read on your nervous system explains why reflux holds on. This episode covers reflux hypersensitivity, lost hunger and fullness cues, and the somatic…
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EP 179: Why Do Adoptees Struggle With Addiction? | Lisa Coppola
This is where adoption, attachment, and addiction meet. An early attachment rupture leaves the nervous system braced and hypervigilant. A substance can feel…
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EP 178: What Your Eyes Reveal About Your Attachment & Stress | Dr. Bryce Appelbaum
Vision is one of the primary signals your nervous system reads for safety or danger. Under stress, peripheral vision collapses and the body locks into central…
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EP 177: Beyond Anxious and Avoidant: 6 Attachment Wounds Your Body Learned Before You Had Words
Attachment is a survival imprint that lives in the body, encoded before you had language. In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian walks through the 6 hidden…
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EP 176: Smart, Strong, and Still Crashing? Why Regulation Matters — 3 Women's Stories
Information alone does not resolve nervous system dysregulation. The body comes out of stored trauma in a precise three-step sequence: Safety, Support…
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EP 175: What Fear Does to Your Immune System: 4 Adaptive Patterns
Metabolic syndrome, long-haul syndromes, hypersensitivity, and autoimmunity are four ways the immune system adapts to a nervous system living in fear. Each one…
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EP 174: Grief Is a Verb: Seven Principles I'm Living After Losing Amada
Grieving without getting stuck is possible. But most people don't know what that actually looks like from the inside. In this personal episode, Dr. Aimie…
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EP 173: What Sugar, Bread, and Salt Reveal About Your Nervous System in Menopause
Food cravings are not a willpower problem. They are messages from a nervous system trying to survive. In this episode, Dr. Aimie Apigian maps the cortisol…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Mother Hunger: The 3 Qualities of Maternal Love with Kelly McDaniel
Mother hunger is what the body carries when it missed one of three essential elements of maternal care: nurture, protection, or guidance. On this Mother's Day…
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The 3 Hidden Costs of Being the Strong One - Burnout's Real Biology
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - The 3 Hidden Costs of Being the Strong One - Burnout's Real Biology You've…
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Is Your Chocolate Holding Your Marriage Together? | With Luis Mojica
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Is Your Chocolate Holding Your Marriage Together? | With Luis Mojica Three…
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What If Safety Is What Your Body Was Taught to Fear?
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - EP 170: What If Safety Is What Your Body Was Taught to Fear? You learned to…
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Is Your Body Still Running a Trauma Response?
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Is Your Body Still Running a Trauma Response? What if the anxiety that will…
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What Stored Trauma Does to Your Hormones?
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Why Menopause Is When Your Stored Trauma Finally Surfaces What if the anxiety…
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Did Attachment Trauma Start Before You Had Memories?
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - What Did Your First Year of Life Teach Your Body About Safety? What if the…
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What Does Overwhelm Have To Do With Chronic Pain?
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast— What Does Overwhelm Have To Do With Chronic Pain? If you have chronic pain…
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Is Being "Good" a Trauma Response? The Biology of Proving Worth
➡️ Get the full show notes and episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Is the Need to Always Be “Good” a Trauma Response? What does your body do with…
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Could Your Trauma Be Disrupting Your Metabolism? The Weight Health Conversation
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast – Episode 164: Could Your Trauma Be Disrupting Your Metabolism? The Weight Health Conversation…
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Growing Up With Addiction Left a Trauma Your Body Still Carries
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode 163: Growing Up With Addiction Left a Trauma Your Body Still Carries What happens…
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Why Fixing Someone You Love Is Destroying Your Nervous System
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast — Episode 162: Why Fixing Someone You Love Is Destroying Your Nervous System When someone you…
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The Biology of Grief: Why Your Gut Holds What You Can’t Feel
Grief, regret, loneliness, inflammation, pain. There are deeper layers than we are even aware of. Dana was a family physician who had managed gut issues for…
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Dopamine and Depression: The Metabolic Link You Need to Know
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode 161: Dopamine and Depression: The Metabolic Link You Need to KnowDopamine doesn't…
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How Creativity Rewires Your Nervous System with Adam Roa
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode 160: How Creativity Rewires Your Nervous System with Adam RoaWhat if the key to…
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Can Stem Cells Accelerate Trauma Healing?
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode 159: Why Trauma Blocks Your Stem Cell Repair System What if we knew how to repair…
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The Biology of Dopamine: Why We Can't Stop What Isn't Good for Us
You know it's not good for you. You do it anyway. Then you ask yourself why. Late-night scrolling when you promised you'd sleep. Sugar after dinner when you…
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Marijuana, Addiction, and the Body: What We've Been Getting Wrong
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode Marijuana, Addiction, and the Body: What We've Been Getting Wrong If you've watched a…
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The Biology of Brain Fog: Why Your Body Still Feels Unsafe
Can you do all the therapy and still have brain fog? Yes. Can you talk through your past and still have chronic fatigue? Absolutely. Here's the tension. We've…
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What Do Soul Contracts Have to Do With Healing Trauma?
➡️ Get the full episode breakdown at Biology of Trauma® Podcast - Episode 157: Why Spiritual Insight Alone Can't Heal Trauma with Marie Damasio She understood…
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Can't Get Off Antidepressants? Ask for These Lab Tests
Why do so many people with depression struggle to stop their antidepressants? What if the answer isn't about willpower — but about missing nutrients your brain…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
The Body Trauma Loop: Why Time Doesn't Heal Chronic Illness
What if the slogans we've trusted about healing are actually in conflict? "The body keeps the score." "Time heals all wounds." We've heard both. They can't…
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Time Doesn't Heal: What 20 Years of Research Actually Shows
We've been told time heals all wounds. Go back to work. Stay busy. But what if decades of stress are still rewriting the body right now? Dr. Karestan Koenen, a…
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Why Resolutions Fail: The Biology of Survival Strategies
What if the habit you've been trying to break is actually how you learned to survive? It's January. You've made the resolution. This year will be different…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
The Biology of Burnout (Part 2): What Understanding Can't Do
In part one, we learned why so many of us stay stuck despite trying everything. This episode reveals what actually worked for the dogs in that study. Spoiler…
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Hustle Is How I Proved I Mattered
What if the hustle that's wearing you out is actually how you learned to matter? In this final part of my three-part conversation with my friend Jalon, we get…
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The Biology of Burnout: Why Pushing Through Stops Working
If more self-care worked, it would've worked by now. In this episode, I share my own burnout story and introduce Claire—a patient whose chronic fatigue reveals…
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Your Freeze Questions Answered: Live Q&A with Dr. Aimie
What if the grief you've been pushing away is trying to tell you something? In this mini episode, I open the vault on my live Q&A with Biology of Freeze…
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Am I Too Old or Stressed To Get Pregnant? The Real Reason
The same nervous system patterns that keep us stuck in survival mode may also be telling our body it's not safe to create new life. In this episode, I'm joined…
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Why Saying No Feels Like Danger: The Nervous System Truth
What if the reason we can't say no isn't a willpower problem—but a nervous system problem? In Part 2 of this raw, unscripted conversation, Dr. Aimie Apigian…
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Why Trauma Returns in Midlife: A Chinese Medicine Lens
Chinese medicine may help explain why stored trauma causes old patterns to resurface when we least expect it. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Lorne Brown, a…
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Frozen in Success: The Biology of Staying Stuck in Survival with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Many high-achieving people look successful on the outside while part of them remains frozen in childhood survival patterns. Through the Biology of Trauma®…
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Family Boundaries and Dysfunction: How to Stay True to Yourself Around Family with Jalon Johnson
What if the hardest part of our healing journey isn't the inner work—but showing up to family gatherings after we've changed and our family hasn't? In this…
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Mind-Body Trauma Research: The Truth with Dr. Gabor Maté
Why does groundbreaking research on mind-body medicine disappear without a trace? How do emotional factors create conditions for chronic illness and autoimmune…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Why You Crave Sugar When Overwhelmed: The Biology of Freeze & Avoidance
What if your sugar cravings, need to clean, urge to call a friend, or desire to put on a movie while working aren't just procrastination—but your nervous…
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Why You Can't Sit Still: The Hidden Biology of Busyness
Discover how trauma lives in the body—and how the vagus nerve, nervous system shutdown, and somatic healing explain why stillness can feel unsafe. Through the…
- The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie
Health Avoidance and Oxidative Stress: The Dangerous Feedback Loop
What if the reason you keep saying "I'm fine" isn't about denial or stubbornness—but about your nervous system being programmed to avoid looking at problems…
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The Hidden Biology of Holding On: Toxins, Trauma & True Freedom
Our bodies hold onto trauma, toxins, and pain for biological reasons—not willpower. Dr. Aimie Apigian shares her bathtub breaking point and the 3-phase Biology…
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Why Insecure Attachment Blocks Dopamine Response (& How to Repair It)
What if the reason connection feels so hard isn't about willpower or awareness—but about your brain literally not getting the dopamine reward that makes…