Vitality Loft

Gotta love the texts I get from my clients!!! Little self care at home mixed with sessions with me and we will have you flowing in no time!!!

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Most people think trauma is what happened to them.

It isn’t.

The word trauma means wound.

The event caused the wound. But knowing exactly how you got wounded isn’t the same as healing it.

You can understand your childhood. Name your triggers. Know your attachment style. Explain why you people-please, shut down, overthink, or brace for something bad before it even happens.

And still feel it in your body.

That’s because insight and healing aren’t the same process.

Trauma doesn’t only live in the story you can tell. It can show up in the nervous system—in the tension, guarding, scanning, holding, and automatic responses that happen before you’ve had time to think.

Bessel van der Kolk’s work helped bring attention to this disconnect: during traumatic recall, areas involved in language can become less active. Sometimes the body is reacting before words can even reach it.

Which means you can become incredibly fluent in why you hurt and still not feel safe.

The nervous system doesn’t change because you gave it a better explanation.

It changes through experience.

Small, repeated experiences that teach the body:

I can soften here.
I don’t have to brace.
I can feel this without being consumed by it.
I am here now.

That’s the space between knowing and feeling.

And it’s why body-based work matters to me…..including gentle practices that bring attention back into the body, breath, movement, touch, and lymphatic flow.

Not because lymphatic work magically “releases trauma,” but because reconnecting with your body can become part of practicing safety instead of constantly analyzing why you don’t feel it.

You don’t always need another explanation.

Sometimes the next chapter is teaching your body what your mind already knows:

The danger is over. You’re allowed to soften now.

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