Dr. Aimie Apigian
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first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
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So if I could have had it all over to do, I would have learned how to feel my feelings and not need to avoid, numb, and distract a long time ago so that I could navigate something like that differently.
And also, I...
see the overwhelm and the trauma response as something that's natural, not as something that's bad.
And there are times, especially with grief, that your body is just going to shut down.
And that's okay.
The idea is if we can even allow that and become comfortable with that, then we can even move through that and it not be something that we have to avoid, numb and distract.
And that allows this completion.
We don't complete a trauma response by avoiding it.
We allow the completion by allowing ourselves to be in it, to feel it, to connect with these parts that are showing up that feel like their whole life just got turned upside down and they don't know how they're going to be okay.
And being able to develop that sense of more adult true self that can come in and just hold them, not talk to them, just hold them
I didn't have any of those skills back then.
I went into that situation so ill-equipped to manage the emotions that I was going to experience, even as part of the identity shift.
I see this happen a lot with other people as well, whether leaving a family or leaving a church or religious group that they've been a part of.
It's not just the leaving or the change.
It's the whole loss of identity.
This is how I have known myself.
This is how I've seen myself.
I don't know who I am without being Miguel's mom.
And that, it can be a very hard thing to sit with and to move through.
But that's the skill.
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