Dr. Aimie Apigian
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first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
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Our nervous system is our survival system, and it will adapt to any environment that we are in.
Just looking at our childhood, for example, our nervous system would have organized itself around, who do I need to be in my family in order to survive this family?
I see you're relating to that.
Who do I need to be?
And I'm going to organize myself around being that, except that because our nervous system is organizing, it's what creates these patterns that last long beyond that environment.
We take them into adulthood.
We take them into our new relationships, our marriages.
We take those patterns and continue them.
And so many of those patterns we can see.
I organized myself around not ever really feeling safe, always having to be on guard, on edge, never really being able to relax and feel good about resting.
Always had to be productive, always had to
Go, go, go.
And if that's how our nervous system organized, Liz, here's the crazy thing.
That's what now feels safe, not because it's actual safety, but because it's familiar.
And familiar is a degree of safety, even if it's unhealthy.
It can simply be because we are familiar and comfortable with that level of stress.
And so we create that and we perpetuate that.
The startle response is the first step of the body's trauma response.
There are five steps.
They're very sequential.
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