Dr. Kate Truitt

When we're living in a state where there is constant internalization of fear, of trauma, where our brain has learned and started to design itself around traumatic experiences, even if the trauma is no longer happening, the traumatic event might have been, you know, for two years during one's childhood, but if those two years were impactful enough, the brain is still going to be harnessing and utilizing the neural pathways set down during those childhood years.

When we're living in a state where there is constant internalization of fear, of trauma, where our brain has learned and started to design itself around traumatic experiences, even if the trauma is no longer happening, the traumatic event might have been, you know, for two years during one's childhood, but if those two years were impactful enough, the brain is still going to be harnessing and utilizing the neural pathways set down during those childhood years.

It's a rewiring of our mind-body system into feeling chronically unsafe. Oftentimes, too, though, it becomes an internalization. It changes how we experience ourselves in the world. We start having negative viewpoints on our capacity, our lovability. We start feeling as though there's something wrong with us. We're shameful or that we're a chronic failure. We can't make change in our world.

It's a rewiring of our mind-body system into feeling chronically unsafe. Oftentimes, too, though, it becomes an internalization. It changes how we experience ourselves in the world. We start having negative viewpoints on our capacity, our lovability. We start feeling as though there's something wrong with us. We're shameful or that we're a chronic failure. We can't make change in our world.

It's a rewiring of our mind-body system into feeling chronically unsafe. Oftentimes, too, though, it becomes an internalization. It changes how we experience ourselves in the world. We start having negative viewpoints on our capacity, our lovability. We start feeling as though there's something wrong with us. We're shameful or that we're a chronic failure. We can't make change in our world.

Our body may be rewired into a state of chronic stress or vigilance, meaning that all of a sudden our gastrointestinal system simply stops functioning the way it used to, which is a part of a trauma response, or we can't sleep very well or feel rested when we're sleeping.

Our body may be rewired into a state of chronic stress or vigilance, meaning that all of a sudden our gastrointestinal system simply stops functioning the way it used to, which is a part of a trauma response, or we can't sleep very well or feel rested when we're sleeping.

Our body may be rewired into a state of chronic stress or vigilance, meaning that all of a sudden our gastrointestinal system simply stops functioning the way it used to, which is a part of a trauma response, or we can't sleep very well or feel rested when we're sleeping.

So the impact of whether it be big T or small T trauma happens in many, many layers across the course of our mind-body functioning.

So the impact of whether it be big T or small T trauma happens in many, many layers across the course of our mind-body functioning.

So the impact of whether it be big T or small T trauma happens in many, many layers across the course of our mind-body functioning.

The really good news about our brain is it's changeable. It's plastic. That's where the buzzy word neuroplasticity comes from.

The really good news about our brain is it's changeable. It's plastic. That's where the buzzy word neuroplasticity comes from.

The really good news about our brain is it's changeable. It's plastic. That's where the buzzy word neuroplasticity comes from.

Because of neuroplasticity, we can help the brain carve new neural pathways and strengthen the ones that we want while either desensitizing the ones that we don't want or even helping the brain shift through and release the ones that are anchored in by trauma and creating space for new learnings going forward, a new way of being in the world.

Because of neuroplasticity, we can help the brain carve new neural pathways and strengthen the ones that we want while either desensitizing the ones that we don't want or even helping the brain shift through and release the ones that are anchored in by trauma and creating space for new learnings going forward, a new way of being in the world.

Because of neuroplasticity, we can help the brain carve new neural pathways and strengthen the ones that we want while either desensitizing the ones that we don't want or even helping the brain shift through and release the ones that are anchored in by trauma and creating space for new learnings going forward, a new way of being in the world.

And we can play a very active role in that when we know how.

And we can play a very active role in that when we know how.

And we can play a very active role in that when we know how.