Dr. Kate Truitt

What that looks like at a neurobiological level is when our little friend Amy the amygdala, when she starts looking at the world through a lens of threat, she disrupts the story-making parts of our brain, such as our hippocampus, where she focuses on memory reconsolidation, our thinking brain.

What that looks like at a neurobiological level is when our little friend Amy the amygdala, when she starts looking at the world through a lens of threat, she disrupts the story-making parts of our brain, such as our hippocampus, where she focuses on memory reconsolidation, our thinking brain.

What that looks like at a neurobiological level is when our little friend Amy the amygdala, when she starts looking at the world through a lens of threat, she disrupts the story-making parts of our brain, such as our hippocampus, where she focuses on memory reconsolidation, our thinking brain.

which is our prefrontal cortex, which helps us pay attention to things and make decisions, the amygdala changes the capacity of those other parts of our brain to function in a balanced, resilient manner, and instead starts pulling all of our other brain parts into a direction of survival mode, threat-based, looking at the world through those trauma glasses.

which is our prefrontal cortex, which helps us pay attention to things and make decisions, the amygdala changes the capacity of those other parts of our brain to function in a balanced, resilient manner, and instead starts pulling all of our other brain parts into a direction of survival mode, threat-based, looking at the world through those trauma glasses.

which is our prefrontal cortex, which helps us pay attention to things and make decisions, the amygdala changes the capacity of those other parts of our brain to function in a balanced, resilient manner, and instead starts pulling all of our other brain parts into a direction of survival mode, threat-based, looking at the world through those trauma glasses.

The world is scary. Or it could be, I'm a bad person. I make bad things happen. It could be, I am not deserving of love. Whatever the brain has learned is the thing tied into what is painful, scary, or hard. And the amygdala reinforces those types of stories over and over and over again.

The world is scary. Or it could be, I'm a bad person. I make bad things happen. It could be, I am not deserving of love. Whatever the brain has learned is the thing tied into what is painful, scary, or hard. And the amygdala reinforces those types of stories over and over and over again.

The world is scary. Or it could be, I'm a bad person. I make bad things happen. It could be, I am not deserving of love. Whatever the brain has learned is the thing tied into what is painful, scary, or hard. And the amygdala reinforces those types of stories over and over and over again.

The more those stories get to exist within our neurobiology, the stronger they become, which means they can start to feel like truth. So the impact is pretty profound, and the stories are still going to be happening. It's just that the stories are being written by a very unkind narrator.

The more those stories get to exist within our neurobiology, the stronger they become, which means they can start to feel like truth. So the impact is pretty profound, and the stories are still going to be happening. It's just that the stories are being written by a very unkind narrator.

The more those stories get to exist within our neurobiology, the stronger they become, which means they can start to feel like truth. So the impact is pretty profound, and the stories are still going to be happening. It's just that the stories are being written by a very unkind narrator.

That's the irony about Amy the amygdala. She can be very disruptive in how she guides our brain in order to keep us alive. But fundamentally, she does really have our back. And that's the opportunity in the neurobiological healing work and integrating that with meaning making and simply storytelling.

That's the irony about Amy the amygdala. She can be very disruptive in how she guides our brain in order to keep us alive. But fundamentally, she does really have our back. And that's the opportunity in the neurobiological healing work and integrating that with meaning making and simply storytelling.

That's the irony about Amy the amygdala. She can be very disruptive in how she guides our brain in order to keep us alive. But fundamentally, she does really have our back. And that's the opportunity in the neurobiological healing work and integrating that with meaning making and simply storytelling.

There's a lot of very effective different types of intervention for trauma because as humans, we're narrative creatures. And until we can support the system in changing the narrative, the meaning-making of what has happened, the system can continue to be paralyzed or run by the pain of the past.

There's a lot of very effective different types of intervention for trauma because as humans, we're narrative creatures. And until we can support the system in changing the narrative, the meaning-making of what has happened, the system can continue to be paralyzed or run by the pain of the past.

There's a lot of very effective different types of intervention for trauma because as humans, we're narrative creatures. And until we can support the system in changing the narrative, the meaning-making of what has happened, the system can continue to be paralyzed or run by the pain of the past.

And we're always going to be leaning into the meaning making, which is fundamentally the story that our brain has around what happened and identifying new opportunities for finding escape from what feels inescapable.

And we're always going to be leaning into the meaning making, which is fundamentally the story that our brain has around what happened and identifying new opportunities for finding escape from what feels inescapable.