Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

And if you're thinking something, then it's connecting to the brain signals and it's driving down into the gut.

I'm trying to see where I'm going with this.

But how much of trauma of the past that is interpreted as trauma that you have not healed, how much of that will impact your gut and really kind of consume your body?

we know with total clarity that people that have been exposed to trauma are more likely to have specific gut-related issues.

So actually it's my mentor, Dr. Douglas Drawsman at the University of North Carolina, who's the one who discovered this.

He was a professor of both medicine and psychiatry.

Unique intersection for being 1980s, if you think about it.

That's very progressive.

And he studied where are these people with these gut issues

what is like basically there from before and he found a disproportionate association with prior trauma including abuse but not exclusively abuse sure so the one one one point that i kind of see as being a little bit important i hope you don't mind is that um so you use the word interpret

I actually don't think that you get to interpret.

It either is or it isn't.

So to me, trauma is something that has occurred in your life

that overwhelms your ability to cope, right?

So whether you think it's trauma or it's not trauma, if there is something that has occurred in your life that overwhelms your ability to cope- You don't have the tools to cope with it.

Right, so like in children, this is why children are much more vulnerable to these kinds of things, because they just aren't yet developed in a sophisticated way in terms of their cognitive capacity, their cognitive abilities, their abilities to cope with stress, things like this, right?

So there's a higher vulnerability there.

So, if you overwhelm the ability to cope, then you've created a trauma.

And that trauma may be something that you know it happened, but you don't necessarily want to acknowledge it.

In fact, the mind is quite powerful at repressing those ideas and thoughts.