The Biology of Trauma with Addiction Medicine Physician Dr. Aimie Apigian

If you live in a human body, this show is for you.  And if you haven't heard about Trauma Informed Care, you should learn about it now as it will change the way healthcare is delivered to our patients.  Trauma is not a specific event.  It is an experience or the way someone experiences an event.  The experience of trauma or traumatic events become part of our biology. Therefore the Trauma-Informed approach to healing is to first give our bodies the tools to deal with the negative impact of trauma.

In this episode, Preventive & Addiction Medicine Physician Aimie Apigian from Trauma Healing Accelerated & I discuss The Biology of Trauma including answers to the following questions:

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- Who should listen to this conversation?  (Answer: anyone in a human body)!
- What is trauma?  
- Is trauma limited to major catastrophic events or ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)?
- Why does Dr. Apigian consider trauma an experience and not just an event?
- How and where is trauma stored in the body?
- How do we modify the way trauma has affected the body?
- What are the three states of the nervous system?
- When and why can therapy be harmful? 
- Can therapy be valuable?
- What is somatic body work and how is it done?
- What is calm aliveness?
- Why is it so impotant to ask about experience?
- How do our experiences relate to health/wellness or illness/disease?
- How do we incorporate trauma-informed care into our healthcare model?

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Dr. Aimie is a Board-Certified Preventive and Addiction Medicine Physician with a Double Masters in Biochemistry and Public Health. She specializes in trauma, attachment and identifying and reversing the effects of stored emotions in the body and on our health.
Having personal experience in foster parenting, adopting and then her own chronic fatigue and autoimmune issues, she has discovered that negative life experiences become our biology, not just psychology. Compromising every system in our biology, these stored emotions cause inflammation, digestive issues and contributes to all disease and aging. Stored emotions become the biggest thief to our health, happiness and aliveness without us ever knowing.

A 2-time Summit Host, she is the founder and director of Family Challenge Camps, a weekend intensive for families, and founder and CEO of Trauma Healing Accelerated where she provides education and courses for those wanting to hack their survival systems
and accelerate their healing journey from trauma to achieve their best mental and physical health. Her courses include experiential courses for the general public on shifting The Biology of Trauma and a certification coach for those in a healing profession to have more tools for understanding and addressing the Biology of Trauma.

For more from Dr. Apigian check out:
www.traumahealingaccelerated.com

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All my love & gratitude to:
my guest: Dr.  Aimie Apigian,
my inspiration: my patients,
my idea guy & confidence booster: Edward,
my intro crew: Izzy, Lance & Lucia,
my tech & equipment guy: Pop,
my angel: Susie,
my music & sound guy: Mike VM,
my mascot: Jules, 
my creative director & cheerleader: Emily,
my love, Michael.