Recently I had a conversation with a longtime friend about bodies and how health issues show up if we don’t deal with trauma.

She mentioned that our body will start showing trauma via chronic aches and pains or diseases, disorders especially as we get “older”

Everyone has trauma to some degree and it won’t show up in the same way or intensity for everyone.

But I believe it is one component that contributes to aging.

Do some people watching and you may notice how many people move around hunched over, even before being on cell phones all day.

If you don’t release experiences from your body and mind they build up in your body and you can see it weighing you down. 

It’s nobody’s fault, most of us just weren’t taught how to release those energies.

And trauma very often activates the survival mechanism to freeze and avoid what has happened to cause the mental/ physical discomfort. 

Thankfully you don’t have to relive or re-traumatize yourself in order to heal.

It can seem scar...