Early Childhood Trauma: Chaos & Your Adult Nervous System | Dr. Aimie Apigian

Описание: In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Tian Dayton who is a leading voice in relational trauma repair through sociometry and psychodrama. A prolific writer on adult children of alcoholics addicts, she specializes in therapeutic modalities in addiction and relational trauma.

Does growing up in chaos impact our nervous systems even as adults?

This episode will speak to the effect of chaos and confusion in our early childhood dynamics, whether or not that was due to alcohol or substance use in your family. The result though is unconscious coping mechanisms even into adulthood and how to recognize that we even have these unconscious survival strategies.

Dr. Dayton brings in the body through movement and role play with them, and able to show how we can give a voice to what has not had a voice yet inside of us.

Key Moments:
[02:09] How to recognise whether you have had early relationship trauma
[09:00] How psychodrama helps to work through emotions we suppress and resist to process
[14:03] How sense memory can trigger early relationship trauma in adults
[15:40] How lack of intimacy and connection in childhood affects our sense of safety and nervous system functions
[21:02] The importance of surrender, structure and order in the trauma work process
[29:15] Why talk therapy alone is not sufficient enough to move through trauma

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