Depth Over Noise

When the Body Forgets How to Care, with Dr. Aimie Apigian

Depth Over Noise

Show Notes

Dr. Aimie Apigian is a physician and one of the leading voices on the biology of trauma. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, she joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about what medicine misses about caring, how biology quietly shapes our ability to feel empathy, the hardest decision she made for her son, what happens when we care about something the people around us do not, how the body shows it cares, and why trauma is the natural enemy of caring. The conversation moves from the clinical to the deeply personal, and ends with a clear answer to the question many listeners are quietly asking: Can the capacity to care actually come back?

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