Show Notes
You finally have an evening with nothing in it. Twenty minutes later you are on your phone.
Josh Trent spent most of his life in a body that did not know how to rest. A clench in his stomach. A breath that stayed high in his chest. His first memory is of being a boy watching the adults around him be angry, unable to change it and unable to leave. The bracing stayed for thirty years.
Dr. Aimie and Josh talk about why stillness can feel unsafe, what separates real rest from escape, and why so many practitioners hold grief in a diaphragm that will not drop.
This is Part 1 of two. Part 2 releases July 30.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
01:22 How one question from childhood shaped an entire life
05:11 What happens when you know something is missing
09:24 How patterns get passed down through a family
13:49 The moment feeling became the way back in
17:12 Feeling an emotion in your body for the first time
18:38 Why practitioners carry grief in their bodies
19:31 What worries a wellness leader most about his own industry
23:57 Why social media makes it harder to feel
26:20 The difference between rest and escape
RESOURCES:
Take the free 2-minute assessment for stored trauma. Find your primary pattern of responding when life becomes too much, then see how the other four show up.
Is it stress or is it trauma? The guide that walks through the difference.
Josh Trent hosts the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast.
Full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/why-do-we-escape-instead-of-rest-josh-trent-on-emotional-epigenetics
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