Ep12: Trauma & The Body | You Can’t Think Your Way to Safety

Season #1 July 15, 2025

🎙️ Inner Sanctuary RAW – Episode 11

Title:
Trauma and the Body | You Can’t Think Your Way to Safety

🧠 Episode Summary:

In this episode of Inner Sanctuary RAW, we explore trauma and the body—specifically why your thoughts alone can’t heal what your nervous system still believes is unsafe. If you’ve been stuck in healing loops despite all the mindset work, this is your turning point.

You’ll learn how trauma shows up somatically, what nervous system dysregulation really means, and how to use breath and body-based practices to create real, embodied safety.

🔑 Topics Covered:

What nervous system dysregulation really is
Why trauma lives in the body—not the mind
The science of your vagus nerve, amygdala, and stress responses
Breath-based regulation as a tool for healing
A powerful reframe: You’re not broken. You’re dysregulated.

⏱️ Timestamps:

0:00 – A breath you actually need
0:40 – Why “positive thinking” doesn’t land when trauma lives in your body
2:15 – What is nervous system dysregulation?
3:30 – The science behind stuckness (amygdala, vagus, prefrontal cortex)
4:20 – Guided breath reset to help you regulate
5:30 – You’re not broken. You’re remembering. And you can come home.

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Episode Transcript

You Can't Mindest Your Way Out of a Nervous System Wound
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Erica: [00:00:00] You’re not stuck because you’re broken. You’re stuck because your nervous system is dysregulated—and mindset hacks won’t fix that. Let’s talk about what will.

Take a breath with me. Not the deep, perfect one. You think you should take a real one? Messy is fine. Inhale through your nose. Exhale out your mouth.

Now, listen, you're not stuck because you're negative. You're stuck because your nervous system is doing its job. It just doesn't know the threat has Introspective passed.

Let's get this straight. Trauma isn't just something that happened to you. It is what stayed inside you when you didn't have the tools, the support, or the safety to fully process it. Your nervous system encoded that pain, your vagus nerve, the main communicator between your brain and your body, remembers. [00:01:00] Your amygdala,

the fear center over fires. Your hippocampus, your memory processor gets foggy under stress. So when you try to just change your thoughts, but your heart rate spikes, your breath shortens, your body tenses, it's not because you're failing, it's because your nervous system still thinks it's under threat.

This is what we call dysregulation and you cannot mindset your way out of it.

Mindset work lives in the prefrontal cortex, the rational brain. But when you're triggered, your body is hijacked by your survival brain, your limbic system. In that moment, logic is offline. You're not thinking . You're reacting. And here's the thing, you're not overreacting . You're [00:02:00] over remembering. Even if you can't recall the memory, your body never forgot.

So let's pause. Put your hand on your chest, a one on your belly. Just breathe.

No fixing, just feeling. Inhale through the nose for four.

Hold for two. Exhale through the mouth for six.

Good. Let's do it again. Slower like you're reintroducing your body to safety .

Inhale through the nose,

hold it. Exhale through the mouth for 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.[00:03:00]

When you breathe like this, you activate the parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and repair state. You tell your brain, it's okay, we're safe now.

This is where healing begins, not in the mind, but in the moment your body learns to exhale without fear.

Ask yourself this . Where have I been thinking my way into healing? When what I really needed was to feel safe enough to feel?

Where am I gaslighting my own body by pretending I'm Hopeful fine.

You're not broken, you're not doing it wrong, you're just living with a system that got stuck in survival. Healing starts below the neck with breath, with [00:04:00] presence, with co-regulation, with breath, with presence, with co-regulation,

with proof day by day that you're no longer in danger. So the next time someone tells you to just change your mindset. You could smile and say, " I'm working on my nervous system, not just my attitude." That's what a real transformation lives. I'll see you tomorrow.

Healing doesn’t happen in the mind—it starts in the nervous system. Come back to Inner Sanctuary RAW anytime for breath-by-breath support. And don’t forget to take the quiz at mind dash fusion.com slash quiz to discover your reset room.