A dysregulated nervous system can leave you feeling tense, reactive, exhausted, or constantly on edge, even when nothing is wrong. This happens when your body stays stuck in survival mode due to long-term stress or trauma. Understanding the causes, recognizing the symptoms, and learning how to regulate your nervous system can help you feel calmer, safer, and more in control again.

Learn how somatic trauma healing works, how trauma stored in the body affects you, common somatic trauma symptoms, and how somatic trauma therapy supports nervous system trauma healing.

Leaving a trauma bond can feel more painful than staying. You expect relief, but instead you feel anxiety, grief, and intense urges to go back. These trauma bond withdrawal symptoms are not weakness. They are your nervous system adjusting to the loss of a survival-based attachment. Understanding what is happening helps reduce fear and support real healing.

Sometimes it feels like no matter how much you talk about it, the trauma still lingers. EMDR therapy helps your brain let go of those stuck memories so they don’t keep replaying. It’s not about erasing the past. It’s about finally feeling safe in the present.

Trauma doesn’t just change your mood. It changes how your brain works. Learn about the impact of trauma on the brain, why symptoms like anxiety or numbness make sense, and how healing is possible.

To understand how EMDR works, it's crucial to understand the neurological impact of trauma. When a traumatic event occurs, the brain's natural information processing system can become overwhelmed.

When you hear the word “therapy,” you probably get a picture in your mind of two people talking in a private room. EMDR or Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a relatively new approach, that uses eye, finger, and hand movements to achieve something called bilateral stimulation. Let’s look at the 8 stages of EMDR.