Trauma is stored in the subconscious and influences our physical and emotional responses, but these patterns can be rewritten by building new energetic circuitry.

“So if I have information stored at the subconscious level in my system based on past experience or based on um you know our greatest fears that we've feared for long enough that that that information starts to get stored in the subconscious because information gets stored in the subconscious either ”

Unresolved trauma is biologically embedded and must be addressed to successfully treat chronic health conditions and behavioral patterns.

“trauma is registered in your body and there's a book called the body keeps score and Carolyn mace was a sort of a Mystic said you your biography becomes your biology”

Addressing past trauma is essential for health because trauma manifests physically in the body and increases the risk of chronic disease.

“Yes. And that's the critical question. So if you know that you have an elevated A score and there's a lot of people who have a score of zero about 40% of men about 30% of women and what we know is that if you've got this greater risk for 45 different chronic conditions there's a way that those ACEs ”

Unresolved trauma often manifests as physical sensations in the body, such as dread, which require physical movement to resolve.

“The dread that you felt upon waking as an adult was a sematic residue of this unresolved trauma”

Trauma must be consciously processed and released from the body to avoid it manifesting as physical illness and to allow for a return to a peaceful, present state.

“If you do not process it, if you do not get it out of your body, it will manifest as a physical disease, no matter what.”

True healing involves moving away from the goal of simply suppressing or blocking out painful emotions toward understanding the parts of oneself that carry trauma.

“I feel like most of our self-help efforts or most of our self-work efforts as of now are all about never feeling that way again.”

Dr. Leaf maintains that trauma can be healed by using the mind to process and reconceptualize the experience rather than just suppressing it.

“what we have to do is embrace all the scariness, sadness, darkness of life, and you use that to learn and to grow.”

Healing from trauma involves recognizing protection mechanisms as childlike parts that need to be seen and cared for by one's higher self.

“It's about befriending those parts of ourselves and healing and accessing this relationship to these parts rather than making them bad or or wrong, but starting to get into relationship with these aspects of ourselves because really Jay, they're just little children inside.”

Healing involves uncovering the Self to foster a compassionate relationship with parts, allowing them to release burdens and leave extreme roles acquired from past trauma.

“through trial and error over time we found out how to help all these parts change and to actually leave their extreme roles and become who they're designed to be”