The Biology of Trauma: Heal Your Nervous System Now
In this powerful episode of the Fieldnotes Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Aimie Apigian to explore the cutting-edge science behind trauma and how it’s stored in the body—not as a memory of events, but as an internal biology of overwhelm. Dr. Aimie shares personal stories and clinical insights about how unresolved trauma shapes chronic illness, anxiety, and depression, while offering hope through somatic healing and nervous system repair. We discuss her upcoming book, The Biology of Trauma, why movement is essential, how early life stress imprints us, and what it truly takes to reset our systems and reclaim vitality. Whether you’re a practitioner, patient, or simply curious, this conversation redefines what healing can look like.
04:03 Trauma = internal overwhelm, not event
09:40 Chronic illness linked to stored overwhelm
13:16 Movement clears adrenaline, resets safety
18:35 Early stress leaves lasting imprint
36:48 Somatic work resolves stored panic
Aimie Apigian
Physician, Trauma Recovery Expert, Somatic Healing Educator, Nervous System & Adrenal Health Specialist”
Dr. Aimie Apigian is a double Board-Certified Physician in Preventive and Addiction Medicine, with advanced degrees in Biochemistry, Public Health, and specialized training in Functional Medicine. She is the founder of The Mind-Body-Biology Institute and trains practitioners in The Biology of Trauma®, a lens that addresses how the body holds fear, pain and overwhelm that makes one sick and stuck. Dr. Aimie’s unique integration of multiple modalities from medicine to neuroscience to therapy modalities has helped thousands of people and practitioners around the world to be in their best health and their best authentic selves.
Her recent book, The Biology of Trauma, is groundbreaking exploring the science of how the body experiences trauma, why it holds on, and what it needs for healing. The book is endorsed by Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned expert in trauma and addiction, who has written the foreword. Inspired by her experience as a foster and adoptive mother, Dr. Aimie’s work blends her rigorous medical training with a deep understanding of the emotional and psychological impacts of trauma, offering a practical, integrative, holistic approach to healing focused on addressing the 3 levels needed for true healing: mind, body, and biology.
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