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People pleasing can be a trauma response AND a protective mechanism. In fact, recent literature on the topic of trauma has included it in describing what can occur in the brain’s response to a perceived threat: we either fight, flight, freeze or people please.

Typically, when an event occurs, the brain processes it, stores in the memory bank and moves on. But when a traumatic event happens, if we don’t have the proper tools, healthy caregivers or support, trauma gets stuck.

Our human nature causes us to hide when we have done something wrong (sinned) or something wrong has been done to us (sinned against).

Can your past impact your physical health?

In short. It absolutely can.

In a little longer explanation, here is why:

If you are suffering, it does NOT mean you are not praying enough, going to church enough, or being “good enough”. God loves you and you do not earn His unending, unfailing, unconditional love. He gives it freely.

To accomplish goals, we must first know why a problem exists in the first place. It can seem complicated, but it is quite simple. The root to every single problem in our fallen world is this: BROKEN relationships

We are designed for story telling and making meaning of our experiences. This is especially true for children. When a tough situation comes along (maybe an upsetting or scary event), it can become a confused jumbled mess in our brain.

Our brains are wired to look for the negative. It is easy to do. Once we start looking for it, our brain will find it. And the more we find the it, the more we focus on it and the more of it we will find.

Another way to integrate the brain and body is after you have named the emotion, it is time to really FEEL it.

Where is it located at in your body? In your neck? Shoulders? Feet?

The key to true mental health is integration- an integrated brain and body. This is the opposite of living compartmentalized or fragmented as the world desires us to or as trauma (sin) can cause us to do.

A question I get a lot is...Why go back to the past? Followed with...I cannot change it so what's the use?

So how does it impact us? To uncover this, we need to start at the beginning-at the time of conception until birth. In the beginning, we connect. Connection has two sides; what I like to call, the Beauty and the Beast.

If you have a heartbeat, you have experienced trauma in some way or will. Its impact on you depends deeply on how solid your foundation is; are you built on sand or rock? In the posts to come, I will share with you exactly what this all means.