Healing Sexual Trauma - A Somatic & Nervous System Approach
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2023
- NOTE: This is a re-release of one of my most popular lectures and we are re-running it. The original was released on October 21, 2021. You can find the original here: • Healing Sexual Trauma ...
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After decades of helping folks heal sexual trauma at the somatic and nervous system level, I’ve picked up some essential knowledge I’ll share in this video. In short, what happened to you was wrong, how your body is responding now makes sense, AND you have the power to reclaim your life force energy and master your life.
Regardless of where you are on your healing journey, please take your time ingesting this information. There is no need to watch this all in one sitting. Titrate the learning, step away if it feels like too much, and take good care of you.
Here are some Questions/Topics I discuss in this chat:
8:47 - Resiliency in Trauma
11:32 - Fight/Flight/Freeze
14:22 - Freezing during an attack/trauma
16:45 - Stuck in Fight/Flight and not trusting your environments
18:25 - Connection to chronic illness/pain
20:49 - Intense anger
23:17 - Response to listening to this call - survival stress bubbling up
24:48 - Example of attack on the body but not abuse
28:55 - Example of sexual injuries but not abuse
31:32 - Circumcision in males and females
32:36 - Talk therapy & healing at the somatic nervous system level
38:28 - Connecting to body and sensing
42:19 - No memory of abuse/trauma
44:26 - Would sexual experiences be more traumatic because we aren’t aware of trauma?
52:44 - Connection to pain and pleasure
54:37 - Disgust, anger and fear
55:33 - Orienting and the importance of it.
58:56 - Susceptible to attacks
1:02:07 - Body-care work for healing (chiro, reflexology, etc...)
1:04:03 - How do you stop being prey?
1:05:56 - Survival stress coming up when finally ‘safe’
1:09:08 - How to start titrating and building capacity
1:12:54 - Healthy aggression/annihilation
1:14:53 - Recap on starting to heal
1:16:03 - Lying down and the trauma with it
1:18:04 - Confronting perpetrators
1:21:53 - Importance of early, healthy connection
Resources I mention in this video:
► Irene Lyon Website
irenelyon.com/
► 21 Day Nervous System Tune-Up
21daytuneup.com/
► Dr. Peter Levine
www.somaticexperiencing.com/
► How to find a good somatic practitioner
• How to find a good som...
► Kathy Kain
somaticpractice.net/
► Why are some people more resilient than others?
• Why are some people mo...
► The Polyvagal Theory. Explained.
• The Polyvagal Theory. ...
► All THINGS Polyvagal. Plus Q&A with Irene.
• All THINGS Polyvagal. ...
► How to come out of a chronic freeze response after repeated stress & trauma || IRENE LYON || Q&A
• How to come out of a c...
► Titration. Why it's important when HEALING trauma. Special Topic Lecture with Irene Lyon
• Titration. Why it's im...
► What the Heck is Orienting? (and why is it so important?!)
• What the heck is orien...
► What do you do when you have unresolved trauma? Two types of orienting
• What do you do when yo...
► Healing Trauma video series
irenelyon.com/healing-trauma-...
► Healthy Aggression Playlist
• The Importance of Ange...
► Blog - This Is When It’s Ok To Annihilate Somebody…by Seth Lyon
sethlyon.com/this-is-when-its...
► Grace: A Success Story
irenelyon.com/2014/04/11/grac...
► A Simple Analogy for Nervous System Healing
irenelyon.com/2020/01/09/a-si...
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I've had alot of talk therapy since 25 yrs now 63 yrs for childhood physical and verbal abuse trauma from birth till I left home at 19 yrs. We all lived between flight/fight and frozen every single day. I started therapy again at 58. This therapist really helped me get in touch with my inner child at various ages. It really brought out alot, but I started to feel unexplainable rage months afterward. It took me awhile to recognize it was raging anger. I did bring it up, but nothing resolved it. I'm so glad I watched a show where Dr. Gabor Mate spoke about body trauma. That brought similar channels up, yours being one. Now I know this is the missing piece. I'm not able to take your 21 day course at this time, but at least I now know why this anger is there and how it can be resolved. Thank you, thank you. Praying for everyone to heal. ❤
Gabor Mate still ignores circumcision, male genital mutilation, as preverbal somatic trauma.
So many somatic therapists won't take a stand against what they know is highly traumatic and sexually damaging and degrading.
Americans have mutilated baby boys' genitals for over 70 years.
80.5% of American men have had healthy erogenous tissue from their penis cut off at birth.
Is that freedom?
Circumcision is male genital mutilation.
If you're against harming children, you should be against baby boys being strapped down to circumstraint tables, gagged, and having the most sensitive parts of their body, their penis probed, peeled back and sliced off.
Europe and tha majorit of the world denounces male genital mutilation.
But Americans are still stubbornly mutilating over 1 million boys a year in the USA alone.
The body stores the trauma via survival stress physiology of the nervous system.
Look up Somatic Experiencing and Irene Lyon for more info. She is a practitioner that will give you all the info on Polyvagal theory and how trauma is stored in the body with references, books and other supporting info from dozens of other practitioners and researchers who have hundreds of other citations themselves.
Somatic Experiencing and the somatic modalities of psychotherapy in general have been the most effective way for me to deal with trauma and actually release it and teach my body that it is now safe for it to truly get out of flight fight freeze to begin to actually rest and repair and heal.
Chronic illness is most often just trapped trauma to the point where the body can't keep up with repairs so it looks like disease. Of you're in fight flight freeze, you don't repair and recover properly.
This is why people with more adverse childhood events have much more chronic illnesses and symptoms.
Preverbal somatic trauma is real. Before you can speak and consciously recall memories of the time when you were a baby, you can be traumatized because you can feel pain and threat if you are not attended to by an attuned adult. This puts you fight flight freeze, but since you're a baby you cannot fight or flee, you go into preservation mode and numb out and disassociate.
What we do to babies matters.
Think about circumcision. Male genital mutilation is the en masse sexual damaging and truamatization of over 1 million boys a year in the USA alone. 1.4 million in 2022 in USA alone.
This is a human rights violation that traumatizes the baby boy.
Men don't even have rights over their own cocks, and they deserve the basic human right of all their genitals.
If it is not a life saving procedure it is mutilation.
Normalize NOT cutting up your sons' cocks, America.
Normalize men owning their own cocks, and not having their cocks be public property of their parents and America.
Circumcision, male genital mutilation, is immoral and disgusting.
Most Americans, conservatives or liberals, love to ignore this.
The USA mutilated 1.4 million baby boys in 2022 alone. Over 4,000 a day.
80.5% of men in USA are cut, no consent, they don't know how authentic sex feels like.
Then the USA jokes about circumcision in their crappy TV shows and movies.
Only a slave would joke about his own violation and the violation of other baby boys.
Christians in your country can't read the New Testament properly, it seems. Apostle Paul calls circumcision mutilation and emasculation.
Foregen is a biotech company that is fully reversing circumcision with regenerative medicine. This is beyond foreskin restoration which doesn't bring back the inner mucosal lining, Meissner's corpuscles, fine touch receptors, and other musculature like the dartos muscle.
Over 6500+ species of mammals have foreskins. That isn't a mistake. Do animals take better care of themselves than humans?
Europe knows better, Japan, too...the majority of the world, in fact.
His penis is his own, it's not the family penis.
To deny any of this is to be emotionally avoidant, willfully ignorant - and from ignorance comes acts of evil.
I sm also 63 yrs old, i attend Counceling. Several months into my therapy i have developed anger, feeling anger, hate and rage toward my childhood and my adult abusers. I do not understand where all of the rage is coming from and why now. Weird !!!
@@carolmccanse4468 Your on the right track and things will get better. It's all the feelings we suppressed as defenseless children. All the feelings we explained away, hid from, were ashamed of, you name it. The good thing is we are adults now and we can now deal with them. And then send them away. One thing I have to remind myself of everyday is, "I now get to be happy, joyful, expressive". I am all those things, but some days that old gloominess thinks its still welcome. I have to chase it away. All the things I couldn't be around my parents. I refuse to be controlled by my past. I've grown myself up to be me, not what my parent's said I was. Keep up the good work. Life is good and I treat myself good without allowing guilt in.
I am a therapist and I would say that the rage is part of the healing process. It would have been supressed at the time. Allow it expression, push against the wall. @@carolmccanse4468
This is what triggered my own fibromyalgia/CFS. I felt like I was walking through a dream for a year afterward. I blamed myself because I "let" it happen over and over again from the same authority figure. But now I know that my body was just trying to keep me alive. Your videos have helped me understand what ACTUALLY happened in my brain, and now that I have this awareness, I feel like I can prevent it from happening again because I can recognize the sensations of freeze/fawn in my body.
I also have fibromyagia, chronic pain, fitgue, irritible bowle system...am learning from Irenes Videos to heal
You. I literally cannot thank you enough. My main modality is freeze/fawn, for 52 out of my 54 years. Once triggered it explodes in either flight/fight with massive rage boiling over either in the moment or after "flight". I am going to dig deeper into your videos, this is my first video with you! I am fairly confident in stating that you are not only going to change my life, you are quite literally going to save it. I am not living. Thought I was thriving. No, I am not. I am a high functioning survivor. So much gratitude!!! See you in the monthly Saturday group. (Melanie)
Exactly, we are just managing it enough to survive. I have energy for just getting through everyday. I'm not living. Prayers for all our healing.
Tahoe Scarlet Begonia, Welcome! It's great to hear that Irene's video resonated so deeply with you.
Since you're new here, I'll link to Irene's New Here page so you have it. Given what you mentioned about the rage, I'll also share some info about healthy aggression as that may be of interest too.
New Here? - irenelyon.com/new-here/
What is Healthy Aggression? - irenelyon.com/2019/08/19/what-is-healthy-aggression/
Healthy Aggression: The way to Un-frustrate Frustration - sethlyon.com/healthy-aggression-the-way-to-un-frustrate-frustration/
- Jen from Irene's Team
Just found you!!! I’m becoming more self aware and I’ve never felt more in now than NOW! I know I can retrain my nervous system as it’s happening! I’m proud of myself for learning more about why I behave the way I do! Thank you for being part of my healing journey 🙏🤗
Wow, I have listened to this video 3 times now bc I'm learning so much, remembering so much and understanding so much about what I've been experiencing in my body over the years. I have so much more understanding of the complexities of how my body has adapted to my past experiences. I'm getting to understand and connect with my body on a much deeper level. Thank you for your work Irene. This is powerful and important work. I have been slowly going through SBSM and have been trying to be okay with my slow progress. Im realizing that titration is extremely important for me.
You said, “life is so damn fucking hard” and my immediate thought was…yes someone that gets it, that’s right
OMG, I badly hurt my pelvis at age 11 or 12. I had completely forgotten! How helpful to remember in this context. Thank you!
That 'ickiness' you spoke of, since I was very young I've had that, connected with various forms of intimacy. Has opened up something but mindful of allowing somatically what wants to show up and releasing the logical thinking, the story!. Thank you, many many years of wondering 🙏
I’m feeling so much relief as I watch/listen to this as it helps me better understand myself and feel understood -this is definitely the missing puzzle piece I needed for my healing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I’m so grateful for people like you in this world. 💜
Thank you SO much for choosing to reshare this old video. I realised as I watched it that I had actually found it last year and was very interested but my body said 'no way!'. I'd already spent enough time learning from Irene to listen to my body. I clicked away and forgot it existed!
This time I was interested and ready. I watched it in two big chunks over about a week and was able to stay fairly regulated throughout. And loved it!
It just goes to show how much more nervous system capacity I have now compared to 9-12 months ago. And it's a testament to doing this healing work in slow, steady, gentle, consistent way.
Thank you, Irene and team. I so appreciate the reshare.
Thank you so much irene ❤❤❤ that you put your knowledge out here FOR FREE i so apprechiate this. Its so important for us all❤
Note: there's a time difference with the time stamps provided in the description. At the beginning it's around 2mins, at the end roughly 5min30s. The video is ahead of the time stamps. E.g.: topic of talk therapy in the video starts at 28:48, but the time stamp says 32:36
Thank you so much, this is the most sense this subject has ever made to me.
Irene you are so so so intelligent im overwhelmed by ur help and knowledge tankyou so much 💖
This is the first time I’ve heard this stuff,I feel like 55 years of trauma has been lifted just knowing somebody understands and may have an answer, thank you so much, I will be researching the rest of the material available thank you,thank you 😊
You are such a great teacher!!
OMG I did this in a group exercise in a conference class I was defending myself thank goodness there are safe people in this world .
Years ago, I was in the middle of a shiatsu massage when the therapist touched my thigh. In that instant, I saw my dad touching me there. I just froze with the shock as it came out of the blue. I also sometimes get a strange sensation down my right arm (im right handed) where it just feels uncomfortable and I have to shake it. At the same time, I also want (and do sometimes) say 'get away from me'. Ive never heard anyone talk about anything like that before so I don't feel quite as barmy now.. 😏
I also was sexualy insulted and touched etc from my dad. And am learning to heal with Irene
Everyone needs to hear your assessment.
This is incredibly validating. Have been listening and pausing during points with lots coming up. Interesting... the anger... or rage, fighting, and pushing away comes up in my dream world.
@cd6741, Jen here from Team Lyon. It sounds like some Healthy Aggression may be coming up in your dreams. I'll share a few links in case you want to learn more.
What is Healthy Aggression? - irenelyon.com/2019/08/19/what-is-healthy-aggression/
Healthy Aggression: The Way to Un-frustrate Frustration - sethlyon.com/healthy-aggression-the-way-to-un-frustrate-frustration/
This is a very interesting video Irene, thank you. Lots to process.
As I'm listening I'm remembering an incident my freshman year of high school in gym class when a male classmate decided to hit me extremely hard in the pubic area with a tennis racket. I don't remember many details but it really hurt.
Knowledge is power n you are a gift from god. How can we heal what we hav no knowledge of the inner connection. Everything u say makes sense, sendin you a big hug lots of love ❤️
Helpful, ty, 1:15 " There is no machine that matches the complexity of the human nervous system and our brain and your capacities and our intelligence and our creativity " you guys might also like the work of Gigi Young (Rudolph Steiner ) and the dangers of transhumanism and science as the new religion ( just saying )
I dont believe that as a child being incested i knew that what they were doing was wrong. They knew it was wrong. I carried their feelings of wrong. NOW i am considering right/wrong. THEN i just wanted to be involved w/adults and become an adult. I carried their shame and their everything through most of my life.
it was definitely wrong , even if your body felt good sexually at the time doesn’t mean it was right
You mentioned that if we are listening to this and we feel a tightening or like we are shutting down and getting sleepy, it doesn’t mean necessarily that we have hidden memories of sexual trauma. It’s very interesting because a couple hours ago I tried meditation to recall repressed memories that I know I have…and I felt all of this. So drained and sleepy until I had a good cry. No actual memories yet though.
Exactly! You can use your higher intelligence to receive info from your field. Yay for you!!!
Jin Shin Jyutsu is how I help to facilitate the release of denser frequencies on the physical and nonphysical levels. I see the energy moving between the brain and nervous system. I’ve devised methods to guide clients to shift out of the brain “driving” the nervous system to the brain being the tool that focuses our higher intelligence to discern messages received from both the physical body and the nonphysical (mental emotional energies) to come to the state of inner peace. Of calmness and stillness.
I see life force energy as well. And elements etc
Why do I hold so much shame in connecting with my body in any way? I only feel safe when I’m alone and I’m 41… I’m starting to become a reclusive person. SA from well before I can remember and on into my late teens
Trigger warning: brief description of a specific detail of abuse at 1:11:43 ends at 1:11:53
Please cover recovery from spiritual abuse by clergy
Hi Ablecore, Jen here from Team Lyon. I'll pass your suggestion along to the team.
I am so greatful for your work Irene, even if I can afford it. I really want to increese my capacity, but it is so difficult alone at home everyday with pain, without friends, famliy or the ability to go out being overly sencertive to literaly everything.
I grew up in a cult, where I was not alowed to have my own feelings. I was tought to sexualy please all men from the age of 6, and that this is the only way to receive acceptance.
This explains why I don't have the capacity to have an orgasum. Have had four miscariges and never feel safe or loved as I don't know what it is supposed to feel like.
I also keep attracting sexual abusers in my energy where I don't have the capacity to know what is safe, when not to allow them in my energy in order to protect myself which is quite terrable. I get numb when being abused. I feel I need protection.
I'm sorry for your suffering. You might consider trying some of the excercises she talks about in other video's or on her website. Or join an online training?
Mam i have very weak motherhood n fem energy n also stuggle fr money n shleter get copdendent fr bad people i know hindi well what i do age 40 in huge domestic violence my 12 years boy child was stroke by many time i have lost my mental state n how to heal both of us from india 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷
You are not alone, dear dear, you are loved❤️.... The universe WILL heal you and your boy🙏.... I have been through the same with my 3 daughters. It is a long and difficult road, but YOU WILL BE HEALED🙏❤️🙏
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Love to you
Pelvic pt for someone with chronic pelvic pain and hypertonic pelvic floor can definitely re traumatize...
Yes i protect myself but going make new habbits 😊
I am trapped in my body right now. I have had a great deal of healing over the last decades. But now there is another piece of big anger. I am unable to take care of my house sufficiently
Hello, Sophia from Team Lyon here. Thank you for sharing your experience. Perhaps you will find Irene's free resources helpful, as they might help answer your questions and support you in your healing journey. irenelyon.com/free-resources-2/
Hello yes you are explaining what happens but I am unable to run or even defend myself. Is there any cure to this do you have counseling for this.
Hello, Sophia with Team Lyon here. I'm sorry to hear about what's going on for you and thank you for sharing, we do appreciate it. If you believe you are in crisis, please see our resource for In Crisis support and intervention. irenelyon.com/in-crisis/ . Irene is not taking private clients at this time, but there are a few ways in which you can work with her.
The 21 Day Nervous System Tune-Up is a self-study online course that teaches you basics of healing trauma and nervous system health. It’s the perfect blend of polyvagal theory and somatic neurosensory exercises to get you started on this journey. 21daytuneup.com/
Then, if you want to dive deeper, you can check out the more in-depth SmartBody SmartMind™ (SBSM™) program. SBSM™ is an online group program that runs in 12-week ‘semesters’ once or twice a year, and teaches you how to become your own medicine. Its focus is to restore nervous system regulation through polyvagal-informed education, practical neurosensory exercises, and interactive support. smartbodysmartmind.com/
If you are looking to find a practitioner for private sessions, Irene strongly suggests taking some time to watch a video she created detailing “How to find a good practitioner.” th-cam.com/video/04XF7ANnqGk/w-d-xo.html
We also recommend taking a look over the Team Lyon page as many have their own practices and accept clients.
irenelyon.com/meet-the-team/
Two directories that might be of help are:
Somatic Experiencing practitioners: directory.traumahealing.org/
Feldenkrais practitioners: feldenkrais.com/practitioner-search/
Additionally, here is what Irene has previously said about healing while in a toxic environment th-cam.com/video/U4IgtrZDJXg/w-d-xo.html . If you feel inclined to work on your nervous system, I highly encourage you to check out Irene's many free resources to learn more irenelyon.com/free-resources/ You are welcome to reach out to our support inbox with any questions you may have.
As an infant i did not know
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Im fiziologicly egsosted all my life
I am a highly sensitive person and lately I have been thinking about how my father took me to my bedroom and took off my dress. I remember hanging unto the bed post and then I left my body. I don't know what he did but I feel asleep and woke up hours later. I have always hated him and he avoided me all of the time. When I was dating a man I loved at age 18, He stood outside his bedroom with my mother and angrly called me a bitch in heat. I shut down and went to my room. I soon left home away from him and that house. When I saw him years later in his cofin, I wanted to punch him.
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Do you have any video specifically about males feeling unsafe sexually eventhough they can engage sexually?
If u don’t yet, can you please please bring awareness. Why is it only spoken about women. All over I hear that women are slow and need safety before sex. What about men or women in overdrive.
I think men can feel just as unsafe sexually they maybe just have as different safety mechanism of sympathetic mode and females tend to shut down. I can’t understand why nobody talks bout this topic of engaging sexually from sympathetic stuckness. Both seem same unsafe and stuck in survival mode.
Just think what all these "gender reassignment" surgeries are doing to young people. Just imagine.
Exactly
Circumcision has been mutilating boys genitals for decades upon decades, for millions of boys in the USA.
80.5% of USA men are mutilated.
The body stores the trauma via survival stress physiology of the nervous system.
Look up Somatic Experiencing and Irene Lyon for more info. She is a practitioner that will give you all the info on Polyvagal theory and how trauma is stored in the body with references, books and other supporting info from dozens of other practitioners and researchers who have hundreds of other citations themselves.
Somatic Experiencing and the somatic modalities of psychotherapy in general have been the most effective way for me to deal with trauma and actually release it and teach my body that it is now safe for it to truly get out of flight fight freeze to begin to actually rest and repair and heal.
Chronic illness is most often just trapped trauma to the point where the body can't keep up with repairs so it looks like disease. Of you're in fight flight freeze, you don't repair and recover properly.
This is why people with more adverse childhood events have much more chronic illnesses and symptoms.
Preverbal somatic trauma is real. Before you can speak and consciously recall memories of the time when you were a baby, you can be traumatized because you can feel pain and threat if you are not attended to by an attuned adult. This puts you fight flight freeze, but since you're a baby you cannot fight or flee, you go into preservation mode and numb out and disassociate.
What we do to babies matters.
Think about circumcision. Male genital mutilation is the en masse sexual damaging and truamatization of over 1 million boys a year in the USA alone. 1.4 million in 2022 in USA alone.
This is a human rights violation that traumatizes the baby boy.
Men don't even have rights over their own cocks, and they deserve the basic human right of all their genitals.
If it is not a life saving procedure it is mutilation.
Normalize NOT cutting up your sons' cocks, America.
Normalize men owning their own cocks, and not having their cocks be public property of their parents and America.
Circumcision, male genital mutilation, is immoral and disgusting.
Most Americans, conservatives or liberals, love to ignore this.
The USA mutilated 1.4 million baby boys in 2022 alone. Over 4,000 a day.
80.5% of men in USA are cut, no consent, they don't know how authentic sex feels like.
Then the USA jokes about circumcision in their crappy TV shows and movies.
Only a slave would joke about his own violation and the violation of other baby boys.
Christians in your country can't read the New Testament properly, it seems. Apostle Paul calls circumcision mutilation and emasculation.
Foregen is a biotech company that is fully reversing circumcision with regenerative medicine. This is beyond foreskin restoration which doesn't bring back the inner mucosal lining, Meissner's corpuscles, fine touch receptors, and other musculature like the dartos muscle.
Over 6500+ species of mammals have foreskins. That isn't a mistake. Do animals take better care of themselves than humans?
Europe knows better, Japan, too...the majority of the world, in fact.
His penis is his own, it's not the family penis.
To deny any of this is to be emotionally avoidant, willfully ignorant - and from ignorance comes acts of evil.
The Somatic practitioners are going to be busy.
How DARE you say that as an infant i knew what they were doing was wrong
M Johanson, it sounds like there may be a misunderstanding here, that you may think that Irene is assigning blame or suggesting that infant should have been able to do something to stop what happened? If so, this is definitely not the case.
What she's suggesting is that when something or someone is hurtful to us, we feel this inside, we feel that it hurts, doesn't sit right. When we're very young, and at times even when we're older, this isn't a conscious knowing. Rather it's similar to the way that the body knows that food is bad for us if we eat something that's toxic or gone bad. I hope this helps to offer some clarity. - Jen from Team Lyon
Circumcision is sexual trauma.
Over one million bous mutilated a year in the USA alone.
And men and women make fun of it.
Men dont even have basic rights over their cocks.
The body stores the trauma via survival stress physiology of the nervous system.
Look up Somatic Experiencing and Irene Lyon for more info. She is a practitioner that will give you all the info on Polyvagal theory and how trauma is stored in the body with references, books and other supporting info from dozens of other practitioners and researchers who have hundreds of other citations themselves.
Somatic Experiencing and the somatic modalities of psychotherapy in general have been the most effective way for me to deal with trauma and actually release it and teach my body that it is now safe for it to truly get out of flight fight freeze to begin to actually rest and repair and heal.
Chronic illness is most often just trapped trauma to the point where the body can't keep up with repairs so it looks like disease. Of you're in fight flight freeze, you don't repair and recover properly.
This is why people with more adverse childhood events have much more chronic illnesses and symptoms.
Preverbal somatic trauma is real. Before you can speak and consciously recall memories of the time when you were a baby, you can be traumatized because you can feel pain and threat if you are not attended to by an attuned adult. This puts you fight flight freeze, but since you're a baby you cannot fight or flee, you go into preservation mode and numb out and disassociate.
What we do to babies matters.
Think about circumcision. Male genital mutilation is the en masse sexual damaging and truamatization of over 1 million boys a year in the USA alone. 1.4 million in 2022 in USA alone.
This is a human rights violation that traumatizes the baby boy.
Men don't even have rights over their own cocks, and they deserve the basic human right of all their genitals.
If it is not a life saving procedure it is mutilation.
Normalize NOT cutting up your sons' cocks, America.
Normalize men owning their own cocks, and not having their cocks be public property of their parents and America.
Circumcision, male genital mutilation, is immoral and disgusting.
Most Americans, conservatives or liberals, love to ignore this.
The USA mutilated 1.4 million baby boys in 2022 alone. Over 4,000 a day.
80.5% of men in USA are cut, no consent, they don't know how authentic sex feels like.
Then the USA jokes about circumcision in their crappy TV shows and movies.
Only a slave would joke about his own violation and the violation of other baby boys.
Christians in your country can't read the New Testament properly, it seems. Apostle Paul calls circumcision mutilation and emasculation.
Foregen is a biotech company that is fully reversing circumcision with regenerative medicine. This is beyond foreskin restoration which doesn't bring back the inner mucosal lining, Meissner's corpuscles, fine touch receptors, and other musculature like the dartos muscle.
Over 6500+ species of mammals have foreskins. That isn't a mistake. Do animals take better care of themselves than humans?
Europe knows better, Japan, too...the majority of the world, in fact.
His penis is his own, it's not the family penis.
To deny any of this is to be emotionally avoidant, willfully ignorant - and from ignorance comes acts of evil.