(Ep. 8) What’s Your Body Telling You with Courtney Lancaster & Krystal Freise

What if your racing heart, your tight chest, your panic — weren't signs something's wrong with you, but your body trying to protect you?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise open up the studio to two guests: life coach Courtney Lancaster and trauma-sensitive yoga teacher Crystal Freise.Together they have a conversation about how triggers and trauma live in the body. Each of them came to this work through their own "great awakening," and together they explore why emotional pain we never processed doesn't just stay in our minds — it gets stored in our bodies until it finds a way out.Drawing on the science behind The Body Keeps the Score, polyvagal theory, and somatic experiencing, the group unpacks how your nervous system constantly scans for safety or danger, and why unfelt emotions get stored like a "trash can" that eventually overflows.They also dive into why every triggered response — fight, flight, or shutdown — is actually your body brilliantly trying to keep you safe. Crystal shares how trauma-sensitive yoga and mindfulness help you safely reconnect with your body, and Laura ties it all back to the heart of the Compassion Method: your triggers aren't the enemy; they're messengers.In this episode: 🔹 What's physically happening in your body during a trigger — fight, flight, and the shutdown response 🔹 Why emotions you could never feel get stored in the body until the "trash can" overflows 🔹 How your nervous system learns that disconnection equals danger — and why emotional attunement matters so much 🔹 Trauma-sensitive yoga and mindfulness: gentle ways to befriend your body instead of fighting it 🔹 The reframe that changes everything: your trigger isn't a malfunction, it's your body protecting you📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.comhttps://lauraduncan.com