What's Wrong With Me? Ep: 132

Trauma is not just something that happens in your mind.It changes your body. Your nervous system. Your sense of safety. Your emotional patterns. Your identity.In this episode, I’m talking about how the body remembers trauma and grief, and why what you’re experiencing emotionally is not a sign that you are weak, broken, or failing.I share my own experience of PTSD after the death of my son Luca, including the flashbacks, the physiological shock, and what helped me begin to interrupt that trauma response and create a different reality for myself.I also talk about older trauma, the kind that can sit in the subconscious for decades and quietly shape the way you feel in present-day moments, even when logically you know you are safe.This episode explores the difference between grief and trauma, why traumatic grief exists, and how the nervous system can become conditioned around survival.I also share why healing is not about denying what happened, forcing positive thoughts, or “moving on.” It is about emotional reprocessing, nervous system safety, compassion, and understanding that your body adapted to protect you.If you’ve ever:• Felt unsafe in your body even when logically you knew you were safe• Experienced grief that felt traumatic, shocking, or physiologically overwhelming• Wondered why certain emotions or reactions seem to take over your body• Thought there was something wrong with you because you couldn’t just “move on”In this episode, we cover:• How trauma creates physiological changes in the body and nervous system• The distinction between grief and trauma• What PTSD felt like for me after losing my son Luca• Why traumatic images and flashbacks can keep shocking the nervous system• How emotional reprocessing can begin to change the body’s response• Why healing starts with compassion rather than self-judgmentHealing begins when we stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking, “What happened to me, and how did it affect me?”You can find out more about working with me at www.kayaramjee.com