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Nutrition for Trauma Recovery: 3 Superfoods To Calm Adrenaline & Anxiety
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Episode 94
“The body is intelligently saying, ‘I can't get out of bed, I need coffee,’ or maybe ‘I'm depressed and have no motivation to connect with people or raise my children. So I need to eat a bar of chocolate at 2 pm.”
- Luis Mojica
Nutrition for Trauma Recovery: 3 Superfoods To Calm Adrenaline & Anxiety
In this episode, I interview Luis Mojica, a somatic therapist, nutritionist and a musician. Like me, he started noticing how his biology and nutrition were affecting somatic work, got curious and started asking questions and testing his theories on himself.
Luis came into this work through personal experience, having endured a lot of relational trauma in his personal life, he realized he used to binge eat thousands of calories in one sitting just to suppress his anxiety and social fear, until one day, by mistake, he played the guitar. This is when he discovered co-regulation and parasympathetic response, and he set off to research other modalities that could also create the same feeling of safety and was led to the type of trauma work he does now.
How can we better manage anxiety by decreasing adrenaline levels through our food and eating habits?
We will be talking about the major hormone of stress and trauma – adrenaline.
This episode will:
– help you better understand the important role of adrenaline in stress, dysregulation and stored trauma
– give you knowledge of your adrenaline levels based on your eating habits
-provide you the nutritional tools for balancing adrenaline
SHOW NOTES:
[05:30] How we create eating habits that either metabolize or stimulate our adrenaline
[09:07] How we use compulsive eating to regulate our nervous system
[14:00] The link between excess adrenaline, inflammation, digestive issues and trauma
[21:24] Foods that help to rebuild cells, balance blood sugar and remove adrenaline from the body
[26:14] Somatic practices for accessing stored trauma in our stomach and calm digestive tract
Helpful Links Related To This Episode
Related Podcasts:
Episode 74: Why Stored Trauma Becomes Syndromes & Somatic Solutions with Peter Levine
Episode 75: Fear Stored In The Gut: Attachment, Relational Trauma, And Solutions For The Hyper-Sensitive Gut with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Related YouTube Videos:
1 Vitamin Helps Counter Trauma’s Damage On Your Digestive Tract
Repairing The Intestines After Attachment Trauma
The Attachment -IBS Connection: With Stress and Trauma And The Solutions For A Hyper-Sensitive Gut
Guides, Tools, Resources:
The Essential Sequence Guide – this free guide explains the science of the body’s trauma response gives us the 3 sequential steps out and why doing the right things in the right order is key to releasing trauma and achieving your full potential. It also provides the insights you need to know where to start to make lasting change in your life, health and relationships.
Guided Somatic Healing for Stored Emotions – if you know you have unresolved experiences from the past, that relationship, friendship or loss that you know you haven’t fully resolved, then I invite you to learn 7 somatic healing exercises for stored emotions in the body. These are safe for you to learn and do on your own, and it is where I would start, especially if you have any health symptoms that get triggered with stress or overwhelm. Again, it is guided somatic trauma exercises that you can safely learn and do on your own for the main emotions behind pain, fatigue, and other chronic conditions.
Foundational Journey – if you are ready for the real transformation and ready to invest the time and money that is needed, it all starts with laying a foundation of regulation. This is a safely-guided 6-week journey into your inner world to address stored trauma in your body by learning how to create felt experiences of safety, support, joy and connection through somatic interventions and mind-body dialogues.
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