Grief and Gut Health: How Emotional Trauma Impacts Your Body
Grief and Gut Health: How Emotional Trauma Impacts Your Body
Grief isn’t just an emotional process, it’s a biological experience that can deeply disrupt your gut health, nervous system, and overall well-being. In this episode, Dr. Aimie explores the gut-brain axis and how emotional trauma like grief gets stored in the body, often leading to digestive issues and nervous system dysregulation.
Discover how grief affects the vagus nerve, diaphragm function, and the enteric nervous system—your body’s “second brain.” Learn why doctors often overlook the link between trauma and the gut, and how somatic healing offers a powerful, holistic approach to recovery.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How the vagus nerve connects grief and gut health
- The 3 most difficult types of grief to process: attachment grief, absent grief, and heart shock grief
- How unprocessed grief disrupts diaphragm function and the digestive system
- The difference between being stuck in grief vs. actively grieving
- How grief contributes to inflammation and pressure in gut health
- How your gut and brain work together to process emotional trauma
Whether you’re a practitioner or on your own healing journey, this episode sheds light on the mind-body connection, offering a holistic healing perspective on grief, trauma, and gut health.
Helpful Links Related To This Episode
Related Podcast Episodes:
Episode 42: Unlocking The Role Of Disguised Grief in Health with Dr. Joan Rosenberg
Related Youtube Videos:
How Can You Create Change in Your Life After Trauma? | Dr. Aimie Apigian
Guides, Tools & Resources:
Biology of Trauma book – how the body experiences and holds fear, pain and overwhelm, and how to heal – at the time of this recording, when you pre-order, I am giving over $400 worth of bonuses here.
The 21 Day Journey – many have taken the 21 Day Journey because of grief, and wanting to safely access and regain a sense of safety, energy, and find their authentic self again. Over the course of 21 days, I’ll guide you through a structured sequence of somatic-based self-practices designed to help you reconnect with your body, calm your nervous system, and begin healing from the inside out.
Steps to Identify and Heal Trauma – A Roadmap for Healing – Use this free 23-page guide to recognize when grief has become stored trauma in the body them, and get simple steps to the healing journey. It’s great for anyone who wants to understand trauma better or support others on their healing journey.
KEY MOMENTS:
[08:00] The three hardest types of grief to process
[12:00] Dr. Aimie’s personal story about grief and adoption trauma
[18:00] How grief affects the diaphragm and breathing
[22:00] The gut-brain connection and vagus nerve impact
[28:00] How early medical trauma and separation can create lasting gut-health issues
[30:00] The difference between grief vs. grieving (remapping relationships)
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