Trauma, Emotions and Health - from an interview with Dr Cathleen King

"Then I created a roadmap to guide me out of the dense fog of my illness and fear. I learned how to self-regulate my nervous system."

Cathleen King, DPT, is a "doctor of physical therapy who teaches neuroscience principles, and is a mind-body practitioner."

This audio is an excerpt from her conversation at the 2025 Trauma Super Conference, titled "Trauma, Emotional Processing, and Physical Health."

A summary of topics:

*Why we should understand the science behind nervous system regulation

*How to separate trauma story from identity

*Self-regulation techniques to help with trauma therapy

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» One of her programs: Primal Trust Membership & Community - "Learn to consciously self-regulate your biology and heal."

From this video: "I had a lot of childhood stuff, and I'd heard like go resolve your trauma.

“Well, I tried to do that. I went raid into like EMDR and parts work, and honestly, it was re-traumatizing to me to go right into those processes because I had no capacity for self-regulation."

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A long journey into healing

📖 How Healing Happens - free guide by Cathleen King, DPT on "brain retraining and nervous system somatic healing...both the science and approach to self-healing for chronic illness and chronic stress."

[See link at bottom of page above to learn about her Membership program.]

* In her guide, Cathleen King writes:

"I’ve personally walked the path of chronic illness (Lyme, mold toxicity, Chronic Fatigue, and more) with many debilitating symptoms, and felt completely overwhelmed with the fear that I might never return to a full and vibrant life.

"Like many of you, I went from doctor to doctor, piling up a staggering number of diagnoses and desperately trying treatments, many of which only made me feel worse."

She explains her experiences led her to become "obsessed with the drive to fix myself, spending endless hours frantically researching and unable to concentrate on anything else in my life.

"I know painfully well the spiral of loneliness, anger, and deep despair that comes with being told there is no chance of fully healing."

But, she adds, "then I created a roadmap to guide me out of the dense fog of my illness and fear.

"I learned how to self-regulate my nervous system and, astoundingly, to experience true joy and calm even while I was still experiencing difficult symptoms and limitations.

"My nervous system started to change. My brain began to rewire. And I began to trust my body could heal."

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