Where is trauma stored in the body? This article explores how trauma affects the body over time and the most common symptoms of trauma in adults. Through a compassionate, trauma-informed lens, it reframes these symptoms as intelligent adaptations and introduces body-based approaches to trauma and recovery.

What if healing trauma wasn’t about forcing release, but about restoring safety in the body?

PTSD lives in the nervous system — not just the story. Craniosacral therapy offers a gentle, body-led approach that supports the nervous system in releasing trauma in layers, as safety and capacity grow. Blending lived experience and research, this piece explores how healing can unfold without overwhelm — and why the body always knows the way.

In a world yelling “harder, faster, now,” craniosacral therapy offers the quiet medicine your nervous system craves. Discover how gentle touch helps your body remember how to heal.

There’s a sacredness in walking beside someone through their last moments — and a weight that never fully leaves you. After years as a paramedic, I found myself carrying invisible wounds of my own: PTSD, grief, and a deep disconnection from my body. This letter is my remembrance — for my EMS family, and for the long, tender journey home to myself.

We’ve been taught to think our way through healing—to analyze, talk, and understand our pain. But what if the missing piece isn’t in your mind at all? Somatic healing invites you to reconnect with your body, where your deepest memories, emotions, and wisdom truly live. This article explores how trauma imprints in the nervous system, what science (and the Polyvagal Theory) reveals about our body’s responses to stress, and why integrating mind and body creates the wholeness that talk therapy alone often misses.