234 - Wired for Abandonment: How Somatic Work Heals What Talk Therapy Can't w/ Valerie Rubin
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The episode discusses how somatic work can address issues of abandonment and chronic pain that traditional talk therapy may not resolve.
✨ NEW COURSE — Safe Within: 7-week live somatic healing journey to SELF energy . Starts July 1st. -- Your childhood taught your body that love means waiting to be left. No amount of insight changes that. Val Rubin is a trauma-informed somatic coach and host of the Anxiety Recovery Podcast who specializes in healing the fear of abandonment through the nervous system rather than the mind — and she's speaking from the inside out. For six years she lived with chronic pain that every doctor missed, until hypnotherapy resolved it in months and set her on a path that eventually ran straight through her own trauma bond. This conversation is about what it actually takes to change when you already understand yourself. ✨ What this episode explores: ▪️ Why Your Gut Reads Danger Before Your Brain Does — How your nervous system builds a subconscious safety database in childhood that keeps running your adult relationships on autopilot. ▪️ Why Unavailable People Feel Like Home — How your nervous system built its definition of love around someone who couldn't give it, and why that template outlasts every therapist you've ever had. ▪️ Chronic Pain as Stored Emotion — How unprocessed emotional pain…
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