82 When the Body Holds Trauma | Eileen McKusick on Frequency and Recovery

About this episode

Eileen Day McKusick discusses how trauma manifests in the body and the therapeutic potential of sound frequencies for healing.

Episode 82 of the GrabLives Podcast features Eileen Day McKusick, researcher, author, and pioneer in the modern use of tuning forks for therapeutic sound work. Known for her books Tuning the Human Biofield and Electric Body, Electric Health, Eileen has helped reshape how people think about the body, energy, and healing by exploring the human biofield and the role vibration plays in our physical and emotional health. In this conversation, Eileen breaks down her work in a way that’s approachable even if you’ve never heard of vibrational medicine. She explains how stress, trauma, and unresolved experiences can show up as patterns of tension or “dissonance” in the body’s energetic field, and how carefully applied sound frequencies may help the nervous system reorganize and settle. Rather than framing healing as something mystical or abstract, she connects vibration to everyday physiology, showing how sound can influence the body’s electrical and sensory systems. For first responders and anyone living with high stress or PTSD, this episode offers a new lens for understanding how trauma lives in the body and how non-invasive tools like sound therapy may support regulation, recovery…

People in this episode

Host: grablives

Guest: Eileen Day McKusick

Topics covered

• trauma
• vibrational medicine
• sound therapy
• nervous system
• self-awareness
• healing

Keywords

• trauma
• vibration
• sound therapy
• nervous system
• energy medicine
• recovery
• self-awareness

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Tuning the Human Biofield, Electric Body, Electric Health

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