Episode 15 | Depression, Trauma, and the Nervous System: The Missing Piece in Healing
About this episode
This episode explores depression through a trauma-informed and nervous system lens, challenging traditional narratives of healing.
Depression is often treated as something that is wrong with us. But what if that framing is part of what keeps us stuck in depression? In this episode, I explore depression through a trauma-informed and nervous system lens and why understanding it purely through symptoms or serotonin imbalance narratives limits the way we approach healing. Rather than asking “what’s wrong with you and you are depressed?”, this episode invites a different question: What happened to you, and how did...
Keywords
- mental health
- serotonin imbalance
- trauma-informed care
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