When Your Body Keeps the Score with Dr. Suhina Singh

About this episode

Dr. Suhina Singh discusses her journey through trauma, emotional education, and the importance of forgiveness as physical medicine.

Dr. Suhina Singh grew up in apartheid South Africa where danger wasn't an exception — it was the baseline. Hypervigilance became her identity. Competence became survival. And for decades, her body absorbed everything her mind refused to feel. Then the pandemic hit. Chronic inflammation, unexplainable pain, and a nervous system finally at its limit forced her into what she calls her first emotional education — a journey that revealed Complex PTSD, possible neurodivergence, and a lifetime of suppressed grief. In this episode, Suhina opens up about forgiveness as physical medicine, learning to name emotions she didn't know she had, and what it finally feels like to stop performing and simply be.

People in this episode

Guest: Dr Suhina Singh

Topics covered

• Complex PTSD
• neurodivergence
• emotional education
• forgiveness
• chronic inflammation

Keywords

• hypervigilance
• suppressed grief
• nervous system

Mentioned in this episode

Places: South Africa

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