Brad SchipkeFounder of Broken To Unbreakable

How is trauma stored in the body?

14 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise explanatory video, Brad Schipke describes how psychological trauma is not confined to the mind but can be stored in the body, producing a wide range of physical symptoms such as muscle tension, chronic pain, digestive problems, seizures, excessive sweating, nightmares, flashbacks, skin rashes, and autoimmune disorders. He argues that treating trauma solely on a psychological level is insufficient; effective healing requires releasing the trapped emotional energy from the body and addressing the trauma at the brain level. According to Schipke, when the root cause of trauma is healed in the brain, the associated physical symptoms resolve.

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How is trauma stored in the body? Now, trauma can be stored and can manifest in your body in many different ways. Although it's a mental thing, you're going to feel it in your muscles, chronic pain, digestion, seizures, sweating, nightmares, or flashbacks. It can even manifest in rashes or autoimmune disorders. Most people think trauma is just a psychological problem. It's a physical problem as well. So you can't just solve the problem on a psychological plane. You also need to release the trauma and release the emotion from your body as well. And when we get into your brain and we heal the root of your trauma, then all the physical symptoms go away. So when you heal the root of trauma, the physical symptoms clear up.