Brad Schipke explains how complex PTSD traps your body in survival mode with elevated cortisol and adrenaline, causing constant restlessness and a racing heart. Processing trauma and changing the beliefs it created can rewire your brain and restore calm.
CPTSD keeps your body stuck in stress and survival mode with cortisol levels up, adrenaline up, and it makes rest feel impossible. But your body has natural mechanisms within it to heal and release the trauma. And when you're able to change the trauma-formed belief and release the emotions from your body, your heart rate drops, your digestion improves, your body stops waiting for danger, and your brain quite literally rewires and restructures itself. The same way that trauma damaged your brain, healing and processing changes it back. In the same way that you learn fear, it can learn peace. So if you want to understand how that works and how to process trauma at the root, hit subscribe and watch some of my longer videos.
