Wim HofInstructor and teacher, Wim Hof Method

Overcoming childhood trauma 🧊💪 #childhoodtrauma

11 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief testimonial, a female speaker recounts her experience of being lightly diagnosed by a psychiatrist and prescribed antidepressants, which she felt merely numbed her emotions and suppressed her trauma. Seeking a more active path to healing, she discovered Wim Hof’s method through online search, incorporating daily breathing exercises and ice-cold exposure. She describes how deliberately choosing to feel pain in the cold restored her sense of bodily agency, allowing her to sit with discomfort, reconnect with her body, and feel empowered—something she believes medication cannot provide.

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When I went to the psychiatrist, I was so lightly diagnosed and given the antidepressants immediately, which is just numb, numb what you feel. Just continue suppressing, continue burdening it. I knew that I need to do a lot of work on myself and that it's not over. So that's, yeah, when I found you and I Googled and I breathed it, and I went into the cold, and I've been doing that every day. I go into the ice, and as a woman, as a traumatized child, to be able to choose pain— I'm in control, I'm choosing to feel the pain. I can be with it, I can sit with it, I can feel my body again, and I'm in charge of my body. No medication can give you that.