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How To Deal With Trauma From Being Constantly Lied To #addictionrecovery #gettingsober #sobercurious

24 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this video Amber Hollingsworth explains how chronic deception creates a trauma response that shows up as physical symptoms—tight muscles, sweating, severe headaches, and post‑event exhaustion caused by spikes in adrenaline and cortisol. She describes how the brain’s alert system becomes dysregulated after repeated lies, leaving the person feeling “off” or like they’re losing control. To address these moments, Amber introduces a practical framework she calls the PACE system, which is meant to help viewers pause, assess, and navigate the physiological and emotional fallout in real time. The segment emphasizes that recognizing these bodily cues is the first step toward managing trauma and moving toward recovery, especially for those in addiction recovery or seeking sobriety.

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You could be driving down the road and start thinking about something and remember something and just feel like you're losing it and they're not even there. You know, that's what I'm talking about when I say you're having that trauma response. You probably feel it physiologically in your body. Your muscles probably get really tight. You probably start maybe even sweating. You're getting like severe headaches after. You're feeling very, very tired after because your adrenaline and your cortisol is done going crazy and then you're exhausted after the fact. Yeah. If you're having that, then you are having trauma symptoms because your alert system is on the fritz because of everything that you've been through. And yes, there are things that you can do to help that. I'm going to give you a system for doing that, a PACE system to help you in those moments think through what's going on.