Trauma Doesn’t Heal Through Talk Alone

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]So, modern trauma research has been clear on this over the last 20 years.

[00:00:03][music] Trauma's not resolved through talk alone. Healing has to move in two directions. [music] So, there's top-down work, which is like insight and narrative, naming the dynamics.

[00:00:13]>> [music] >> It's real and necessary. And bottom-up work, which is like breath or vagal tone or somatic regulation or nervous system retraining, is equally necessary.

[00:00:22][music] Like you need both. One without the other stalls. But this is just kind of gives you the whole package.