Attachment, Development And How We Lose A Sense of Safety

Have you wondered how early-life shocks shape our nervous system?
This video goes into the attachment through the Biology of Trauma® lens. Early-life events shape our future sense of safety, responses and attachment styles.
Unexpected shocks experienced during critical periods of attachment and development can disrupt our sense of safety. This affects our ability to feel secure and thus to form secure attachments.
Common events like complications during birth or separation from caregivers for life-saving measures can be a heart shock for a fragile infant. These early shocks become stored in the body and recorded as implicit memories of survival.
Implicit memories of survival lead to dysregulation which leads to long-term outcomes. Grief, muscle tension, fatigue and challenges with All of this from an early heart shock from a loss of safety during vulnerable early stages.
This video is an excerpt from a full podcast episode! Tune in here: "The Impact of Early Attachment Shocks: How Unexpected Stressors Can Cause Developmental Trauma & What To Do".
Here’s what you’ll learn in the full podcast episode:
- Understanding what a heart shock is
- How early life heart shocks affect attachment and survival
- Examples of early life heart shocks and their impact
- The cellular, tissue, and system-level effects of heart shocks
- How heart shocks change the nervous system and neuroception
- The connection between early life heart shocks and adult diseases
- Recognizing the "part" of us affected by early life shocks
- The importance of being a "hero" for the affected part
Click here to listen to the full podcast: bit.ly/4aheHWG
Helpful links:
Where To Start:
- Foundational Journey: A 6-week Journey I lead where I take you into your own nervous system. I want to teach you how to create that felt sense of safety in your body. bit.ly/3QOdoIt
We lay this foundation through somatic and parts work.
Think of it as stabilizing your system before going into surgery. We lay the foundation before doing the deeper trauma work. We follow The Essential Sequence next for safely opening up the body during this Foundational Journey.
Guides
- Essential Sequence: Guide honoring the process to safely address stored trauma on a smaller scale if you’re not ready for the foundational journey. bit.ly/3USgJb5
Related Podcasts
Can Stored Trauma In The Body Cause Self-Sabotage? With Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Part 1: Trauma often pushes you to recoil into yourself emotionally because of childhood conditioning, but it is possible to learn a new way of being. Dr.Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D., joins me to discuss stored trauma in the body and how it inevitably leads to self-sabotage. bit.ly/44CU8md
What Is The Best Way To Help Our Families Health From Their Trauma: A story of adoption, relationship struggles, and deciding to adopt. Only to find that Heather needed to finally look at her own adoption experience to help her family and her marriage. bit.ly/3UAmLMr
Supplements
- Cellular Energy Support: Chronic stress and trauma mode for such a long time can cause a lack of energy. I use this even! It has holy basil and ashwagandha to help you come out of chronic stress and trauma. Your cells need energy to repair before anything else can happen in your healing journey. This is the best cellular support I’ve found! bit.ly/3Ur0AIb
- Tri-Magnesium Power: I take this during the day and at night! I have 3 different kinds of supplements I use, but this is one of the best supplements to help you, so you can choose which one best serves you! I choose magnesium every time because it helps activate certain enzymes that are important for the repair of injured tissues (including cells that have stored trauma!) bit.ly/3WncfdK