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75- Your Body Didn’t Store Your Trauma: Your Brain Learned It.
A brand-new paper from Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience is directly challenging one of the most influential trauma frameworks of the last decade — and Dr. Britt couldn’t wait to bring it to you. In this episode she breaks down what it actually means, layers it with thirty years of resilience research from Columbia University, and shows exactly why the distinction between stored trauma and learned predictions changes everything about how you heal.
IN THIS EPISODE
• Why the “body stores trauma” metaphor may be biologically inaccurate — and what the science actually says
• Predictive coding: why your brain is a prediction machine, not a recording device
• Metastability: what trauma does to your brain’s range of motion
• George Bonanno’s Flexibility Sequence — the three steps that separate people who heal from people who stay stuck
• Why flow states are medicine for a traumatized nervous system
• The neuroscience of memory reconsolidation — and why it explains everything about Breakthrough Sessions
• Eight practical tools to restore your brain’s flexibility today
THREE REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1. Has the framework of “trauma stored in the body” ever made you feel like you were never fully healed — like there was always one more thing to excavate? Sit with that.
2. What would it mean practically in your daily life if healing was recalibration rather than excavation? What would you do differently?
3. What is one new experience — one safe, challenging, connected, or meaningful thing — you could give your nervous system this week?
You are not a prisoner of your stored pain. You are a system that is learning. And systems that learn can change.
Get on the list for updates about Dr. Britt's new book I Wish Someone Told Me.
Apply for a Breakthrough Session Today!
Kotler, Mannino, Fox & Friston (2026) — Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Bonanno, G.A. (2021) — The End of Trauma, Basic Books
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990) — Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
James, M. (2016) — Mental and Emotional Release
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By Brittany LashuaA brand-new paper from Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience is directly challenging one of the most influential trauma frameworks of the last decade — and Dr. Britt couldn’t wait to bring it to you. In this episode she breaks down what it actually means, layers it with thirty years of resilience research from Columbia University, and shows exactly why the distinction between stored trauma and learned predictions changes everything about how you heal.
IN THIS EPISODE
• Why the “body stores trauma” metaphor may be biologically inaccurate — and what the science actually says
• Predictive coding: why your brain is a prediction machine, not a recording device
• Metastability: what trauma does to your brain’s range of motion
• George Bonanno’s Flexibility Sequence — the three steps that separate people who heal from people who stay stuck
• Why flow states are medicine for a traumatized nervous system
• The neuroscience of memory reconsolidation — and why it explains everything about Breakthrough Sessions
• Eight practical tools to restore your brain’s flexibility today
THREE REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1. Has the framework of “trauma stored in the body” ever made you feel like you were never fully healed — like there was always one more thing to excavate? Sit with that.
2. What would it mean practically in your daily life if healing was recalibration rather than excavation? What would you do differently?
3. What is one new experience — one safe, challenging, connected, or meaningful thing — you could give your nervous system this week?
You are not a prisoner of your stored pain. You are a system that is learning. And systems that learn can change.
Get on the list for updates about Dr. Britt's new book I Wish Someone Told Me.
Apply for a Breakthrough Session Today!
Kotler, Mannino, Fox & Friston (2026) — Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Bonanno, G.A. (2021) — The End of Trauma, Basic Books
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990) — Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
James, M. (2016) — Mental and Emotional Release