As I, Natasha Vaswani, welcome you back to my podcast, Unfiltered Emotions Unplugged, I recommend you to listen to this episode just before you fall asleep so that your subconscious mind can connect with the missing dots of any trauma that you or your family/friends might have suffered from and guide you through it

There are various symptoms experienced by people who suffer from trauma such as a low confidence level, fear, recurring nightmares, and flashbacks of the traumatic event and memory lapses. Our emotional body reacts to trauma in a different way compared to our physical body. Mentally, we might suffer from brain fog and an imbalance in hormones due to all the fear and low-energy emotions, resulting in hot flashes, shortness of breath, and anxiety attacks in extreme cases

And on an emotional level, we have that fear, stress or sadness eating into us and sacrificing a happy life for one full of limitations and insecurities. We tend to attract similar events and relationships without knowing why

You will be amazed to know that there is a fear area in our frontal and temporal lobe that if not healed completely, automatically recreating events similar to the traumatic one. You try your level best to run away from that trauma however it keeps on coming back!

Why? Because you might be suffering from PTSD –post traumatic stress disorder which occurs when we do not attend to our traumas and expect them to simply disappear.

As time passes by, the trauma doesn’t just disappear; in fact it negatively affects your life even more

One trauma that I encountered in my childhood was abandonment as my father passed away when I was quite small. Thereafter, I only attracted friends into my life who abandoned me until I figured out how to treat myself once I became a coach and counselor

Let me tell you the truth, that this doesn’t take a day or two to overcome and one requires various resources to overcome PTSD but there definitely is a solution to it

You might be surprised to know that the person whom you least expect might be suffering from PTSD and might be reliving that traumatic moment every day of their lives. We humans are mentally programmed to not express our emotions and tell our stories to anyone unless we trust them 100%. While we try searching for the perfect person to trust, we miss out on really good support systems who can truly help us to overcome this fear. They might suggest a good psychotherapist or counselor to us or introduce us to effective holistic therapies.

Nonetheless, you are the one who has to accept it and ask for help as asking for help is a sign of courage not weakness

In extreme cases, where people with or without PTSD are self-destructive, I always suggest my clients to be attended by psychotherapists as they might be taking anti-depressants or other drugs or alcohol to quiet that internal noise within. And alongside I use effective methods of CBT to rewire the brain.

In other words, trauma occurs as a result of a horrifying experience and it is entirely dependent on how a person reacts to that event. The same event can be horrifying for various people, but to some it affects them on a much more on a deeper level than to others who take it in their stride.

You might be wondering what causes us to enter the trauma mode, so let me tell you that there are various causes such as natural catastrophes like earthquakes and fires, childhood or adulthood sexual, physical or emotional abuse, a dear one’s demise, a life-threatening illness, and armed robbery

And some consequences of not attending to your trauma are: losing your job, feeling a sense of numbness as a contrast to the nervous system always being on high alert, mood swings, attracting the same traumatic experiences over and over again, divorce or heart-breaks, outbreaks of anger, and learning challenges...