Heal Within with Dr. Evette Rose

Is Childhood Trauma Causing Immune Dysfunction? + Meditation


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In this powerful episode of Heal Within, Dr. Evette Rose explores how unresolved childhood attachment trauma doesn’t just affect your emotions—it imprints deep into your nervous and immune systems, shaping the way your body responds to life. Discover the neuroscience behind why early emotional wounds create lifelong patterns of inflammation, fatigue, anxiety, and disconnection—and how you can begin to reverse these effects through trauma-aware healing.

You’ll learn:

  • How attachment trauma primes your brain and immune system
  • Why microglia (the brain’s immune cells) become hyper-reactive
  • The link between chronic stress, inflammation, and burnout
  • Signs your nervous system is stuck in survival mode
  • How to begin rewiring your system for safety and connection

💛 The episode closes with a deeply healing Guided Meditation: Reuniting with the Divine Mother & Divine Father for Attachment Healing, helping you reconnect with a felt sense of love, safety, and inner wholeness.

🌿 Affirmation of the Day: “I release the past and receive new nurturing now.”

With love

Dr. Evette Rose

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References

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Bremner, J. D., & Vermetten, E. (2001). Stress and development: Behavioral and biological consequences. Development and Psychopathology, 13(3), 473–489. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579401003042

Danese, A., & Lewis, S. J. (2017). Psychoneuroimmunology of early-life stress: The hidden wounds of childhood trauma? Neuropsychopharmacology, 42(1), 99–114. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2016.198

Fields, R. D. (2006). The other half of the brain. Scientific American, 295(3), 54–61. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0906-54

Gunnar, M. R., & Quevedo, K. (2007). The neurobiology of stress and development. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 145–173. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085605

Hennessy, M. B., Deak, T., & Schiml, P. A. (2014). Sociality and sickness: Have cytokines evolved to serve social functions beyond times of pathogen exposure? Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 37, 15–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2013.10.021

Hutchinson, M. R., & Watkins, L. R. (2014). Why is neuroimmunopharmacology crucial for the future of addiction research? Neuropharmacology, 76, 218–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.04.008

Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., McGuire, L., Robles, T. F., & Glaser, R. (2002). Emotions, morbidity, and mortality: New perspectives from psychoneuroimmunology. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 83–107.

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