HIGHLIGHTS:
- How we both experienced anxiety as children and teens and our attempts to verbalize it to adults.
- She Broke down the traumatic parts of her childhood which lead to her long journey with anxiety disorder, over achieving and perfectionism.
- Mothering with mental illness.
- She and husband deconstructed and left the religion they were living within and the massive fall out from that.
- The start of her healing journey and what that looked like.
- Living from a baseline of anxiety, and how it’s unachievable to live a healthy life from that baseline.
- Breaking down Stigmas around taking psychiatric medications.
- I shared my experience of the first anxiety I ever had.
- The physical sensations our bodies have personally experienced when feeling anxious or due to long standing anxiety.
- How anxiety or an unregulated nervous systems can be the cause of the “mysterious illnesses”.
- What is trauma anyways? She breaks it down and shares her own comprehensive and unique definition of what trauma is.
- The problem with “trauma comparing” among individuals.
- She breaks down the Autonomic Nervous System and it’s role in how we experience trauma.
- Why we need to be healing the nervous system FIRST when we’re looking to heal mental health issues.
- What “Healing Holisticly” actually should look like: a complete “trauma healing toolbox”.
- Her favourite tool: cold plunges! And how that works to heal our nervous system.
- Her huge recommendation that ALL women should receive pelvic floor specific therapy post baby, for healing pelvic floor dysfunction or when healing sexual trauma or anxiety disorder.
- Her struggle with insomnia, and using psychiatric drugs with the Neminchuck Protocol to heal that.
- What brain injury and trauma have in common.
- The language we use about anxiety and what to be careful of.
- A deep dive into mental health crisis of 2020 and a bit of how I crawled out of that.
- The early days of mothering, and dark side of those days.
https://lindseylockett.com/episode-37-healing-trauma-is-different-for-women-how-to-access-your-inner-predator-develop-a-healthy-fight-response-with-kimberly-ann-johnson/
https://centralrecoverypress.com/product/my-grandmothers-hands-racialized-trauma-and-the-pathway-to-mending-our-hearts-and-bodies-paperback
https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/call-of-the-wild/
https://www.scottcarney.com/what-doesnt-kill-us
https://www.wimhofmethod.com/
https://www.thebrainpossible.com/treatments/nemechek-protocol
