“Trust Your Gut”, and Why That Doesn’t Work as Concrete Advice for Trauma Survivors
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The phrase, “Just trust your gut”, is overused in my opinion when it comes to working with survivors of trauma. Frequently, abuse survivors develop heightened nervous systems which actually impact the accuracy of their gut reactions. Abuse can cause gut reactions to often be an either over or under reactive response to years of harm. This is a coping mechanism activated by the nervous system to help humans survive a once dangerous situation/s.
“Trust Your Gut”, and Why That Doesn’t Work as Concrete Advice for Trauma Survivors
“Trust Your Gut”, and Why That Doesn’t Work…
“Trust Your Gut”, and Why That Doesn’t Work as Concrete Advice for Trauma Survivors
The phrase, “Just trust your gut”, is overused in my opinion when it comes to working with survivors of trauma. Frequently, abuse survivors develop heightened nervous systems which actually impact the accuracy of their gut reactions. Abuse can cause gut reactions to often be an either over or under reactive response to years of harm. This is a coping mechanism activated by the nervous system to help humans survive a once dangerous situation/s.