How Biology Affects Healing from Trauma with Dr. Aimie Apigian on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (Deregistered naturopath with 30+ years of experience in health) speaks with Dr Aimie Apigian regarding Trauma Healing Accelerated.

 

Highlights from today’s episode include:

Dr. Aimie Apigian

And to bring that point home, I really also like to emphasize the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, because that shows in real life, how something that happened in our childhood, became our biology, so that we’re getting diagnosed with diseases when we are an adult decades later. That’s not psychological. Yes, there is a psychological component because they have, you know, belief systems and self-criticism and judgment and shame and all of that. And yet there’s such strong implications for it being biology, that it is driving disease.

Dr. Aimie Apigian

what I found is that there’s so much that we can do, and this is where I get super excited, because there’s so many tools that we can bring in, that will help either get a person unstuck in their therapy process or their healing journey, or even be able to accelerate the healing journey

 

Dr. Aimie Apigian

It’s always presenting an opportunity for healing. It’s always presenting for us that invitation to just take the next best step towards our healing self, and away from our trauma self, always. Life is always giving us that and it’s whether we recognize it, or if you’re like me, who needs to hit a rock bottom low with your health until you’re willing to stop and listen to the message that your body is giving you

ABOUT DR. AIMIE APIGIAN

Dr. Aimie is a Double Board-Certified Medical Physician in both Preventive and Addiction Medicine and holds Double Masters Degrees in Biochemistry and in Public Health. She is the leading medical expert on addressing stored trauma in the body through her signature model and methodology, The Biology of Trauma™: a new lens that courageously uplevels the old methods of trauma work and medicine by reverse-engineering trauma's effects on the nervous system and body on a cellular level. Dr. Aimie specializes in trauma, attachment and addictions after having personal experience in foster parenting, adopting and then having her own health issues that were a result of childhood and life experiences. In addition to her medical studies that have included Functional Medicine Certification, she has sought out trauma therapy training since 2015.

Core purpose/passion: Fueled by how my life has been affected by attachment trauma starting with my father and then my son and then needing to address my own insecure attachment patterns, my mission is to share what I have learned to accelerate the healing journey of attachment trauma of others.  Understanding attachment, trauma and the nervous system is just the beginning, and science and the experience of others are now confirming that even the most difficult of situations can improve without requiring years of therapy.

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About Manon Bolliger

As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  ‘What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship’ and ‘A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress’.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals. So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience”. Mission: A Healer in Every Household! For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips SOCIAL MEDIA:  – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn  | YouTube  | Twitter  | Linktr.ee  

About The Healers Café:

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TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to the Healers Café. Conversations on health and healing with Manon Bolliger. A retired and deregistered naturopathic physician with 30 plus years of experience. Here, you will discover engaging and informative conversations between experienced healers, covering all aspects of healing, the personal journey, the journey of the practitioner, and the amazing possibilities for our own body, and spirit.

Manon Bolliger 00:43

So welcome to the Healers Cafe. And today I have with me Dr. Aimie Apigian. And she’s a double board certified medical physician in both preventative and addiction medicine, and holds double master degrees and biochemistry and in public health. She’s the leading medical expert on addressing stored trauma in the body through her signature model and methodology, the biology of trauma. And let me see, I think I’m gonna leave it for the intro. There’s plenty more, but I would rather just welcome you and maybe say a few words of anything I’ve missed on that. But what an honor to have you here.

 

Dr. Aimie Apigian 01:33

Thank you, Dr. M. I’m really looking forward to our conversation and giving hope and tools for people.

 

Manon Bolliger 01:39

Yes, I think that’s really what it’s about. Because it’s easy, you know…we’re always on both sides of the equation.

 

Dr. Aimie Apigian 01:48

Always. Always.

 

Manon Bolliger 01:53

But, you know, what we look for are, if this doesn’t work, is there more? Is there another approach? Is there something else that could help now? I was I thought I’d go right into it and ask you. You know, Peter Levine, which I’m sure you’ve heard well about. He writes, human responses to treat are primarily instinctive and biological. This is in treating trauma, and secondarily psychological and cognitive. That’s his approach to trauma, his vision of how he sees that. Are we on the same page? Is there more? Anything different?

 

Dr. Aimie Apigian 02:42

Yes, yes, and, or maybe no and. However, you want to look at that. So, Dr. Peter Levine has been someone who’s changed my life personally, I have so much respect for him and what he has brought to the field of trauma therapy. And I remember when I was at my lowest, my lowest I had just been coming out of my time with my son, who I adopted when he was five got him as a foster child when he was four. And everything that I just knew would help him was not doing anything to help him Dr. M we were, we were stuck. And we were at a real all-time low. And then I went into my own health crash. And so, when you talk about, you know, us being patients as well, yes, I have been there. And I have had to figure out what to do when…

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  * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician, after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!