Trauma Lives in the Body with Somatic Therapist Hunter MacInnes

Welcome back CEO FAM! In today’s episode, we are talking about Healing Complex PTSD, Spirituality, Breathwork, Bottom Up Trauma Therapy Modalities such as Neurofeedback, Somatic Experiencing, etc. Hunter will open up about her story on gaining safety in her own body, her breakthroughs using plant medicine, MDMA assisted therapy and how Ayahuasca allowed her to surrender and let go of control over her body.

Hunter is a certified trauma-informed breathwork facilitator as well as a somatic therapist in training, who is passionate about helping people come home to their bodies. As a complex PTSD survivor herself, she attributes various bottom-up healing modalities to saving her life and it is her mission to make them more widely known and accessible to other humans suffering from treatment resistant mental illness.

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[12:00] Hunter’s journey

• Experiencing with somatic therapy
• Talk therapy vs somatic therapy
• Alternative healing methods

[15:30] What are other ways to tap into this bottom-up approach?

• Breathwork as a somatic healing modality
• What is neurofeedback?
• Healing one thing at time

[22:40] Hunter’s experience with plant medicine

• Legalizing psychedelics
• The importance of set & settings
• Honoring the spirit of the plant

[31:00] Body’s response during plant-based therapy

• Freeze, fight or flight responses
• Trauma flushing on the body

[35:20] Experiencing Ayahuasca

• What is Ayahuasca
• The journey does not always make sense cognitively
• She will give you what you need

[46:00] Alternatives medicine

• There is no one size fits all recipe to healing
• Unpredictable results
• There is no one size fits all cure

[52:00] Approaching past trauma like visiting a house?

• Trauma is like an old unopened box
• We have everything we need in order to heal
• Is social media reinforcing trauma?