Primal Trust Academy & Community with Dr. Cathleen King

11/16/2025

Let’s get one thing straight, healing isn’t some miracle.
It’s biology. It’s built-in. It’s literally what your body and nervous system were designed to do.

But somehow we forgot that, especially the doctors.
They treat the body like it needs saving.
It doesn’t. Sometimes, it just needs you to stop getting in its way.

Your body knows how to repair. It’s your default setting. The work is stepping aside and letting your body do the work.

Comment HEAL if you’re ready to start trusting your biology.

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11/15/2025

When we finally start leaning into our symptoms, our upsets, our triggers, it’s a sign we’ve built enough safety in the system to turn toward what scares us.

That’s huge.
That’s what true self-regulation looks like.

It's not the absence of symptoms that grows our regulation. Its our capacity to be with them that strengthens our nervous system!

Comment READY to learn how to retrain your nervous system and build real self-trust.

11/14/2025

When one of the world’s leading experts in mold and Lyme says he sends his toughest cases to Primal Trust, you pay attention.

That’s not a small endorsement. It’s a signal to practitioners: something huge is missing in how we treat sensitive patients, and Primal Trust is filling that gap.

Every day, we help clients who have “tried everything else” because they became hypersensitive to mold, EMFs, and the environment. We help their bodies remember how to feel safe again.

Practitioners: Want to offer real relief to these patients?

Comment PRO if you’re ready to bring nervous-system-based healing into your practice.

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11/14/2025

At Primal Trust, we don’t go straight into the trauma.
We start with education, the Cell Danger Response, Polyvagal Theory, the limbic system, so the rational brain can finally understand why this approach works.
It’s the backdoor into the heart of the matter.
Once safety begins to register, the body starts to build capacity through vagus nerve toning, limbic retraining, and somatic work.
That capacity is what lets people actually feel what’s been there all along.
It’s what makes other treatments work better.
It’s what makes the body finally feel safe enough to heal.
Recently on my panel at , I spoke about how practitioners and patients resist this place, yet this is where true change happens.
Are you ready to go there?

11/12/2025

The Cell Danger Response explains why so many people don’t heal, even when they’re doing everything right.

When the body perceives threat, every cell shifts into defense. Communication closes, mitochondria shut down, and energy moves from regeneration to survival.

This response is intelligent and it’s how the body protects itself.
When safety isn’t restored, the cycle never completes, cells stay locked in containment or repair, and healing stalls.
If you have tried everything and your are not healing, this may explain it all.

Regulation is what tells the system, “the threat is over.”
Only then can metabolism, immunity, and cellular repair return to full function.
That is when protocols and detox strategies finally gain traction.

Healing begins when protection ends.

If you’re done chasing symptoms and ready to restore cellular safety, comment READY.

Follow for tools that teach the body how to move from defense to regeneration.

11/12/2025

🎬 Watch Party Tonight!

Dr. Cat is featured on Taking the Weird Out of Woo with host Wendy Bunnell, a mini-documentary style episode following Lori Midgley, who lives with multiple chronic conditions and calls herself a skeptic of mind-body work.

Over the episode, you’ll see Lori learn and apply Primal Trust principles and practices – and see where she lands by the end. 👀

🕢 Premiere: Tonight at 7:30pm Mountain Time
💬 Live chat during the premiere – Dr. Cat would love to see you there!

📺 Watch here (set a reminder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-uEX9SMHQs

Episode title: “Can Facing Pain Heal Chronic Illness? A Skeptic Finds Out.”

Please share far and wide to anyone who could use hope, science-backed nervous system tools, and a grounded look at mind-body healing. 💛

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11/11/2025

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do for your nervous system is pause and check in.

Each part of you holds information. Your mind, heart, and body all speak in different ways.

When you listen, you begin to understand what you need to come back to safety.

Take five minutes today to notice what’s present.

Is it your mind that needs redirection, your heart that needs expression, or your body that needs movement?

Which part of you needs your attention right now? Share it in the comments.

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11/10/2025

The real work of nervous system regulation: learning to feel without becoming the feeling.

When you stop merging with the story: “I’m angry at...,” “I’m scared about...,” “I’m helpless becuase...,”
and instead notice, “Anger is here,” “Fear is here,” something shifts...
You become the witness, rather than stuck in the storm of the narrative.

Feel it. Don’t get attached to the story around it.
Notice as the emotion moves like a wave through your body.
That’s where healing begins.

Try this: next time something hits hard, name the emotion without believing the minds story about it.

Comment below what you notice when you give it space to move.

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11/09/2025

The way we heal is through connection. Connection to our body and connection to each other.

That connection is what creates safety. When we lose touch with our body or isolate from others, our system stays in survival mode.

We’re living in a time of global disconnection. We’re more “connected” online than ever, yet we’re lonelier, more dysregulated, and less attuned to one another. True regulation happens in relationship, through co-regulation, presence, and safety shared between nervous systems.

Coming back into connection is how we begin to heal.

Comment RESET to learn how to retrain your nervous system, reconnect to your body and feel safe again.

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11/08/2025

I’ll never forget the moment when I realized, I can heal.

It was when I was able to start driving again after doing something called functional neurology eye exercises. I had been sick for a long time with a lot of neurological issues. I couldn’t handle light or sound, and driving was way outside my tolerance.

After just a week of doing these simple brain-based exercises, I got my function back. I could drive. I could handle light and sound again. I thought those symptoms were from infection, but really, it was my brain processing.

That experience showed me how powerful it is to keep working with the brain through limbic system exercises, vagus nerve toning, and somatic practices.

What moment made you realize healing was possible?

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11/07/2025

When practitioners only treat symptoms and skip nervous system regulation, they’re missing everything.

It's a bold statement, but it’s true.

Why are the symptoms there in the first place? Maybe a pathogen, a toxin, or an autoimmune process. But why can’t the body handle it? Because the autonomic nervous system is in stress and can’t keep up.

Until regulation returns, the body can’t repair, no matter how perfect the protocol is.

If this is new to you, it’s time to learn this lens.

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11/06/2025

If you’ve been told fusion is your only option, I want you to know there are other paths to healing.

I worked with Dr. Brian Hutcheson, DC , an upper cervical specialist who treated me using an advanced, tendon-focused dry needling process that worked absolute wonders on my neck. His approach is gentle, precise, and deeply aligned with the nervous system work I teach inside Primal Trust™.

Dr. Hutcheson recently launched Posture Vision, an AI-based analysis that uses your own photos to map spinal alignment and create a customized home program for posture and stability support, especially for those with upper cervical instability, EDS, or ligament laxity.

He’s one of the kindest and most integrity-driven practitioners I’ve ever met, and his work is truly a game changer.

Comment CERVICAL and I'll send you his info to learn more about him and Posture Vision and make sure to follow .