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Dr. Aimie, MD brings you cutting edge neuroscience and the most effective methods for trauma solution

02/26/2026

We look in the mirror and we can feel like a stranger to ourselves. Are we really someone new that we don’t recognize?

Or is this the surfacing of survival patterns, buried emotions that are being stress-tested by menopause.

Menopause doesn't create new problems.

It reveals what is already there… just managed, buffered and kept down 💜

02/24/2026

Research is clear: midlife transition surfaces “stuff”.

It all makes sense through a Biology of Trauma lens. We are incredibly adaptive and able to bury emotions for a long time.

But the changes that happen specifically in menopause - make us less able to keep that buried.

It will surface…

So the question is not if… but what will that look like for you when it surfaces?

And what are you going to do about it? 💜

02/23/2026

You finally sit down. But instead of relief - there’s anxiety. Your thoughts race. You want to fidget or just get up and be productive.

Resting can cause anxiety because it can make us feel what we’ve buried.
If we learned early on that being productive was the way to stay safe as a child - it can cause anxiety.

At the end of the day - having a hard time relaxing is a pattern of stored trauma in the body.

Anybody here recognize that pattern in themselves?

02/20/2026

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Most people think dopamine is about pleasure, but it’s actually about prediction.

Dopamine is released when you experience something novel or salient.

That signal tells the brain: Update. Learn. Adjust your prediction.

This is why new, safe experiences matter in healing.

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02/16/2026

I am not concerned about the unresolved trauma you have healed - but the unresolved trauma becomes your biology and your menopause experience.

The more stored survival stress in your nervous system, the harder this transition hits.

This is why addressing hormones alone will be helpful, but not often.

A mood or sleep medication may be helpful, but it is just a bandaid.

The biology of trauma® will be revealed during menopause.

When we understand that connection, we can start addressing what's actually driving the symptoms.

Share this with someone who needs to know there's a reason it feels this hard.💜

02/14/2026

"You are who you've been looking for. So stop looking for more."

These words from this poem hit something deep. Because so many of us have spent a lifetime searching outside ourselves for the thing that would finally make us feel enough.

Enough to rest. Enough to be loved. Enough to stop performing.

Here's what the biology shows us. That feeling of "not enough" is a pattern your nervous system learned early. When safety depended on being more, doing more, giving more, your body stored that as truth.

And then the world reinforced it. Buy this. Change that. Try harder. Be better.

That empty feeling was your nervous system holding a story that was never yours to carry.

You were always enough. Your body just needs the chance to learn that as a new experience. 💜

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02/13/2026

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When the body has lived in stress for years, it defaults to danger. That’s where the symptoms begin: fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, hormone chaos.

I lived this. Even as a physician.

I’m teaching the science (and what to do about it) in a free masterclass, Feb 18 at 8am PST.

02/12/2026

Your sense of safety was never supposed to come from someone else.

Many of us learned early that it did. That’s a trauma pattern. And it runs deep.

Creating your own inner safety is the most important thing you can do for your health.

Save this if you've been feeling undone.💜

02/11/2026

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and sustained a traumatic brain injury at age 12, leading to lifelong blackouts. She was small. She couldn’t read.

She had every reason to be held back by her past. No one would have blamed her.
When she ran North to escape for her own freedom - she didn’t just create external freedom.

She did what few others did – created internal freedom.

Not bound by the fears of her past - she now had the freedom to live above the impact of her past.

Most people come out of their trauma to then stay small to stay safe.

Yet the healing journey calls us to expand into deeper levels of aliveness - utilizing our stress response for growth and building of our capacity for more.

She is the model for what is possible for healing – utilizing her stress response for growth – she went back down into the south over and over - bringing many others to freedom.

How many may be free on the outside – but never reach freedom from their past and fears on the inside?

02/10/2026

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250 million people watched one poem about self-love.

We are hungry to feel loved and like we belong. That we matter. We are seen.

Adam Roa gives us a private performance of this poem on this episode of The Biology of Trauma podcast - and the truth of the deep depression that happened after he shared it with the world and got 250 million views.

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02/06/2026

Your hormones were buffering your nervous system for years.

As that buffer thins during perimenopause, your nervous system becomes more reactive.
More sensitive. More easily overwhelmed.

Research connects stored trauma to earlier onset and more severe symptoms.
Understanding this biology changes everything.

Save this for someone who needs to hear it.

02/03/2026

Ready for a Reset?

I'm running a complimentary (no cost) 5-Day Nervous System Reset to support a steadier, more regulated year ahead.
(And it only takes about 20 minutes a day 🙂)

For 5 days, you’ll receive a 5-minute somatic practice in your inbox. I will then go live at 8am PST on Zoom, where I’ll guide the practice and explain the science behind it.

In these 5 days, you'll learn my top somatic practices to shift your inner state and build true inner safety in your body and mind.

This is the foundation of everything I teach. It’s live, practical, and completely free.
We begin Monday, February 9.

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