Just One Question | Lissa Rankin: Can Healing Our Trauma Heal Our Bodies?
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Hello and welcome to Just One Question from Insights at the Edge. I'm Chris Rock. And I'm Mallory Corbin. We're producers at the Sounds True Podcast Network. We work with Tammy on Insights at the Edge to bring you transformational ideas from wisdom teachers around the world. And every week on this show, we pull out some of the most inspiring, most transformational ideas from those hundreds of conversations, and we bring them to you in the form of one question and one answer. Us the name just one question. We hope you enjoy. So this week I wanted to share a conversation Tammy had with Lissa Rankin, who is a physician and author who explores the deep connections between trauma and physical illness. Okay, so what is uh yeah, what is her connection between trauma and illness?
A lot of Lisa's work is centered around the idea that trauma could cause diseases. Now she's not saying that illnesses are all in our heads or that it's our fault. She's talking really about measurable physical changes in the body that are often triggered by trauma. Yeah. That that makes sense. You know, like trauma stresses your body and So is she saying treating the trauma Treats the illness then or reverses it or So she thinks.
She points to the nervous system and polyvagal theory and something called the ventral vagal branch as the actual mechanism of healing. Basically Her definition of trauma goes beyond just psychological experiences, the idea being that trauma can include living near environmental toxins or inherited genetic conditions, systemic racism, and just the effects of living in a marginalized body, sort of the developmental wounds that we're all picking up in the day to day. Living living in the world today, as what I call it. Yeah. Just existing pretty much. But if it's true If trauma and illness are intrinsically connected, then
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