• 1 in 10 women will suffer with PTSD in her lifetime (I believe this stat is more likely to be 1 in 4)
• Women who suffer with PTSD have double the risk of developing ovarian cancer
• Women who have PTSD are 8 times more likely to suffer with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder or Premenstrual Tension
• Black women who experience racism, are more likely to develop adult-onset Asthma
• People with PTSD have more than double the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes
• A 2019 study published in the journal of Rheumatology showed that in a sample of 67,000 women, those with the highest incidence of childhood abuse, were 3 times more likely to develop lupus than those who had not experienced abuse
• Boys who are subject to abuse in their childhood are 50% more likely to die of a heart attack, even if they do not drink alcohol or smoke in their later lives
• Men who were subjected to trauma, as a child are more likely to back capital punishment, to favour foreign wars and be violently anti-abortion.  Interestingly, men who have therapy became softer in their points of view – healing is softening

When someone has PTSD, their nervous system becomes dysregulated.  The body expresses trauma in heart disease, back pain, stomach disease leading to a variety of symptoms: 

• Addiction due to self medicating
• Burnout
• Unregulated mood swings including anger, anxiety, depression
• Being hyperalert
• Flashbacks
• Fertility and menstrual cycle problems
• Lower levels of Testosterone; Oestrogen & Progesterone
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Nightmares
• Insomnia
• Impaired short term memory
• Suicidal thoughts or attempts
• Weakened immune system
• Muscle & joint ache
• Headaches
• Irregular heartbeats
• Nerve and back pain including Sciatica & L3 disc issues
• Compassion

1. It’s just a mental disorder – it’s NOT – it affects your entire body
2. Talk therapy is the only way to manage PTSD
3. You have to have been to war, or had a catastrophic 1 off event to get PTSD. You can get PTSD from a number of different ways
4. • Small T Trauma: pushed beyond your ability to cope – divorce, work 
   • Birth: I have treated people as adults who were born under sever circumstances who have suffered with persistent symptoms
   • It is fairly common for a woman to suffer PTSD after experiencing a traumatic labor 
   • Collective: Covid-19 is a good example of this
   • C-PTSD: develops in response to prolonged, repeated experience of interpersonal trauma in a context in which the individual has little or no chance of escape
   • Cultural: for example the Holocaust
   • Developmental: Child abuse
   • Intergenerational trauma: Epigenetics (what we experience in our lifetime can be passed on directly to our baby in Utero altering female babies egg development via our eggs and sperm), genetics (long-term patterns of adapting inherited) and unresolved trauma which leads to disorganized attachment; abuse or neglect
   • Isolation: solitary confinement can be a form of torture
   • Medical: Having an operation as a child or a failure in the anesthesia working during an operation, where the patient hears the surgeons talking during the procedure or feels the slices of the surgeon’s knife
   • Soft: Could be you were never good enough in your mum or dad’s eyes or you were bullied at school
   • Attachment – when a child’s main parent or caregiver leaves, dies or does not comfort them the way a loving present parent would
   • Stress
   • Being bullied

• Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises by David Berceli help you release sometimes stuck stories from your body
• Studies have shown that TRE can really help alleviate some of the active symptoms of PTSD
• The benefits of TRE include:
  • Improved sleep
  • Feeling more connectedness
  • Feeling more joy
  • Decreased Anger, Sadness & Anxiety
  • Improved short term memory
  • Reduced Headaches & migraines
  • Reduced backpain & sciatica
  • Taking your body from contraction to expansion
  • Stronger immune system
  • Better digestion
  • Improved sex drive
  • Regular menstrual cycle
  • Increased fertility
  • Lower Cortisol levels
• Body & Talk therapy can and do have a very positive impact on your physiology, often reversing damage to cells done