S2Ell: Trauma & Brain-Body Connection With Paula Rastrick

After being over medicated with HRT in 2017, Somatic and Cognitive Psychotherapist Paula Rastrick joined the dots between childhood trauma, being a highly sensitive person and the mental health impacts her experience when multiple life stressors and perimenopause collided. She is now on a mission to raise awareness and empower women to understand the links between childhood trauma, nervous system sensitivity and menopause transition.

We cover:

- the concepts of neurodiversity and neurotypical brains, and how the traits of ADHD, autism, and Highly Sensitive People overlap
- Long-lasting impacts that CPTSD and developmental trauma have on the nervous system, and how we need to utilize the biopsychosocial model
- how stress ages the brain, and how we need to change our focus from stress reduction to building stress resilience
- How anxiety and the freeze states are survival mechanism