Heal Trauma Fast (& Live Your Best Life)

Healing from trauma doesn’t have to take years—or even months.

Neuroscience shows that traumatic memories aren’t just stored in the brain as neutral information; they’re encoded with intense emotional responses that can keep us trapped in cycles of distress [1].

But here’s the thing.

Going to therapy to understand your trauma and get insights from your past can help but it isn’t enough to heal the emotional undercurrent of your trauma.

Let’s talk about how memories are created so you can see why trauma has such a powerful hold — and more importantly, how to break free from it.

When we experience a traumatic event, our brain’s limbic system—specifically the amygdala—takes over and records the experience and wraps it up with the emotional experience [2]. The prefrontal cortex, responsible for logic and reasoning, is essentially shut down by the emotional charge of the experience.

This is why trauma isn’t just a memory—it’s an experience that lives in the body, ready to be reactivated whenever a trigger appears [3].

A few years ago,. I was in a committed relationship—until one day when my Superconscious showed me he was cheating with receipts by showing me Victoria Secret receipts for something he had bought me. When Iooked a bit closer he had bought the same frilly pink thing for me but also in a size XS and L.

My logical brain tried to rationalize it away, trying to come up with some excuse about how he must have made a mistake on his online order.

But my subconscious already knew the truth and it was trying to show me.

That moment triggered a flood of past experiences, like a movie montage of all the sketchy things that I had seen over the past few years. All the things my Superconscious told me to question him about but then I backed down after all his gaslighting. He made me feel like I was crazy to think that he was anything less than the ultra ethical person he was pretending to be.

That night I had a dream that I called Victoria Secret and understood that it was my Superconscious guiding me.

So the next morning, I called Victoria Secret and found out there were 3 receipts, 14 pieces of lingerie.

He had only given me one.

I held my heart cards close to my chest, and asked him questions that already knew the answers to.

He failed the test and kept lying.

And that point I knew I had to leave him because he was more committed to lying that to me.

Then I started therapy, sometimes three times a week because I was in so much anxiety.

Every time I went to therapy, I would revivify the trauma of living a lie for years, choosing to believe his gaslighting and trusting in him more than I trusted in myself. Reliving the pain every time I told my therapist, my friends, my family, anyone who would listen about the insights that I got in therapy that he wasn’t cheating on me. He was just a cheater.

And will probably always be.

Talk therapy helped me understand what had happened, but the anxiety, confusion, and emotional intensity wasn’t going away.

I was talking about it, thinking about it over and over and it was starting to weigh me down.

What was really happening was that I was creating a neural pathway in my brain. Therapy and talking about my trauma was creating a habit of feeling, ruminating, and reliving the trauma over and over.

Then the habit went underground, with all the other things I had learned like tying my shoes, brushing my teeth, driving a car. All the things that you don’t even have to think about, that are just automatic.

Just like the thoughts and the anxiety I had about my ex. I was drowning.

Logic doesn’t fix emotion.

Don’t get me wrong. I love therapy.

But traditional therapy—while valuable—doesn’t get you over the line when it comes to trauma.

Neuroscience demonstrates that traumatic memories are stored in the brain’s implicit memory system, not in the logical, narrative-based explicit system [4]. What this means, is that you can talk about your trauma for years, but unless you change how it’s encoded in the subconscious, the emotional trauma will still kick your ass.

Therapy is like trying to learn how to ride a bike by watching videos and reading books. It may feel like you’re getting somewhere but without actual experience, you don’t actually know how to ride.

In Accelerated Hypnotherapy, we actually have an experience of riding a bike. We get on the bike and learn how to balance, pedal, brake, all that good stuff.

Instead of reliving trauma over and over, we create an experience that resolves it—quickly and permanently because once you learn how to ride a bike, you never forget. My clients often describe it like, “flipping a switch.” Suddenly, their relationship to pain and overwhelm has been transformed.

After the session, you take the experience with you and now you have a choice where there was a fixed way of being. You now have the choice of getting on the bike and riding it to your destination.

Wherever that might be for you.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy enables us to access the subconscious directly, resolving trauma by neutralizing the emotional charge attached to it [5].

This isn’t magic—it’s neuroscience I have studied at the Master’s level and have incorporated into Accelerated Hypnotherapy so that it can transform trauma in a few hours.

Not years.

Studies show that hypnotherapy can modulate activity in the brain’s default mode network (DMN), reducing rumination and emotional distress while enhancing emotional regulation [6].

It’s not about suppressing memories—it’s about reprocessing them in a way that resolves the trauma, leaves the past in the past so you can move forward.

So, if you’ve spent months or years in therapy and still feel stuck, it’s not because you’re broken.

Therapy is meant to validate wherever you’re at.

Logic can’t fix trauma.

Trauma needs to be resolved at the level where it has been packed away—at the level of the subconscious.

Let’s connect so you can start to move forward in the direction of your best life 🚀

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