What really happens in your brain during trauma

When trauma experience trauma, your brain gets overwhelmed and catches on fire.

Your emotional brain (amygdala) gets overactivated and stuck in Alarm mode,

It’s like being stuck in a burning building, in a smoke filled room, unable to think clearly. You don’t feel safe.

You might have tried therapy, journaling, or mindfulness, but nothing works if your brain is still on fire.

Why talking about trauma can make it worse

Here’s why.

Talking about trauma revivifies the original experience.

Each time you talk about what happened, your emotional brain doesn’t recognize it as a story — it reacts like it’s happening again. The same stress hormones flood your system, reinforcing the neural pathway of fear.

Talking about trauma to try to resolve it is like trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it.

Why logic can’t fix emotion

Survivors sometimes get stuck in the loop of overthinking, analyzing, and figuring out why.

But that insight and knowledge doesn’t make the difference you’re looking form.

Because information is not transformation.

You can’t think your way out of trauma because the part of your brain that feels emotions isn’t affected by logic.

Trauma isn’t an information problem. It’s a memory problem

When your brain experiences something too overwhelming to process, the memory doesn’t processed properly and filed away into the past.

It stays stuck in the present, looping over and over again.

That’s why you can feel triggered AF by something small, even years after it’s happened— your brain still thinks it’s protecting you from danger in the present moment.

Your mind is doing is just trying to survive.

It just doesn’t realize the danger is over.

The way out isn’t to dig deeper into the memory — you need to stop the fire, cool the brain down so it can finish processing what got stuck.

The neuroscience of healing

When your nervous system calms, your the memory processing and filing center (hippocampus) comes back online, and your the alarm (amygdala) turns off.

That’s when healing starts — the neuroscience term is integration. Your brain can integrate memories naturally, safely, and permanently when it’s not on fire.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy: how it helps your brain process safely

Accelerated Hypnotherapy works directly with the subconscious to stop the fire in the brain so that the brain can process and file memories into the past.

Therapy can take years, but transformation doesn’t have to.

Why transformation doesn’t have to take years

Your brain already knows what to do once it feels safe enough to do it and it can process memories rapidly.

The brain can integrate trauma with velocity when given the right environment.

From survival mode to safety: how your brain rewires itself

Once the fire goes out, the past moves where it belongs — into your rear view mirror, getting further away with each passing day until it disappears out of site.

You stop looping and you start living.

You don’t have to remember to recover.

You just have to crate the right conditions for your brain to do what it already knows how to do.

You’re just one session away…