Trauma is fundamentally anything that keeps us locked in a physical, emotional, behavioral or mental habit; this can come from the form of a car accident, everyday movement patterns, and abuse of any nature, mental or physical. When trauma occurs, our nervous system becomes overloaded, preventing the trauma from processing. This overload halts the body in its instinctive fight or flight response, causing the traumatic energy to be stored in the surrounding muscles, organs and connective tissue. 

Whenever we store trauma in our tissue, our brain disconnects from that part of the body to block the experience, preventing the recall of the traumatic memory. Any area of our body that our brain is disconnected from won’t be able stay healthy or heal itself. The predictable effect of stored trauma is degeneration and disease; recovery from trauma is the process of the body finding balance and freeing itself from constraints.