Exploring the Connection Between Trauma, the Subconscious Mind, and Thyroid Function

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Are you on thyroid hormone replacement but still feel awful?
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Or are your thyroid levels normal, yet you have all the classic symptoms?
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Do you feel like you've tried everything and don't know what to do next?
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Do you wonder how you can get to the true root causes of autoimmunity or functional hypothyroidism?
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Are you holding out for a natural way to resolve your symptoms?
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Well, you're in the right place. Welcome to the Heal Your Thyroid podcast.
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I'm Madeline Lowry, a neural retraining specialist and founder of Twin Cities Neural Retraining.
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I work with clients in virtual sessions to resolve the hidden sources of stress
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behind chronic health issues, including thyroid function.
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In this episode, I'm going to talk about the impact of trauma on chronic health
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issues and the role of the subconscious mind.
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In the last episode, I described my struggles with classic hypothyroid symptoms
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and the unconventional thinking that led me to discover the ultimate root cause,
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which was the subconscious mind,
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and also drove me to train in an advanced method of neural retraining.
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If you are finally ready to address your thyroid issues in a new way,
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a mind-body way, then this podcast is for you.
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I'm going to connect the dots for you so that you will understand the real reasons
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you still have thyroid problems, despite everything you've tried and what you can do about it.
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Could neural retraining be your next best step to thyroid healing?
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Take our quiz at tcneuralretraining.solutions to find out.
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Why is trauma so impactful and why does early life trauma raise our risk of
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chronic health issues for the rest of our life and what is the role of the subconscious mind,
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in this episode i'm going to give you my perspective as a neural retraining specialist.
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Now, in the last episode, I described how I resisted the explanations from my
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practitioners and doctors.
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I felt that there had to be a
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further root cause underlying the many underperforming systems in my body.
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In hindsight, it was so obvious. I should have seen it at once.
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I mean, I went to a science and math high school. I was a biology major in college.
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I had all the pieces. I just had to take it one step further. And yet, I did not.
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And most people don't either. Why is that? I think it's because it is so counter
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to our expectations of medical care.
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There is an unspoken assumption that if you have physical health issues,
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these have to be addressed at a physical level.
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And yet, who or what is the boss of all our bodily systems?
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Who or what orchestrates their perfect synchrony when we are in full health?
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Who or what regulates our core temperature, our hormone balance,
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digestive processes, immune function, fluid balance, wound healing,
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nutrient uptake, or anything else supporting our physical health?
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It's the brain. And not just the brain, but the subconscious mind.
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Let me tell you a little bit about the subconscious mind. I want you to understand how powerful it is.
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When we talk about the mind, we are usually talking about the conscious mind,
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the thinking, logical mind.
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This is the mind that gets us an A in chemistry, that we rely on to solve the
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crossword puzzle, or that problem at work.
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But there is another mind, the
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subconscious mind, that is responsible for 90-95% of all brain activity.
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It runs all the systems of the body and always has.
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It is constantly monitoring everything going on around us, and everything going
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on inside us, including our thoughts and emotions.
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It is capable of managing 40 million bits of data per second,
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while the conscious mind can handle only 40, making the subconscious mind 1
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million times more powerful than the conscious mind.
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There are two more things I want you to understand. The subconscious mind is
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an associative mind, a neural net, and the subconscious has no sense of time.
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There is no past and no future for the subconscious mind.
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Everything is now. So when people say, oh, I don't think about that painful
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emotional experience anymore, that's in the past.
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They're talking about their conscious mind.
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On a subconscious level, it is still impacting you, unless you have done the
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work to fully process and release it.
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One of the primary tasks of the subconscious is to assess if we are safe or unsafe.
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And that simple determination directs how the nervous system responds moment to moment.
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You may have heard of the autonomic nervous system, which has two modes of operation.
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The fight, flight, freeze response, or what we call the stress response,
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or the rest, digest, and heal response, which is the relaxation response.
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And here's the crux of the matter, because when we are in that fight,
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flight, or freeze state, all the restorative functions of the body are inhibited
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to respond to an emergency.
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Let me say that another way. No healing can occur when we are in a stress response.
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Dr. Lissa Rankin, the author of Mind Over Medicine, explains that the average
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person has about 50 stress responses in a day, while chronically ill people may have hundreds.
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If you read Dr. Rankin's book, you will learn that her own health tanked after
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a series of traumatic events.
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And so did Annie Hoppers, the creator of DNRS, that basic method of neural retraining
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I described in the last episode, and the author of Wired for Healing. But I digress.
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So now let us go back to the original question. Why is trauma so impactful?
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Why is early life trauma, especially, correlated with lifetime increased risk
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of chronic health issues?
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This would be a good time for me to say that I am not a doctor,
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a neuroscientist, or a therapist.
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I am a neural retraining specialist who works with the subconscious mind directly,
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and I have had the great privilege of witnessing the associations that arise
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in my clients' subconscious minds in real time.
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And it is from that experience that I offer these insights.
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The way I see it, trauma, especially early life trauma, is so impactful because
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it changes the way the nervous system works.
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And these changes persist until we have had an opportunity to fully process
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the emotional pain of the trauma.
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For the traumatized person, the threshold for feeling unsafe in the subconscious
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mind is lowered, and it's more likely to call for the stress response.
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And that, I believe, is the reason why early life trauma makes us more susceptible
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to chronic illness, including low thyroid function.
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Let me explain a little more. It seems to be a protective mechanism of the body-mind
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that when we are in a painful emotional situation, or have a shock that overwhelms us,
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that trauma is frozen and held somewhere in the subconscious mind.
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At a safe point in our lives, we may have the opportunity and the resources
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to resolve the trauma emotions, and that memory becomes more neutral.
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This is beneficial for two reasons. First, it reduces the overall subconscious stress load.
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And second, any programming that might be associated with that trauma experience
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is deprioritized in the operating system of the mind.
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And this is another important concept about how the subconscious mind works.
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The subconscious mind prioritizes highly negative experiences that are perceived to have survival value.
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This is so that if we ever find ourselves in the same situation again,
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we will be more likely to survive without any thinking needed.
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There are two important points here. Reducing the overall subconscious stress
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load by neutralizing trauma memories is important because the more unresolved
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stress we carry, the more time we are spending in the stress response.
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You may not feel it because we tend to habituate to whatever level of stress
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we have, but it's impacting our health.
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No restorative functions means no healing, and that means negative health impacts
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start to compound and a negative health spiral begins or is maintained.
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Now for the second point, deprioritizing negative programming is important because
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it is another contributor to stress.
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It makes stressful situations or triggers more stressful than they need to be.
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Again, these are patterns that persist until we can retrain the brain.
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For example, if you had a painful emotional experience around having your house
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robbed, or you watched your parents go through that as a child,
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you may have programming that compels you to check that all the doors are locked
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at night before you can go to sleep.
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As the intensity of those memories is reduced through neural retraining,
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the anxiety about checking the locks on the doors is reduced as well.
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And if it is not, that would mean that there other emotionally intense experiences
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that are associated with this compulsion as well.
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Relevant experiences include our own, as well as things that we have witnessed,
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heard about, or even seen in movies, especially as an impressionable child.
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So hopefully this is helping you to connect the dots between what has happened
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to you, your behaviors, emotional responses, and why early life trauma creates
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lasting negative impacts until it can be resolved.
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We have the accumulation of unresolved subconscious stress and the conditioned
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behaviors that amplify our experience of every subsequent stress event,
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which contribute to being in the stress response too often and halts our healing processes,
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including detoxification, nutrient uptake, digestion, elimination,
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hormone balance, this includes thyroid hormone, energy production, and everything else.
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But trauma is not the only barrier to healing held in the subconscious mind
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we will be discussing more of these barriers as i see them in my practice in future episodes,
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and to set your mind at ease resolving traumas can be done fairly quickly and
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easily using the advanced neural retraining method that i am trained in tune
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in next time to hear more about this method and how I use it in virtual sessions.
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