Season 1, Episode 12: What the Body Remembers | Chronic Illness, Trauma & Movement as Medicine

Your body remembers everything—every trauma, every initiation, every unprocessed emotion. It stores these in your tissues, your nervous system, your cells. And it's been trying to tell you something.

In this episode, Casey explores the science of somatics and what happens when we actually listen to what the body knows:

• How implicit memory stores trauma in tissues, muscles, fascia, and the nervous system
• Psychoneuroimmunology: the connection between chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and immune system breakdown
• Intergenerational trauma carried through DNA and epigenetics
• Casey's journey with chronic illness from childhood: migraines at age 8, fibromyalgia at 13, hypothyroidism, PCOS, endometriosis
• Pain Reprocessing Therapy and neuroplastic pain—how the brain can unlearn chronic pain
• Why the body sometimes holds weight as protection, not failure
• Holistic healing: plant medicine, energy work, nervous system regulation, rest as medicine
• Movement as prayer: ecstatic dance, walking in nature, play in community
• What Casey's hands taught her after the fall: resilience, receiving, and the wisdom of scars

This isn't a "I healed myself through positive thinking" story. This is an "I learned to listen to my body and give it what it actually needs" story.

Includes a somatic practice for having a conversation with your body.

Mini astrology report: New Moon in Capricorn (Sunday) asks what structures—including how you inhabit your body—need to be rebuilt. Venus moves into Aquarius (Saturday), inviting unconventional approaches to embodiment and beauty.

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Intro music composed by my dad, Mike Dunne: [Spotify link]