What is trauma — really?

In this foundational episode of Psychology & the Soul™, Kellee White and Dr. Shirley Impellizzeri explore what actually happens inside the nervous system when we experience trauma — and why so many people feel overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or shut down.

Trauma is often misunderstood as a dramatic event. But psychologically, it is defined by what happens inside your nervous system when an experience overwhelms your ability to cope. Spiritually, it does not damage your soul — but it can disrupt your sense of safety, identity, and connection.

This intelligent, grounded, and calm conversation bridges clinical psychology with spiritual integration — without bypassing, minimizing, or sensationalizing.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• The difference between acute and chronic trauma
• Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses
• How the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems function
• Why trauma is stored in physiology — not just memory
• The danger of spiritual bypassing
• Practical nervous system regulation tools
• How to integrate psychological healing with spiritual meaning-making

You’ll also receive evidence-based regulation practices including orienting, breathwork for vagal tone, and somatic awareness — alongside spiritually grounded integration tools like embodied meditation, journaling, nature immersion, and creative expression.

Trauma is not weakness.
It is adaptation.
You are not broken.
You are adaptive.

This episode is for anyone navigating anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, overwhelm, or identity disruption — especially in today’s climate of global instability and digital saturation.

Psychology informs the mind.
Spirituality informs the meaning.
Together, they inform the whole human.

Subscribe for future episodes as we continue exploring trauma healing, attachment, relationships, identity, grief, and the evolving relationship between mental health and conscious awareness.

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What happens when psychology and spirituality stop competing — and start collaborating?

Welcome to the introduction of Psychology & the Soul, a live-streamed podcast exploring the evolving relationship between mental health, conscious awareness, and spiritual insight.

In a time marked by emotional intensity, uncertainty, rising anxiety, and collective strain, many people feel overwhelmed — internally and externally. This show was created to bridge a widening gap between clinical psychology and spiritual understanding.

Hosted by Kellee White and Dr. Shirley Impellizzeri, Psychology & the Soul offers thoughtful, grounded conversations about:

• Trauma & nervous system healing
• Emotional regulation & anxiety
• Attachment patterns & relationship wounds
• Grief, loss & meaning-making
• Intergenerational healing
• Mind–body integration
• Intuition & consciousness
• Science-informed spirituality (without bypassing)

This is not therapy.
This is not preaching.
This is not spiritual bypassing.

This is an integrated space where presence, curiosity, and compassion guide the conversation.

Each week, we will explore one central topic through both a clinical and spiritual lens — bringing practical tools, deeper understanding, and a human-centered perspective to complex emotional challenges.

Guests throughout the season will include trauma specialists, somatic practitioners, neuroscientists, spiritual teachers, and experts in healing modalities that support both the nervous system and the soul.

This show is not about fixing yourself.
It is about becoming aware — together.

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