Jamie Mustard is the co-author of the book The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life and a guest on our show. His book lets us in on how trauma has been largely misunderstood by the world and gives us a radical new understanding of post-traumatic stress.

From Healing from The Biological Injury of Trauma: Jamie Mustard – Into Healing S1, Ep.13: “PTSD is actually PTSI. Post Traumatic Stress Injury. There is no disorder. There's a biological change that occurs in the body that when one experiences a prolonged allostatic load or chronic stress or one has a a very high level traumatic event. Typically, we have a traumatic event - we slip or we almost crash our car - we get heightened. And then five hours later, we'll come back to baseline. If that experience is too overwhelming as in war or sexual assault, we can get stuck in fight or flight because there's been a biological change in our body. And you can see that on a brain scan.”

Quote from Ep.08 Healing through the Power of the Female Body with Tami-Lynn Kent.

From Healing Through Trauma-Informed Yoga & Cultivating Safety: Steph Adams – Ep.12: “So what happens when you practice physical yoga with breath is you improve what's called your autonomic response. So your autonomic nervous system is your sympathetic nervous system and your parasympathetic nervous system, your fight or flight and your relaxation response. When you practice physical yoga and you're challenged by a pose and you're guided by a teacher to breathe into that challenging moment, it helps you to build resiliency. So it helps you to meet a challenge with breath. And the more you practice that on the mat, the more that can help you off the mat when you are experiencing what we call triggers.”