469: The Physical Symptoms of Trauma: What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You

Mar 18, 2026

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From bloating and lower back pain to insomnia, self-sabotage, procrastination and anxiety, and dating/relationship patterns… here’s what your symptoms may actually be telling you.

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In this episode, Monica discusses the most common physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms of unresolved trauma—and why so many high-achieving women unconsciously normalize their coping mechanisms (or try to explain them away with personality tests and birth charts) instead of actually healing them at the root and clearing them for good.

She’s getting into:

🦢 Why overthinking and procrastination may actually be trauma responses

🦢 Why you keep choosing and tolerating emotionally unavailable men

🦢 How childhood patterns create people-pleasing and perfectionism

🦢 The hidden reason behind self-sabotage and abandonment cycles

🦢 What anxiety, insomnia, and hyper-vigilance are really signaling

🦢 How alcohol, avoidance, and numbing disconnect you from your body

🦢 The surprising trauma connection behind bloating, tight hips, and back pain

🦢 Why real trauma healing isn’t just about managing triggers

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