The Energy Blueprint Podcast How Unexpressed Emotions Wreck Your Hormones (And How to Fix It)
Feb 28, 2026
Dr. Sonya Jensen, naturopathic physician and embodied healer who blends hormonal wisdom with trauma-informed care. She links childhood trauma and unprocessed emotions to hormone imbalances, explains how stress and toxins drive estrogen dominance and fibroids, and describes nuanced approaches from nervous system tools to individualized bioidentical hormones and somatic therapies.
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How Personal Trauma Shaped Her Clinical Focus
- Sonya Jensen developed anorexia at 13 to gain control amid cultural pressures and later uncovered a childhood molestation memory that reshaped her identity.
- Those experiences led to ovarian cysts, PCOS and informed her clinical focus on trauma-hormone links.
Hormones Directly Shape Emotional Chemistry
- Hormonal shifts change emotion chemistry, so low progesterone reduces GABA and raises anxiety while low estrogen lowers dopamine and serotonin, reducing joy.
- Sonya Jensen links these biochemical shifts to amplified reactivity and stored unexpressed emotions in organs, explaining symptom variation like anxiety vs low mood.
Unexpressed Emotions Become Physical Patterns
- Chronic unexpressed emotions can manifest physically, with anger increasing pro-inflammatory cytokines and emotions becoming 'carried in our organs.'
- Jensen cites a 66,000-woman study linking childhood abuse to fibroids, connecting early trauma to later physical pathology.