Why the mind isn’t good at healing our trauma.

Our minds are excellent at problem-solving, analyzing, planning, and creating meaning. But when it comes to healing trauma, the mind often tries to understand what the body is still trying to survive. And that’s where the disconnect begins.

Trauma isn't just a memory—it's an experience that gets stored in the nervous system.

When something overwhelming happens and the body can’t complete its natural response (like fight, flight, or freeze), that energy gets stuck. It doesn’t live as a thought—it lives as sensation: tension, numbness, shutdown, anxiety, or pain. And you can't think your way out of sensation.

Here’s why the mind struggles to heal trauma:

• The mind wants to move on – but the body hasn’t finished the story.

• The mind forgets – but the body remembers everything.

• The mind uses logic – trauma speaks the language of feeling and energy.

• The mind seeks control – healing requires safety, softness, and surrender.

  
  

This is why somatic practices are so powerful: they bypass the endless loops of mental storytelling and meet the trauma where it actually lives—in the nervous system, in the tissues, in the breath. When we bring movement, breath, and attention to the body with safety, the story that was once frozen in place can finally begin to thaw.

You don’t need to think your way through it. 

Feel your way free