Stress Can Be Toxic and Cause Brain Damage!
I was recently introduced to the Neural Retraining System™ created by Annie Hopper. In her book, Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses, she shares about her personal journey with limbic system illness.
The limbic system is in the mid-brain, it interprets, categorizes, and sorts sensory input. It is a large part of our primitive defense system that regulates our parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. It handles potential threats. Injury to the limbic system can be caused by toxic stress whether physical, chemical, bacterial, viral, fungal, physical, psychological, or emotional.
The brain can get stuck in an unconscious state of emergency that creates inflammation and illness. Brain injuries can lead to disorganization and cross-wiring in the nervous system. Meaning distorted messages can be sent that are no longer the truth resulting in symptoms such as those found in post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, environmental/sensory/food sensitives, irritable bowel syndrome, and fibromyalgia.
Limbic system related injuries and disorders are hardly understood by most practitioners, and can be chronic, mysterious, debilitating, and unresponsive to various treatment methods. The Dynamic Neural Retraining System™ is experiential and focuses on normalizing the threat and survival mechanism within the limbic system of the brain.
In my practice, Brainspotting complements other integrative health approaches to treat limbic system injuries. Coriander Living Collective is here for you! Reach out.
