Stress or Trauma?
Read What Your Body Is Running
A free Biology of Trauma® guide to read a nervous system state.
Your own, or the people you help.
You are someone who does the work...
...the books, the practitioners, the protocols. And your body still carries what has not changed.
Here is what most people are never told. Your body runs two survival states.
They can feel almost the same inside.
They come from opposite places, and need opposite things to settle.
When you treat one like the other, nothing moves. That is often why good effort has not held.
Here is a question worth sitting with. Have you been calling it stress, while a trauma response ran underneath? Many have, for years, without knowing there was a difference.
Inside the free guide, you will:
👉 Learn the physical difference between a stress response and a trauma response.
👉 Read your own state in under two minutes, and use the same read with the people you support.
👉 See why the tools you have reached for have not held.
👉 Get the sequence the nervous system needs next: safety, then support, then expansion.
For Practitioners
This guide answers which state the body is in before you choose the tool. This guide becomes a lens for your clients. It is also the foundation of the Biology of Trauma® certificate training for practitioners.
After you read the guide...
I will invite you to a live session where we go deeper together. You will read your state in real time, the way you did on paper, and feel it begin to move. For practitioners, the session includes a walkthrough of a real Nervous System Insight Report, built for clinical eyes.
About
Dr. Aimie Apigian, MD MS MPH, is a double board-certified physician and the creator of the Biology of Trauma®. She is the author of The Biology of Trauma, with a foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté. Her work bridges trauma therapy, neuroscience, attachment theory, and functional medicine, and makes the science practical.
