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54: Healing in Safe Relationships

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Healing Relational Wounds Through Relationship
1:08
Discovering High Sensitivity Later in Life
5:16
Trauma vs. High Sensitivity: Shrinking Windows
10:31
Understanding Developmental Trauma
17:33
Birth Trauma and Adverse Babyhood Experiences
25:29
Healing Through Somatic Work and Touch
35:34
Regulating the Nervous System's Gas and Brake
48:12
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Sensitive Stories
54: Healing in Safe Relationships
Jun 03, 2025 Episode 54
April Snow and Audrey Burke

Do you have mysterious fatigue or physical symptoms? In this episode, I talk with Audrey Burke, LMBT, SEP about the somatic impact of stress and trauma as well as:  

• Connections between early life trauma, emotional dysregulation, and high sensitivity 

• The different types of trauma present from birth through adulthood 

• The long-term impact of adverse babyhood and childhood experiences  

• How to increase resilience and begin healing through safe relationships   

Audrey is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, massage therapist and Transforming Touch practitioner based in Durham, North Carolina. As a highly sensitive person herself, she discovered somatic work through her own healing journey and found that somatic support was the missing piece in her path to mysterious health symptoms and feeling at home in her body. Now, she helps other highly sensitive people heal from shock trauma, developmental trauma, chronic stress, and nervous system dysregulation, supporting them in feeling safer in themselves and the world. 

Keep in touch with Audrey:
• Website: http://www.restorativepresence.com 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somaticswithaudrey 
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@somaticswithaudrey 

Resources Mentioned:
• Somatic Healing Guide: https://www.restorativepresence.com 
• Book a Session with Audrey: https://calendly.com/restorativepresence-1/ 
• Find a Local Touch Practitioner: https://coregulatingtouch.com  

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