Primal Trust Academy & Community with Dr. Cathleen King

Primal Trust Academy & Community with Dr. Cathleen King Nervous System Regulation + Brain Retraining + Somatics for Chronic Illness and Trauma.

11/05/2025

When I was healing and my trauma started to resurface, I felt it viscerally in my body.

They always said, “Trauma isn’t in your mind, it’s in your body.” I didn’t know what that meant until I started shaking, breaking into cold sweats, and feeling like I might vomit. It truly was in my body as those memories began to surface.

When we experience trauma, there’s a stress response that can’t resolve because we can’t hold steady in that storm. That stress response gets stored in the cells as neuropeptides, what Candace Pert called the molecules of emotion.

She said that holding steady with an emotion for just 90 seconds can release that stored neuropeptide from the cell and allow it to move through the body.

Can you hold steady with what your body is feeling, just for 90 seconds? Try it and notice what shifts inside.

Follow for daily tools and practices to create safety in your body.

Healing expands when we learn to share it.At Primal Trust, our community brings together individuals and practitioners w...
11/04/2025

Healing expands when we learn to share it.

At Primal Trust, our community brings together individuals and practitioners who are learning the science and art of nervous system regulation.

Through live classes, mentorship, and somatic training, members discover how to retrain their own systems and guide others toward safety and self-regulation.

For health practitioners, coaches, and healers, advanced trainings offer tools to integrate brain retraining, vagus nerve practices, and co-regulation into your own professional work.

This is a place to learn, connect, and grow. Where healing becomes both personal and collective.

Comment COMMUNITY if you are ready to heal and lead with us.
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Chronic illness, anxiety, trauma, and burnout all have one thing in common: a nervous system that has forgotten what saf...
11/04/2025

Chronic illness, anxiety, trauma, and burnout all have one thing in common: a nervous system that has forgotten what safety feels like and is running a 5 alarm fire bell instead.

At Primal Trust, we help you retrain your brain and body to remember how to send the message - "It's time to rest, repair and heal"

Through neuroplasticity, somatic awareness, and vagus nerve practices, you can shift from cellular survival to optimal immune, endocrine, and digestive function again.

Healing begins when your body feels safe again.

It is not about chasing more protocols or researching fix-it strategies, it is about teaching your brain and body that safety is the all the medicine you need.

Comment TRUST if you are ready to begin that process.

Follow for tools and education to support your nervous system healing journey.

Healing begins when the body receives safety signals from the brain and nervous system.Trying to bypass this foundationa...
11/04/2025

Healing begins when the body receives safety signals from the brain and nervous system.

Trying to bypass this foundational step in your healing protocol leads to limited results. No pill or diet can trigger the safety signal your body needs to fully heal.

At Primal Trust, we teach you how to reconnect with that sense of safety through the science of nervous system regulation and the practice of self-trust.

When your body is caught in survival mode, it can’t access the energy needed for repair, connection, or joy. There is no quick fix or supplemental approach to bypass this core need of your body. It is only by retraining the brain and learning to regulate the nervous system that your body can finally shift out of protection and into healing.

This is the heart of Primal Trust, helping you remember what has always been within you- your innate self-healing capacity.

Comment TRUST if you’re ready to come home to yourself.

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Daylight savings time ends tomorrow, and even a one-hour shift can throw off your circadian rhythm, the internal clock t...
11/01/2025

Daylight savings time ends tomorrow, and even a one-hour shift can throw off your circadian rhythm, the internal clock that regulates everything from sleep to digestion and mood.

Chaos in the body happens when we get off this rhythm. Restoring circadian rhythm is one of the most powerful medicines we can take.

Getting morning light on your eyes anchors your biology and signals safety to your nervous system. It tells your body when to wake, when to rest, and when to repair.

Start tomorrow by stepping outside first thing, no sunglasses, no phone, just light in your eyes. Give your body the signal it’s been waiting for.

Tag a sunrise buddy for accountability this week to get your circadian rhythm back on track. 🌅

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10/31/2025

The turning point in healing often comes when we stop trying to fix everything.

For so many, the constant search for answers and the drive to “get better” keeps the body in resistance, but when the focus shifts from fighting what’s happening to learning how to live with it, something changes.

That surrender isn’t giving up. It’s the moment the body feels safe enough to soften, to reconnect with life, and to begin healing.

What would it look like to stop resisting and start allowing safety in?

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Every symptom is your body trying to tell you something.It’s asking to be nurtured instead of ignored.Inviting you to li...
10/30/2025

Every symptom is your body trying to tell you something.

It’s asking to be nurtured instead of ignored.
Inviting you to listen instead of turning away.

Here's the irony about healing: when you respond by allowing your symptoms to be there instead of wishing they would go away, healing becomes more possible.

Why? By allowing vs resisting, your body begins to discharge the stored energy that is contributing to your symptoms.

This is the counterintuitive move that is how healing happens. Allowing sends messages of "I'm safe, even though I feel uncomfortable". Are you willing to give it a try?

Comment REGULATE to learn tools that help your body feel safe to heal.

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10/29/2025

I remember when I had a pile of diagnoses, I just felt like my body was dumb. It didn’t know how to fight infections, it didn’t know how to detoxify. I felt fatally flawed, and I know many of you can relate to that.

My body wasn’t doing anything wrong. It was simply responding to the same message it was getting every day: I’m not safe. I’m not okay.

All those symptoms and diagnoses kept piling up because that message was running through my system day in and day out.

What changed everything was learning to give my body a different message, one of safety, one of okayness. That’s when things began to shift.

Comment REGULATE to learn tools that help your nervous system feel safe to change.

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Your nervous system learns from experience, and if it once felt unsafe to slow down, rest, or change, it will hold that ...
10/28/2025

Your nervous system learns from experience, and if it once felt unsafe to slow down, rest, or change, it will hold that pattern until it learns you (your conscious self) are no longer scared to experience the vulnerability of those experiences.

Your nervous system is just following the loudest command in the body. When you are more certain than your amygdala (your fear center) that slowing down, being seen, or making changes is in your highest and best good, your body will follow your command.

What helps your body feel safe right now? Share it in the comments.

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10/27/2025

A quick and easy way to signal safety to the body is through the physiological sigh.

This simple breathing pattern, taught by Andrew Huberman, involves one inhale, a second small inhale, and a long exhale with a sigh.
It’s one of the fastest ways to activate the rest, digest, and repair state of the nervous system and bring the body back into regulation.

Have you tried using your breath to signal safety?

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What we call resistance is often just protection.Your nervous system learns from experience, and if it once felt unsafe ...
10/26/2025

What we call resistance is often just protection.

Your nervous system learns from experience, and if it once felt unsafe to move slowly, rest, or be seen, it will keep you from doing those things until it learns differently.

The real work isn’t to fight the resistance but to lean into what you resist. We do this by being willing to be with the discomfort while consistently choosing to look for safety at the same time as feeling the unease. Over time, this shows your body that
you no longer fear the behaviors or experiences you once avoided.

Comment REGULATE to learn tools that help your nervous system feel safe to change.

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10/25/2025

A lot of people think healing trauma means reliving it, but it doesn’t.

Trauma leaves an imprint in your nervous system that shows up in how you react today. It’s not about what happened back then, it’s about how your body is perceiving safety right now.

You don’t have to excavate your past. It will always show itself in the present moment, giving you opportunities to respond differently and rewire the original wound. That’s where real healing happens.

What helps you come back to safety when a trigger shows up?

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Reclaimation and Creation- the art of reclaiming your True Self and creating the life you were meant to live!

We are constantly unconsciously creating our life and our emotional experience. Our brain is a powerful manifesting generator of our reality. We can retrain our brains and our energy systems to create what we want rather than what is familiar. We can reclaim our sense of Self, revitalize our relationships, and renew our health. The field of neuroscience combined with ancient spiritual practices of energy medicine hold the keys to unlocking the brain’s true potential to heal your body, to heal your life, and create abundance and adventure. You only have to decide what you want, and know how teach your brain to do the rest. My passion is to help the collective clear the unconscious programming by bringing to mind, heart, and body the realization that we are love. I have a mission to help awaken the collective to the subconscious patterning that has been stealing our life force and sabotaging our dreams through my quantum healing gifts of being a “seer” of programming and a “transmuter” of those disruptive energies. In my work I start with the brain and nervous system and prepare the precious body for the experience of awakening by changing the patterns that often lead to emotional and physical illnesses. My work then deepens to an inner journey of the heart and into the quantum field that is full of magic, miracle and rebirth!