12/07/2025
https://www.facebook.com/100057689700007/posts/1313133410619637/?app=fbl
Therapy gives you the words, but movement might give you the release.
While talking through trauma is essential, new research shows that regular physical exercise may help the brain actually forget traumatic memories. Not just cope with them. Not just manage them. But biologically reduce their emotional sting.
How? Exercise triggers powerful changes in the brain's hippocampus and amygdala, the regions involved in memory and emotional response. When you move your body consistently, you produce feel-good chemicals like endorphins and BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), which help restructure neural pathways and fade the grip of traumatic recall.
It’s not about “erasing” the past. It’s about giving your brain the tools to move forward, instead of being stuck in survival mode.
This doesn’t mean replacing therapy. It means enhancing it. Pairing talk with movement. Walking while processing. Lifting weights while healing old wounds. Running not away, but toward peace.
Trauma lives in the body. So it makes sense that healing can, too.
