They called him a madman. A sex-crazed fraud.

But Wilhelm Reich discovered something no one was ready to hear:

Trauma lives in the body—and healing must begin there.

Here’s how he was silenced, erased, and proven right 70 years later: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Reich began as a rising star under Freud.

But he soon broke away.

Freud focused on talk. Reich watched the breath. The posture. The tension.

He said the body remembers what the mind forgets.

Trauma lives in our muscles, not just our thoughts.

Four men—two poets, two psychiatrists—spanning 900 years, spoke the same truth about healing.

Their wisdom is buried deep in history and psyche.

Here’s how you can use what they discovered to face your unconscious—and start to heal. 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)


Rumi’s soul cracked open when his closest companion died.

Grief tore him apart but opened a door.

He wrote: “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place.”

He turned his grief into a dance that others still do today.

He knew healing begins where the heart breaks.

After 25 years as a therapist, I’m done pretending.

Psych meds and talk therapy don’t heal trauma.

Real healing lives in the body.

Here’s the truth no one wants to say: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist) Over 75% of people in traditional therapy drop out early.

Because they know it’s not working.

Endless talk and telling someone to change their thoughts and behaviors—doesn’t resolve the terror stored in their nervous system.

Dr Gabor Maté

At 14, he became Messiah.

Seen as a god by millions.

But Krishnamurti rejected it all.

To him, it was all intellectualism and dependency.

He said: "Your brain won’t save you. Healing starts when thought ends."

Here’s why—and how it still matters.🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Jiddu Krishnamurti was discovered on a beach in India in 1909 by a powerful theosophist named Charles Leadbeater.

The boy had an “aura of divinity.”

The elite society groomed Krishnamurti to lead a global spiritual revolution.

They called him The World Teacher.

Depression is not just in your mind—It's emotions stuck in the body.

Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté, both MDs, have turned psychiatry around:

-You can't medicate it away.
-You can't think it away
-You can't talk it away

Here’s how to break free.🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Depression affects most of us in our lifetime.

Van der Kolk and Maté argue it’s seldom just a chemical imbalance.

It’s usually the result of unprocessed trauma.

Grief, anger, and fear—stuck in your body,

Creating a dark, suffocating weight

Parenting's a mess—and we are adding to the damage.

We all got hurt (whether you remember it or not).

Now we're repeating the patterns on ourselves, our kids, and everyone else.

25 doorways to breaking the cycle: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist) 1. "The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents."
– C. G. Jung

I asked people about parenting.

I got hundreds of responses, and they were eye-opening.

Turns out, most of us are walking around with trauma we unknowingly pass down.

Stop fixing yourself.

You’re not broken—you’re exhausted from performing.

Those old wounds are telling you lies about yourself.

Time to stop "improving" and become your own best friend.

Here’s how: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist) 76% of people in therapy report harsh self-criticism as their biggest obstacle to healing.

Not depression.

Not anxiety.

The brutal inner voice they carry from childhood.

Dr Gabor Maté

Imposter syndrome isn’t the problem—it’s the cover-up.

Self-doubt is trauma screaming through your body.

Shame is its byproduct.

And it’s time to let it go.

Here’s how: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Studies show that chronic self-doubt and “fraud” feelings correlate with early experiences of shame, not skill gaps.

This isn't about capability.

It’s about what got wired into your body when you were too young to explain it.

They called him slow, weird, crazy.

But Albert Einstein wasn’t mad—he was a traumatized genius.

He showed us how to use our full-body imagination to survive and thrive.

Here's how to turn your pain into power:🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
As a boy, Einstein was silent for the first three years of his life.

His parents feared something was deeply wrong.

His teachers said he was mentally deficient.

He was bullied, misunderstood, and alone.

But this silence wasn’t stupidity—it was shutdown. A nervous system in freeze.

The fawn response is the silent trauma survival mode.

It keeps you people-pleasing, exhausted, and disconnected.

It’s trapped in your body, draining your energy and authenticity.

Here's how body-based healing can help you break free: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Everybody knows about fight, flight, and freeze.

But the fawn response—the hidden trauma survival mode—is often overlooked.

It's why you keep sacrificing yourself to avoid conflict.

It’s leaving you drained and stuck.

This man beat cancer.
Then he won the Tour de France.
Seven times.

But when he fell, the world celebrated.

Why are we like that?

We've all cheated.

We've all fallen.

The story of Lance Armstrong—and why we love to hate a winner 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Lance Armstrong was born in Texas in 1971.

He was racing professionally by 16.
By 21, he was a world champion cyclist.
By 25, he was fighting for his life.

A brutal cancer diagnosis: testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.

Anxiety isn’t “stress.”

You can't medicate, exercise, or think it away.

It’s a survival response—trapped in the body.

Dr. Peter Levine has shown that the solution is not psychiatric—it's somatic.

Here’s how to actually heal it: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Over 40 million adults in North America are diagnosed with anxiety each year.

And then medicated to numb it out.

But most aren’t told the truth:

“Anxiety” is just a clinical label for fear that's stuck in the body.

Shame-covered, tension-packed, body-held fear.

This man is the most underrated thinker in 500 years.

He showed us how to end war and addiction.

But few have listened—or even know of him.

Why?

Because his work demands we face our deepest fear—our true self.

His name? Carl Jung. 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist):
His work is relatively unknown, except to those involved in recovery and depth healing work.

Why?

Because we spend our lives avoiding the deeper truths about ourselves.

Fighting to stay on the surface.

You think you're “too nice,” “too intense,” or “too anxious?”

It’s not your personality.

It’s trauma—hiding in plain sight.

Here’s how to spot it—and heal it in your body, not just your head. 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Most trauma doesn't show up as flashbacks.

It shows up as tension, overthinking, burnout, irritability—everyday symptoms we normalize.

Your body remembers what your mind can’t explain.

And healing doesn’t start with insight.

It starts with safety in the body

Dr Gabor Maté

If you're a narcissist—or keep falling for one—you're not cursed.

You probably have unresolved trauma. And it's stored in your body.

This IS NOT about minimizing the hurt caused by toxic people. It's about healing.

Here’s how to finally get free.🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
90% of people diagnosed with personality disorders also have complex trauma.

Childhood trauma increases the risk of choosing abusive or narcissistic partners.

Neglect, emotional absence, or abuse wires the nervous system for defense and trauma bonding—not connection.

1 in 5 kids is diagnosed with a mental or learning disorder.

But what if they aren’t disordered at all?

What if they’re different—and the system just refuses to make space?

Here’s why “normal” is the real problem—and what we can do instead: 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
Most systems weren’t built for difference—they were built for obedience.

-Schools want conformity and compliance.
-Workplaces want submission and productivity.
-Families want tradition and obedience.

But brilliance doesn’t come from fitting in. It comes from breaking the mold.

What if your chronic pain isn’t just physical?

88% of people in pain have unprocessed trauma.

And most doctors completely miss it.

Here’s what trauma really is—and how healing actually happens:🧵 (by a PhD psychologist) “Talk therapy” isn’t enough—because trauma doesn’t speak in words.

It shows up as tension, shutdown, panic, numbness, rage, immune disorders.

Your thinking mind can’t solve it, because your survival system is hijacked.

The body holds and keeps the score.

I’ve spent decades in trauma work and recovery.

Worked with thousands.

I've seen the same patterns over and over: emotional numbing, people-pleasing, codependency.

It's not your "mindset."

It's pain lodged in your body.

Here’s how to break free 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist)
These patterns aren’t character flaws.
They’re survival strategies.

You adapted to chaos, neglect, or emotional unpredictability—and built your identity around what kept you safe.

Now those same strategies keep you stuck.

Let’s unpack the problem—and the solution:

His name was Rumi.

He lived 800 years ago.

And today, he’s the best-selling poet in the United States.

He knew things about healing that we're only now beginning to understand. 🧵 (by a PhD psychologist) Jalal al-Din Rumi was born in 1207 in what is now Afghanistan.

He grew up in a time of war, exile, and religious tension.

His family fled the Mongol invasion, settling in Konya (modern-day Turkey).

Grief is not weakness—it’s our biological healing mechanism.

When expressed fully, grief activates the parasympathetic nervous system, calming the body and restoring balance.

Here's how to understand grief and allow it to heal you: 🧵 (by a PhD Psychologist) Unexpressed grief doesn’t disappear—it embeds in the body. The long-term effects are staggering:

- 32% increased risk of heart disease
- 44% higher likelihood of developing autoimmune disorders
- 3x higher risk of major depression

Why do we push love away, fear success, or feel like we’re never enough—no matter how much we achieve?

It’s not mindset. It’s your nervous system, wired by trauma.

Here’s how early wounds shape us—and how to heal (by a PhD psychologist): 🧵 1 in 6 U.S. adults has experienced 4+ types of childhood trauma (ACEs).
This kind of stress reshapes the brain:

- Hyperactive fear centers
- Numbed emotional regulation
- Distorted self-worth

Trauma isn’t “just in your head.” It’s in your wiring.

Dr. Gabor Maté