Digital Social Hour - The Hidden Link: Trauma and Chronic Illness Revealed | Dr. Cathleen King DSH #912
Episode Date: November 22, 2024🔍 Discover the powerful connection between trauma and chronic illness in this eye-opening conversation with Cathleen King, CEO of Primal Trust. Learn why your nervous system could be the hidden key... to unlocking better health! Cathleen shares her incredible journey from battling chronic Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and severe fatigue to discovering the crucial role of nervous system healing. You'll learn how childhood trauma can impact your physical health, why traditional treatments often fall short, and innovative approaches to healing including eye exercises and vagus nerve techniques. Get ready to understand: • How trauma affects your immune system • The truth about chronic illness and nervous system health • Natural healing techniques you've never heard of • The science behind the mind-body connection • Why addressing trauma could be the missing piece in your health journey This conversation breaks down complex health concepts into practical, actionable insights. Whether you're dealing with chronic illness, interested in holistic health, or simply curious about the mind-body connection, this episode offers valuable knowledge for everyone. Featuring special guest Cathleen King, a former physical therapist turned health innovator who's helped countless people reclaim their health through nervous system regulation and trauma healing. #ChronicIllness #TraumaHealing #HolisticHealth #WellnessJourney #NervousSystemHealth #NaturalHealing #HealthAndWellness #HealingJourney #holistichealth #ptsd #wellnesstips #mentalhealth #traumaandchronicillness CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:38 - Health Issues Timeline 05:35 - Eye Exercises for Vision Restoration 08:30 - Primal Trust Academy Overview 09:55 - Trauma's Impact on Physical Health 17:50 - Understanding Mold Illness 20:09 - Insights from "How Healing Happens" Book 22:05 - Importance of Preventative Medicine 24:30 - Kids' Outdoor Time vs. Prisoners 25:42 - 5G Technology and Cancer Risks 27:08 - Censorship on Social Media Platforms 28:12 - AI Applications in Business 29:10 - AI in Life Insurance Industry 30:10 - Trauma Effects on Dental Health 31:00 - Vagus Nerve Connection to Gut Health 32:35 - Future Preparedness Strategies 33:33 - Connecting with Cathleen APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Dr. Cathleen King https://www.instagram.com/primaltrust_official/ https://www.primaltrust.org/ www.youtube.com/@primaltrustofficial LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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                                         All right, guys, Kathleen King here today, CEO of Primal Trust.
                                         
                                         An incredible story about healing the body too. I can't wait to get into it.
                                         
                                         I'm so excited to be here.
                                         
                                         Yeah, you're going to change a lot of lives today, I think.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, overcoming what you went through.
                                         
                                         Some of those diseases they say are uncurable, right?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         So that's what they told you and then they gave you a pill for it.
                                         
                                         Well, they actually told me my issue is anxiety and they, you know, most of the people that
                                         
                                         I saw for many years for what was going on, that was their whole framework.
                                         
                                         It must be anxiety because we don't understand this.
                                         
                                         There isn't clear testing for the kind of things I had.
                                         
    
                                         And oh yeah, and like an antacid for my stomach.
                                         
                                         Good old Tums, right?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I used to take Tums and I actually
                                         
                                         realized it was just anxiety.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         So flip for me.
                                         
                                         But yeah, I used to pound those, but I'd
                                         
    
                                         get this like stomach and chest tightness.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         But it was just terrible anxiety.
                                         
                                         And a lot of that I realize realized now is from poor diet.
                                         
                                         Diet's super important.
                                         
                                         Absolutely, it affects your brain, it affects your gut.
                                         
                                         Yeah, anxiety, that alarm can show up
                                         
                                         in so many ways in our body and eventually cause
                                         
    
                                         immune system to be dysregulated,
                                         
                                         our ability to detoxify to be dysregulated.
                                         
                                         And slowly over time, there's just a system shutdown
                                         
                                         if it goes unchecked.
                                         
                                         Right, so I know you struggle with Lyme, mold, fatigue.
                                         
                                         So when did all that start happening?
                                         
                                         Yeah, I first started getting symptomatic around age 25.
                                         
                                         So 2003, many years ago, I was traveling,
                                         
    
                                         I got a gut infection.
                                         
                                         Yes, a lot of times these things start in the gut.
                                         
                                         And then I came back to the States and they're just like, yeah, let's give you that. And, and, you know, the
                                         
                                         stomach acid pill. I'm like, but I was just traveling. Maybe there was something to do
                                         
                                         with parasites. Oh, no, we don't have parasites in the US. I'm like, I know, but I was just
                                         
                                         out of the country. No, no, no. You know, it's just this. And then, yeah, many years
                                         
                                         of just feeling unwell. I think I was one of the first people
                                         
                                         to cut gluten out of my diet
                                         
    
                                         before anyone knew what that was.
                                         
                                         But over time, I went from doctor to doctor,
                                         
                                         and my symptoms just got worse.
                                         
                                         I had to stop working.
                                         
                                         I was a physical therapist.
                                         
                                         And yeah, I found myself mostly bed bound.
                                         
                                         Over time, many years later,
                                         
                                         I finally got diagnosed with Lyme disease,
                                         
    
                                         mold toxicity, chronic fatigue syndrome, and a whole bunch of other things that
                                         
                                         go into that category and still went from doctor to doctor and there wasn't a
                                         
                                         lot of help back then. The nervous system wasn't usually part of the game. It was
                                         
                                         trying to figure out what antibiotics or supplements I
                                         
                                         could take, but I was intolerant to almost everything. I was that classic
                                         
                                         highly sensitive, can't even tolerate a drop of homeopathic person because the
                                         
                                         root issue was more around my nervous system than about the bugs and the
                                         
                                         toxins that had built up.
                                         
    
                                         Wow, so the nervous system, so you think it was compromised?
                                         
                                         100%. It was absolutely compromised because that's what brought me out of the hell was
                                         
                                         working on my nervous system and now we know that your autonomic nervous system is the big
                                         
                                         daddy behind chronic illness. On resolving chronic symptoms, your autonomic nervous system
                                         
                                         is playing a part and that needs to be addressed. And how do people watching this know the status
                                         
                                         of their nervous system if it's healthy or not?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Do you wake up feeling angst?
                                         
    
                                         Do you have that pain that you described in your stomach,
                                         
                                         or random pains, digestive issues,
                                         
                                         feeling like you're constantly ruminating and forecasting,
                                         
                                         feeling like you need to double check and control everything,
                                         
                                         constantly body scanning, constantly researching on Google,
                                         
                                         having all sorts of weird symptoms that come and go
                                         
                                         and you're playing whack-a-mole with them
                                         
                                         because you can't quite get on top of them
                                         
    
                                         and it seems like you work on one thing
                                         
                                         and then all of a sudden something else pops up.
                                         
                                         It's probably your autonomic nervous system
                                         
                                         that is contributing to a lot of your condition.
                                         
                                         And that's interesting.
                                         
                                         And then from there we are taught
                                         
                                         to take a pill for that, to fix it. Yes, we are taught that we go to a lot of your condition. And that's interesting. And then from there, we are taught to take a pill for that, to fix it.
                                         
                                         Yes, we are taught that we go to a doctor,
                                         
    
                                         and this great power will give us this pill,
                                         
                                         and it will solve it all.
                                         
                                         And unfortunately, when the nervous system is really
                                         
                                         involved, it's just not going to work.
                                         
                                         And you're going to need another pill, and another pill,
                                         
                                         and another protocol, and another doctor.
                                         
                                         And if you were like me, I spent tens of thousands of dollars,
                                         
                                         saw probably 30-plus practitioners, and just you were like me, I spent tens of thousands of dollars, saw probably 30 plus practitioners,
                                         
    
                                         and just went from thing to thing,
                                         
                                         and they'd all come up with the latest diagnosis.
                                         
                                         I had a diagnosis list as long as a sheet of paper,
                                         
                                         and still I was sick.
                                         
                                         And that's when I eventually had to give up on that route.
                                         
                                         I had lost, we'd lost all our money.
                                         
                                         We were bankrupt basically,
                                         
                                         living off from, at the time, church welfare.
                                         
    
                                         And I couldn't afford to see the doctor.
                                         
                                         So I started using the skills I used to teach people as a physical therapist with chronic
                                         
                                         pain.
                                         
                                         I didn't have chronic pain.
                                         
                                         I had all sorts of other neurological symptoms from Lyme disease.
                                         
                                         But I started using these brain and body nervous system skills.
                                         
                                         And it started to work.
                                         
                                         And I'm like, wait a minute, I was told this is a real infection.
                                         
    
                                         I have these real toxins and I have all these other conditions.
                                         
                                         Why is this brain and eye exercises and vagus nerve exercises?
                                         
                                         Why didn't a doctor give this to me 10 years ago, 15 years ago?
                                         
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                                         That's betterhelp.com. So yeah, that's what turned me around and led me on the path of what I'm doing now.
                                         
                                         Absolutely. I want to talk about these eye exercises and vagus nerve exercises So yeah, that's what turned me around and led me on the path of what I'm doing now.
                                         
                                         Absolutely. I want to talk about these eye exercises and vagus nerve exercises, because
                                         
                                         people wouldn't even think that would impact health, right? Doing an eye exercise?
                                         
                                         Nope.
                                         
                                         So what's the, I guess, science behind that?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah. So when I first learned, it was a science based on functional neurology, which are these
                                         
                                         eye exercises. Sometimes they're called eye yoga. And they impact the way that your brain processes information.
                                         
                                         Your eyes are one of the most direct connections to your brain.
                                         
                                         And they also connect to the back of your neck,
                                         
                                         your upper cervical region.
                                         
                                         So I used to use them for people with upper cervical instability,
                                         
                                         chronic pain, and helping with brain processing of pain.
                                         
                                         I decided to try them for me because I was at the point
                                         
    
                                         where I couldn't handle light, I couldn't handle sound, I couldn't drive, and sure enough
                                         
                                         within a week of doing these eye exercises I started to get my function
                                         
                                         back. My brain started to process better because what's happening is that you have
                                         
                                         a whole body inflammatory response and when that inflammation causes your brain
                                         
                                         to kind of go offline. So the eye exercises are like a workout for your brain
                                         
                                         to start communicating between the front brain,
                                         
                                         the midbrain, the hindbrain, stabilizing your upper cervical
                                         
                                         spine, which also helps to influence your vagus nerve.
                                         
    
                                         It's a really powerful nerve that affects a lot of your body.
                                         
                                         And so I was really getting my brain online,
                                         
                                         getting my vagus nerve functioning again.
                                         
                                         And then a lot of my infection symptoms started to subside
                                         
                                         as the brain processing improved.
                                         
                                         That's so fascinating.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Was your vision restored too?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, yep.
                                         
                                         Absolutely.
                                         
                                         And anxiety is really great for anxiety and all sorts of things.
                                         
                                         So yeah.
                                         
                                         I'm going to be contacting you.
                                         
                                         People are pushing LASEC, but that seems very invasive.
                                         
                                         Yeah, there's so much you can do.
                                         
                                         There's even a lot of professional companies that work with athletes and they do all these eye
                                         
    
                                         training exercises. One company is called Z-Health. They have a very
                                         
                                         affordable eye training program for people that are it's marketed for
                                         
                                         athletes but it's great for anxiety, health issues, vision issues and of course
                                         
                                         we teach the eye exercises as well in primal trust. Yeah I could see it being
                                         
                                         very beneficial for athletes because that could give them a huge edge in sports, right?
                                         
                                         Their reaction times will be quicker.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I remember because I'm a basketball player
                                         
    
                                         and I used to deny that I had bad vision
                                         
                                         because of my ego,
                                         
                                         but as soon as I put on contacts, my game just elevated.
                                         
                                         So vision is important.
                                         
                                         And I'm learning now dental health is super important.
                                         
                                         Yes, that's another thing that's again,
                                         
                                         influencing the brain function and the body
                                         
                                         and the autonomic nervous system.
                                         
    
                                         Another thing just to make sure your eyes, your teeth,
                                         
                                         the way we're breathing,
                                         
                                         all of these things affect our health.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I'm seeing these Eastern charts
                                         
                                         where like each tooth is connected to an organ.
                                         
                                         Yep, yeah, they knew what they were doing in the East.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but out here you don't learn any of those
                                         
                                         methodologies and I try to live as holistic as possible so I align with the
                                         
    
                                         Eastern stuff more. That's more preventative. Yeah, absolutely and it
                                         
                                         makes it actually makes sense when you read the science behind Eastern
                                         
                                         philosophy and health I incorporate a lot of that in what we do. Right, so
                                         
                                         that's what Primal Trust Academy, right? Yeah. And is that a teaching thing or how
                                         
                                         does that how is that structured? So I learned a bunch of exercises to help my nervous system both
                                         
                                         as a physical therapist and just with my own studies and I found a sequence of
                                         
                                         how you work with the nervous system. You'll see these days on Instagram
                                         
                                         everybody has nervous system tricks but what they don't have is they don't have
                                         
    
                                         proper sequencing and a proper understanding of which tool to apply
                                         
                                         when. Just like if I was rehabilitating my knee, I wouldn't just go do certain exercises. I would
                                         
                                         start small and work my way up. So the same thing with our program. We work with the brain and the
                                         
                                         nervous system in a very specific way. We work with the vagus nerve. We work with breathing. We
                                         
                                         work with the limbic system of the brain. It's actually one of the biggest things we work on is
                                         
                                         the limbic system of the brain doing something called brain retraining or self-directed neuroplasticity exercises.
                                         
                                         We also work with somatics, so that's body-based exercises, and we work with trauma, and we
                                         
                                         sequence these different tools throughout the program. We have a level one program that's about
                                         
    
                                         two months, and then we have a level two program that's two to five months to work their nervous system, get more resiliency,
                                         
                                         more capacity to discharge stress and inflammation, and then actually take the
                                         
                                         inner journey of working through trauma because that's really what's going on.
                                         
                                         It's lodged trauma, it's stuck in our body, and we need to teach the body that it's
                                         
                                         safe to discharge that energy. Right. Do you think that built up trauma can lead to physical health issues?
                                         
                                         100%. That is my whole spiel.
                                         
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                                         If I were to, you know, go back and tell myself 20 years ago, hey cat You know what's wrong with you the trauma from your childhood has been stuck in your body
                                         
                                         It's caused your immune system to kind of go haywire. It's confused
                                         
                                         You have a confused immune system now your detoxification system is jammed up and your ability to have your mind and body
                                         
                                         Communicate has been locked because you don't want to feel what has been stuck in there and over time this affects your organs
                                         
                                         It affects your function and if you get bit by a tick or exposed to a parasite or a virus
                                         
                                         Well now your body doesn't know how to deal with it because your autonomic nervous system is locked from trauma
                                         
    
                                         So cat you need to go on a trauma healing pathway. It's not about the anxiety pill and it's not about the antacid
                                         
                                         It's about your trauma and I wish it's not about the antacid,
                                         
                                         it's about your trauma. And I wish that someone would have explained this to me and explained
                                         
                                         the science to me back then because I didn't understand until about seven years ago.
                                         
                                         Absolutely. I definitely think there's a link too, because I used to get sick every month
                                         
                                         before I addressed my trauma and now I rarely knock on wood get sick. So once I addressed
                                         
                                         the trauma, I don't know if there's a direct correlation
                                         
                                         But definitely didn't get sick as much. So yeah, absolutely
                                         
    
                                         There's so many studies out there the childhood ACEs study the it's called a childhood ACEs study by Kaiser Permanente
                                         
                                         In the late 90s. Are you familiar with that? No, okay, super cool. Everybody. You're gonna want to check this out
                                         
                                         So it was a study done by Kaiser Permanente in the late
                                         
                                         90s.
                                         
                                         And it's 10 questions.
                                         
                                         And these 10 questions give you a score on your likelihood of developing chronic illness
                                         
                                         as an adult.
                                         
                                         So it's questions about what happened to you as a child.
                                         
    
                                         And I don't think it's a complete list.
                                         
                                         There's a lot of different types of trauma.
                                         
                                         But for example, if you score four or higher, you're going gonna have a high likelihood of having serious chronic illness as an adult.
                                         
                                         If you score, and my score was nine out of 10.
                                         
                                         I know. Damn, you've been through some stuff.
                                         
                                         I know, overachiever in trauma.
                                         
                                         But it's actually an interesting test to take
                                         
                                         because it's an awareness like, wow,
                                         
    
                                         I actually have a pretty high score,
                                         
                                         which means a lot of these symptoms could likely be
                                         
                                         because of these adverse childhood events. That's what it stands for adverse childhood
                                         
                                         Events and that is a setup and we know this through research is a setup for your immune system to become confused and have issues
                                         
                                         As an adult and it can lead to all sorts of illnesses
                                         
                                         Addiction likelihood and even suicide that's fascinating. So people watching this will link that test below guys
                                         
                                         And if you score for a four more, hit up Kathleen here.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         I'm going to take it, too.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I think even like two and above,
                                         
                                         you have a very increased risk.
                                         
                                         Really?
                                         
                                         Four or more, yeah, you're going to be fine.
                                         
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         So there is a direct correlation then.
                                         
                                         That's proven through trauma.
                                         
    
                                         How many people took that test on that research?
                                         
                                         I don't remember, but it is well documented and referenced.
                                         
                                         So I think it's at least from a Western point of view,
                                         
                                         like one of the criticisms that it's more of a Western
                                         
                                         viewpoint trauma test versus a holistic world point view.
                                         
                                         But in the Western system, if you grew up here,
                                         
                                         it's a pretty good test of likelihood of getting sick.
                                         
                                         That's so interesting.
                                         
    
                                         Cause people with diseases would never put those two
                                         
                                         and two together, right?
                                         
                                         Nope, and when I took that test and my therapist was like,
                                         
                                         look, this is how likely that your symptoms are due to trauma.
                                         
                                         I really recommend you start looking into your trauma
                                         
                                         as far as healing.
                                         
                                         I was like, oh my goodness.
                                         
                                         And that's really the work I do.
                                         
    
                                         I teach the correlation between our emotional state,
                                         
                                         our trauma state, and the way that our nervous system functions, and that's really the work I do. I teach the correlation between our emotional state, our trauma state, and the way that
                                         
                                         our nervous system functions, and therefore our immune system, and our digestive system,
                                         
                                         and our endocrine system.
                                         
                                         It's all connected, and we live in a medical paradigm where those things are disconnected.
                                         
                                         And we, you know, we get an ailment, like you said.
                                         
                                         You go to the doctor and you look for the pill.
                                         
                                         You're not looking for the emotional root cause or the way you've been living
                                         
    
                                         your life.
                                         
                                         That's actually contributing to that stagnation that's resulting in
                                         
                                         dis-ease and symptoms.
                                         
                                         Yeah. I was living life thinking I had no trauma, honestly. And then I,
                                         
                                         I got a brain scan, Dr. Amen clinics and it showed up and I was like,
                                         
                                         all right, there's no denying this now. I got to address this.
                                         
                                         But I think a lot of people are like that,
                                         
                                         they put it to the side or in the back of their mind,
                                         
    
                                         they live life just ignoring it, but it's still there.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
                                         So.
                                         
                                         Yep, it's there and your body will eventually let you know.
                                         
                                         Yeah, and yeah, it said I had a TBI,
                                         
                                         which is interesting, cause I never had a concussion,
                                         
                                         but it was from trauma.
                                         
                                         So it can literally cause brain injury.
                                         
    
                                         Absolutely, in fact, those eye exercises, originally they've
                                         
                                         been marketed for people with concussions.
                                         
                                         And so a lot of people with trauma, absolutely,
                                         
                                         they will get a concussion-like presentation.
                                         
                                         And we see that as a strong correlation for those
                                         
                                         that end up with chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme disease,
                                         
                                         long COVID, those sorts of things.
                                         
                                         At some point, they may have had
                                         
    
                                         some type of concussion and or trauma or both that sets the brain up for having processing errors and
                                         
                                         getting stuck in that chronic immune response, which is what we're seeing now with long COVID.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah, long COVID is no joke. It's seeming like really hard to cure, right?
                                         
                                         Yep. And it has a lot to do with the autonomic nervous system.
                                         
                                         So again, we need to bridge that gap and help.
                                         
                                         We have a lot of people in our program
                                         
                                         that come in with long COVID,
                                         
                                         and they have complete remission.
                                         
    
                                         Once they regulate their limbic system
                                         
                                         and their nervous system,
                                         
                                         their immune system kind of,
                                         
                                         oh, the infection has passed.
                                         
                                         I can calm down this cytokine storm.
                                         
                                         I can calm down this response,
                                         
                                         because that's what's happening. The immune system gets stuck as if the infection is ongoing
                                         
                                         and it acts and it behaves in that way and the nervous system is highly tied into that.
                                         
    
                                         There's a theory called cell danger response that was coined by Robert Navio and that's
                                         
                                         really the theory that I base most of my program on. He describes that when we contact a pathogen or even a
                                         
                                         physical trauma or an emotional trauma, our cells will go into a cell danger response,
                                         
                                         meaning they're going to hunker down and protect because they don't want to be destroyed.
                                         
                                         And then the cells send messages to other cells saying, hey, there's a pathogen in
                                         
                                         the system.
                                         
                                         We need to protect ourselves.
                                         
                                         And it's normal to go into cell danger response.
                                         
    
                                         Now, if you think about it, when you've had trauma,
                                         
                                         in some way emotionally, you've kind of had
                                         
                                         to hunker down and protect, right?
                                         
                                         So that entrains the nervous system
                                         
                                         that the next time danger happens,
                                         
                                         we need to hunker down and protect
                                         
                                         all the way down to the cellular level,
                                         
                                         and it can get stuck.
                                         
    
                                         And then we don't come out of cell danger response.
                                         
                                         The way we heal from illness is the cells
                                         
                                         go into cell danger response, they protect,
                                         
                                         the immune system goes and cleans everything up,
                                         
                                         then a signal is sent saying, hey, the war is over,
                                         
                                         let's come back into thrive, let's make energy,
                                         
                                         let's detoxify.
                                         
                                         If that signal doesn't get sent
                                         
    
                                         through the autonomic nervous system to the cell
                                         
                                         that the war is over, we will stay stuck
                                         
                                         in cell danger response.
                                         
                                         And that looks like long COVID, it looks like chronic Lyme disease, it looks like
                                         
                                         chronic mold toxicity, all of those things. Because literally there's a signal,
                                         
                                         the war is not over, I am not safe. And so the setup of trauma is part of what is
                                         
                                         the setup for chronic cell danger response ongoing. So the question is, how
                                         
                                         do we send a signal of safety?
                                         
    
                                         How do we send the signal that the war is over?
                                         
                                         Well, often doing trauma processing
                                         
                                         is how we start to send that signal to our psyche
                                         
                                         and all the way down to the cellular level.
                                         
                                         Wow, so healing the trauma sends that signal?
                                         
                                         Yeah, absolutely.
                                         
                                         That's fascinating.
                                         
                                         That's such a shift in the way people think about health,
                                         
    
                                         I feel like, right?
                                         
                                         Yeah, and it's a science to back why trauma healing
                                         
                                         and emotional processing makes sense
                                         
                                         if you have chronic unresolving symptoms.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I saw it with my dad.
                                         
                                         He had so much trauma, but he never addressed it.
                                         
                                         And it ate at him.
                                         
                                         I could see it on his body, you know?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, yeah, you can.
                                         
                                         You can absolutely see somebody stuck
                                         
                                         in a literal cell danger response.
                                         
                                         They are hunkered down, they're protective, they're not open to life, you know, and it's all
                                         
                                         the way down to that cellular level and it's gonna affect their body in many
                                         
                                         ways. Yeah, talking about your mold journey, the first, I just bought a house, the
                                         
                                         first thing I did was got a mold test. Oh good for you. Yeah, I was not, they were like
                                         
                                         it's 3,000, I don't care, this is so important to know that I don't have mold in the
                                         
    
                                         house. Well it's great that you're informed. Oh, yeah.
                                         
                                         I just see what people are going through like Michaela Peterson had a terrible story to
                                         
                                         a few other people.
                                         
                                         Yep, absolutely.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         So mold illness is a big part of what we treat.
                                         
                                         It's a big part of what I went through.
                                         
                                         And of course, it's something that a lot of people in the mainstream have no idea.
                                         
    
                                         These weird symptoms, you don't know why your body's collapsing, because some people can
                                         
                                         live in the same house and they're fine, and another person completely goes downhill.
                                         
                                         They get stuck in cell danger response.
                                         
                                         And that is going to be dependent on the state of your neurobiological development.
                                         
                                         So yeah, mold illness is a real thing.
                                         
                                         Whenever you move into a house, highly recommend that you get it checked.
                                         
                                         We just bought a house, and of course, it was filled with mold.
                                         
                                         The irony in St. George's, I moved to the desert and we buy moldy house.
                                         
    
                                         It's everywhere now. It is. It's everywhere. So we the irony. In St. George's, I moved to the desert, and we buy molding house. It's everywhere now.
                                         
                                         It is, it's everywhere.
                                         
                                         So we had to remediate.
                                         
                                         Fortunately, I didn't get sick this time.
                                         
                                         But many years ago, I sure did.
                                         
                                         And it's going to feel like all sorts of things, brain fog,
                                         
                                         pain.
                                         
                                         If you have things like Lyme disease or other infections,
                                         
    
                                         it can make it worse, because it causes your immune system
                                         
                                         to be suppressed and shut down and confused and it's triggering even more of that
                                         
                                         cell danger response because your body's sensing those mycotoxins in the system
                                         
                                         and again there is invaders, there's pathogens, there's threat and it's gonna
                                         
                                         cause the whole body to kind of lock up. So it's important to know, it's important
                                         
                                         to clean up your house. I'm not like an extremist, I've seen a lot of people
                                         
                                         actually heal from mold illness by turning off that cell danger response, just like how one person can live in that
                                         
                                         house and be okay. It is possible, but you have to do a lot of work. I mean, really a
                                         
    
                                         lot of emotional work. I think it's best to clean it up as much as possible, but I do
                                         
                                         want to give hope if you're stuck. Clean it up, get an air filter, and do the work on
                                         
                                         trauma and it can help you to, over time, recover from the bills.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I got the air doctors running in every room.
                                         
                                         I love those.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it tells you the score of how polluted.
                                         
                                         There was a fire here a month ago, and they shot up.
                                         
                                         Oh yeah, yeah, we had it too.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Oh, that reached Utah from Cali?
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah, I know, it was crazy.
                                         
                                         We don't usually get fire smoke there, but we did.
                                         
                                         Crazy, yeah, I was surprised it hit Nevada,
                                         
                                         but Utah is a whole nother state over.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Dang.
                                         
    
                                         Is this your book?
                                         
                                         Like, is this for sale or is it?
                                         
                                         No, it's free.
                                         
                                         So I wrote a book that you can download on my website.
                                         
                                         I don't know where the camera is.
                                         
                                         How Healing Happens.
                                         
                                         How Healing Happens.
                                         
                                         I wrote this book because I feel like awareness is needed
                                         
    
                                         about cell danger response,
                                         
                                         about the autonomic nervous system, the limbic system, and the bridge behind our
                                         
                                         emotional state, our autonomic nervous system state, and the likelihood of
                                         
                                         getting chronic symptoms like long COVID in line. So it's the science
                                         
                                         behind what we teach, it's also several practices, and it's under our free
                                         
                                         resources on our website. Maybe you can drop it in the link below.
                                         
                                         And it's a great way to just say,
                                         
                                         hey, what's this girl talking about?
                                         
    
                                         Does this resonate?
                                         
                                         I really brought this also for practitioners
                                         
                                         so that they can educate their patients
                                         
                                         on why doing nervous system work makes sense,
                                         
                                         even if they have this very real infection or condition.
                                         
                                         So to me, this is like foundation for health,
                                         
                                         this understanding.
                                         
                                         I feel like my goal is that every practitioner
                                         
    
                                         understands this.
                                         
                                         I wish that teachers understood this
                                         
                                         so they could recognize this in their students
                                         
                                         that they're starting to get dysregulated.
                                         
                                         So yeah, that's the mission behind this book.
                                         
                                         Wow, I appreciate you doing that for free
                                         
                                         because there's this belief that you need money
                                         
                                         to be healthy, to heal your diseases.
                                         
    
                                         No, we try to do as much free content as we can. Of
                                         
                                         course, we have like a whole structured course and program, but I give a lot of
                                         
                                         that away here and our Instagram and YouTube. This is a great way to get
                                         
                                         started and you know, it might inspire you to take your own path. It doesn't
                                         
                                         need, I don't care if it's my program or any anything. What's gonna help your
                                         
                                         nervous system feel better? What do you love? Go for that. Get that incorporated into your life. Yeah that's that's huge because
                                         
                                         just affording medicine these days for people that don't have insurance is
                                         
                                         insane and insurance these days I'm paying 800 a month. Yeah. Because I'm
                                         
    
                                         self-employed so it's expensive. And it doesn't offer these solutions. No, hell no.
                                         
                                         Yeah, so you're not gonna get the mold test or the lime test or the lime. You're not gonna get any of this. And the blood test is not comprehensive. Exactly, exactly.
                                         
                                         So yeah, I, yeah.
                                         
                                         I just have it because of emergencies, mainly.
                                         
                                         Like I would never go to just a regular doctor
                                         
                                         for a checkup.
                                         
                                         I mean, those physicals are pretty useless.
                                         
                                         I remember getting those for sports
                                         
    
                                         with the triangle thing on your knees.
                                         
                                         Yeah, oh, you're this tall.
                                         
                                         Okay, we're good to go.
                                         
                                         They should be, they should reform that whole physical
                                         
                                         and actually test. I love what this company, Pranuvos, doing. Have you, they should reform that whole physical and actually test.
                                         
                                         I love what this company Pranuvo is doing.
                                         
                                         Have you seen them?
                                         
                                         I've heard of them, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, full body MRI and 5% of what they're seeing
                                         
                                         in their clients is severe cases of disease starting.
                                         
                                         So, one out of 20 people.
                                         
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         Pretty common.
                                         
                                         And then they could say,
                                         
                                         hey, your nervous system is gonna need your back
                                         
                                         and let's get working on that now
                                         
    
                                         before this develops into that.
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
                                         And you can prevent disease by getting your system,
                                         
                                         like from an Eastern philosophy, opened up.
                                         
                                         The meridians flowing, the organs talking to each other,
                                         
                                         our brain and body talking to each other,
                                         
                                         addressing that trauma and helping
                                         
                                         them to understand the science behind why that makes sense.
                                         
    
                                         Because that's the jump that people have to make. We have this medical system
                                         
                                         that's entrained us with diagnosis and pill, but we don't have the leap of
                                         
                                         diagnosis and autonomic nervous system and brain state that have been the setup
                                         
                                         all along for why you ended up with this condition most likely. Yeah and now we're
                                         
                                         in a society where people aren't finding out they have cancer until stage three, stage four, when it should be way more preventable, right?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Like they should know at stage one or two or even not get it at all, hopefully one day.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, that's just as terrifying to find out that late, but that's common.
                                         
                                         Yep, it is.
                                         
                                         It sucks.
                                         
                                         I've got a few friends dealing with that now, and the rates of all these diseases are skyrocketing,
                                         
                                         right?
                                         
                                         You probably know more about that than me, but it seems really scary. Yeah
                                         
                                         I mean think about you know, if you think about cancer and other things a lot of it
                                         
                                         It's our body's inability to discharge toxins. We know we're toxic
                                         
    
                                         We're toxic with our food our air our thoughts and we're also so hyper stimulated that we can't go into rest
                                         
                                         Digest and repair and that's where we release toxins. We aren't resting. We're on our phones. We're running around. We're
                                         
                                         answering a million messages. We're not able to discharge trauma because we're not sitting
                                         
                                         in nature and just allowing things to come up and out like we used to. Kids are not outside
                                         
                                         running around. They're stuck inside. So they're not discharging toxins. And over time, there's
                                         
                                         a buildup. And that's going gonna lead to what we're seeing today,
                                         
                                         chronic illness epidemic. I had a guest on yesterday, he said the average kid is
                                         
                                         outside less than a maximum security prisoner these days. Yeah, we just listened
                                         
    
                                         to that, and it makes sense. I mean, at schools they're not even letting them
                                         
                                         outside for reasons. And gym class is a joke at school. Yeah. I mean, you get for what you
                                         
                                         pay for, so if you're paying the teacher 40k
                                         
                                         You're they're not gonna care about providing a good setting for gym class. Yep
                                         
                                         So yeah, it just needs massive reform. Yes and
                                         
                                         Education and awareness before it's too late. We're like, you know frogs slowly boiling in hot water. Yeah happening
                                         
                                         No, that's what's happening. And I don't know anybody who doesn't have chronic symptoms like
                                         
                                         Yeah, it's happening. No, that's what's happening and I don't know anybody who doesn't have chronic symptoms like
                                         
    
                                         Even me and I'm pretty pretty healthy But I got a blood test and there was signs of an autoimmune disease
                                         
                                         Creeping up and I eat really healthy I work out and stuff
                                         
                                         But you're just being attacked from like 5g Wi-Fi like lights. It's everywhere
                                         
                                         So exactly our body literally cannot get that message of it's safe to come out of cell danger response. The Wi-Fi, the toxins, all of that is stimulating to the cells. So we have to biohack our own amygdala,
                                         
                                         our own limbic system, our own autonomic nervous system. We have to take more of an active
                                         
                                         approach in sending signals of safety because by our very lifestyle now, we're not getting
                                         
                                         that because we're bombarded all the time.
                                         
                                         Yep. So one out of six kids have autism now.
                                         
    
                                         They're saying by 2031 out of two.
                                         
                                         So if you have kids, you'll have a 50-50 chance of that happening.
                                         
                                         So at this rate, almost everyone will have it if this continues.
                                         
                                         That's right.
                                         
                                         Crazy, right?
                                         
                                         Because we are not able to discharge toxins.
                                         
                                         We are stuck in that cell danger response.
                                         
                                         And it's not just humans too, animals.
                                         
    
                                         So one out of two dogs have died from cancer or have it right now and they're saying in ten years almost every dog
                                         
                                         Will have it at this rate. I just switched my dogs to an all raw diet. They're way better, but that's the 5g the Wi-Fi
                                         
                                         I mean, it's everywhere the air quality. So and here you are in Vegas
                                         
                                         Got that 5g me right now
                                         
                                         cell tower right down the street. Sin City, baby.
                                         
                                         Got that 5G in me right now.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I know.
                                         
                                         We just, we moved to find a place where there was no other Wi-Fi signal around our house
                                         
    
                                         so we could turn it off at night and be in, you know, it's really nice.
                                         
                                         And that's the part with apartment buildings that people don't know.
                                         
                                         They're getting blasted by 50 different units in their building.
                                         
                                         And the cell tower built right there for their convenience, their Wi-Fi.
                                         
                                         Yeah, now they're talking about 6G and this might get deleted if we dive into it,
                                         
                                         but it's going to penetrate you on a cellular level,
                                         
                                         which I'm sure you know of.
                                         
                                         Yeah, and the thing is that I believe that that technology
                                         
    
                                         could be used for good.
                                         
                                         There are signals that are harmonious to the body,
                                         
                                         like the Schumann's resonance.
                                         
                                         It could be like blasting that out.
                                         
                                         But no, we're blasting out.
                                         
                                         And I'm not an expert in 5G, so I'm just going to say that.
                                         
                                         But yeah, I think that there's a better way
                                         
                                         to use those devices.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Do you get censored a lot because of what you teach on social media?
                                         
                                         I did.
                                         
                                         I've been a lot more careful.
                                         
                                         I've really changed my language for now
                                         
                                         so that I can educate people on causes of unresolving things
                                         
                                         like long COVID.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         I've had to take a step back too.
                                         
                                         I've had a strike for a bit on YouTube.
                                         
                                         And then Instagram, anytime I talk about 5G,
                                         
                                         it gets censored, certain keywords, the V word.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
    
                                         I'm right with you.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         But I'm with you too.
                                         
                                         We need to get this out somehow.
                                         
                                         So I've taken a step back for people
                                         
                                         to do their own research, I guess.
                                         
                                         But we kind of spark their curiosity, which is important because obviously parents want
                                         
                                         the best for their kids. But when they're giving them Lunchables and all this crap,
                                         
    
                                         it's tough. Yeah. And a lot of people come to me like, oh, my my kids are sick. Can they
                                         
                                         take your program? And any parent listening like you need to take my program, parents
                                         
                                         need to understand you don't want you to send your kids a message that there's something
                                         
                                         wrong with you. You need to go do these exercises. Parents need to understand. You don't want to send your kids a message that there's something wrong with you. You need to go do these exercises.
                                         
                                         Parents need to understand nervous system work.
                                         
                                         They need to know how to educate the kids.
                                         
                                         And it goes from the parents down.
                                         
                                         So just wanted to put that out there.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, that's cool.
                                         
                                         Are you using any AI within the company yet?
                                         
                                         We are just starting to learn the most ethical way
                                         
                                         of doing that, which is primarily just feeding it
                                         
                                         my own words and having it help people with my own.
                                         
                                         I'm not gonna feed it any outside stuff
                                         
                                         because I think that's where you're crossing the line
                                         
                                         and you're confusing, claiming creative license
                                         
    
                                         on something you didn't create.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I have a lot of issues with AI
                                         
                                         and I think that it's in some ways,
                                         
                                         it's got a lot of opportunity,
                                         
                                         and it's a fine line, and you wanna use it
                                         
                                         with the highest integrity.
                                         
                                         So we're just starting to figure out how can we use this
                                         
                                         to repurpose my own words and my own material
                                         
    
                                         and teach people with their specific conditions
                                         
                                         in a better way, versus letting AI be the new teacher
                                         
                                         and grabbing all sorts of God knows what off the internet
                                         
                                         and pretending it's my own.
                                         
                                         So yeah, I don't plan on doing that.
                                         
                                         Well, these life insurance companies, because I've had Gary Brekka on the show a couple
                                         
                                         times.
                                         
                                         He said they've been using AI and algorithms for a while.
                                         
    
                                         They would know when you would pass away within a month based off your health data.
                                         
                                         So that's how they come up with the life insurance rates because they could see all your data.
                                         
                                         And he said within the month, they were pretty much accurate.
                                         
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         If they don't change their lifestyle.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And so that would be a great way to use it
                                         
                                         as a predictive indicator and to get that kind of information.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I think there's good ways.
                                         
                                         I was at the dentist and they used it to see my cavities.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I just had one done too as well.
                                         
                                         Oh, yeah.
                                         
                                         You went to a holistic one? Yeah. I'm never going back to see my cavities. Yeah, yeah. I just had one done too as well. Oh yeah. You went to a holistic one?
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         I'm never going back to a Western dentistry.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, they put, so there's microplastics
                                         
                                         in the cavity fillers.
                                         
                                         So that's in my mouth right now.
                                         
                                         And then the metal fillings are terrible for you.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I had 18 metal fillings.
                                         
                                         Oh my God.
                                         
                                         As I grew up in the middle of nowhere and had horrible,
                                         
                                         I've had, I don't know, five, six root canals.
                                         
    
                                         Jeez. 18 fillings. So I think that was a part of the setup for me. I've had, I don't know, five, six root canals, 18 fillings.
                                         
                                         So I think that was a part of the setup for me.
                                         
                                         I've learned a lot, I've gotten most of the battle out.
                                         
                                         I've got a couple more to go, but yeah,
                                         
                                         that's been a big part of my health journey.
                                         
                                         But also, trying to just keep my brain and nervous system.
                                         
                                         Again, sometimes people are like,
                                         
                                         oh, I just need to fix my teeth and that'll fix everything.
                                         
    
                                         Not if the trauma's still lodged in your body,
                                         
                                         because why did your teeth rot away in the first place?
                                         
                                         There's signaling issues.
                                         
                                         Of course, it's what we eat,
                                         
                                         but our nervous system plays a large role
                                         
                                         into all of our health, including our teeth,
                                         
                                         including our microbiome, which affects our teeth.
                                         
                                         So, you know, I want to say like, yes, address your teeth
                                         
    
                                         and address the nervous system
                                         
                                         that's affecting the microbiome that's affecting your teeth.
                                         
                                         Interesting, I never thought about that connection because I just assumed sugar
                                         
                                         but yeah well there's of course that that's a yeah no but for me because I had
                                         
                                         seven cavities the other month and I don't eat sugar often. Wow. So that yeah
                                         
                                         this was last year so it could be could be trauma related or something. Yeah it's
                                         
                                         probably your microbiome. Wow. I've had gut issues for years. Constipation.
                                         
                                         Gut-teeth, it's huge.
                                         
    
                                         And your vagus nerve affects your gut.
                                         
                                         Your vagus nerve is the thing that's affected with trauma.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I think a lot of people have gut issues,
                                         
                                         to be honest.
                                         
                                         Yeah, well of course.
                                         
                                         I mean, what are you gonna eat here
                                         
                                         that hasn't been sprayed with, you know,
                                         
                                         or even next door to a field?
                                         
    
                                         I mean, you gotta grow your own food somehow.
                                         
                                         That's how we have to evolve to eventually,
                                         
                                         I think, at this point.
                                         
                                         Yeah, 100%.
                                         
                                         Well yeah, I walk into the Vegas Airport bathroom
                                         
                                         I have to hold my breath like it's that bad people are out here struggling. They're eating Panda Express before their flight
                                         
                                         I know I was at the Dallas Airport the line was out the door for Panda Express
                                         
                                         Like are you serious like these people are eating that before I know I know I like I look I'm like
                                         
    
                                         How are they alive like if I like that? I feel like I'd I'd be house on now ever since I cut seed oils if I eat out now
                                         
                                         I feel like shit the whole day. Yeah, like it's so bad seed oils were a massive health change for me
                                         
                                         And do you know this app Yuka? Yeah, I have it. Yeah, I love that out. Yeah, there was a lot
                                         
                                         I have my product. There's so many brands I used to buy even like the beauty products
                                         
                                         Yeah, a lot of them are scoring zero out of a hundred Yeah, they're like dermatologists recommend it. It's like zero. It's full of all of these
                                         
                                         endocrine disruptors. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big one. Tap water in the shower.
                                         
                                         Yes. To buy a filter. Yeah. We're on that journey too, trying to find the best source. And it's hard.
                                         
                                         It is. It's hard. I mean, we're trying to like, how do we grow hydroponic plants in our garage? And
                                         
    
                                         what can we do for water? Because we have to come up with these solutions. We all need to be responsible for how are we
                                         
                                         going to feed ourselves? How kind of water are we going to drink and how can we stay
                                         
                                         as healthy as possible? So yeah, I mean, you saw when that hack happened, the grocery stores
                                         
                                         were shut down. It was kind of scary. I went and bought some MREs. I mean, stocked up on
                                         
                                         water that could probably happen again in the future, like a big cyber attack crashes all the payment processors. Yep. So it's good to have that,
                                         
                                         you know, that garden. And this is also why we need to regulate our nervous system because when
                                         
                                         this happens, like we need to be able to handle it or our health is going to go down. The stress of
                                         
                                         that will be intense. And I feel like if I were to have a main mission right now, like yes, it's chronic illness, but it is our nervous system health is crucial
                                         
    
                                         to be able to eat and digest whatever it is
                                         
                                         that we are able to eat,
                                         
                                         to be able to handle whatever is to come.
                                         
                                         We've got to be able to be as regulated as possible
                                         
                                         so we can make the best decisions possible
                                         
                                         and be able to be there for our family.
                                         
                                         Absolutely.
                                         
                                         Yeah, cause some people deal with stress
                                         
    
                                         and they just shut down.
                                         
                                         So that's probably a sign of a poor system, right?
                                         
                                         Yeah, absolutely.
                                         
                                         That makes sense.
                                         
                                         We're going to need to know how to roll with hard things when they happen.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Well Kathleen, it's been a pleasure.
                                         
                                         I can't wait to take this test and text you what I get.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         We'll be in touch either way because I want to work on those eye exercises.
                                         
                                         Okay, that sounds great.
                                         
                                         But where can people find you in Primal Trust and everything?
                                         
                                         Yeah, sure.
                                         
                                         So primaltrust.org is my website, Instagram, primaltrust
                                         
                                         underscore official. I also have a YouTube channel. And like I said,
                                         
                                         we have a full platform. We have live daily classes to help people. You know,
                                         
    
                                         you can show up on zoom every day and get regulation help as well as courses and
                                         
                                         things like that. So yeah, we have a really beautiful community and I'd love to
                                         
                                         have people join.
                                         
                                         Love it, we'll link it below.
                                         
                                         Thanks for coming on.
                                         
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         Yeah, thanks for watching guys, as always.
                                         
                                         See you next time.
                                         
