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Signs That Your Body Could Be Holding Childhood Sexual Abuse.

  • Jun 18, 2021
  • 39 min read

Updated: 2 days ago



You're here because something doesn't feel right. Maybe you've been dealing with PTSD, chronic health problems, womb issues, fertility struggles, emotional overwhelm, relationship patterns that keep repeating, or physical sensations in your body that no one can explain.


You might have clear memories of sexual abuse. Or maybe you don't—maybe you just have what I call somatic impressions. Body sensations. Emotional waves that come out of nowhere. Flashbacks that feel more like feelings than pictures. Nightmares you can't quite make sense of.


Not having concrete memories is confusing as hell. It creates this chronic self-doubt that keeps you second-guessing yourself. You feel stuck—in your life, your work, your relationships. And the thing is, this doesn't just affect you. It ripples out to everyone around you.


I work with people every day who are exactly where you are right now. They come to me looking for clarity about what actually happened, and we work together to heal the imprints—the ones living in their body, their nervous system, their energy field. The goal isn't just understanding. It's getting free. Moving forward with real strength, clarity, and peace.


If this resonates, you're in the right place.


In this article, I offer a comprehensive and detailed checklist of the most common symptoms associated with childhood sexual abuse. If, after reading this post, you feel that you are ready to embark on your healing journey here are your next steps:


- Buy online course: Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse - Work with me 1-1 in a personalised healing programme designed to release the imprints of sexual trauma at a somatic, emotional and energetic level. Book a consultation here.



How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Memory: Why You May Not Remember


You may or may not have concrete, reliable memories of the abuse. This is normal. The memory of childhood sexual trauma is held in the nervous system. As a child, your brain would have developed a mechanism to block, fragment or mute the retrieval of the abusive memories. This is a protection mechanism. A child's brain doesn't have the capacity to process the terror and injustice of sexual abuse, which is why most people start healing this in their 30's and 40's.


The most common experience I see is people who have a strange sense that they were sexually abused, have spent a lifetime trying to piece together fragments of information and hold an immense amount of charge in their nervous system that keeps them in a sympathetic state of chronic stress and trauma. As the abuse happened in childhood, this state was normalised. After several decades it can lead to chronic health conditions.


Sexual Abuse can impair your memory in many different ways:


  • You have significant gaps in your childhood memory that you can't explain

  • You only remember certain events are you're not sure if they're true or made up

  • You struggle to recall traumatic events in your childhood with any clarity

  • Your childhood memories seems like a blur or a dream

  • Your memories are fragmented and abstract which creates confusion

  • When you try to explore a memory, you dissociate or blank out

  • Focusing on a memory leads you to feel overwhelmed with grief or anger

  • The memories you do have feel superficial and made up

  • You think you might be making up your own memories to explain how you feel

  • You have some memories of abuse but you feel nothing when they come up

  • You feel guilty and confused or ashamed for not feeling anything

  • You have memories of abuse but they don't feel like yours

  • Your memories seem fragmented like a jigsaw

  • Your memories are contradictory and hard to make logical sense of

  • Your memory of abuse involves a parent or close caregiver you trusted and who loved you and cared for you, therefore you find it hard to trust this memory and blame yourself

  • You shame yourself for memories and dreams you have about abuse

  • Your memories begin in your teenage years and you have a blank before then

  • Your childhood memories don't correspond to your childhood events

  • You have no negative memories at all, your childhood was 'perfect.' This is a common trauma response known as "rosy retrospection."

  • Despite having an abusive childhood, your memories are all 'normal' or 'happy' which makes you feel confused about what's real

  • You have no memories of being with your parents or being in their care

  • You have no memories of one of your parents caring for you despite the fact they were there physically and emotionally

  • Your memories are polarised (extremely good or extremely bad)

  • Your memories of childhood involve splitting, e.g., mom is all good, dad is all bad

  • Your memories of abuse don't show any clear faces but you see a dark room that you feel something significant / scary happened in. You are often taken back to this room.

  • Your memories of abuse don't show any clear faces but you see hands, genitals and you may or may not identify with them

  • You get flashbacks / nightmares that involve genitals, sexual acts, hands etc which are scary and disturbing

  • Your childhood memories mostly involve events happening to other people, such as your friends or siblings.

  • You have a sense of dread / doom when you start to approach a memory which leads you to avoid approaching it

  • You have a physical stress response when an abusive memory arises such as heart rate rising, nausea, sweating, needing to run, needing to scream etc

  • You feel self disgust when memories of your childhood arise or when you think about your childhood but you're not sure why

  • You feel you are selecting and avoiding memories and constantly trying to filter things out to survive

  • You struggle with your adult memories and don't remember key events in your adult life including important dates such as birthdays, your graduation, your wedding etc

  • Your memory is distorted e.g you have memories of abuse from a person who it couldn't possibly be, or in a location that you knew you were never in

  • You feel your memories have changed over the course of your life and you now don't know what's true and what's real

  • Your memories feel threatening and intrusive and cause you deep distress and disgust

  • Your flash backs are too vague to make any sense of and seem unrelated to you, yet they persist and seem to follow you

  • You have a few vivid memories that replay over and over again like a movie that you don't want to watch

  • You have worked with plant medicines or psychedelics which have brought up fragments of memories but you're not certain what they relate to

How Sexual Trauma Gets Stored in Your Spine & Sacrum

Your spine is central to how your nervous system processes and stores all of your experiences, including trauma such as sexual abuse. As the main communication highway between your brain and body, the spine can hold deep tension and imprints from traumatic events, influencing how your nervous system reacts to stress and safety. When trauma is stored along the spine, it often manifests as physical discomfort, chronic pain, or heightened sensitivity, keeping your body in a state of alert long after the original event has passed.


One of the most important areas to focus on in healing is your sacrum. This triangular-shaped bone sits at the base of your spine, just above the tailbone (coccyx) and below the lumbar vertebrae. It forms the back part of your pelvis, connecting the spine to the hip bones (ilium) on either side. The sacrum provides essential stability and support to both your spine and pelvis, acting as a key attachment point for muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Beyond its physical role, the sacrum holds significant energetic importance—it is considered a vital center for the flow of life force energy. Often called the seat of creativity, sexuality, and emotional expression, the sacral area governs your connection to pleasure, passion, and sensuality, making it a powerful focal point in the journey of healing and reclaiming your body and energy.

You might notice:

  • Your lower back feels dense and heavy all the time despite there being no physical injury

  • You have constant lower back pain that doesn't resolve with physical therapies (this is because of your kidneys and adrenals that need healing)

  • You feel stiffness and rigidity in your spine almost constantly throughout your life

  • You do yoga regularly but you still feel your spine is stiff making you think there's something wrong with you

  • You can't feel your own spine when you try to meditate

  • You spine feels fragile, unsupportive and weak or like jelly

  • You have extremely low spinal density

  • You have difficulty maintaining good posture and standing up straight

  • There is tightness or discomfort in the upper or mid-back behind the heart

  • You have numbness or tingling in your legs or feet

  • When you lie down your spine seems to hover off the ground and doesn't lie flat

  • You have a sensation of being pulled or stretched by an invisible force you can't control

  • You have difficulty moving or bending your spine without pain and you're not sure why

  • You have chronic stiffness in your neck and going up into your jaw

  • Your sacrum feels stuck / bound /numb / blocked or frozen

  • Your sacrum feels bruised despite no injurys

  • You have had ongoing injuries in your sacrum throughout life

  • You feel disgust in your sacrum that you can't explain or rationalise

  • Your sacrum feels shifted or bent (usually to the right) sometimes affecting nerves

  • Regardless of physical therapies this doesn't change

  • This also radiates pain or tingling down your legs into your groin

  • Chronic sacroiliac joint dysfunction

  • Your sacrum is energetically disconnected from the rest of the spine (you may not be able to notice this but as a practitioner I will be able to help you with this)

  • Your sacral plexus is imbalanced, usually the right side is over active in sexual trauma

  • You feel a pain in your tail bone that you can't explain

  • Your tail bone feels lifted up and unable to ground despite no physical injury

  • Energetically your tail bone is pointing up to the ceiling rather than downwards into the earth

  • Your tail bone feels distorted or crooked leading to a feeling of deep inner unease


Watch Now: How to Heal Sexual Trauma Stored in Your Sacrum



The Hip-Pelvis Connection: How Sexual Abuse Creates Chronic Tension and Pain


Sexual trauma lives in your hips, pelvis, and legs.


These areas hold the physical memory of what happened—sometimes showing up as chronic pain that won't go away, numbness, or constant tightness that no amount of stretching seems to fix. Many survivors struggle with sexual function or feel completely disconnected from the lower half of their body, like it belongs to someone else.


You might also notice you feel unsafe in situations where your body is exposed or vulnerable—during pelvic exams, physiotherapy, intimate moments with a partner, even just wearing certain clothes. Your body is still protecting you from what it remembers, even if your mind doesn't have clear memories of the abuse.


This isn't "all in your head." It's your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do: remember and protect. The tension, the pain, the disconnection—it's all real, and it's all healable.


  • You feel constant tension or pain in your hips

  • Your hip joins feel inflamed or you have limited mobility

  • Your right hip feels rotated or much tighter and heavier than your left

  • You have chronic pelvic torsion (one side of the hip is more rotated than the other)

  • Your pelvis feels locked at different levels, sometimes you sense padlocks energetically

  • You struggle to feel into your pelvic area

  • Your pelvic floor feels constricted and tight (hypertonic)

  • You can't feel your pelvic floor at all

  • You have pain in your groin area

  • Sacroiliac joints are painful / inflamed / limited mobility

  • You don't feel your legs or notice them throughout the da

  • Your legs feel hollow or wobbly and unstable

  • You don't trust your legs to move you forward

  • Your quads feel tight despite not exercising

  • Your psoas muscles on the inside of your inner thighs feels constantly tight

  • You feel like your legs are bound by something around the ankles

  • You sense your legs are crossed to protect your genitals and womb

  • You often cross your legs and squeeze your genitals

  • Your legs feel like sticks or twigs unable to hold your body weight

  • Your legs appear like metal rods or pegs energetically

  • You feel like you have given up on your legs

  • You experience hypervigilance during sleep

  • You have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep

  • You frequently wake up gasping for air

  • You have vivid and disturbing dreams

  • You experience sleepwalking or night terrors

  • You wake up in a panic or with a racing heart

  • You have trouble sleeping without medication or substances

  • You experience flashbacks or memories during sleep

  • You feel like you are reliving the trauma while asleep

  • You struggle with daytime fatigue and sleepiness

  • You avoid sleep as a way to avoid confronting traumatic memories

  • You experience physical symptoms during sleep, such as sweating or trembling

  • You feel like you are constantly on guard even while asleep

  • You have difficulty distinguishing dreams from reality

  • You experience sleep disturbances in cycles or patterns

  • You have difficulty trusting others enough to sleep in their presence

  • You experience a sense of dread or impending doom before sleeping



How Childhood Sexual Trauma Affects Your Womb and Genitals

Sexual trauma leaves deep imprints in your womb and genitals—and these can show up as real, physical symptoms.


You might be dealing with chronic pelvic pain that doctors can't explain. Periods that are excruciating. Pain during sex that makes intimacy feel impossible. Bladder issues, digestive problems, or a pelvic floor so tight it feels like it's locked down.


Beyond the physical symptoms, there's often this profound disconnection from your own sexuality. You might feel numb down there, like that part of your body doesn't belong to you. Or you struggle with intimacy—wanting closeness but feeling your body shut down the moment things get sexual. Trust becomes nearly impossible.


What's happening is your pelvic floor is holding tension from the trauma. It's stayed contracted, braced, protective—because your nervous system never got the message that the danger is over. Your body is still guarding you.


This tension isn't something you can just "relax away" through willpower. It's a physiological response to what happened, and it needs to be addressed at that level—in the body, in the nervous system—not just in your mind.


  • Your womb feels heavy and full or like it's overflowing with something

  • Your womb feels foreign / like it doesn't belong in your body

  • Your womb feels like a black box that you're scared to go inti

  • Your womb feels like there is a rock inside

  • Your womb feels disgusting to you / dirty

  • When you feel into deeper vibrations you dissociate or shut down

  • You sometimes feel like your womb is attacking you

  • You feel repelled by your own womb

  • You have the sensation of your womb being on fire

  • You have a sense of terror in your womb and you're not sure why

  • When you feel into your womb you feel nauseous / angry / full of pain and grief and you're not sure why

  • You feel ashamed about your womb and genitals

  • Your menstrual cycle is very painful

  • Your menstrual cycle has stopped or is very irregular

  • You have developed endometriosis, cysts or fibroids

  • You are struggling with fertility and unsure why

  • Your genitals feel separate from your body

  • You only feel your genitals during sex

  • Energetically your womb space is not integrated into the pelvic area but floats high above or to the side of the body

  • You feel imprints of hands / face / tongue or genitals within your womb space and you're not sure why

  • You have seen imprints of the abuser in your womb, or around the right hip

  • You have done alot of womb healing but you still can't access your womb

  • You struggle to breathe from the womb

  • You experience sexual dysfunction most of your adult life (more on this later)

  • Your womb is surrounded by a black box making you feel rigid within

  • Your womb is being invaded by something external that you cannot see

  • You feel a foreign or dark energy around the entrance to your yoni

  • You feel obstruction in your anus

  • You feel you have been violated but you're not sure how or when


How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Your Head, Face, and Neck


Sexual trauma imprints often show up in the head, face, and neck in a variety of ways. When your sympathetic nervous system remains activated over long periods—due to chronic stress or trauma—it can lead to persistent muscle tension throughout the body, including the muscles in these areas.


Additionally, sexual trauma can create ongoing hyper-vigilance and disrupt sensory processing, which directly affects the cranial nerves responsible for essential sensory and motor functions. These nerves control your vision, hearing, taste, smell, facial expressions, and other sensory experiences.


As a result, unresolved childhood sexual abuse can impact the head, face, and neck in numerous ways, affecting both physical sensations and neurological functions.

HEADACHES

  • It is very common to experience headaches for many years of your life

  • You have tension headaches that feel like a constant, dull pain or pressure

  • You frequently resort to taking medication to cope with your headaches

  • Your headaches worsen when you are on your period - this is caused by hormonal imbalance due to already elevated cortisol as a result of your body's chronic stress response

  • You get Cluster Headaches in extreme cases

  • You have heightened sensitivity to light and sound

  • You have Dizziness and vertigo

  • Your head feels tight or compressed

JAW

  • Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Dysfunction: TMJ dysfunction due to heightened muscle tension, jaw clenching, or teeth grinding associated with the trauma.

  • Your jaw feels tight and movement feels limited or difficult

  • Your jaw locks or clicks

  • You grind your teeth at night

  • Your jaw tension or pain has led to dental issues

  • Your jaw is not symmetrical and your masseters are significantly enlarged on one side (usually the right side)

FACE & EYES

  • Your face feels tense, strained or restricted in movement

  • You have partial facial paralysis -usually on the right side

  • You have symptoms of facial weakness such as drooping of your eyelid or mouth

  • You have developed Bell's Palsy or Guillain-Barré Syndrome

  • Discomfort or pain in the face around the temples

  • Reduction in the range of your facial expressions

  • You have a perpetually solemn or guarded appearance

  • You struggle to recognise your own face in the mirror (depersonalisation)

  • You feel disgust when you look at your own face in the mirror

  • When you look in the mirror you do not recognise yourself (dissociation / depersonalisation, more on this below)

  • You suffer with Adult acne, eczema, or psoriasis

  • You struggle to make eye contact with others

  • Your eyes do not feel symmetrical , one feels lower than the other

  • You get blurred or double vision especially when stressed

  • You are extremely sensitive to light

  • You feel a deep heaviness behind your eyes

  • You have long term eye twitching (myokymia)

  • You struggle to process depth perception

  • Your spatial awareness is compromised

  • Your eyes look dead

  • Your eyes do not reflect your emotional expression

CRANIAL MEMBRANES & NERVES

  • You have chronic tightness in your cranial membranes

  • Your head constantly feels like it's being squeezed

  • You feel a constant pressure in your head that you can't release

  • Your head movement is restricted so you can't turn to both sides equally

  • Your head always feels heavy and full

  • Your falx feels compressed and your tentorium feels extremely tight

  • Your sphenoid feels twisted or imbalanced affecting vision, sinuses, dizziness etc


EARS

  • You have a strange sensitivity to sound causing everyday sounds to be excessively loud or even painful

  • You have a ringing or buzzing in your ears or even phantom sounds - tinnitus

  • You have issues with auditory processing and struggle to follow conversations

  • You get auditory overload very easily that triggers anxiety

  • Your ears feel full for no reason

  • One of your ears feels more pushed in than the other


How Childhood Sexual Abuse Rewires Your Brain


Sexual trauma changes how your brain works—and you've probably noticed.

Memory becomes unreliable. You can't hold onto new information the way you used to. Concentration feels impossible. Your thoughts move slower, like you're constantly wading through fog. Simple decisions that used to be automatic now feel overwhelming.


There's also this strange sense of distance—from your own emotions, from your thoughts, from yourself. It's like you're watching your life from behind glass. We call this dissociation (check out my online course for this) but what it feels like is being disconnected from who you actually are.


Then there's the depression. The anxiety that won't let up. The PTSD symptoms—flashbacks, hypervigilance, feeling unsafe in your own body. These aren't just emotional problems; they're affecting your brain's ability to function. Your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, which means regulating your emotions and getting through a normal day feels monumentally hard.


This isn't weakness. It's neurobiology. Trauma literally rewires your brain—affecting the hippocampus (memory), the prefrontal cortex (decision-making and concentration), and the amygdala (fear response). Your brain adapted to survive something unbearable. Now it needs support to come back online fully.


  • You have severe brain fog for more than six months

  • You have symptoms similar to ADHD and have started to believe you could have ADHD

  • You find it more difficult than others to learn new things so you avoid learning

  • You struggle to retain information including people's names, dates etc

  • You feel your brain is not accessible to you for some reason

  • You feel your brain is working against you

  • The frontal lobe (forehead) feels full, heavy, or dense

  • You get flashbacks or visions that don't make sense

  • You have difficulty focusing and being productive even for short periods of time

  • You have excessive forgetfulness, even when reminded you forget

  • You have excessive clumsiness and often make errors or drop things

  • Thoughts that feel slower or blurrier than others

  • You have difficulty planning ahead or thinking coherently

  • You struggle with basic problem solving without feeling overwhelm

  • You have difficulty turning off your repetitive or intrusion thoughts

  • You feel overwhelmed and controlled by your own thoughts

  • Lack of trust in your own thoughts or judgment

  • Difficulty processing your environment as "real"

  • Difficulty following conversations and blanking out

  • Mind frequently wandering and losing track of time

  • Daydreaming at inappropriate times and not recalling what you were thinking of

  • Difficulty self-motivating despite having resources and good intentions

  • Difficulty organizing yourself at the basic level (day, week, job)

  • Obsessing and compulsive thinking or acting

  • Fantasizing about violence, sexual violence, or acts of perversion

  • You have a strange perception of danger

  • You don't find dangerous things dangerous

  • You can't read people's emotions and facial expressions

  • You feel shame when you observe other people's facial expressions

  • You have difficulty visualizing your inner child even at a basic level

  • Difficulty self-reflecting and answering "why" questions

  • You have extreme difficulty naming your own emotions

  • Your brain and your internal world seem disconnected or separated

  • You've had long-term depression with no apparent cause or unsuccessful treatment

  • Slurred speech or difficulty communicating clearly

  • You cannot distinguish between a memory, flashback, vision, dream, imagination, or energetic imprint or somatic sensation



Childhood Sexual Abuse, Insomnia & Nightmares


Sexual trauma can significantly impact your sleep patterns and quality of sleep. You may experience difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep, or perhaps you wake up frequently during the night for no reason.


You may have vivid nightmares or flashbacks related to your trauma, which can make it difficult to fall back asleep. Sleep disturbances can result in chronic fatigue, exhaustion, and increased irritability, leading to a lack of productivity during the day. This can affect all areas of your personal and professional life and your body's health and hormonal balance in the long term.



  • You have had insomnia for longer than 3 years

  • You have restless legs

  • You wake up during the night and can't get back to sleep

  • You have nightmares often

  • You often experience night paralysis

  • You experience astral sexual abuse, rape and brutality

  • You avoid sleeping because you're scared of what you will dream

  • You avoid sleeping because you are weary of the night / dark

  • You're scared to fall asleep because you feel you're going to be vulnerable or somehow in danger

  • You have become nocturnal to avoid sleeping

  • You still need to sleep with the lights on

  • The quality of your sleep is poor and you're not sure why

  • You wake up but do not feel refreshed and it feels like you haven't slept

  • You dream about perverse things that you then feel ashamed for

  • Needing to scream during nightmares but unable to let the scream out

  • Confusion about who is screaming

  • You constantly wake up feeling physically ill and nauseated

  • You always wake up feeling emotionally drained and exhausted

  • You often wake up with a sense of dread or impending doom

  • You feel like you're constantly fighting for your life even in your dreams

  • You wake up with bruises, scratches or other unexplained injuries

  • You experience sleepwalking or other forms of sleep disturbance

  • You have trouble falling asleep because your mind is racing or you're constantly re-living traumatic events

  • Your sleep paralysis is accompanied by terrifying hallucinations

  • You experience panic attacks or extreme anxiety at bedtime



Childhood Sexual Abuse and Organ Function


Sexual trauma doesn't just stay in your mind or your reproductive organs—it goes deeper, into your gut, kidneys, adrenals, all the organs you can't see.


You might be dealing with constant digestive problems. IBS that flares unpredictably. Inflammatory bowel issues that doctors can't fully explain or fix. Chronic bladder infections or interstitial cystitis that keeps coming back no matter what you try.


Your adrenals might be shot—adrenal fatigue where you're exhausted all the time but can't sleep properly. Chronic fatigue syndrome that makes even basic tasks feel impossible. Ongoing pelvic pain that radiates through your entire lower body.


And underneath all of this, there's that feeling of being completely disconnected from your body. You can't regulate your emotions. They either flood you or you feel nothing at all. Your whole system feels dysregulated, like it's stuck in permanent emergency mode.


Here's what's actually happening: your organs hold emotional memory. Your gut, your kidneys, your adrenals—they all respond to stress and trauma. When trauma gets lodged in these places, it creates real physical illness. The pain isn't psychosomatic. It's your body literally holding what happened to you.


This is why treating just the physical symptoms often doesn't work. The trauma is still there, stored in your tissue.


  • Adrenal Fatigue

  • Kidneys hold intense fear and charge

  • Kidneys feel frozen heavy / numb / cold

  • Kidneys feel muffled or are dissociated from the body

  • Kidney failure in extreme cases after many decades

  • Stomach feels tight / contracted / knotted almost constantly

  • Gut is inflamed / IBS symptoms / Gut-brain connection inhibited

  • Can only feel stomach and gut when full / sensation is muted

  • Uncertainty about satiation which leads to patterns of starvation / binging / eating disorders

  • Liver toxicity and held charge of anger that can't be accessed

  • Overactive nervous system, constant stress

  • Cortisol levels are elevated but chronic stress states perceived as 'normal'

  • Adrenal glands are over-active

  • Organs feel full / like about to burst

  • Body feels bloated, there is visible bloating

  • Organs feel like they are on fire - especially womb, genitals

  • Diaphragm is tight

  • Breathing is shallow and feels constricted

  • Breath doesn't go down into the womb / root on the exhale

  • Lymphatic stagnation and neurotoxicity

  • Layering of chronic and degenerative conditions

  • Autoimmune conditions

  • Organ dissociation particularly heart, womb and in more severe cases, also the gut and liver

  • Thyroid issues, blocks in throat

  • Hormonal imbalance


How it Feels to Be In Your Body After Sexual Abuse

Sexual trauma can have a profound impact on the connection between your body and mind, making it difficult to feel grounded and present in the moment. You may experience dissociation, numbness, or a sense of disconnection from your body, as well as a lack of awareness of your physical sensations. This can make it challenging to identify and express your needs, boundaries, and desires, and may lead to difficulties with intimacy and self-care. Additionally, you may experience physical symptoms such as chronic pain, tension, or digestive issues, which can be linked to the impact of trauma on the nervous system and internal organs.


  • You don't feel safe in your own body

  • You have never felt safe in the world

  • You are dissociated and unable to be in your own body

  • You don't recognise your own body or reflection in the mirror

  • You don't feel like your body is yours or it feels foreign

  • You feel like your body is attacking you or has betrayed you

  • You feel there is something deeply missing within your own body

  • You feel undernourished despite eating well

  • Your internal sensations trigger deep fear and mistrust

  • You cannot trust or make sense of your own internal sensations

  • Your internal sensations trigger self disgust, shame and blame

  • You are scared to feel deeper into your body incase you are destroyed

  • You have an internal feeling of doom, dread that keeps you clinging on but not living

  • You are scared of being 'found out / seen' because of what you hold inside

  • You use your body like a machine but cannot rest and have insomnia

  • Your body freezes when you need it most which creates mistrust and confusion

  • Your body feels hot, on fire from the inside, burning, but you cannot identify what it is

  • You feel a sensation but it means nothing, even when it is extreme

  • You only respond to pain, to suppress or manage it, you cannot feel other sensation

  • Your body feels dangerous to be in

  • Your body feels under attack

  • Your body feels like it's holding a strong charge and you are scared of what will happen if you 'go there' or release it

  • You feel like you are holding back from life, holding yourself back

  • You have body dysmorphia, you can't look at your own body except in shame

  • You feel like your body is a hollow, empty space with nothing inside

  • You feel like your eyes are blank, dead, disconnected from your body

  • Your body feels weighed down and heavy and you do not move much

  • Your chest feels constricted, held down, tight and uncomfortable

  • You're often tired and unable to do basic tasks 'like everyone else can'

  • You feel disgust is held in your body but you don't know how to get it out

  • You feel your body has shut down or stopped working

  • You have no energy and rely on drugs or stimulants to get you through the day

  • You feel like you're being punished by being in the body you have



Childhood Sexual Abuse, Dissociation and Depersonalisation



Childhood sexual abuse often leads to dissociation and depersonalization as coping mechanisms to help the mind and body survive overwhelming trauma. Dissociation involves a disconnection from the present moment, memories, or aspects of the self, allowing the individual to emotionally escape painful experiences.


Depersonalization, a specific form of dissociation, creates a feeling of being detached from one’s own body or thoughts, as if observing oneself from outside. These responses, while protective during abuse, can persist long after the trauma has ended, making it difficult to fully engage with emotions, form a coherent sense of identity, or feel grounded in the body. Understanding the link between childhood sexual abuse, dissociation, and depersonalization is essential for healing, as it opens the door to reclaiming presence, safety, and self-awareness.


  • You don't feel or value your own body sensations

  • You only feel physical pain but other sensations are invisible

  • You do not feel any connection to your womb or gentials

  • You feel like you are having an out of body experience

  • You experience alot of astral rape or astral interference at night

  • You see yourself hovering above yourself

  • You can't ground or self regulate

  • You have no idea that you are checked out but people say you look spacey

  • You don't feel any emotion deep enough to make sense of it

  • You have chronic health conditions that have persisted over time

  • You are numb to physical disturbances in your body such as back pain

  • You resent being in your body because you believe it only holds pain and disgust

  • You feel attacked by dark entities

  • You are not getting results from healing work that you're doing

  • You can't meditate or identify when you need to self soothe

  • You seek substances to self soothe

  • When you feel overwhelmed emotionally you get tired and then check out

  • Your coping mechanism for processing emotional pain is to go to sleep

  • The energy body is asleep and the eyes are closed

  • You have severe levels of adrenal fatigue

  • You can't see or visualise your inner child without spacing out or shutting down

  • You shut down when in busy places and around certain people

  • You feel uncomfortable within your own body

  • You feel like your body is trying to destroy or punish you

  • Numbing or finding oneself numb and unsure why

  • Feeling of being lost , disconnected from self and body

  • Not able to drop into anything, not able to fulfil oneself

  • Unable to access inner world, many external attachments to distract

  • Sudden emotional shut downs

  • Suddenly feeling blank when triggered or childhood memories come up

  • Moments of intense triggering and then sudden shut down

  • Unable to cry or release emotion from the body

  • Unable to feel own emotions for more than a few moments

  • Avoidance of emotions / inability to sense inner emotions or describe them

  • Inability to feel love / loved / pretending to feel love

  • Sense of acting / pretending in life, not knowing what 'real' is or feels like

  • kicked out of the body / unable to access emotions in the heart for prolonged periods or in enough depth to heal them

  • Unable to express emotion easily without shutting down


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How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Your Energy Body

Sexual trauma can also leave imprints on the energy body, which includes the root space, solar plexus, and throat chakras. These imprints can manifest as blockages, disruptions, or imbalances in the flow of energy through these areas. Symptoms may include physical discomfort, emotional distress, and difficulty expressing oneself. Additionally, survivors may experience dissociation or disconnection from their bodies and their inner selves.

  • Inability to feel into your own subtle energy body at all (despite healing, training courses etc)

  • You have a feeling of being locked in your own body

  • Your energy body feels like a jigsaw puzzle that doesn't fit

  • Your energy body feels distorted and incoherent or moves in a chaotic way

  • You struggle to ground

  • You don't feel connected to the earth

  • Energy doesn't flow up and down your spine

  • You feel like you're carrying something really heavy all around you

  • Feel like you are being crushed under something heavy

  • You feel held down / pinned down by a force greater than you

  • You feel attacked by something energetic from the outside of you

  • You feel unable to move forward like you are held in something sticky

  • You feel the energetic binds connecting you to something dark

  • You feel constant darkness and terror in your field

  • You cannot raise your vibration with any healing you do

  • You feel something attacked to your womb

  • You feel something is in between your legs

  • you feel like you are being followed

  • You feel paranoid about the energetic impressions you sense

  • You feel like everything energetic is happening to you rather than within you

  • You don't have a sense of where your energy field begins and ends

  • You feel invaded by other energies

  • You constantly feel other people's darkness but not your own

  • You feel a pulling of energy into the right side of your hip

  • You feel something is wrapped around your neck

  • You feel the energetic vibration of hands near your genitals

  • You see an energetic figure of a person in between your legs

  • You feel controlled by something bigger than you, often a dark force

  • You sense daggers and chains in your field

  • Your field carries lots of imprints of you in powerless positions

  • You feel past life sensations of rape or sexual abuse

  • You feel the vibration of sexual abuse or perversion in your field

  • You see glimpses of young children sometimes naked in your field

  • You feel body parts that are disconnected in your field, usually genitals or mouth

  • Your midline is completely distorted or dissociated

  • You have no centre or sense of home within your field

  • You have multiple false midlines that leave you confused about where you are

  • You cannot stay in your midline longer than a few seconds before you distort and dissociate


How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Your Root Chakra


Your root chakra, located at the base of your spine, governs your sense of safety, security, stability, and connection to the physical world.


It is closely connected to your adrenal glands, colon, kidneys, skeletal and muscular systems, as well your legs and feet. It is inherently linked to your ability to discharge stress imprints and heavy energies and therefore regulate your nervous system and ground your energy body.


Your root chakra is also your ancestral connection and therefore inherently holds early parental imprints and trauma. If your abuse was perpetuated by a parent, as is often the case, the distortion and perversion of that parent as well as their own trauma and abuse can remain stuck in your root space and this is what your roots anchor into. This blocks your own life force energy and leaves you in constant fear and insecurity. You might find yourself unable to feel safe, blocked financially and stuck in patterns of shame and self doubt.


Below are the main ways childhood sexual trauma gets trapped in the root chakra:


  • Your root space feels blocked or off limits to you

  • You cannot ground your roots into the earth

  • Your root chakra feels dangerous

  • Your root chakra feels threatening to you

  • You feel panic when focusing on your root chakra.

  • Your root chakra feels empty or hollow

  • Your energetic roots are thin, shallow or even non existent

  • Your roots appear frayed /broken /damaged

  • When you try to feel into your root chakra you feel fear or disgust

  • You feel pain trapped in your rootchakra that you cannot access

  • You have a sense of perversion or corruption trapped in your root space

  • You feel the imprint of your abuser's energy is in your root space

  • You carry a deep, unspoken shame or guilt that resides in your root chakra



Healing your root chakra after such profound betrayal involves releasing the energetic imprints, transmuting the fear and reconnecting you back to source, whilst facilitating the flow of grounding energy through your spine and whole system.

By doing so, you begin to restore your natural flow of energy, reestablish your connection to source, and create a foundation from which you can grow, thrive, and feel truly secure.



Childhood Sexual Abuse & Your Solar Plexus

Your solar plexus chakra, located in the upper abdomen just below the rib cage, is the center of your personal power, confidence, and self-worth. It governs your ability to set boundaries, take action, and assert your will in the world.


This chakra is closely connected to your digestive system, pancreas, liver, stomach, and muscles of the abdomen. It plays a vital role in processing not only food but also emotional experiences, helping you metabolize stress and transform it into personal strength. A balanced solar plexus supports healthy self-esteem, motivation, and the ability to maintain emotional resilience.

Here are some common experiences that may indicate blocks or imbalances in your solar plexus and surrounding energy fields after trauma:


  • Your solar plexus feels blocked or heavy

  • Your solar plexus feels off limits and 'pointless' connecting to

  • Your solar plexus feels energetically “frozen” or shut down

  • Your solar plexus feels painful, tight, knotted, or constricted

  • There’s a buzzing, fluttering, or unsettled feeling in your solar plexus

  • Your solar plexus feels far away as if it is outside of your control

  • You sense an intrusive energy or shadow within your solar plexus

  • You feel like a victim in your own life

  • You feel unsettled within your sense of self as if there is something wrong with you

  • You find yourself worrying excessively and creating overwhelm

  • Your solar plexus has cords that are connecting with your abuser




How Childhood Sexual Abuse Affects Your Throat Chakra & Authentic Self Expression


Sexual trauma often shows up in your throat and voice.


You might struggle to speak up for yourself. Saying what you actually think or feel becomes nearly impossible. Your truth gets stuck—literally—like there's a blockage you can't push through. You know what you want to say, but the words won't come out.

There's often shame wrapped around what happened to you, or guilt that shouldn't be yours but feels like it is. That shame keeps you silent. It makes you edit yourself constantly, swallow your words, keep things inside because speaking feels too dangerous or too exposing.


This silence leads to isolation. You feel disconnected from people because they don't know the real you—how could they, when you can't tell them?


The physical symptoms show up too. Chronic throat issues. Losing your voice. Thyroid problems that come out of nowhere. Tightness in your neck and jaw that won't release. These aren't random. Your body is holding the words you couldn't say, the screams that got trapped, the "no" that never made it out.


Your throat remembers what your mind might not.


  1. Your throat feels blocked and you struggle to speak

  2. You doubt yourself every time you speak

  3. You avoid speaking at all costs

  4. You are scared you will say something that could destroy you

  5. You are scared to be punished if you use your voice

  6. You are terrified to speak your truth and you don't really know what that even is

  7. Your voice and heart have no connection, you can't speak easily

  8. Your throat feels tight and constricted for no reason

  9. Your throat feels like it's being strangled

  10. Sometimes you get images of a hand aorund your throat

  11. You feel barbed wire or rope around your throat

  12. You have persistent thyroid issues


Emotional Dysregulation After Childhood Sexual Abuse: Why You Can't Control Your Feelings

  • Feeling a deep sense of fear, but not knowing why or how to explore it.

  • Being unsure of what you are scared of.

  • Experiencing fear or terror when trying to access deeper inner layers somatically and energetically.

  • Fear of trusting your own body and where it may take you.

  • A sense of impending danger, especially at night or when alone.

  • Continual dread that something dangerous is going to happen.

  • Constant fear of being attacked, but unsure why.

  • Inaccessible inner child due to fear and terror.

  • Explosive expression of anger, resulting in self-blame and guilt.

  • Feeling impure or unworthy of existing.

  • Feeling inherently wrong, bad, or dirty.

  • Feeling different and wrong compared to everyone else.

  • Feeling like a different or dark child compared to other kids.

  • Feeling like you do not belong in the world or needing to hide your true self or a secret.

  • Holding something that needs to be kept a secret.

  • Holding the secrets of the world that cannot be spoken of.

  • Feeling like you are living in darkness.

  • Feeling like you have no heart, or a hole in your heart.

  • Feeling trapped in the shame-guilt cycle that is noticeable through relationships with others.

  • A lifelong sense of shame or feeling there is something inherently wrong with you.

  • A sense of self-hatred that you have come to terms with and built an identity upon.

  • Feeling disconnected from your true self and not knowing what that is.

  • Feeling like you are wearing many masks and need to in order to survive.

  • Your internal critic is always attacking you.

  • Self-blame, self-criticism, or seeking external validation to be "worthy" or "good enough".

  • A lack of self-worth, feeling like you are never good enough regardless of achievements.

  • A lack of self-compassion, where attempts to "feel good" trigger guilt or shame.

  • Uncertainty around your sense of self.

  • Feeling totally alone even in a relationship or marriage.

  • Feeling like your self and body are repulsive, dirty, bad, or wrong.

  • Attracting partners that trigger body shame and guilt.

  • Attracting emotionally or sexually unavailable or abusive partners.

  • Shame around sexual arousal, leading to confusion around the shame.

  • A lack of capacity to feel and cultivate self-love, which collapses under an unknown weight.

  • A feeling that "there is something more" or that "something has happened", but unable to pinpoint it.

  • Feeling different from other children or people.

  • Feeling cursed, fallen under a curse, or under a spell that keeps you stuck.

  • Feeling ashamed and triggered by your own inner child.

  • Struggling with inner child work because your inner child brings up emotions that you do not feel safe with.

  • Feeling a sense of injustice and needing to take revenge, but not sure what for.

  • Suppressed anger, the inability to access, feel or express anger.

  • Anger that is not recognized or expressed, and when it is, it is distorted.

  • Internalizing anger, directing it toward the self when events happen.

  • Face turning red but no words coming out, tendency to say "I'm fine".

  • Violent and intrusive thoughts of doing damage to other people.

  • Feelings of hatred directed toward self or others.

  • Feeling overly emotional, erratic, or out of control

  • Experience of manic or bipolar states, emotional volatility

  • Mistrust in own emotional intelligence, intuition, or emotional validity

  • Difficulty self-soothing or regulating emotional state

  • Inability to understand own emotional states

  • Easily triggered but unsure of what the trigger relates to

  • Feeling emotions but drowning in them without understanding their origin, engulfment

  • Sense of unending grief or fear with no apparent cause

  • Heavy, pressured feeling in the heart without clear reason

  • Processing trauma psychologically, rationalizing, intellectualizing

  • Incoherent trauma narrative, difficulty making sense of events

  • Lots of "I don't knows" around events and feelings

  • Inconsistent narratives around caregivers

  • Persistent self-doubt

  • Difficulty moving forward in life despite spiritual work

  • Feeling blocked, unable to concentrate deeply or losing focus easily

  • Confusion as a persistent state of being, constantly overthinking and worrying

  • Avoiding the heart because it feels dangerous or blocked

  • Inability to feel the heart at all, only surface sensations in the chest



How Childhood Sexual Abuse Causes Sexual Dysfunction in Adulthood

Sexual trauma fundamentally changes how your body responds to sex—and it's not something you can just think your way through.


You might be dealing with vaginismus, where your pelvic floor involuntarily tightens, making penetration painful or impossible. Or dyspareunia—chronic pain during sex that makes intimacy feel like punishment. For men, this can show up as erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation that wasn't there before the trauma.


Then there's what happens to desire itself. Your sex drive might disappear completely—you just don't want it anymore. Or you might swing the other way into promiscuity, using sex compulsively in ways that don't feel good but you can't seem to stop.


Intimacy becomes terrifying. Getting close to someone emotionally feels dangerous. You feel completely disconnected from your body during sex, like you're watching it happen to someone else. Your entire sense of self-worth gets tangled up with sex in ways that feel distorted and painful.


And the triggers—a certain touch, position, smell, or word can send you straight into a flashback. Panic attacks during sex. Dissociating mid-act, suddenly finding yourself mentally somewhere else entirely while your body goes through the motions.


This isn't dysfunction. This is your body doing exactly what it learned to do to survive something it should never have had to endure. Sonnet 4.5


  • You avoid even the thought of having sex

  • The thought of having sex triggers shame and disgust

  • The thought of having sex triggers flashbacks

  • Your relationship with sex is transactional

  • You only have sex to release stress and charge held in your body

  • You do not feel present during sex and you find yourself not wanting to be there

  • You shut down during sex and dissociate

  • You are unable to feel sexual pleasure and focus entirely on pleasing the other

  • You feel sexual pleasure and feel immense guilt and shame about it

  • You avoid penetration or you cannot have penetrative sex

  • You lose your erection before penetration

  • You shut down the stream of arousal before penetration

  • During penetration you leave your body and go numb

  • You have given up on penetrative sex and orgasmic experiences

  • You have sex but don't feel an intimate connection

  • You are suffering from sexual dysfunction for a long time

  • You are unable to sustain an erection and not sure why

  • You feel aroused but dirty / scared / guilty at the same time

  • You feel vacant during sex, like it's a distorted act, like you're fulfilling a duty

  • You feel very young and vulnerable during sex and scared

  • You engage in sexual activities to distract yourself from your emotions

  • You use sexual experiences to make your inner child feel safe and loved

  • You engage in sexual activities to feel a sense of power

  • You engage in sexual activities to intentionally harm your own body

  • You engage in self harm during sex or you harm others

  • You cannot experience pleasure unless you are being harmed or harming others

  • You do not know what your boundaries are sexually and you constantly violate them or violate others boundaries without realising

  • You only receive sexual pleasure when you are made to feel worthless

  • Traumatic sex feels comfortable and familiar to you

  • You cannot self pleasure or look at your own genitals

  • You feel nauseous during sex but shut the feeling down

  • Sense of feeling unsafe / in danger when sexually aroused

  • Disturbances of desire, arousal including hyper-arousal / loss of libido

  • Excessive sensation of sexual arousal pertaining to people / objects

  • You are repulsed by the fact you are a woman / are female


Sexual trauma steals pleasure from your body.

You might feel completely numb during sex—like you're touching someone else's body, not your own. Sensations that should feel good either don't register at all or feel uncomfortable, even painful. Orgasm becomes difficult or impossible to reach, no matter what you or your partner try.


Or maybe you can orgasm, but it doesn't feel good. It's mechanical. There's no emotional connection to it, no real pleasure—just a physical release that leaves you feeling emptier than before.


The shame makes everything worse. You feel guilty for wanting sex. Ashamed of your desires. Disgusted with yourself during or after. Even in consensually chosen, loving sexual experiences, that voice in your head tells you you're dirty, broken, wrong for wanting this.


So you either avoid sex entirely, or you go through the motions while feeling nothing, or you push yourself to perform because you think you're supposed to—but the actual pleasure, the joy, the connection? It's not there.


Your body learned to shut down pleasure as a survival mechanism. When something unbearable was happening, disconnecting from sensation kept you alive. But now, even when you're safe, even when you want to feel good, your nervous system still hits that off switch.


The pleasure isn't gone. It's locked behind the trauma your body is still protecting you from.


  • You have never had an orgasm

  • You struggle to orgasm and when you do it feels mechanical and empty or unfulfilling

  • You feel like when you climax you are releasing pain and grief

  • You experience orgasms that are shallow and fleeting

  • You feel the climax building but then you shut down / dissociate

  • Orgasms trigger guilt and shame that you can't understand

  • You feel like you're doing something wrong when you orgasm

  • When you orgasm you have strong releases of fear and grief and you're not sure what they relate to

  • You feel unsafe when you orgasm or like something bad is going to happen



How Sexual Abuse Affects Your Intimate Relationships

Sexual trauma doesn't just affect sex—it destroys your ability to trust and connect with people.


You want intimacy, but the moment someone gets close, every alarm in your system goes off. Vulnerability feels like handing someone a weapon. Trusting anyone—even people who've proven themselves safe—feels impossible because your body remembers what happened the last time you trusted.


There's also this constant fear of abandonment. You either cling too hard or push people away before they can leave you. Or both, in confusing cycles that exhaust everyone involved.


And somehow, you keep ending up with partners who are emotionally unavailable. Or worse—abusive. It's not that you're choosing badly on purpose. Trauma creates patterns. Unavailable people feel familiar. Safe people feel dangerous because you don't know how to read them. Your nervous system gravitates toward what it knows, even when what it knows hurt you.


  • Lack of trust in self, world, and others at a deep unspoken level

  • Difficulty trusting people to accept you as inherently good and worthy

  • Believing that there is something dark and different about you, feeling unlovable

  • Needing to protect and hide from the world and others

  • Avoiding sharing emotions with others, being disconnected from the world

  • Struggling to form deep and meaningful friendships

  • Inability to name your own emotional state, saying you're fine when you're not

  • Feeling inauthentic in relationships, unable to show up fully and consistently

  • Feeling like you're "acting" a role and putting pressure on yourself

  • Feeling disconnected from your true needs and true self

  • Struggling to assert boundaries in a clear way

  • Being passive-aggressive without realizing it, difficulty expressing yourself

  • Constantly involved in trauma bonding with others

  • Persistent history of toxic relationships where you're not honored, connected, or respected

  • Letting your body be taken advantage of to please others

  • Feeling unsafe around men but not knowing why

  • Struggling to leave toxic relationships even when losing yourself in the process

  • Justifying bad behavior because you believe you're not worth better or won't get better

  • Feeling like a child in relationships, interacting from a place of childhood neediness

  • Difficulty vocalizing or identifying needs in relationships

  • Developing a false self that feels inconsistent and incongruent, difficulty getting behind the mask into your true self because it feels like there is a vacant hole behind there.


Why Does Your Brain Suppress Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse?


As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, you may have struggled to access clear, coherent memories of the traumatic events you endured. Perhaps you're not even certain that something did happen but you keep getting this strange feeling or symptoms.


This elusiveness of your own history can be incredibly frustrating and isolating. Why does your brain seem to actively resist recalling such formative experiences?


The answer lies in the neurobiological mechanisms your brain employs to protect you from overwhelming trauma. When confronted with abuse, particularly during the vulnerable developmental stages of childhood, your brain triggers a dissociative response. This involves a disconnect between the cognitive, emotional, and sensory regions - a way of psychologically distancing yourself from the pain.


This dissociation disrupts the normal processes of memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval. The sensory details, emotions, and context of the abuse become fragmented, suppressed, or stored in a way that makes them incredibly difficult to access through conscious recall. Your brain, in essence, buries these memories as a means of survival. While an adaptive response in the moment, this neurological shielding can leave you feeling disconnected from your own history as an adult.



Somatic Healing for Childhood Sexual Abuse: How Body Sensations Unlock Buried Memories


Notice from the diagram above, the initial input of traumatic events is primarily sensory - the touch, sights, sounds, smells, and bodily sensations that you experienced during the abuse. This raw, embodied information gets encoded into your brain's neural networks. What makes it tricky is that sensory memories are distinct from the kind of narrative, autobiographical memories we typically trust and rely on.


Sensory memories exist in a different neurological realm, stored more in the subcortical regions of the brain rather than the frontal lobes responsible for conscious recollection. This is why survivors often report feelings, physical sensations, or fragmented images rather than a clear, chronological narrative when accessing memories of abuse.

The dissociation and numbing that commonly arise as protective responses to trauma can severely disrupt this sensory encoding process. If the brain cannot fully register and integrate the tactile, visceral experiences of the abuse, it leaves the survivor disconnected from the somatic reality of what happened.


This is where deep somatic and energetic integration in my unique healing approach becomes so essential for trauma recovery. By gradually reconnecting you to the sensations, impulses, and energy flows in your physical body, these modalities can help rebuild the crucial link between your embodied experiences and your conscious awareness.


As you re-establish this somatic connection, safety and trust, you begin to access those fragmented memories in a way that allows for a more coherent narrative to emerge.


The traumatic experiences can then be processed, contextualized, and integrated into your autobiographical memory in a way that restores a sense of personal history and self-understanding. With patience and the right therapeutic support, you can reclaim ownership over the memories that have for so long felt foreign or inaccessible. Please reach out to me if you are ready to heal.



How Your Brain Blocks Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse


Childhood sexual abuse can have lasting impact on your brain and your ability to learn, regulate your emotions and connect with other people at a deep level.


Research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has shed light on the neurological mechanisms underlying dissociation in survivors of childhood sexual abuse. One study found that dissociation was associated with altered functional connectivity between brain regions involved in emotion regulation and attentional control (Lanius et al., 2010). This suggests that dissociation may be an adaptive response to the overwhelming trauma, allowing the survivor to psychologically distance themselves from the abuse.


Importantly, the degree of dissociation experienced by survivors has been linked to the severity of the abuse. The more severe and prolonged the trauma, the more pronounced the disruptions in normal brain functioning and connectivity (Lanius et al., 2010).




How I Support My Clients to Heal Childhood Sexual Trauma When They Can't Remember


When there's no specific memory, just sensations in the body or imprints in the energy field that give rise to an impression of sexual abuse it can be confusing and make you doubt yourself ALOT. It's very normal to think you're inventing things or making it up, or to shame yourself for the fact it's even crossing your mind.


I have developed a specific approach to support my clients to heal that has helped thousands of people around the world.


The key to this approach is to start deepening interoception, i.e your ability to feel and interpret the sensations held in your nervous system, womb and genitals. The sensations are vibrational patterns that carry information. I help you to make sense of these patterns of information and piece them together rapidly, so that you can get a crystal clear picture (including seeing, feeling, knowing) of what happened and who was involved. When I do this work with my clients there is no doubt as to what has happened to them, they learn to trust their somatic memory as we deepen the process of healing and connecting to the body. This is a powerful journey that helps them to trust their body again, particularly where they have been dissociated and shut out from it because of the pain and fear it was holding.


This work requires first, structural integration of the spine and organs, particularly the kidneys, adrenals and the gut. That's because these organs hold alot of unprocessed emotions and stress and we need to get beneath the surface level patterns and stresses of adult life to go deeper into the child's nervous system.


Where the child's nervous system has been dissociated and is split, it will still vibrate in the field. This is why survivors of CSA often experience projection, because they cannot easily feel their own pain but it is being felt in other indirect ways and by those around them, usually their partners and children.


By reintegrating the inner child's nervous system the clarity around the abusive incidents is allowed to come through into the consciousness of the person. Because the organs have been cleared and the structure (spine, brain) has been aligned, the body can hold the awareness more safely and therefore doesn't have to dissociate. This is because the nervous system is more grounded and the energy field is more still. The heart is available to process the pain of what happened.



Take the Next Steps In Your Healing Journey


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