In this episode of Tammy’s Takes, Tammy Vincent breaks down one of the most misunderstood aspects of healing:

👉 the connection between trauma, the nervous system, and chronic physical symptoms.

Following her conversation with Faith Ashenden, Tammy explores a powerful reframe—your body isn’t broken… it’s communicating.

If you’ve experienced fatigue, anxiety, gut issues, brain fog, or unexplained symptoms, this episode will help you understand what your body may actually be trying to tell you.

Because as Faith shared:

👉 “your body speaks before it screams”

And when those early signals are ignored, they often show up later as chronic conditions.

In this episode, Tammy walks you through:

1. How trauma and nervous system dysregulation lead to physical symptoms
2. Why your body stores unprocessed emotions and experiences
3. The truth about chronic illness and the mind-body connection
4. How to recognize early warning signs in your body
5. A simple, practical “body listening” exercise you can use in real time
6. How to shift from fighting your body to working with it

This episode is especially powerful for those navigating:

✔ chronic illness

✔ anxiety and overwhelm

✔ nervous system dysregulation

✔ trauma recovery

✔ adult children of dysfunction

This isn’t about fixing your body.

👉 It’s about learning how to listen to it.

☕ Ready to go deeper?

If this resonated and you want support understanding what your body is holding and how to move forward…

I invite you to book a complimentary Confidence & Clarity Call with me.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tammy's Takes where we take powerful conversations and turn them into practical strategies you can use right here, right now.

So yesterday I had a very powerful conversation with Faith Ashenden, and she said something that I don't think we fully understand yet.

She talked about how many of us are dealing with these chronic physical symptoms.

Fatigue, anxiety, gut, brain fog, overwhelm.

The list goes on and on and on.

And we're constantly trying to figure out what's wrong with me.

But today, I want to kind of continue on with our conversation with Faith from yesterday and consider the fact that maybe nothing's wrong with you.

Maybe your body isn't broken.

It's just trying to get your attention.

Think about that for a minute because she did say something very powerful.

And I've said it before, but it hit me harder yesterday, for some reason, she said, your body speaks before it screams.

I always say it whispers before it screams, but whatever, either way, let it sink in.

Your body speaks before it screams.

So what happens when you grow up in these dysfunctional homes that many of us have?

Your body adapts.

It learns to stay alert, stay ready, don't relax, don't feel too much, don't trust, don't do any of those things that a normal person and nervous system and body is supposed to do.

And over time, literally all of that becomes your baseline.

It becomes where you sit on a normal basis.

So instead of processing emotions in the moment, in real time, like you're supposed to, your body stores them.

We talk all the time about the invisible backpack.

So the invisible backpack that you carry on your back is every unprocessed experience, every suppressed emotion, every time you had to push something down in order to survive.

And guys, God, I don't know how many times I've mentioned it.

It doesn't disappear.

It gets held in your body.

It gets held in every single tissue and every single cell of your body.

And eventually your body has to release that somehow, some way.

So what does that look like?

This is where it gets really interesting because different emotional patterns kind of tend to show up in different areas of your body.

Now, this is not a diagnosis.

It's a pattern.

For example, if you have tightness in your chest or anxiety, a lot of time that is connected to fear, hyper vigilance, or feeling unsafe.

If you have gut issues or digestive problems, that can be connected to stress, lack of control, or not feeling able to process what's happening in your life or being able to.

If you want to go back to a metaphor, not being able to digest what's happening in your life.

If you have chronic fatigue that can come from a long term burnout, People pleasing, always being quote unquote on, like, you're never off, you never get to relax, so your body just wears out.

How about throat issues?

Right?

How many people have their thyroid or their tonsils out at a later, at a later age?

That can be connected to speaking up, holding things in, or feeling like you don't have a voice, Tension in your shoulders or neck that can come from carrying, responsibility, pressure, or feeling like everything is on you.

So again, I, I mean there's studies on it.

There are literally studies, and we talked about them yesterday with Faith on the number of women that get breast cancer right after a divorce or right after the end of a really tumultuous relationship.

And then next thing they know, they have breast cancer.

Guys, where attention goes, energy flows.

We are all energy.

And it's just the natural.

If you can't talk, your energy is focused on closing your throat and not letting you talk.

And that is the part that is going to be affected.

So again, it doesn't mean something is wrong with you.

It means that your body is holding the energy that has not been processed yet.

Because emotion is energy in motion.

And when it doesn't move, what's the only other thing it can do?

It stays.

And when it stays, it wreaks havoc.

So most people think about a symptom.

They have something wrong with them, something hurts, and what do you do?

You feel the symptom, you try to fix it, you ignore it or you push through it.

Because that is what we have been trained to do, that is what we have been conditioned to do.

And then it comes back stronger.

But the message was never heard the first time.

And that's the problem.

Your body's like, okay, if you're not going to listen, I'm going to turn the volume up, I'm going to make it worse.

So let's come up with a practical strategy.

And you know, I'm all about practical strategies.

And step one, two, three, four, I like to give you things that you can do in the moment that might help you.

So here's something you can start doing today.

And we're just going to call it the body listening exercise.

For if you have to give it a name, right?

So step one, when you have a pain, when you have something going on, when you feel something wrong with your body, the next time you feel it, don't override it.

Just stop for a minute and Pause.

Tune into it.

Listen to it.

Ask yourself, where do I feel this in my body?

What does it feel like?

But stay out of the story behind it.

Stay out of why it feels like that.

Just feel it and acknowledge what you're feeling.

Then if you want to ask a deeper question, go ahead.

What might my body be trying to tell me right now?

Whatever comes up, let it come up now.

When something comes up, validate it.

Just say to yourself, huh, that makes sense.

I mean, if your throat is hurting all the time and you have been trying to tell somebody something that you haven't told them in a long time, it makes sense that your body is going to close up the throat or your throat is going to hurt.

But what if it doesn't make sense?

I'm going to flip it around a little bit.

Say it makes sense and validate it, even if it doesn't make sense to you right now.

Because for many of us, that might be the absolute first time that your body has been listened to.

It might be the first time.

So even if it doesn't make sense, just give it the validation it needs.

That makes sense.

Now, this is where you have to identify a pattern or you have to break up a pattern.

Honestly, start asking yourself, when does this show up?

When does my throat hurt?

When does my lower back hurt?

Is it after a conflict?

Is it when I slow down?

Is it when I'm feeling overwhelmed or rejected or having some kind of confrontation?

Identify the pattern as to where it shows up and write it down if you need to.

And then step two is name that pattern and name the state.

So instead of saying, I'm broken, just say, my body is in a stress response.

My body's not broken.

It's in a stress response.

What does that do?

That takes the shame out of feeling like you did something wrong.

So just say, my body is in a stress response.

Now break it up.

Do something different.

What do you normally do?

You push.

You.

You.

You overwork.

You suppress, and then you spiral, right?

So instead we're going to try something different.

We're going to pause instead of push.

We're going to rest instead of overwork.

We're going to speak instead of suppress, and we're going to breathe instead of spiraling.

So try something different.

Pattern interrupts are where healing begin.

If you're in some kind of state or some kind of way and you need to change the way you are, just do something different.

So your body, guys, even though you might think it is, when everything hurts and everything's sore and you wake up and you're creaky and you're crunchy and all that stuff.

Your body is not your enemy.

It has been working overtime for many, many years to protect you.

And when even thing when things feel uncomfortable, even when it feels overwhelming, it's doing exactly what it was designed to do.

But your job now is to do it a little differently.

Your job is to have a different relationship with your body where you once ignored it and fought it and pushed it and made it work so, so hard.

I want you to just take a moment and thank it and don't push it, don't fight it and don't silence it.

Let it do its thing.

You listen, you respond, and you support.

Doesn't hurt to tell your body every night before you go to bed.

Thank you for supporting me.

Thank you for being there for me.

Thank you for working so hard to fix the things that I couldn't.

Just validate it and love it for everything it's doing for you.

I promise you, it's going to make you feel a little better.

So a lot of you are probably out there and you're thinking, oh my gosh, I do that.

I have a pain and I get irritated and I overmedicate it with everything I can do and I just want to push it away and get it away.

Maybe it does.

And maybe you're sitting here now and you realize, wow, it's probably been trying to tell me something for a long time.

Come check it out with me.

I have a free, complimentary.

Well, obviously free is complimentary.

Same thing.

But it's a biofrequency voice scan.

I talk about it a lot on this podcast.

We actually use it to start to identify the patterns that your body is holding onto.

It shows where your nervous system may be stuck in those survival responses.

And it honestly sends you back some calming things that you can do.

It gives you balancing harmonics.

It's using your voice.

It's a beautiful, beautiful, non invasive method that we use to balance what's out of balance and help your body get back to that place of homeostasis that it wants to be.

So go into the link, grab the link, sign up.

Takes about 20 minutes.

No big deal.

So let's go back and kind of wrap this up.

Healing isn't about willing your body to be fixed or fixing your body.

It's about really taking the time, slowing down, and starting to finally understand it.

Because when you do, everything else starts to shift.

And as always, as I've always said, you are not your trauma you are who you choose to become next.

So why don't we choose a healthier, happier, more balanced, energetic and healed you?

I know you can do it.

I know you deserve it.

You deserve every single second of every single minute of every single day that you spend becoming the you that you were when you were born.

So I hope this helped.

I hope it's a strategy you can use.

As always, I want to be here for support.

Please reach out if you need anything and I hopefully will talk to you soon.

If not, tune in again.

Love you guys.