Psychological trauma
Subject in Mental Health
Psychological trauma has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Aimie ApigianPhysician and trauma expert, author of The Biology of Trauma and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated
Apigian argues that a caregiver's emotional state matters more than food quality, preferring cake served with love over broccoli served with shame.
“I would rather them serve the most gluten-filled, sugar-filled cake, but with love, than a plate full of broccoli with shame”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:47:02
Apigian rejects the idea that children are resilient if resilience means being left without lasting impact.
“One of the biggest lies that we have been told, our children are resilient. They are not. They developed the”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:42:36
Apigian argues that stress and trauma have distinct, identifiable biologies.
“And that's when I saw, actually, there is a very specific biology of stress. and a biology of trauma, and they are very different”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:58
Mayim BialikActress, neuroscientist and host of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Bialik reflects that her stress-fueled productivity actually came from using work to distract herself from emotional pain.
“It's not so much that the stress was powering me. It was what the work was doing for me to distract me from the pain and stress”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:02:30
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
Episodes
Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie ApigianMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 23, 2026 · 2 h 13 min
Physician Aimie Apigian tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen how unresolved trauma affects cells, the nervous system, and chronic diseases, and how somatic work can help.