“For many people, perfectionism is a response to trauma. It's not that you just want to do everything perfectly. So, when you are a perfectionist, you have this constant inner voice telling you, ‘That's not good enough. You need to do it again.' It's a defense mechanism that we create which can lead to a negative mindset and inner voice that's a constant critic. That can then override these beautiful emotions like joy and love. Your heart resonates so many positive emotions but trauma can really override that in the inner critic.” – Dr. Wendy Myers
An expert in detoxification and minerals, Wendy Myers, FDN-P, NC, CHHC, returns to Wellness + Wisdom to share her new Emotional Detox Masterclass, how trauma leads to perfectionism, how biofield tuning compares to talk therapy, and how your enneagram personality type impacts how you process trauma.
Are you a perfectionist? Do you identify with being that way?
Do you know someone in your life who is a perfectionist and just can't seem to let go of their strict behaviors?
Discover why perfectionism tendencies are the product of unprocessed and unhealed trauma.
Wellness + Wisdom Episode 461
[click_to_tweet tweet=”For many people, perfectionism is a response to trauma. It's not that you just want to do everything perfectly. It's a defense mechanism that we create which can lead to a negative mindset and this constant inner critic. – Dr. Wendy Myers of the @MyersDetox” quote=”For many people, perfectionism is a response to trauma. It's not that you just want to do everything perfectly. It's a defense mechanism that we create which can lead to a negative mindset and this constant inner critic. – Dr. Wendy Myers of the @MyersDetox”]
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Listen To Episode 461 as Dr. Wendy Myers Uncovers:
[1:30] Understanding + Releasing Emotional Trauma
- Dr. Wendy Myers
- The Emotional Detox Masterclass
- Myers Detox Protocol Course
- 205 How To Live To 110: Wendy Myers
- What is new for Dr. Wendy since she was last on Wellness + Wisdom including receiving her Ph.D.
- The emotional trauma root from losing her father to cancer and why he was such an inspiration for her.
- Her passion in not just heavy metal detoxification but emotional detoxification and psychology as well.
- The journey she has gone on to better understand emotional trauma and how to release it.
- Her research and uncovering that emotional trauma causes over 65% of physical health issues.
- 304 Dr. Ann Shippy
- A breakdown of what psychoimmunerolgy is and its impact on our wellness.
- Childhood attachment trauma and why it is so common for health problems later on in life.
[15:00] How to do an Emotional Detox
- What exactly an emotional detox is and the first steps someone can take to help heal themselves.
- Where we hold emotional trauma in the body and why it's so important to know that.
- HeartMath Institute
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- Why talk therapy might not be what someone needs to help them heal trauma.
- How sound and vibrational therapy go a step further to heal the trauma, especially that which is transgenerational, trapped inside our physical energy fields.
- The most common trapped emotions that people are holding onto unconsciously including self-hatred.
- Different loops Dr. Wendy found herself in including being in relationships with narcissists.
- How a lot of negative thoughts and feelings start when we're young before we're able to speak and that's why we're not able to intellectualize them.
[20:00] The Top 5 Negative Emotions to Heal with Biofield Tuning
- 311 Mark Wolynn | It Didn’t Start With You: Ending The Cycle of Inherited Trauma
- 366 Mark Wolynn | How To Heal Generational Trauma: The Thoughts, Feelings, Patterns & Behaviors Formed Before You Were Ever Born
- Richard Schwartz, IFS Institute
- Breaking down what and how to help the top five negative emotions we all carry.
- The 52 other emotions a person can start to work on if that resonates with them.
- What biofield tuning is and how it helps a person detox their negative emotions.
- The origins of biofield tuning and how Eileen Day McKusick came across its healing properties.
- Eileen Day McKusick – Biofield Tuning
- Other methods of healing negative emotions including a bioenergetic software called NES Health.
- NES Health
- What called Wendy to focus more on emotional health and intelligence after helping so many people with their physical wellbeing.
- Harry Massey, Founder, NES Health
- How NES Health's program has helped her release trauma and heal her bulimia.
- The healing power of Epsom salts and spending time in water with plenty of it to release emotions.
- 423 Ryan Duey | Ice Baths: Cold Therapy For Weight Loss, Immunity, Metabolism & Mental/Emotional Health
[28:00] The Safe Space of Detoxing Emotions
- Peter A. Levine PhD
- Exploring the idea that people might block out memories from their childhood without realizing it.
- The fact that we are all doing the best we can to relieve ourselves from our trauma.
- Breaking down how biofield tuning works to help people draw out their negative emotions.
- The various modules in her Emotional Detox program from tools like biofield tuning to looking deeper at human biology and proper health practices to address stress at the root cause.
- Detox symptoms that may come up during the program and how to address it when that happens.
- Practices for people with deep trauma like PTSD such as EMDR.
[36:00] Why Talk Therapy Doesn't Heal The Root Cause
- The benefits of talk therapy but why it doesn't heal the root cause of trauma unlike other methods.
- Why Dr. Wendy didn't know why she had bulimia until doing an emotional detox helped her understand it better.
- How these practices help people stop bad habits like smoking and drinking without even really trying.
- Paul Chek | All is God
- 381 Aleks Rybchinskiy | Master Your Man: How To Live Life As A Powerful Creator
- 268 Understanding The Primal Self: Sara Gustafson
- David R. Hawkins
- Why we can't deny that frequency rules the world.
- Her path to creating the Emotional Detox program and what she found the most fascinating about frequency during her research.
- The problem with the Law of Attraction‘s message when someone has a lot of trauma.
- Why the Law of Attraction works so much better once you have released your traumas and negative emotions.
[42:00] How Your Enneagram Personality Type Impacts Your Trauma Response
- How we can bring peace and improve the relationship between the mind and body.
- What an Enneagram Personality Type is and how that impacts a person's response to trauma.
- Examples of Enneagram Types and how they respond to trauma.
- How people can become a perfectionist in their response to trauma and how it drives their behavior.
- Why perfectionism can be a defense mechanism against trauma and negative emotions.
- How perfectionism overrides other emotions that are positive and beautiful like joy and love.
- Exploring other ingredients to heal the mind and the heart other than vibration.
- Why some people are able to take on larger stress loads but others can't and they may even face physical setbacks if they don't let them go.
[47:00] Reclaiming Your Power from the Mainstream Media
- How you can navigate and not let fear and stress created by the mainstream media take over your mind and body.
- What steps you can do to take your personal power back from the mainstream media.
- Various positive things that have happened because of this chaos over the last couple of years as more and more people are consciously waking up.
- Why she believes that the dark is working for the light right now in the world as people's consciousness is expanding.
- The fact that chaos is always seeking order in the universe and how we're witnessing that unfolding right now.
- What she believes are exactly the negative forces in our world today.
- The popular acronym of F.E.A.R. – Forget Everything And Run but what came through Josh during a Vision Quest about this approach: For Everyone's Attention Responsibly.
- Why fear doesn't have to control us: we can be present to rational fears and let go of irrational fear.
- How irrational fears created by the mass media create a cascade of different effects on our personal wellbeing.
- What you can do to set healthy boundaries with the mass media and how much of it you consume.
[56:00] Overcoming Doubt & Resistance
- The most challenging part for Dr. Wendy while creating this Emotional Detox program.
- Why doubt and resistance came up for her and these are also emotions you can work on with biofield tuning.
- How many people face resistance to doing the work and how they can overcome that.
- What wellness means now to Dr. Wendy since her last Wellness + Wisdom podcast interview.
Power Quotes From The Show
[click_to_tweet tweet=”The genesis of self-hatred comes from how you were treated as a child by your caregivers. You can't talk away these feelings about yourself because many of these negative situations happened before you were even able to intellectualize them. @MyersDetox” quote=”The genesis of self-hatred comes from how you were treated as a child by your caregivers. You can't talk away these feelings about yourself because many of these negative situations happened before you were even able to intellectualize them. @MyersDetox”]
Over 65% of Health Issues Caused by Emotional Trauma
“In my research, I found that emotional trauma causes over 65% of physical health issues. It's really a bigger issue than I expected for both little ‘t' and big ‘T' trauma. There will be people with extreme cases such as PTSD but what's more common is childhood attachment trauma or developmental trauma because of an abusive or neglecting parent. This creates a cycle of stress in the body and a person can then develop a high-stress set point where they can be more sensitive to a stressor than the next person and it causes this cascade of stress hormones that can lead to this whole biological domino effect in the gut and brain.” – Dr. Wendy Myers
The Genesis of Self-Hatred
“The genesis of self-hatred comes from how you were treated as a child by your primary caregivers. The reason why you can't talk or intellectualize away these negative feelings about yourself or your parents as an adult is because many of these abusive or neglectful situations happened before you were even able to intellectualize or verbalize them. As a child, you were not even consciously aware of what was happening and that is why talking about them doesn't really work. A lot of people aren't even aware that they still have these issues and you don't have to know what happened to you or what your negative emotions are to tune them out of your energy field.” – Dr. Wendy Myers
How Different Enneagram Personality Types Respond to Trauma
“So many of us have this negative inner voice that can creep in and in the Emotional Detox program, we explore the different enneagram personality types that people have and how this changes their response to trauma. Based on the trauma that you have, your different personality trait(s) might be expressed. Some such as Type 1 or Type 3 might become perfectionists in response to trauma.” – Dr. Wendy Myers
Links From Today's Show
- The Emotional Detox Masterclass
- Myers Detox Protocol Course
- 205 How To Live To 110: Wendy Myers
- 304 Dr. Ann Shippy
- HeartMath Institute
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- 311 Mark Wolynn | It Didn’t Start With You: Ending The Cycle of Inherited Trauma
- 366 Mark Wolynn | How To Heal Generational Trauma: The Thoughts, Feelings, Patterns & Behaviors Formed Before You Were Ever Born
- Richard Schwartz, IFS Institute
- Eileen Day McKusick – Biofield Tuning
- NES Health
- Harry Massey, Founder, NES Health
- 423 Ryan Duey | Ice Baths: Cold Therapy For Weight Loss, Immunity, Metabolism & Mental/Emotional Health
- Peter A. Levine PhD
- Paul Chek | All is God
- 381 Aleks Rybchinskiy | Master Your Man: How To Live Life As A Powerful Creator
- 268 Understanding The Primal Self: Sara Gustafson
- David R. Hawkins
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About Dr. Wendy Myers
Wendy Myers, FDN-P, NC, CHHC is an expert in detoxification and minerals.
She is passionate about educating the public on the importance of long term detoxing considering our toxic world. She healed her own health issues through hair mineral analysis and developed a unique detox and supplement program. Wendy wants to help others do the same.
Wendy’s interest in nutrition began with the death of her father from esophageal cancer. Intuitively, she knew his chemo, radiation, and ten medications killed him prematurely. She vowed to find out what made him sick, why he died, what role medications played in his demise, and how she could avoid the same fate. The more Wendy learned, the more she realized that all the answers to health do not lie in our medical system. Food, detoxification and natural healing modalities must be used to compliment the advances in modern medicine.
