What if your chronic pain, anxiety, and physical symptoms aren’t random health problems at all? What if they’re your body’s way of storing trauma you experienced years or even decades ago?
According to the National Center for PTSD, a number of physical illnesses like chronic pain, anxiety, obesity, diabetes, and many more are connected to unprocessed trauma — and our data here at Modern Holistic Health shows the same.
Like many of our clients, Mary walked into our office managing a long list of conditions and a cabinet full of prescriptions. On paper, she looked like someone with multiple unrelated health issues that would require lifelong management.
But when we ran a bioenergetic scan on her, what surfaced went so much deeper than any diagnosis she’d been given.
When Mary filled out her intake forms and sat down for her history, the picture that emerged was one of decades spent in survival mode.
Medications were keeping her anxiety and depression from spiraling out of control, as well as dulling the chronic back and shoulder pain that had plagued her for years, but it never actually made any of these issues go away. Beyond that, her bones were already losing density—osteopenia, the doctors called it—a warning sign that things could get worse and progress to osteoporosis. Plus, Mary experienced panic attacks that would strike out of nowhere, and her brain felt trapped in a constant fog that made even simple thinking feel exhausting.
But it was her personal history that told the real story. Mary had experienced physical abuse from her father. She’d endured emotional abuse from a partner. On top of all of that, she carried generational trauma, including patterns of pain and dysfunction that had been passed down through her family line.
One detail stood out immediately: when Mary got stressed, she would stop breathing. She’d hold her breath without even realizing it, and she had to consciously remind herself to breathe correctly.
Mary had been living with all of this for so long that she didn’t even realize how much her body was still responding to trauma from years ago. She thought these were just her health problems, her conditions to manage. She had no idea her body was actively holding onto every frightening, overwhelming experience she’d ever had—and that those stored experiences were creating real, measurable physical symptoms.
When Mary came to work with us, we knew we needed to look beyond her symptom list. We ran a bioenergetic scan—a technology that reads the frequencies in your bioenergetic field and identifies distortions that can indicate imbalances, stored trauma, toxin exposure, and so much more.
This isn’t a diagnostic test. It’s a pattern recognition tool that picks up on bioenergetic distortions or shifts in your body’s energy field that can result from prolonged stress, poor nutrition, toxin exposure, bacterial or viral overgrowth, and unprocessed trauma.
The scan results were striking. Under the “Source” section, Mary’s scan showed patterns consistent with:
But it went deeper than that. When we looked at specific organ systems, her lungs showed up multiple times, which made perfect sense given her pattern of holding her breath and shallow breathing when stressed.
Then we found something particularly significant: her scan showed bioenergetic matches for muscle growth, repair, and metabolism. At the bottom of that section, one line stood out: “Muscles store stress and trauma.”
Mary’s chronic back and shoulder pain? It wasn’t just physical wear and tear. It was stored trauma living in her muscle tissue.
The scan also flagged issues with bone growth, repair, and detoxification, which made perfect sense because Mary was already showing early signs of osteopenia. The cause, we found, was decades of prolonged stress had kept her cortisol levels chronically elevated, flooding her bloodstream with acidity. When your body gets too acidic, it goes into emergency mode and needs to neutralize that acidity immediately. The fastest solution? It starts cannibalizing your bones, breaking them down to release calcium into your blood. It’s called a “calcium steal,” and it was likely a major driver behind Mary’s deteriorating bone density.
When we moved into the emotional patterns section, the scan identified:
This last finding hit particularly close to home. Mary shared that her father would beat her if she didn’t answer his questions correctly. As a terrified child, she’d learned to freeze—her voice would simply stop working when she was put on the spot. Decades later, even with medication helping her manage daily life, that same paralyzing response still showed up whenever she felt pressured to speak.
The scan also revealed something else: a deep conflict between her emotions and her logical mind. Her brain would tell her one thing, but her heart felt something completely different—a split that left her feeling constantly at war with herself.
Based on Mary’s bioenergetic scan results, we were able to create a personalized healing plan that addressed both the physical imbalances and the stored trauma.
The scan recommended the top five infoceuticals (energetically imprinted water solutions) specifically for Mary—formulas designed to help her body more easily process and release the stored emotions and trauma the scan had identified.
Still, infoceuticals alone aren’t enough. When you start releasing stored trauma, emotions that have been buried for years or decades can start flowing to the surface. If you haven’t learned how to witness and process those emotions without being swept away by them, the experience can feel overwhelming.
That’s where coaching and support become essential. Mary needed to learn how to:
We also recommended adrenal support, given the decades of stress her body had been under.
During our session with Mary, she opened up about something countless trauma survivors experience: “I have a difficult time knowing what emotions I’m feeling. I dissociate pretty consistently.”
This is incredibly common for people who’ve experienced significant trauma, especially trauma that began in childhood. Dissociation—disconnecting from your emotions, your body, or the present moment—is a survival mechanism. It’s how your nervous system protects you when things are too overwhelming to process.
But here’s the challenge: when you’ve been dissociated for years or even decades, you often don’t even realize you’re dissociated. It’s all you’ve ever known. You don’t understand what it means to be fully present in your body until you experience it.
The path forward requires time, gentleness, and support. It’s like learning to walk again—baby steps, one at a time. Mary needed a team of people who could teach her, guide her, and help her safely reconnect with her body and emotions at a pace she could handle.
And here’s something important: Mary also shared that she’d had suicide attempts in her past. The trauma she’d been carrying, the decades of stored pain in her body—it had taken her to some very dark places.
This is why this work matters so deeply. This is why identifying where trauma is stored in the body and giving people the tools to release it can literally save lives.
Mary’s bioenergetic scan showed exactly where her trauma was being stored: in her muscles (causing chronic pain), in her lungs (affecting her breathing patterns), in her bones (contributing to density loss), and in specific brain regions tied to fear and the inability to speak. Trauma isn’t just a psychological issue. It creates measurable bioenergetic distortions and physical symptoms throughout your body.
Mary’s osteopenia wasn’t just “age-related bone loss.” Decades of elevated cortisol from unresolved trauma had been creating acidity in her blood, forcing her body to break down bone to neutralize it. This is a direct physical consequence of stored trauma and chronic stress.
Mary’s pattern of holding her breath when stressed wasn’t just a quirk. It was a stored trauma response. And that shallow breathing pattern was creating bioenergetic distortions in her lungs, potentially contributing to her anxiety, panic attacks, and other symptoms. Breathwork isn’t just relaxation—it’s trauma release.
Mary’s father would beat her if she didn’t answer questions correctly. Decades later, even as an adult on medication, she still froze and couldn’t speak when put on the spot. The bioenergetic scan picked up on this—identifying “being frightened or terrified and not being able to speak” as a stored pattern in her body. This proves that childhood trauma doesn’t just fade with time. It lodges itself in your nervous system.
Mary struggled to identify what emotions she was feeling because she’d been dissociated for so long. When you’ve lived disconnected from your body and emotions your entire life, you don’t realize there’s another way to live. You think everyone experiences life the way you do. Reconnecting requires awareness, time, gentleness, and support.
Mary’s doctors knew she had anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and osteopenia. But they had no idea those conditions were connected to decades of stored trauma. The bioenergetic scan identified specific patterns of trauma storage, showed exactly where it was affecting her body, and provided a roadmap for addressing it—something standard medical testing would never reveal.
Mary was on medication for anxiety, depression, and pain. But the medications were only managing symptoms, not addressing the root cause. Until she learned to identify, process, and release the stored trauma in her body, the symptoms would persist. Real healing requires tools to help trauma move through and out of the body.
Mary needed a team. She needed people who understood trauma, who could teach her the tools, who could guide her through the process of reconnecting with her body and emotions safely. Trying to heal complex trauma in isolation is incredibly difficult. We need other humans. We need our tribe. We need people to help us walk each other home.
As you’re reading Mary’s story, you might be recognizing yourself. You’re dealing with chronic pain, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, or other physical symptoms that don’t seem to fully resolve with medication. You’ve been through trauma—maybe childhood abuse, maybe trauma in relationships, maybe generational patterns passed down through your family.
Or maybe you’re realizing for the first time that you hold your breath when you’re stressed. That you freeze when put on the spot. That you have a hard time identifying what you’re actually feeling because you’ve been disconnected from your emotions for so long.
You might be starting to understand that your chronic back pain, your bone density loss, your gut issues, your brain fog—all of it might be connected to trauma your body has been storing for years or decades.
Here’s what Mary’s case proves: trauma doesn’t just live in your mind. It creates measurable bioenergetic distortions. It stores itself in your muscles, your organs, your bones. It creates patterns in your nervous system that persist for decades. And those stored patterns create real, physical symptoms that medication can only mask, never heal.
Mary’s story also proves something else: it’s possible to identify exactly where trauma is stored in your body. It’s possible to get a roadmap showing you what needs to be addressed. And with the right tools, support, and guidance, it’s possible to release trauma that’s been lodged in your body for your entire life.
You don’t have to keep managing symptoms with medication while the root cause—the stored trauma—continues creating problems. You can investigate what your body is holding onto and learn how to finally let it go.
