Healing Beyond the Mind: How Trauma Lives in the Body | Ep.289

What if your body has been holding onto experiences your mind has long forgotten? 🤯 In this powerful conversation, Kelsey shares her remarkable journey from struggling with IBS, thyroid issues, and nervous system dysregulation to discovering that unresolved trauma was at the root of her physical symptoms. Through somatic breathwork, plant medicine, and deep inner healing, she learned that lasting transformation happens when we address the connection between the mind and body—not just the symptoms. Today, Kelsey is helping others on their own healing journeys, preparing to facilitate Iboga ceremonies, host transformational breathwork retreats, and write her first book. Her story is a beautiful reminder that healing unfolds one courageous step at a time and that even our greatest challenges can become our greatest purpose. ✨🌎 🎁 Special Offer: Kelsey is offering a FREE group breathwork session this fall! Email [email protected] reserve your spot. 💛 Offers: Our Book (episode 249) - Empowered: The Journey From Victim Island To Solution City: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1989849776?psc=1&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp Quantum Life Mastery School: https://amplifyimpactacademy.com/quantum-life-mastery-school Introduction video about Girls Matter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view Meet Your Unconscious Mind Workshop: https://amplifyimpactacademy.com/um FREE 7 Day Trial: NuCalm Products to recalibrate your nervous system / improve your sleep:: https://nucalm.com Use my promo code at checkout: YGHJ to get 15% off your monthly subscription, every month. Episode Summary: Key Takeaways Kelsey's healing journey revealed that physical symptoms (IBS, thyroid issues) were rooted in unaddressed trauma, which caused her health to relapse despite initial progress. Plant medicine (Iboga) and somatic breathwork were key to releasing stored trauma from the body, a process talk therapy alone couldn't achieve. Kelsey's future includes Iboga facilitation in Colombia, initiation into the Bwiti tribe in Gabon, and writing a book—goals previously impossible due to nervous system dysregulation. Offer: A complimentary group breathwork session this fall. Email [email protected] to register. Topics The Problem: Physical Symptoms Rooted in Trauma Kelsey's journey began in fitness, using intense exercise to manage an indescribable internal feeling. During COVID, she pursued functional health training (Dr. Cabral's IHP program) to address personal issues: IBS Low thyroid Skin breakouts Protocols provided initial relief, but symptoms repeatedly returned, revealing a deeper root cause. The Solution: Embodied Healing Modalities Insight: Reading The Body Keeps the Score connected her physical symptoms to stored trauma, explaining her severe nervous system dysregulation (e.g., inability to sit still, panic attacks in traffic). Iboga (Plant Medicine): A spontaneous trip to a retreat in Colombia led to an Iboga ceremony. Outcome: A profound release of childhood trauma, symbolized by a "lightning bolt" leaving her body, resolving her nervous system issues. Somatic Breathwork: Sought a trauma-release tool accessible to clients. Personal Breakthrough: During training, a psychic reading connected a heart contraction to unresolved trauma from a 2017 abusive relationship. Process: A subsequent breathwork session triggered an intense physical release (shaking, crying), finally processing the trauma. Significance: This experience provided direct insight into how trauma manifests physically and how breathwork can release it, making her a more empathetic practitioner. The Practice: Mind-Body Integration Kelsey integrates mind-body principles into her IHP practice, explaining the trauma connection to physical ailments. She respects client readiness, offering resources without pressure. Example: A client resistant to therapy eventually sought help for self-sabotage, demonstrating the importance of planting seeds. Philosophy: Healing is a lifelong journey of consistent "baby steps," not a single destination. The Future: Expansion & Purpose Kelsey's healing has opened new doors: Iboga Facilitation: Invited to facilitate Iboga ceremonies in Colombia after initiation into the Bwiti tribe in Gabon this year. Book Writing: Joined a mentorship program, overcoming a past belief that she couldn't write due to nervous system dysregulation. Breathwork Retreats: Planning future retreats combining healing, travel, and fun. Core Principle: "Lead with love," finding gratitude in past challenges to fuel her purpose. About the Guest: Kelsey Beaumaster is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Somatic Breathwork Practitioner, yoga instructor, personal trainer, and founder of Better You Health Coaching. After spending years navigating her own healing journey, including overcoming trauma, rebuilding her health, and discovering the power of mind-body healing, Kelsey made it her mission to help others reclaim their health and transform their lives. Drawing from her background in fitness, yoga, integrative health, nutrition, and nervous system regulation, Kelsey helps clients uncover the root causes of symptoms that traditional approaches often overlook. Through advanced functional medicine testing, personalized wellness protocols, lifestyle coaching, and trauma-informed healing practices, she empowers individuals to restore balance in their bodies and reconnect with their authentic selves. Kelsey is especially passionate about helping people understand the connection between emotional health, unresolved trauma, and physical wellness. Having experienced firsthand the profound impact of inner healing, she believes true transformation occurs when we address both the body and the mind. Beyond her work with clients, Kelsey is an endurance athlete and adventurer who has summited Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Shasta, placed in international marathon events, and continually challenges herself through endurance pursuits that reflect the resilience she encourages in others. On podcasts, Kelsey speaks openly about healing trauma, overcoming limiting beliefs, integrative health, nervous system regulation, personal transformation, and the practices that help people move from merely surviving to truly thriving. Contact: website: www.betteryouhealthcoaching.com Email: [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/kelsey.beaumaster https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553149313143 IG: @kelsey_beaumaster About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you! Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world.Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler. Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/yourguidedhealthjourney Thanks for listening! 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