On Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty speaks with Michael Stone—trauma integration facilitator, spiritual mentor, and author of Traumatized: A Love Story. We unpack trauma as evolutionary intelligence rather than pathology, explore body-based healing over talk-only approaches, and get practical steps: presencing → witnessing → embracing. Michael explains how ancestral and collective burdens, scarcity, and the illusion of a “separate self” shape our nervous systems—and how meditation, contemplation, and prayer rebuild capacity, regulation, and presence. Clear, direct takeaways for listeners seeking grounded tools to integrate trauma and expand creativity, authenticity, and connection.

About the guest  :

Michael Stone is a trauma integration facilitator, spiritual mentor, organizational consultant, and long-time podcast/radio host and faculty member with decades of teaching and circle work. His book, Traumatized: A Love Story, reframes trauma as a call to wholeness embedded in the nervous system.

Key takeaways:

This episode includes non-graphic discussion of suicide, childhood abuse, sexual violence, murder, grief, and trauma. Listener discretion advised. If you or someone you know is in crisis, seek immediate help from local emergency services. Support resources: India: Kiran Mental Health Helpline 1800-599-0019. USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call/text 988) and chat via 988lifeline.org. UK: Samaritans 116 123. Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14. For other regions, see Befrienders Worldwide or your national crisis line.

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  Trauma isn’t the event; it’s what happened in us—stored as tension, numbness, and fragmentation in the body.

  
  


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  Body-first healing: traditional talk-only methods miss somatic wounds; awareness in the body enables integration.

  
  


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  See trauma as evolutionary intelligence—a protective adaptation that once kept us safe and now asks for attention.

  
  


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  Stop trying to “get rid of” feelings; turn toward them. Suppression increases the nervous system’s protection response.

  
  


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  A workable arc: Presencing (ground, soften, slow), Witnessing (feel sensations/emotions with finer resolution), Embracing (say yes to what is) → integration.

  
  


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  Co-regulation precedes self-regulation: healing in circles/relationships repairs what was wounded in relationship.

  
  


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  Address ancestral, familial, and collective layers; many burdens are inherited “legacy burdens.”

  
  


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  Trauma fuels the illusion of separate self and scarcity; expanding inner space restores creativity, intuition, and authenticity.

  
  


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  Language creates reality: speak from presence, not “aftertime” patterns.

  
  


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  Practical starter: Soften → slow down → feel your body whenever you’re triggered; build capacity before strategy.

  
  

Connect with the guest  

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  Book: Traumatized: A Love Story

  
  


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  Website & programs: https://www.welloflight.com/

  
  


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  Circle work and consults: contact via website

  
  

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