{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"How Sexual Trauma Shows Up in Your Body (Falyn Morningstar)","description":"At 26, Falyn Morningstar was bloated, exhausted, losing her hair, and couldn't get a decent night's sleep no matter how many hours she logged. She went to her family physician. She went to her gynecologist. Both ran a basic blood panel, told her "you look good," and sent her home. Her labs were fine. She was not fine. That gap between "your numbers look normal" and "I feel awful" is where this whole conversation lives, and it's exactly the gap Falyn now spends her career closing as a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) practitioner. What made Falyn's story worth chasing down is where the trail led. Deeper testing (blood, saliva, stool) started connecting her physical symptoms to a pattern of emotional eating, and eventually to a childhood sexual trauma she had no conscious memory of until an image surfaced while reading a book years later. We talk about how a functional diagnostic nutrition test actually works, the three different reasons people emotionally eat, and somatic experiencing, the practice Falyn credits most for teaching her body it's safe now, decades after it decided it wasn't. If you've ever been told your labs are fine while you feel anything but, or you've never quite been able to explain why food, sleep, or your own body feels like a battleground, this one's for you. Watch this episode on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iab9Li3wkNQ In this episode Why "your labs are fine" doesn't mean you're fine, and what Falyn's doctors missed at 26 How functional diagnostic nutrition testing connects gut health, hormones, and mental health The three reasons behind emotional eating, and how to spot which one is driving yours How childhood sexual trauma can resurface decades later as insomnia, hair loss, and fatigue What somatic experiencing is, and how it teaches your body to feel safe again Why healing symptoms first can create the capacity to finally face the trauma underneath them Timestamps (00:02) Welcome and intro: meet FDN practitioner Falyn Morningstar (02:10) The physical symptoms that started piling up at 26 (04:05) Why her doctors said her labs were "fine" while she felt anything but (08:18) How emotional eating shows up, and the three reasons behind it (13:57) What a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition test actually reveals (20:25) Tracing physical symptoms back to childhood sexual trauma (26:15) Somatic experiencing: learning to sit with your emotions instead of numbing them (31:53) Where to find Falyn and how to book a free call About Falyn Morningstar Falyn Morningstar is a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) practitioner who traced her own digestive discomfort, insomnia, fatigue, and hair loss back to missing pieces rooted in sexual trauma and emotional shutdown. She now guides curious, driven, health-minded women from feeling fatigued and disconnected to feeling vital, connected, and emotionally whole. Reach her at discover@falynmorningstar.com, or book a free call through her Calendly. Favorite quotes "It's completely common and you're never alone when things like that happen." \u2014Falyn Morningstar "We need to get to know our nervous system... when we can get in touch with our body, we can get in touch with our nervous system, we can learn to reparent ourself and sit with those emotions." \u2014Falyn Morningstar "I'm grateful for those experiences, because it made me who I am today, and it's allowing me to help other people as well." \u2014Falyn Morningstar Resources mentioned discover@falynmorningstar.com: email Falyn directly Falyn's Calendly: book a free call The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, referenced by Dana on the trauma-in-the-body connection Related episodes The Role of MDMA in Treating PTSD: more on emerging approaches to healing trauma the body has held onto for years. From Abuse to Healing: A Journey of Strength: another guest's path from abuse to a fuller life. How Unresolved Trauma Is Ruling Your Life: for more on exactly what Falyn describes: trauma resurfacing decades after the fact. Subscribe & connect If this episode gave you something to sit with, follow Phoenix and Flame so you never miss an episode: all apps in one place, or jump straight to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or YouTube. And if it moved you, leave a review; it's the easiest way to help another listener find the show. Learn more about Phoenix and Flame, connect with Dana, and listen to more episodes here. Curious where your own boundaries stand? Take my free Work Boundaries Quiz: danaskaggs.com\/quiz ","author_name":"Phoenix and Flame Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/phoenixandflame.com","html":"