Have you ever wondered why punishment and crisis response alone fail to keep children safe?

In this episode of The Sensitivity Doctor, Dr. Amelia Kelley is joined by Scarlett Lewis, the mother of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. Scarlett shares how the message her son left behind, “nurturing, healing, love,” became the foundation of a global trauma-informed movement focused on prevention, nervous system regulation, and relational healing.

Grounded in neuroscience and lived experience, this conversation explores how invisibility, hopelessness, and chronic nervous system threat contribute to violence and distress, and how trauma-informed education can support sensitive and neurodivergent children before crisis occurs.

Key takeaways:

• Trauma-informed education helps prevent violence by addressing nervous system dysregulation early.
• Feeling unseen or unsafe at school increases risk for emotional distress and aggression.
• Nervous system regulation skills reduce bullying, reactivity, and chronic stress in children.
• Post-traumatic growth shows healing is possible after profound loss.
• School safety improves when prevention focuses on belonging, not punishment.

Links and Resources:

• Choose Love Movement: https://chooselovemovement.org
• How We Can Finally Stop School Tragedies: A Critical Conversation with Mark Hulsewé

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Have you ever felt disconnected from life, emotionally exhausted, or like you don’t quite belong anywhere? In this episode of The Sensitivity Doctor, Dr. Amelia Kelley is joined by Gina Cavalier to explore how trauma, chronic isolation, and prolonged survival mode impact the nervous system, physical health, and emotional regulation, sometimes contributing to suicidal ideation.

Blending neuroscience, lived experience, and embodied healing, this conversation offers grounding and hope for highly sensitive and neurodivergent listeners who feel worn down by life. The episode closes with a gentle colour-based meditation designed to support nervous system regulation, restore energy, and reconnect you to a felt sense of safety and belonging.

Content note: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation. While some themes are heavy, the focus is on healing, support, and hope.

Key takeaways:

• Belonging is a biological nervous system need, and prolonged disconnection signals threat rather than personal failure.
• Suicidal ideation often emerges from chronic survival stress and thwarted belonging, not weakness or impulsivity.
• Trauma healing requires regulating the nervous system through embodied and relational safety, not insight alone.
• High sensitivity and neurodiversity can intensify the effects of relational trauma, especially when emotional needs are repeatedly dismissed.
• With safety, connection, and compassionate support, it is possible to move from survival mode into a life that feels meaningful and alive.

Connect with Gina Cavalier

• Website: https://ginacavalier.com
• Instagram: @gina_cavalier
• Book: Planet Walking: A Handbook for the Living

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In this powerful episode of The Sensitivity Doctor, Dr. Amelia Kelley sits down with Terry Tateossian to explore how early trauma, immigration stress, and chronic survival mode can shape women’s hormonal health, emotional regulation, and midlife well-being. Terry shares her deeply personal story of escaping a communist country, navigating puberty in a refugee camp, and later reclaiming her body through mindful movement, nutrition, and self-compassion, offering hope and practical insight for anyone healing from trauma across the lifespan.

Key takeaways:

• A trauma therapist’s lens helps explain how early survival stress can disrupt hormonal development and long-term nervous system regulation.
• Gaslighting recovery begins when women learn to trust their bodies instead of dismissing emotional or physical symptoms.
• Working with an HSP therapist can support sensitive nervous systems overwhelmed by chronic stress and hormonal shifts.
• An ADHD therapist for adults can help distinguish natural energy and curiosity from trauma-driven overworking patterns.
• Somatic therapy for trauma reconnects the body and emotions, allowing healing beyond willpower or logic.

Connect with Terry Tateossian

• Website: thehouseofrose.com
• Instagram @how.good.can.it.get
• Midlife Bestie: YouTube | TikTok

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