The Root of Trauma: Resolving Pain & Addiction Through the Lower Chakras

📘 Book Overview:
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The Root of Trauma Resolving Pain & Addiction Through the Lower Chakras
By: Melissa Grabau
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In this video, I explore The Root of Trauma: Resolving Pain & Addiction Through the Lower Chakras by clinical psychologist and yoga teacher Melissa Grabau, PhD — a powerful and compassionate book that bridges modern psychology with chakra-based healing.

Grabau explains how childhood trauma — whether Big T (abuse, neglect, violence) or Little t (emotional invalidation, chronic stress, being unseen) — shapes the nervous system, our emotional world, and even our addictions. Through moving client stories and grounded clinical insight, the book shows how trauma becomes stored in the lower three chakras:
the Root (safety), Sacral (emotion), and Solar Plexus (identity) — and how healing must begin there before true growth can occur.

This book offers a deeply embodied way of understanding:

Why we feel unsafe even when life is “okay”
Why anxiety, addiction, and burnout are not moral failures but nervous-system responses
How emotional healing requires working through the body, not just the mind
Why self-soothing behaviors (food, work, substances, control) develop — and how to release them

Melissa Grabau draws from 30 years of clinical practice and her own life to show how trauma, addiction, and emotional patterns are rooted in early experiences — and how they can be gently transformed through awareness, somatic practices, and self-compassion.

If you’re interested in:
trauma recovery
nervous system healing
chakra psychology
addiction and emotional patterns
or deeper self-understanding
this book offers a grounded, hopeful, and practical path forward.