Unlocking Your Season of Sovereignty: How Healing Your Nervous System Can Transform Menopause

Unlocking Your Season of Sovereignty: How Healing Your Nervous System Can Transform Menopause

Welcome to your Season of Sovereignty. This is the time in a woman’s life, usually in her 40s and 50s, that is meant to be an era of reclaiming power, wisdom, and authenticity. It is a transition where we stop living for everyone else and start living for ourselves.

However, for many women, this gateway is guarded by intense physical and emotional turbulence. You might find yourself asking why your menopause symptoms seem so much more severe than your peers. Why is the anxiety so crippling? Why is the fatigue so heavy?

The answer often lies not just in your hormones, but in your history.

If you experienced trauma in your early childhood, teenage years, or young adulthood, your nervous system may have adapted to survive. While those adaptations kept you safe then, they can complicate the hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause now. Understanding this connection is the first step toward true healing and relief.

The Nervous System: The Body’s Alarm System
To understand why menopause hits harder for trauma survivors, we have to look at the nervous system. When we experience trauma, especially repetitive trauma in childhood, our nervous system can get "stuck" in a survival state. This is often referred to as dysregulation.

 
Fight or Flight: This is the sympathetic state. You feel hyper-vigilant, anxious, irritable, or ready to run.
Freeze: This is the dorsal vagal state. You feel numb, disconnected, fatigued, or stuck in a fog.
Fawn: You prioritize pleasing others to stay safe, often abandoning your own needs.

 
For decades, your hormones (specifically estrogen and progesterone) may have acted as a buffer, masking how dysregulated your nervous system truly was. Progesterone, in particular, has a calming effect on the brain.

When the Buffer Dissolves
As we enter perimenopause, progesterone is the first hormone to drop. As that calming buffer fades, the "raw wires" of your nervous system are exposed.

 
If your baseline state is already high stress due to unresolved trauma, the hormonal fluctuations act like an amplifier. Here is how that shows up in your symptoms:

1. The Cortisol Connection and Hot Flashes
Trauma survivors often have chronically elevated cortisol (the stress hormone). When you are stuck in "fight or flight," your body is flooded with adrenaline and cortisol. During menopause, the body is already under stress as it recalibrates. If your stress bucket is already full from a dysregulated nervous system, even a small trigger can cause it to overflow. Research suggests a strong link between high stress and the severity of hot flashes. An adrenaline spike can mimic or trigger a hot flash, making them more frequent and intense.

 2. The "Freeze" Response and Brain Fog
If your trauma response tends toward "freeze," you might find that menopause brain fog feels paralyzing. It is not just forgetfulness. It can feel like a total dissociation or checking out. This is the body’s way of saying it is overwhelmed and needs to shut down to conserve energy. This can lead to profound fatigue that sleep does not seem to fix.

3. Emotional Volatility and Rage
There is a specific kind of "menopause rage" that many women speak of in hushed tones. For women with a history of trauma, this rage is often the result of years of suppressed emotions finally bubbling to the surface. The "fawn" response (people-pleasing) often breaks down in the Season of Sovereignty. You physically and energetically cannot suppress your truth anymore, leading to sudden, intense outbursts as boundaries are finally set.

Pathways to Healing: Rewiring with Energy and Intention
The intensity of your symptoms is a call to tend to the wounded parts of your younger self. The good news is that because the veil is thin right now, the potential for healing is massive. You can rewire your nervous system using tools that speak directly to the body and energy field.

The Power of EFT (Tapping)
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is one of the most effective tools for this specific phase of life. Because trauma is stored in the body, "thinking" your way out of it often does not work.

 EFT works by tapping on specific meridian points while acknowledging your feelings. This sends a calming signal directly to the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for the fight-or-flight response. When you are in the middle of a hot flash or a rage spike, Tapping can interrupt the stress loop. It lowers cortisol levels rapidly, telling your body, "I am safe right now." It bridges the gap between your physical symptoms and your emotional history.

 Clearing the Blockages with Energy Work
When we hold onto old trauma, it creates energetic density or blockages in the body. In your Season of Sovereignty, your vibration is naturally trying to rise. This creates friction against those old, dense energies, which manifests as physical symptoms.

Energy work helps to gently move and release these stuck emotions without you having to relive the traumatic events verbally. It clears the stagnant energy from your chakras and meridians, allowing your life force to flow freely again. This can significantly reduce the physical intensity of menopause symptoms, as the body no longer needs to shout so loud to get your attention.

 Somatic Awareness
Trauma lives in the tissues. Somatic practices allow you to release stored adrenaline and emotion physically. This could be gentle swaying, shaking the body, or breathwork that focuses on long exhales to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system.

 Your Power Returns
If you are navigating this difficult path, know that you are not broken. You are a survivor who is currently upgrading her operating system.

By addressing the nervous system through EFT, energy work, and self-compassion, you can lower the volume on your symptoms. You can move from a state of constant survival into true sovereignty. This is your time to heal, to rest, and to finally feel at home in your own body.

How Stone & Bloom Wellness Can Support Your Journey
At Stone & Bloom Wellness, we hold a sacred space for women stepping into their Season of Sovereignty. We understand that this transition is not just medical; it is energetic, emotional, and deeply personal. We know that trying to heal a dysregulated nervous system alone can feel overwhelming, which is why we offer a safe container for you to land.

We specialize in guiding you out of survival mode and back into your body through:

EFT (Tapping) Sessions

We use Emotional Freedom Techniques to help you access the root of your fight, flight, or freeze responses. Together, we can gently lower cortisol levels, reduce the intensity of hot flashes, and clear the emotional charge behind the "menopause rage." We teach you how to use this tool so you have a lifeline right at your fingertips whenever you feel the wave of anxiety rising.

Energy Work & Balancing

Our energy work sessions are designed to clear the dense, stagnant energy that has built up over decades. We work to align your chakras and smooth your energetic field, allowing your body to navigate hormonal shifts with more grace and less resistance. It is about removing the energetic debris of the past so you can step fully into your power now.

You do not have to navigate this season alone. Let us assist you soothe your nervous system so you can stop fighting your body and start enjoying your sovereignty.

Much Love Candi & Nicole