What if your body isn’t failing you… but protecting you?

In this episode, Adele, Sam are joined by Dr. Karen Baikie as they unpack the science of metabolomics - the study of your body’s real-time chemistry - and how it reveals why so many people with trauma, chronic illness, or burnout can’t heal.

Dr Karen Baikie (PhD, MClinPsych, MAPS, FCCLP, CHT, SEP) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 25 years experience working with individuals and couples, and providing supervision, in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Karen is the Director and Founder of Grow Mindfully: Centre for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health, a group practice of like-minded therapists working with mindful, somatic, compassion-based and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. Karen is a Certified Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team, Lead Trainer on the Sydney Comprehensive Training, Organiser for Hakomi trainings in Sydney, and co-facilitator in the Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationships Training (H.E.A.R.T.). She runs workshops on aspects of Hakomi and H.E.A.R.T. throughout Australia. Karen holds a PhD in psychology on the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of trauma. She has worked extensively with adult survivors of child abuse and is also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and Somatic Experiencing. Karen supports people with difficulties in the areas of attachment, trauma, childhood abuse, emotional health, relationships, parenting, fertility, eating, and gut health. She is passionate about assisting individuals, couples and other therapists in using mindfulness-based approaches to support healing as well as deepening awareness and connection with themselves and others.

We explore:
⚡ The Cell Danger Response (CDR) - your mitochondria’s survival program that gets stuck in “war mode”
🧬 How trauma, toxins, infections, and even psychological stress hijack your biology
🧠 Why mental health issues like anxiety, PTSD, and depression leave measurable chemical footprints
🌱 The new model of metabolomics and salugenesis which is healing through restoring safety, connection, and cellular cooperation
💡 Why somatic therapy, rest, and nervous system regulation aren’t “nice extras” - they’re biologically essential for recovery

This is a move from pure psychology, linking to trauma and providing a roadmap to move from survival → healing.

🎧 Tune in and discover why you’re not broken — your cells just think you’re still in danger.

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