The Body as Portal: Trauma, Memory, and Multidimensional Healing
Inspired by the “Awakening Your Multidimensional Self” conversation with Victoria Hart and Janet Doerr
Trauma. It’s a loaded word, one that hasn’t been easily understood until relatively recently. When I was growing up, trauma was understood as car crashes, homicides, scenes out of Law & Order SVU—drama, gore, the big stuff. Not the quiet dissonance within polished homes. Not the invisible weight of being misunderstood. Not the way a child’s tears are silenced with a well-meaning shush.
It was only when I began my own self-healing journey that my understanding of trauma cracked open. Through the works of Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté, I began to see the invisible ways trauma is carried—death by a hundred paper cuts, not a single, almighty blow. I learned how deeply traumatised most of us are, even those who grew up in the best of homes.
This knowledge becomes a heavier weight when you decide to start a family. Nobody intends to traumatize their children. But when you’re knee-deep in your own healing, the realization hits: it takes so little to wound. A lack of attunement. Punitive discipline. Even calling a child “bad” can carve out damage that echoes for decades.
It’s a thread rarely followed, not just by me, but by many—too easily tangled in the delicate web of interpretation, where reflection can be mistaken for blame. But this week, it has moved to the front of my awareness again thanks to the latest instalment of Awakening Your Multidimensional Self, a powerful series created and hosted by Victoria Hart, Mastery Coach, Intuitive Healer, and New Earth Guide.
In this instalment, Victoria sat down with Janet Doerr, Medical Intuitive, Master Energy Healer, and Soul Guide with years of experience supporting deep energetic and emotional transformation. Janet helps clients heal not just in body or mind, but across timelines and dimensions. She brings forward her work with the “Company of Heaven,” and speaks with clarity and grounded compassion about how trauma is not just psychological—it is energetic, cellular, soul-deep.
“Your body,” she said early in the conversation, “is a multidimensional portal. A sacred instrument.” And with that, the conversation left the familiar terrain of inner child healing and early-life experiences. Janet led us into the territory of etheric records, galactic heritages, and soul imprints—language that once might have made me skeptical, if not for my own recent experiences.
She spoke about how trauma from other lifetimes can imprint into this one, especially in moments when the body is vulnerable or triggered. As she shared a personal story—accidentally slamming a door on her own finger, then suddenly remembering a past life in which her finger had been cut off—I found myself nodding. It sounds wild, yes. But I know what she means.
Last year, on the sacred land at Clophill—where the earth hums with something ancient—I found myself in a past life regression workshop. It wasn’t something I had ever done before and I was skeptical. I’d been on plenty of shamanic journeys and meditations before alone and in group settings—meeting power animals, seeing symbols—and while meaningful, I often chalked it up to my own imagination. Tigers, panthers, wings. Archetypes I admired, not messages from beyond.
But this time was different. A hypnotherapist led us through a guided induction, deep into the subconscious. I felt my eyes fluttering behind their lids, involuntarily. Then, after a series of winding hallways, staircases and doors, a vision: a tree, and at its base, a newborn baby bundled in blankets.
I knew in my bones that she—that I—had been left there intentionally, centuries ago, as an offering to the forest spirits. The parents believed they were doing the right thing. Superstitious. God-fearing.
But it was abandonment. Pure and simple.
Whether or not you believe in such visions, I think we can agree: there’s something deeper running through us—something ancient and inherited. The core feminine wound. The memory of being sidelined, silenced, subjugated. Burned at the stake. Cast out for knowing too much, feeling too deeply, speaking too boldly. You don’t need a past life to feel it. It lives in the body. The echo of centuries spent paying the price for Eve’s so-called sins. The trauma that pulses through bloodlines, passed from mother to daughter like an unspoken prayer for survival.
When I came back to waking consciousness, I was crying. The image stayed with me. The feeling of being left behind, of needing to be chosen, validated, carried through. It echoed my own patterns, the push to prove my worth, the terror of rejection. I didn’t know what to do with the vision then. But hearing Janet explain that our etheric body carries these imprints—that trauma from any lifetime can sit lodged in the tissues, waiting to be seen and cleared—brought a kind of clarity.
“If you want to release something,” Janet said, “go where the energy is stuck in the body. That’s where the information is. That’s where the original decision got made.”
She talks about decisions made under duress—I’m not safe, It’s not okay to be seen, I must go it alone—and how they become programs, looping across lifetimes. And how when we do deep healing work, we’re not just shifting this moment. We’re rewriting the script from the source.
That lands. That makes sense to me, even if I can’t explain it with logic.
We live in a culture obsessed with linearity, proof, evidence. But some things are felt in the body before they’re ever understood by the mind. Trauma is like that. Healing is too.
So if you’ve ever had an unexplainable fear, a repeating pattern, a pain with no medical cause—maybe it’s not random. Maybe it’s the whisper of another time, another self, asking to be remembered. You don’t have to believe in past lives to recognize that the body stores what the mind can’t explain.
And for those of us walking in female bodies—there’s a particular kind of remembering. A wound older than this life. We carry the echoes of exile, of being silenced, shamed, dismissed. Centuries of second-class status. The grief of being blamed for the fall of Eden. It lives in our bones, our wombs, our voices. And perhaps, when we listen closely, it’s not just personal pain we’re healing—but an ancestral one.
Maybe, just maybe, your body knows exactly how to lead you home.
The full conversation between Victoria and Janet is available to watch on Youtube.
And if you feel called to join future live conversations, where you can ask your own questions and take part in the energy of real-time connection, you can register below.
This is such important work and you write about it beautifully. And I love Gabor Mate.