Over the past couple of years, many people have been experiencing something unexpected.
Memories from childhood surfacing out of nowhere.Emotional waves that feel disconnected from the present moment.Body sensations, images or feelings that arrive without a clear story.
If this has been happening to you, it’s important to know this first:
You are not alone. And nothing is wrong with you.
This experience is being reported across neuroscience, trauma therapy, somatic practice and spiritual communities worldwide. While it fe
els deeply personal, it is also part of a much larger pattern unfolding at this time.
The Science Lens
From a scientific perspective, memory resurfacing is not random, and it is not a sign of deterioration.
Bessel van der Kolk’s work shows that trauma is not stored as a coherent story, but as sensation, emotion and physiological response. During overwhelm, the brain areas responsible for language, time sequencing and narrative meaning reduce activity, while the survival brain and body-based memory systems remain highly active.
What matters is why this material is surfacing now.
For some people, memories rise because regulation and capacity have increased enough for integration to occur.For many others, they rise because the nervous system is no longer able to maintain the same level of suppression it once could.
Prolonged stress, global instability, cognitive overload and ongoing uncertainty place enormous demand on the nervous system. Over time, the strategies that once kept traumatic material contained require more energy than the system can sustainably provide.
When containment fatigues, what was held down begins to surface.
This is not the body failing. It is the nervous system reaching the limit of what it can suppress.
Importantly:
The body does not release trauma because it wants to relive it.It releases trauma because holding it has become more costly than feeling it.
From this lens, what people are experiencing is not a breakdown of memory, but a forced reorganisation of the nervous system under pressure.
The Somatic Lens
From a somatic perspective, resurfacing memories are less about remembering events and more about remembering states.
States of fear without escape.States of anger without expression.States of grief without support.
Somatic Experiencing teaches that when survival responses are interrupted in childhood, the body holds them in suspension. They are not stored as stories, but as unfinished physiological responses waiting for completion.
When the nervous system is under sustained stress, or when suppression can no longer be maintained, these incomplete responses begin to surface through sensation, emotion or impulse.
Somatic work does not seek to relive the past or analyse it.
Instead, it focuses on:
Tracking sensation in the present moment
Moving in small, manageable pieces
Supporting the nervous system to settle and reorganise
Allowing activation to rise and fall without overwhelm
From this lens, resurfacing material is not something to chase. It is something to meet gently, slowly and with support.
The Spiritual Lens
Spiritually, many traditions describe this time as a period of accelerated awakening or rising consciousness.
Rather than transcendence, teachers like Guru Jagat spoke about awakening as pressure. As more energy moves through the system, anything unresolved, suppressed or misaligned comes into contact with that energy.
From this perspective, trauma surfaces because it cannot remain unconscious in a higher field of awareness.
Paul Chek’s work grounds this by emphasising that spiritual development must move through the body, the breath and the nervous system. Without embodiment, increased awareness becomes destabilising rather than liberating.
The shared message is clear:
The body is not in the way of awakening.The body is the gateway.
How these lenses meet
Science explains why memory and trauma surface under sustained pressure.Somatic work shows how to meet the process safely.Spiritual wisdom explains why this moment feels collective and accelerated.
Together, they tell a coherent story:
You are not imagining this. You are not alone in it.Your system is not broken.
Something intelligent is reorganising.
If this is resonating
If memories, emotions or sensations are resurfacing for you, this is not a sign to push harder or go searching for answers.
It is an invitation to slow down and create safety in the body.
Somatic work offers a way to meet this process without reliving the past or becoming overwhelmed. It supports the nervous system to settle, integrate and regain coherence so that what is surfacing can complete and move through.
At The Energy Studio, this work is approached gently, intelligently and at the pace your nervous system sets. The focus is not on fixing you, but on supporting your body’s innate capacity to reorganise, integrate and heal.
There are different pathways depending on what your system is calling for.
One-on-one somatic healing offers personalised support for meeting resurfacing material with safety, regulation and attuned guidance. This is where the nervous system is supported to settle, complete and stabilise.
Retreats create a more immersive environment for those feeling ready for a deeper energetic shift. In these containers, the work moves beyond stabilisation into expansion, coherence and what many experience as a significant upgrade in capacity and awareness.
Group work through The Conscious Leader offers an integrated pathway for those wanting to understand and embody this process in everyday life, leadership and relationships. Here, somatic awareness, consciousness and real-world application come together within a supportive collective field
Each pathway meets a different layer of the same intelligence moving through the system.
There is no right pace and no single entry point. Only what feels aligned for you right now.