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December 10, 2025
Listen in now as our guest, Melissa Grabau, PhD, teaches you how to heal from the inside out with a new understanding of Western mental health diagnoses, trauma, and addiction that connects them to the first three chakras. What do the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras have to do with healing from trauma? Everything. In her book, The Root of Trauma: Resolving Pain & Addiction Through the Lower Chakras, Melissa explores a new way to address the damage trauma does to the mind and spirit by resolving the ways it impacts the body.
Childhood trauma creates imbalances in the three lower chakras, blocking the higher chakras and stunting an individual's development. Melissa explains how each chakra is matched with Western psychology diagnoses and then offers client stories that help you understand how to heal it. As the lower chakras heal, energy naturally moves upward into the higher chakras, allowing you to blossom and find new possibilities in your life.
Melissa Grabau, PhD, (Roseville, CA) received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University in 1998. She became licensed as a psychologist in California in 2001 and has been in private practice since 2003. More recently, she has broadened her existential/humanistic background in psychology to incorporate her long-standing interest in yoga and Eastern psychology. She is a certified yoga teacher and currently integrates mind-body techniques in her work with clients. For more, visit https://melissagrabau.com.
