# What Trauma and Emotional Suppression Are Doing to Your Brain

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Podcast: [Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik](https://stenobird.com/podcast/kwik-brain-with-jim-kwik-55386)
Published: 2026-06-01T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Most people think brain performance starts in the brain. But what if one of the biggest blocks to focus, clarity, healing, and emotional freedom is actually stored in your body? In this episode of the Kwik Brain podcast , I sit down with Garry Lineham, cofounder of Human Garage, and Alexis Banc, co-founder and CEO of Kwik Brain, to explore the powerful connection between fascia, stored stress, emotional release, and brain performance. Garry shares how years of chronic pain, trauma, and dependency on outside treatments pushed him to find a radically different path, one centered on self-healing and teaching people how to care for their own bodies. We talk about why emotions can live in the body, how physical restrictions may create cognitive load, and why your brain may be using more energy than necessary just to compensate for misalignment, pain, and stored survival patterns. Garry also explains how releasing stress through the body can unlock more mental clarity, more energy, and greater emotional freedom. This conversation goes deep into something most people never think about. That your body may be holding onto more than tension. It may be holding old stress. Old pain. Old survival responses. And your brain may be working overtime to manage all of it. In this episode, you’ll learn: ☑️ Why Garry believes emotions are stored in the body ☑️ How fascia may affect stress, memory, perception, and brain performance ☑️ Why chronic physical compensation can drain cognitive energy ☑️ How survival mode may keep you stuck physically, mentally, and emotionally ☑️ Why self-care is about more than supplements, routines, or external fixes ☑️ How releasing physical tension may create more mental bandwidth ☑️ Why the body may need to feel safe before the brain can fully let go ☑️ A si…

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