We are a nurturing community dedicated to empowering people self-heal from conditions frequently deemed “incurable.” By mastering nervous system regulation and somatic healing, we unlock the door to profound wellness transformations. Join us in rediscovering your innate healing potential.
To empower people worldwide to embody inherent safety and self-regulation, discover the True Self, repattern family and societal trauma adaptive behaviors, and to be able to experience one’s primal trust in life itself.
Spread the principles of nervous system regulation and trauma healing throughout the world bringing more self-regulation and Coregulation to the planet. Create an evidence - based model of assisting with chronic illness prevention and recovery by focusing on nervous system and trauma healing practices as a cornerstone for treatment protocols for chronic physical, mental, and emotional health issues.
Requires tolerating being uncomfortable, even when we feel fear; empowering ourselves to show up with integrity, authenticity and even finding safety in our innate essence rather than by how we feel.
Taking ownership for both our success and our faults, knowing we learn from everything. Being accountable for our words and actions. Being resourceful and proactive in finding ways to solve problems and complete tasks using what you have.
Having regard for others and what they bring to the group and/or organization; showing respect for others’ boundaries; respecting decisions; Allowing others to feel the way they feel even if you disagree. Having gratitude for where you are; and treating others as you would wish tobe treated, showing humility.
Consciously choosing to expand one’s awareness of self, other, and the essence of life itself while compassionately allowing the body organism to reorient and evolve physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually throughout the process of change and transformation. Ultimately seeking one’s True Self expression and connection with love.
We are here to serve others; we are here to serve the world with a heart of compassion.
I’m an expert on chronic illness, chronic trauma, relationship/attachment repair, and inner child healing. I’ve got the rare combination of in-depth doctoral-level education and training as a holistic, somatic physical therapist, and many years of coaching others in wellness and lifestyle education.
And, I have been through my own heroine’s journey of spending nearly 2 decades of my life navigating through deep, debilitating illness and finally found my way out!
- Dr. Cathleen King, DPT
Embarking from a point of personal health adversity, this timeline charts the evolution from initial inspiration to the present day, where we’ve empowered over 10,000 members to self-heal. It’s a journey of discovery, uncovering the foundational causes of enduring chronic illness and guiding thousands toward transformation.
2003
Founder Cathleen King, DPT graduated with a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree specializing in chronic pain and orthopedic issues, studied somatic therapies such as Feldenkrais, Hanna somatics, John Sarno’s methods, Ola Grisby Institute, etc.
She practiced clinically for several years as a chronic pain-orthopedic manual physical therapist in Portland Oregon.
This prepared her for later taking a somatic-focused, brain-body approach to heal her own chronic illness later on.
2003
Cathleen began experiencing chronic “mystery illness” symptoms, anxiety, and insomnia patterns which all began after foreign travel and parasite/mold exposure.
Cathleen began trying to find answers, sought out healing techniques for mind-body symptoms, and explored multiple trauma healing therapies trying to restore her health while working as a physical therapist. She started having childhood trauma memories resurface affecting her daily quality of life.
2008
Cathleen’s chronic mental and physical symptoms became so overbearing she could no longer work as a physical therapist as it was too taxing and she was now experiencing serious chronic fatigue and neurological symptoms.
2008 - 2017
Cathleen saw over 30 practitioners and spent every cent they had trying to find the root cause of chronic debilitating symptoms and trauma patterns.
She piled up diagnoses ranging from CPTSD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease and multiple co-infections, Mold Toxicity, POTS, Thyroid issues, Insomnia, Anxiety/Panic Disorder, Digestive Issues/Parasite Infections, Chronic Viral Infections, Adrenal Fatigue/Hormone Imbalances, MCAS and more. She was unable to work and hardly able to perform simple household tasks or care for her young children.
2017
Cathleen’s dark night of the soul caused her to give up on believing a practitioner could help her as she was intolerant to most treatments and hypersensitive to foods, supplements, and even energetic medicine. This surrendering phase caused her to look inward at what else could she do on her own to shift her own biology.
She had the epiphany that optimizing brain function is the most direct way to regulate the immune and detoxification response and that she could self-heal, just like her patients used to with chronic pain. She began using her background of brain-based functional neurology-type practices she used as a physical therapist and had the first signs of significant symptom changes. She then started to get more training in brain-based approaches such as Psych-K facilitator,
took courses on memory reconsolidation practices, breathwork, multiple self-directed neuroplasticity programs, and advanced her Hanna somatics training.
Realizing now that the brain and nervous system had a much bigger impact on chronic infection and toxicity issues, she extrapolated the common principles she found amongst different practices and created her first version of the now popular “ABC Dimensional Shift© brain retraining process” and combined it with bottom-up practices. She began to self-heal!
Cathleen began coaching others individually with unresolved chronic symptoms on how to retrain their brain and nervous system to self-regulate.
Further insight and wisdom on self-healing was gained by working 1:1 with dozens of clients that year, discovering what worked, and what didn’t and she used that data to begin to formulate her own brain-body neural program.
Cathleen was a pioneer in the brain-body field by launching the first top-down brain retraining + bottom-up somatic and vagus nerve healing program titled “Creating Calm”.
She took over 1000 people through that program and learned more about proper sequencing of tools and discovered a missing component, which was the need for trauma processing/parts work to help people resolve deep wounding driving their chronic symptoms/stress response.
2020
Launched the first level 2 Primal Trust™ Mentorship pilot program to incorporate trauma healing practices into her neuroplasticity work.
Now gathering even more data on the effectiveness of combining trauma healing practices and true self discovery work with traditional brain retraining and nervous system regulation practices. The results were phenomenal and led to the birth of the Primal Trust™ Community!
2021
The Primal Trust™ Academy & Community Membership was born. Cathleen saw the need for a multilevel program to retrain the brain, rebalance the nervous system’s stress response, and integrate trauma wounding.
Cathleen felt that including all of her recorded courses and live group classes under one affordable monthly program, rather than high-ticket individual courses with expensive “upsells” for live time with Cathleen was a way to serve more people. In addition, a membership provides a “we do this together” feeling that is so key for optimal healing of chronic illness and trauma.
Our focus on community is what really set Primal Trust™ apart from the traditional programs and ignited a self-healing movement across the globe.
2022
Level 1 Regulate™ was launched- a revolutionary brain-body neural retraining program that is quickly becoming the number one recommended program by leading practitioners who treat Lyme, mold, chronic fatigue, long Covid and MCAS.
2023
Bringing over 8000 people at the end of 2023 through the Primal TrustTM process since 2021, we have data showing exceptional outcomes!
View Results and Data here.
2023
Additional live supportive classes and resources are offered at no additional cost to the community to further aid the speed of recovery for our community members. We now offer almost daily live support co-taught by Cathleen King and graduates of the Primal TrustTM program.
We became featured on multiple summits, podcasts, and workshops across the globe as doctors and health practitioners found out about us and witnessed firsthand the improved rate of healing in their patients. Cathleen was even featured in the documentary “The Inside Effects” as one of the leading thought leaders in mind-body healing approaches.
2024
New programs such as Primal TrustTM in Spanish, a Live in-person retreat at the world renowned Omega Institute in New York, live in–person level 1 training in Germany at the 2024 Neuromodulation Conference, and a release of my book “How Healing Happens” a 127 page guide on self healing to help the world understand the science behind brain-body neural retraining for chronic illness with tools to get started and much more!
Our graduates now help serve new members in their journey, our community has thousands all over the world
Primal TrustTM has expanded beyond being simply a program and has become a movement and a paradigm shift, igniting self-healing across the globe as people reclaim their inner superpowers to self-regulate their own biology and reconnect with their true nature.
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