In the Nude: naked truth of healing
A raw and honest podcast that explores the difficult journey of healing from trauma. Host Rachel Abi shares candid conversations and practical tools without sugarcoating the process. The show covers overcoming adversity, building resilience, and finding support. Listeners are invited to join a community that understands and heals together.
Episodes
Why You Escape: Unpacking “-isms” and Under and Over-Functioning Trauma Response
If you are exhausted from using work, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or substances to manage the silent weight of burnout, this deep, transformative conversation reveals why changing the surface behavior never fixes the trauma underneath: and how to finally meet the version of yourself that doesn't need to run.Why do so many "successful" lives still feel emotionally frozen on the in
The "Google Maps" Rule for Inner Child Healing: How Childhood Trauma Conditioning Shapes Your Beliefs and How to Reprogram Your Subconscious
If you find yourself overfunctioning in relationships, accepting crumbs of affection, or constantly trying to earn the love you already deserve:this raw, eye-opening episode reveals why your brain keeps running an outdated survival script, and how to finally break the cycle.What if the heavy belief crushing your daily life isn't an absolute truth, but simply an old survival story your brain cr
What Are You Pretending Not to Know? Shame, Ego-Driven Ambition, and the Truth About Body-Based Healing with Jay Sefton
If you are torn between chasing your big ambitions and longing for quiet peace, exhausted from white-knuckling your way through shame spirals, and tired of generic self-help advice that leaves you feeling empty... this grounded, disarmingly honest conversation will show you how to finally come back to your body.When you grow up in an environment shaped by emotional unintelligence, rigid expectatio
Why You Escape: How Numbing, Overworking, and CPTSD Hyper-Vigilance Keep You Trapped in Survival Mode
Ever feel like you’ve made massive strides in your healing journey, only for an unexpected trigger, betrayal, or comment to pull you straight back into old habits of self-criticism, fear, and feeling "not enough"? You aren’t back at square one—your nervous system is just asking for a new level of safety.Why do deeply ingrained patterns like overthinking, perfectionism, overworking, and p
Overpreparing Is a Trauma Response: Visibility Wounds, Unfinished Healing, and the Fear of Being Seen as Yourself with Kristina Denton
If you are exhausted from overpreparing just to feel safe, terrified of stepping into the spotlight of your own life, and feeling completely alone in the messy, unpolished reality of trauma recovery... this disarmingly honest conversation is your permission slip to stop performing and finally come home to yourself.When you grow up with visibility wounds, enmeshment, or an environment where love fe
When Old Trauma Resurfaces: How to Stop the Self-Criticism Loop, Regulate Your Body, and Reclaim Inner Peace
If you have been doing "all the right healing work" but still find yourself spiraling into old self-doubt, fear, and the quiet weight of "not being enough": this raw, compassionate conversation is your blueprint to stop surviving your life and finally start enjoying it.We are often told that healing is a straight line, but the reality is much messier. You can make incredible p
Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns | Healing Childhood Trauma, Limiting Beliefs & the Hidden Roots of Self-Sabotage
Have you ever wondered..."Why do I keep ending up here?""Why do I know what needs to change, but I still can't seem to change it?""Why do I keep people pleasing, overthinking, shutting down, or choosing relationships that hurt me?"If you've asked yourself those questions, this conversation is for you.In this deeply honest episode of In the Nude: The Naked Trut
Why You Keep Making the Same Mistakes: How to Stop Striving, Reclaim Your Peace, and Heal Childhood Unworthiness
If you are deeply exhausted from constantly striving, trapped in a loop of making the same mistakes, and feeling completely alone because you cannot seem to hustle your way into peace... this raw conversation is your permission slip to stop performing and start living. When you grow up in a behavior-focused environment with emotionally unintelligent parents or inside a high-control religious backg
Feeling frustrated making the same mistakes? Secret to thriving: Embracing Silence
Silence can feel terrifying. A life filled with noise, trauma and dysregulation: I found silence triggering. This episode walks through not only the truth of the impact and power of silence and it's direct correlation to your having more peace but also how to take baby steps that won't cause triggers.We all know we need to wash our body or brush our teeth but scoff at the idea of silence,
The Truth About Why Changing Your Life Feels So Exhausting: How Small Daily Choices Rewire Childhood Trauma
If you are exhausted from trying to change your life, completely defeated because you keep making the same mistakes, and feeling deeply isolated in a struggle nobody else seems to talk about... this raw conversation is the honest, practical compass you have been waiting for.When you grow up with behavior-focused, emotionally unintelligent parents or inside a high-control religious environment, yo
Your past DOESN'T dictate your future: embracing your worth the true path to your fitness goals
If I asked you to name 3 things you hated about yourself you could likely without any time write that list: we have been taught to critique ourselves, shame our bodies, and all the while quietly take on loads that aren't ours. This pattern we follow like those before us is digging our own grave: the grave of our souls, hearts bodies AND the ability to have a life we love. If we want to have a
Time travel, gratitude and actually living a life of your dreams
What if you could really have a life you loved? One you woke up excited about. What if you could really take giant strides towards gaining yourself that life. What if I told you it was time travel? What if i told you the gateway to timetravel is gratitude? After 3 years of healing and very little movement forward and loads of anger: i learned a lesson about acceptance, grace and love. A lesson a
Why You Still Feel Stuck (Even After the Trauma Is Over)2
In this raw and honest episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, Rachel sits down with Dr. Christopher Cortman: a licensed psychologist with over 40 years of clinical experience and more than 85,000 psychotherapy sessions : to explore forgiveness, resentment, trauma recovery, grief, and emotional healing.For many people living with CPTSD, religious trauma, high-control upbringing wounds,
Process of healing: Recipe for thriving that ACTUALLY works for ANYONE
If I hear one more person talk about what to do I might just scream.There is so much noise, so much to do and so many must haves that I feel exhausted just thinking about it. You don't need another list of actions. You don't need another person who doesn't know your life telling you what to do YET you also want help getting to a life you love and feel lost as to who to listen to. I can
What If Your Biggest Limitation Is a Story You Never Chose?
Many of us believe we're seeing reality clearly.But what if the thoughts, beliefs, fears, and patterns shaping your life were built from old wounds instead of truth?In this Naked Conversation, I sit down with Beth Jones to explore the life-changing power of radical self-awareness and how healing begins when we're willing to question the stories we've been carrying for years.Beth shares
Grasping at "Good" and fitting "Normal" breaks your ability to thrive and keeps you trapped in abuse patterns.
Quantifying value wastes energy and time, yet it is prolific. #1. Winner. All words that don't actually convey full truth."Normal" is another waste of time. We each have "normals" within ourselves or within our families. "Normal" however as a thing isn't real. It is a box. A way to quantify ineffectively. While definitions and understanding trends can helps u
Stop Forcing Your Life: Why Surfing the Waves of the Unknown Is the Only Way to Stop Self-Abandoning
If you are running yourself into the ground trying to manage your life through mental constructs, rigid logic, and pure control: but you still wake up feeling anxious, isolated, and completely defeated... this conversation will shatter the walls of your cage.For those of us raised inside high-control religious structures or under the roof of behavior-focused, emotionally unintelegent parents, cert
Living a peaceful life and leaving anxiety behind: doing the unthinkable; surrender
Chaos is not fixed by control. The more we try and shove our life into the pretty picture we think it should be the more it explodes out of the bottom and sides of the box. Leaving us riddled with anxiety. Which not to be dramatic is slowly killing us. What then do we do?Pressure from so many sides telling us what we should do, be, have, own, achieve... Internally the "not good enough"
When Emotional Suppression Backfires: Reframing Pain and Reclaiming Your Internal Focus with Colin Owensby
Many of us raised by behavior-focused, emotionally unavailable parents or trapped inside strict, high-control religious environments learned a brutal baseline rule for safety: never show weakness. You learned to suppress your anger, freeze your tears, and treat your body like an unfeeling machine to avoid punishment or rejection. You became an expert at surviving, but you are completely empty, exh
Tired of cycling the same bullsh*t? Fear of discomfort is holding you prisoner.
What if pain wasn't something you fought? What if pain was the vehicle of joy?We all experience repeating the same cycles of behavior and the resulting consequences. Whether it’s dating your "father" over and over l again or spending all that you make, or constantly being exhausted. Most of the time, fear of the unknown and fear of pain causes our default mode network to turn back in
Exhausted from Performing? The Raw Truth About Overcoming Core Triggers (Approval, Safety, Control) with Dallisa Hocking
Many of us who grew up in high-control religious environments or under the roof of behavior-focused, emotionally unavailable parents learned a dangerous survival rule: Your safety is tied to your compliance. You became an expert at reading the room, managing other people's emotional chaos, and performing a character to receive basic approval.Now, as an adult, you are running yourself ragged tr
Why Knowing "Why" Isn't Fixing You: Breaking the Freeze Loop of Intellectualizing Your Trauma
If you can perfectly analyze your childhood, trace every single one of your triggers, and understand the exact reasons why you are unhappy, yet you still find yourself completely stuck, paralyzed, and defeated in the same loop... this unfiltered conversation is the missing key to your breakthrough.For those of us raised by emotionally unintelegent, behavior-focused parents or conditioned within h
Dismantling Generational Patterns: Using Somatic Ease and Healthy Routines to Stop the Hustle Cycle
Why does resting feel like a sin? For women who survived emotionally unintelligent upbringings, "ease" feels incredibly dangerous. If your early life was a chaotic storm of performance and perfectionism, your nervous system interprets hyper-vigilance and exhausting hustle as your only baseline for safety. You want to thrive, but you feel completely defeated because your body physically w
Tired of Feeling Defeated by Heartbreak? Moving Past the Safe Boxes to Heal the Hurt People Skip Over
If you are running yourself into the ground trying to use traditional wellness formulas to "fix" the agony of a broken trust, but you still feel physically sick, completely frozen, and entirely alone in the dark... this raw conversation is the lifeline you’ve been looking for.For those of us raised by emotionally unintelegent, behavior-focused parents or locked inside high-control religi
Smashed Out of the Boxes: Reclaiming Your Identity from CPTSD and Societal Personas
It is terrifyingly easy for a woman from an emotionally stunted background to completely disappear into her roles. You became the perfect wife, the hyper-vigilant mother, or the high-achieving professional, only to wake up one day realizing you have no idea who is actually living your life. When your childhood taught you that your identity is only valuable based on what you do for others, finding
Why What You “Know” Is Keeping You Stuck: Breaking Free From the Boxes That Are Starving Your Soul
For those of us raised by emotionally unintelegent, behavior-focused parents or trapped inside high-control religious structures, your entire existence was built inside a pre-determined box. You were systematically conditioned to believe that your safety depended entirely on your compliance, your quietness, and your ability to suppress your inner voice to keep everyone else comfortable. You became
The Ugly Truth of Healing: Why Feeling Your Pain is the Only Way to Stop Living in It
We’ve spent our whole lives trying to "overcome" our pain, or worse, pretend it’s not there so we don't make others uncomfortable. We were taught that "victimhood" is a choice, but we weren't taught that suppressing our truth is what actually keeps us stuck.Maritza Schäfer joins Rachel for a raw, no-bullshit look at the messy process of becoming. If you’re tired of the
Tired of Feeling Exhausted, Alone, and Unlovable? Finding a Path to Peace and Acceptance in a World That Demands Perfection
For those of us raised by emotionally unavailable, behavior-focused parents or trapped inside high-control religious structures, "self-love" wasn't a beautiful concept: it was dangerous. You were systematically conditioned to believe that looking inward was selfish, that your desires were sinful, and that your baseline value depended entirely on your compliance, your quietness, and y
The Power of "I Don't Know": Navigating Chaos without Losing Your Soul
In high-control backgrounds, "not knowing" was a danger. We were taught that certainty is safety and control is love. But that need for control is exactly what’s keeping you stuck in anxiety. True peace isn't the absence of chaos: it’s the ability to stand in the middle of it and remain embodied.Ronnie Figueroa joins the podcast to share his "Fourfold Way of Life", a framew
Finding Safe Harbors in the Chaos: The Somatic Bubble Protocol for Emotional Boundaries
It feels completely impossible to find inner peace when your real life is messy, painful, and loud. If you have a background rooted in emotional neglect or high-control systems, you were likely trained to have porous boundaries—making you a sponge for everyone else’s anger, anxiety, and dark energy. You want to heal, but you find yourself constantly dragged back down by the chaotic environments an
Rewiring the Trauma Brain: From Survival Mode to Abundance without the 20-Year Wait
When you live with undiagnosed CPTSD, your brain is a biological prison. You’re waiting for the "other shoe to drop" because your nervous system was programmed for chaos. But what if healing wasn't a lifelong sentence of "coping"? What if you could literally rewrite the math of your misery?Thayne Martin joins Rachel for a conversation that moves past "talk therapy"
Why Your Pain Isn't Brokenness: Reclaiming Your "Unacceptable" Emotions from High-Control Patterns
If you grew up in a strict, behavior-focused home or a high-control religious background, you were likely taught that your anger was a sin, your sadness was a failure, and your compliance was the only thing that made you worthy of love. You’ve spent your adult life trying to fix, suppress, or pray away your hurt, leaving you completely exhausted and defeated by your own healing journey.In this epi
Why Your “Self-Improvement” Feels Like Self-Abuse: Grace, CPTSD, and the Naked Truth of Healing with Scott Stolarick
If you grew up in a high-control religion or a "behavior-focused" home, you weren’t taught how to heal: you were taught how to perform. You’ve been told that if you just pray harder, work harder, or follow the right formula, you’ll finally feel "fixed." But the truth? That constant self-correction is just another form of the trauma you’re trying to escape.In this Naked Conversation, Rachel Abi sit
Why Your “Good Girl” Conditioning is Killing You: The Terrifying Freedom of Living Counter-Culturally
If you grew up in a world where your value was tied to your "behavior," sadness was a sin, and anger was a "lack of faith," you didn't learn how to live—you learned how to hide. You’re exhausted because you’re playing a character in a life that doesn't belong to you.In this episode, Rachel Abi gets "Naked" about the cost of fitting in. We’re tearing down the s
What If the Life You Want Requires Letting Go of Who You Were Told to Be?
If you feel like you’re doing everything “right”…but your life still doesn’t feel like yours…this episode will hit.Many women healing from trauma, family pressure, or rigid expectations were taught who to be before they ever got to choose.What success looks like.What matters.What’s acceptable.And even as adults, those beliefs can quietly shape everything.In this conversation with Thomas Thatcher,
Why You Feel Lonely Even Around People (And How to Finally Feel Seen)
If you’ve ever felt alone… even when you’re surrounded by people… this episode will hit something real.Because loneliness isn’t always about being physically alone.For many women healing from trauma, emotionally unavailable environments, or high-pressure expectations, loneliness comes from something deeper:Not feeling seen.Not feeling known.Not feeling safe to be fully yourself.So you adapt.You pe
What If You Don’t Need to Have It All Figured Out to Move Forward? (Letting Go of Control & Healing)
If you feel stuck because you don’t know what’s next…this episode will meet you there.Many women healing from trauma, control-based environments, or high-pressure expectations were taught that certainty equals safety.Have a plan.Know the answer.Get it right.But real growth, and real life, doesn’t work that way.In this conversation with Dr. Toby Brooks, we explore:why the need for certainty keeps y
Betrayed Again? How to Process Deep Hurt When Life Doesn’t Pause for Your Pain
What do you do when life keeps moving…but something in you feels like it shattered?This is a raw, honest episode about navigating deep betrayal—not in theory, but in real time.For many women healing from trauma, attachment wounds, or emotionally unsafe relationships, betrayal doesn’t just hurt: it reopens everything.The past.The patterns.The belief that you should have known better.In this episode
When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Navigate Healthcare and Still Get Care
If you’ve ever tried to get help, and left feeling more exhausted, dismissed, or overwhelmed than when you started: you’re not alone.For many women healing from trauma, chronic stress, or emotionally unsupported environments, navigating the healthcare system can feel like another layer of burnout.Long waits.No real answers.Feeling unseen… again.In this Naked Conversation with Nikki Sapiro Vinckier
What If You’re Already Enough? (Why You Still Don’t Feel It—and How to Start)
If you’re constantly trying to prove your worth:through productivity, relationships, or being “better”:this episode is for you.Because many women healing from trauma, religious conditioning, or emotionally immature parenting were taught that love is earned.That worth is conditional.That being enough is something you achieve.But that belief keeps you chasing something that was never meant to be ear
You’re Not Too Much or Not Enough—You’re Human
If you’ve spent most of your life feeling like something about you is wrong… this conversation may feel like a deep exhale.Many people healing from CPTSD, high-control religion, or emotionally immature homes learned early that they needed to be different to be accepted.Less emotional.More obedient.More “together.”And over time, that turns into a quiet but constant belief:“Something is wrong with m
Triggered Again? How to Move from Frustration to Peace Without Suppressing It
If small things feel big…if frustration lingers longer than you want it to…if you replay conversations or carry anger for hours (or days)…you’re not overreacting.You’re likely dealing with a dysregulated nervous system shaped by trauma.In this episode, we don’t bypass frustration: we walk through it.Because healing isn’t about pretending you’re calm.It’s about knowing how to move through what you
It’s Not a Mindset Problem—It’s Your Nervous System (Trauma, Success & Regulation)
If you’ve done mindset work… and still feel anxious, stuck, or on edge…this might be why.Trauma isn’t just a story in your mind.It’s a nervous system injury in your body.In this Naked Conversation with Steve Sapourn, founder of The Neuro’s Journey, we explore why healing requires more than positive thinking—and what it actually takes to feel safe again.We talk about:trauma as nervous system dysreg
You’re Not Failing at Life—You’re Just Rushing It (How to Actually Enjoy Your Life While Healing)
If you feel like you’re constantly trying to “get there”… but never actually feel like you’ve arrived: this episode is for you.Many women healing from CPTSD, trauma, or high-pressure environments were taught to measure life by efficiency:Do it faster.Do it better.Fix it quickly.Get to the outcome.But healing—and living a life you love—doesn’t work that way.In this episode, I explore the idea that
What If Wanting More Could Actually Change Your Life? (The Science of Wishing & Trauma Healing)
If you’ve ever felt like wanting more out of life was unrealistic… selfish… or pointless: this conversation may change everything.Many women healing from childhood trauma, high-control religion, or emotionally rigid environments were taught to suppress desire. To be grateful. To be good. To not ask for too much.Over time, that creates a quiet belief:“This is just my life.”But what if the opposite
Why Healing From Trauma Feels Like Going in Circles (But Isn’t)
Have you ever felt like you’re hitting your head against the same wall in life?The same relationship pattern.The same emotional trigger.The same situation that seems to come back again and again.It’s easy to interpret that repetition as failure.But what if those recurring experiences are actually part of how growth works?In this episode, I explore the idea that life lessons unfold in layers. Just
What If You’re Not Stuck — You’re Just Living Inside Beliefs You Didn’t Choose?
If you feel stuck in your life… it might not be your circumstances.It might be your beliefs.Many women healing from CPTSD, high-control religion, or emotionally rigid homes were given a framework for how to think, behave, and exist.What’s right.What’s wrong.What’s allowed.Who you’re supposed to be.And even when you try to change your life… those beliefs are still quietly running everything.In this
Pride Is Not a Sin: Healing Religious Trauma and Reclaiming Your Worth
For many people healing from religious trauma, pride was taught as something dangerous.We were warned about arrogance. About ego. About being too much. And often, those teachings were paired with messages about being a “dirty rotten sinner,” inherently flawed, and always in need of correction.Over time, that messaging can create a deep sense of shame and smallness.But what if pride, healthy pride:
Why You’re Exhausted All the Time — Sleep, Trauma & Nervous System Reset
If you feel exhausted all the time, even when you’re doing the work to heal, you’re not broken. You’re likely dysregulated.For many women healing from childhood trauma, religious control, or emotionally unavailable homes, exhaustion isn’t just physical. It’s nervous system burnout. It’s years of being “on,” being good, being responsible, being hyper-aware… with no real rest.And most healing advice
“I Don’t Know”: The Most Powerful Words in Healing and Self-Discovery
“I don’t know” might be the wisest thing you can say.When we think we already know: who we are, what’s true, why something happened; we close the door to growth. Especially in trauma recovery, certainty can keep us stuck in narratives that once protected us but no longer serve us.In this episode, I explore why feeling lost can actually be the beginning of clarity. Why admitting uncertainty opens t
When Did You Start Performing Instead of Living? Naked Conversation w/ Christian Ray Flores S2 Ep26
At some point, many of us learned that being ourselves wasn’t enough.So we adapted.We performed.We became who we needed to be to succeed, to belong, to survive.In this Naked Conversation, I sit down with Christian Ray Flores to explore the subtle but powerful difference between authenticity and performance; and why so many high-functioning, introspective people find themselves successful yet inter
When Life Goes Sideways: How to Be Okay When You’re Not Okay
Sometimes healing theory isn’t enough.You need to see it lived.In this episode, I walk you through a real-time loss and heartache in my own life: what happened, how I processed it, and what I did practically to regulate myself when everything felt heavy.This is not a polished story. It’s a lived one.I share how I coped the first day when everything felt raw, and then I record again the following d
Naked Conversations: Sleep, Stress & Returning to Your True Self (with Tim Thomas)
What if healing doesn’t start with mindset… but with sleep?In this Naked Conversations episode, I sit down with Tim Thomas, a man deeply passionate about helping people get restorative sleep: beginning with veterans navigating high stress and PTSD, and expanding into the truth that all humans need foundational regulation before deeper healing can happen.We talk about the two basic needs every nerv
Sadness Is Not the Enemy: Perspective, Self-Talk & the Energy We Carry
Sadness is not weakness.And it’s not something to eliminate.In this episode, I talk about why sadness is a necessary and even beautiful emotion ; and how perspective ultimately shapes the life we experience. Healing isn’t about denying pain or forcing positivity. It’s about choosing how we frame our experiences, what we focus on, and how we speak to ourselves in the quiet moments.We are constantly
Naked Conversations: Rewiring the Subconscious — Trauma Healing, Hypnosis & the Power of Belief (with Peter McLaughlin)
What if the patterns you’re stuck in aren’t conscious choices : but subconscious programming?In this Naked Conversations episode, I sit down with Peter McLaughlin, founder of BlueSky Hypnosis, to talk about healing trauma and limiting beliefs through the power of the subconscious mind. Peter shares how hypnosis can help rewire deeply embedded beliefs, calm the nervous system, and create meaningful
Living With Purpose Without Burning Out: Healing, Presence, and the Next Right Step
We’re taught that purpose is something we chase, achieve, or eventually “figure out.”But for many people healing from trauma, that mindset creates pressure, burnout, and a constant feeling of being behind.In this episode, I talk about a different way of living with purpose: one rooted in presence, honesty, and doing the next right step instead of controlling the outcome. Purpose isn’t found by for
Naked Conversations: Grief, Loss, and Learning to Live Again (with John Krammer)
Grief isn’t something we fix.It’s something we live with AND learn how to carry.In this Naked Conversations episode, I sit down with John Krammer, founder of Guardian Angels, a reflective journaling and grief support platform created to meet people in the raw, disorienting seasons of loss. This is an unscripted, human conversation about grief as a lived experience: not a theory or a timeline.John
“Am I Lazy?” Trauma, Rest, and the Old Voices That Still Try to Protect Us
Even when we know better, old thoughts can still show up.In this episode, I talk about the fear of being “lazy” that often surfaces during healing; especially when your body no longer functions the way it once did. After trauma, rest may be greater, energy may look different, and life may feel slower. And intellectually, you might understand that this is okay… yet still feel haunted by the old voi
Naked Conversations: Reclaiming Your Authentic Voice to Heal Trauma & Break Limiting Beliefs (with Deepak Chari)
Healing from trauma often leaves us feeling disconnected from our voice: both literally and emotionally. Many of us learned early that it wasn’t safe to speak, express, or take up space, and those patterns can quietly shape our lives long after the danger has passed.This episode is a Naked Conversation with Deepak Chari, who works with people to reconnect to their authentic voice as a pathway to t
You Are the Thrive: Healing Trauma Through Play, Presence, and Being
So many of us were taught--explicitly or quietly--that thriving is something we earn later.After we heal enough.After we become more disciplined, more productive, more “adult.”But what if you are the thrive?In this episode, we talk about how trauma trains us to reach outside ourselves for worth, joy, and safety: and how that keeps us stuck in survival instead of presence. We explore why children a
How to Be When the World Is Breaking: Trauma Healing, Grief, and Choosing to Stay Alive (Part 2)
When the world feels cruel, violent, and unjust—when immigrants are dehumanized, people are harmed, and systems fail: it can feel pointless to focus on healing. Like nothing you do matters.In Part Two of this series, we talk about how personal trauma and collective trauma collide, and why letting defeat take root is exactly what harms us most. Whether it’s the people who traumatized us in the past
How to Be When Healing Trauma: Practices That Helped Me Feel Safe, Present, and Alive (Pt 1)
If you’re healing from trauma, you’ve probably asked yourself some version of this:How do I actually be?How do I exist without constant fixing, striving, or self-monitoring?This is Part One of a two-part series where I share the practical exercises, daily practices, and mindset shifts that most changed my ability to feel safe in my body, present in my life, and connected to myself again. These are
Healing Isn’t a Formula: Self-Compassion, Tiny Wins, and Growing After Trauma
If you’re healing from trauma and feel alone in how hard it is, this episode is for you.So many trauma survivors are taught—directly or indirectly—that healing should look impressive, linear, or productive. That if you’re still struggling, you’re failing. But healing isn’t a formula, and it isn’t proven by big breakthroughs. It’s built through small adjustments, quiet resilience, and the willingne
New Year, True You: Trauma Healing Through Self-Acceptance, Safety, and Worth
“New year, new you” sounds motivating...but for people healing from trauma, it often feels like another way we’re told we’re not enough yet.In this episode, we slow that narrative way down.Healing isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about reconnecting with your true self—the version of you that existed before coping strategies, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and survival modes took over. The
Your Default Isn’t Broken: Healing Habits, Triggers, and Returning to Your True Self
We often hear that our “default behaviors” are the problem : that we need to break bad habits, fix our coping mechanisms, or override our nervous system.But what if default behavior itself isn’t the enemy?In this episode, we explore a gentler and more truthful idea:Your current defaults may be survival-based, but your original nature : your true self : was never broken.Before trauma, before coping
Overcoming the Past: Healing Childhood and Relationship Trauma Without Shame
Overcoming the past isn’t about erasing what happened : it’s about loosening the grip it still has on how you see yourself and the world.For many of us healing from childhood trauma or relationship trauma, our ways of thinking were shaped by moral rules, rigid belief systems, and survival-based coping that were never chosen...only inherited.In this episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healin
Stop Feeling Like a Failure: Trauma Healing, Emotional Regulation, and Remembering You Already Have What You Need
If you’ve ever wondered why healing feels slow, or why your body reacts before your mind catches up — this episode is for you.Today we’re talking about how the nervous system, emotional triggers, and old trauma patterns shape the way we show up… even long after the moment has passed.You’ll hear gentle, grounding insight on:• Why your nervous system goes into survival mode• How childhood or complex
Healing Isn’t Linear: Panic Attacks, Progress, and Learning to See Your Wins
Healing isn’t linear: and this week, I’m sharing a real example of that truth. I had three panic attacks, and it was still a good week. Not because the anxiety felt good, but because woven inside the struggle were signs of real, meaningful growth.In the middle of a hard situation, I showed up as my regulated self: calm, grounded, present. I responded instead of reacting. I stayed connected to my b
Post-Holiday Triggers: How to Regulate Your Nervous System and Return to Your True Self
The holidays can stir up every part of us : old wounds, family triggers, exhaustion, resentment, sadness, and that familiar feeling of emotional chaos.If you’re feeling cracked open after a gathering, you’re not broken. You’re human, and you’re carrying the echoes of past pain that deserve attention, not shame.In this episode, I walk you through the exact trauma-informed practices I use after emot
Reclaiming the Holidays: Healing, Boundaries, and Finding Joy Again
The holidays can feel heavy : especially when you’re not where you hoped you’d be, when money is tight, or when being around family stirs old wounds you’ve worked so hard to outgrow.For so many healing from trauma, CPTSD, or painful childhood patterns, this season brings up grief, pressure, disappointment, and the quiet ache of “I wish things were different.”In this episode of In the Nude: The Nak
Choosing Your Inner Truth Over Your Inner Critic
In this gentle, deeply human episode, we talk about what it really means to prioritize your own voice after a lifetime of being shaped by your parents’ expectations or your inner critic’s loud survival strategies.If you’re beginning to notice the difference between your inner truth and the critic that was trained into you : that awareness alone is huge. Truly. That is something to celebrate.So man
Productive Doesn’t Mean Product: Redefining What It Means to Thrive
We’ve been told that productivity equals worth : that we must do to matter, achieve to belong, and produce to prove our value. But what if that’s never been true?In this episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, we peel back the layers of hustle culture and explore what it really means to live a productive life : one measured not by output, but by aliveness.Your joy is productive.Your re
Feelings Aren’t a Casket: Learning to Let Emotions Move Through You
We spend so much of our lives running from our feelings : afraid they’ll swallow us whole, afraid they’ll last forever. But emotions aren’t the casket we’re buried in… they’re the expression of our experience.In this episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, we dive into what it really means to feel again : after years of surviving, suppressing, and pretending. Because the truth is, emot
Tired of the Triggers: Turning Emotional Exhaustion into Healing
If you’re tired — tired of the triggers, the emotional spirals, the anxiety that seems to come out of nowhere — you’re not broken. You’re human.In this episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, we explore what’s really happening when you feel exhausted by your emotions. Those reactions — the panic, the shut down, the overthinking — aren’t proof of failure. They’re signals from the battle
You’re Closer Than You Think: The Truth About Progress in Healing
What if you’re already closer than you think to the life you’ve been dreaming of?Healing isn’t a straight line — it’s an ebb and flow, a series of experiments in becoming. In this episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, we explore what it really means to measure progress — not by perfection, but by the quiet moments of growth you often overlook.You’re learning new skills: how to rest w
Beyond the Boxes: Finding Freedom in Flexibility
We were taught to fit inside boxes : good or bad, success or failure, right or wrong. But life, healing, and growth were never meant to be that small.In this episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, we talk about what happens when we finally let those boxes fall away — when we stop seeing life in binaries and start allowing space for both/and.Because real healing happens in flexibility.
When You’re Just So Tired: Honoring Melancholy, Burnout, and the Need to Rest
There are seasons when your soul just feels tired — when even hope feels heavy, and all you want is to stop trying for a while. In this In the Nude episode, we’re talking about the quiet ache of melancholy and emotional exhaustion — how it often comes after giving too much, caring too deeply, and pushing far past your window of tolerance.This isn’t about “fixing your attitude.” It’s about honoring
Coming Home to Yourself: Healing Dissociation, Trusting Your Body, and Rebuilding Inner Safety
For so many of us with trauma, “home” has never been a place—it’s been something we’ve searched for in other people, in achievements, or in fantasies. When life felt unsafe, we learned to disconnect from ourselves, to dissociate, to silence our gut instincts just to survive.But true healing begins when we return home—to ourselves. 🌱In this episode of *In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing*, I sh
Grieving the Fantasy: Letting Go of What Could Have Been and Embracing What Is
Sometimes the hardest loss isn’t a person—it’s the story we told ourselves about what life should look like. The relationship we thought would save us. The dream that didn’t unfold the way we planned. The fantasy version of life that felt safer than reality.In this raw episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, I share the painful but powerful process of mourning the fantasy, facing what
Reflecting Back, Dreaming Forward: How to Step Into the Future You Desire
Welcome to Season Two of *In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing*! 🌱 In this first episode, we’re looking both backward and forward—because healing and self-growth require both reflection and vision.Part of reaching the *“there”* we long for begins with pausing to notice how far we’ve already come. Reflection reminds us of the growth we’ve earned, the resilience we’ve built, and the ways we’ve al
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