There is a difference between feeling ashamed and living inside shame. One is a passing signal. The other is the background atmosphere of an entire nervous system. In this episode, we go deep on toxic shame as the next distinguishing characteristic of complex trauma in their CPT series. This is one of the most personal episodes we have recorded. We …
Everyone has a critical inner voice. But if you grew up in an environment shaped by chronic relational stress, that voice does not just comment. It runs. It loops. It drives your body into a stress state before you have even finished the thought. In this episode, we explore the inner critic as the next distinguishing characteristic of complex trauma …
The deepest wound in complex trauma is not emotional intensity. It is the learned loss of connection to yourself. In this episode, we open the next chapter of the CPT series by starting where the roots go deepest: self-abandonment. This is the pattern we chose to name first—and intentionally so—because when the nervous system learns that staying connected to the …
You could not think your way out of the pattern. That is not a failure of insight. That is the nature of complex trauma. In this episode, we return to one of the most resonant threads in Trauma Rewired’s history: complex post-traumatic stress. Several years ago we recorded a series on CPT that changed how thousands of listeners understood themselves. …
You were not failing at your diet. Your nervous system was doing exactly what it learned to do to survive. In this episode, we go deep on one of the most personal and most pervasive patterns we have both lived through: the disordered relationship with food and the body. Building on our recent conversation with Luis Mojica, this is the …
Food is not just fuel. It is one of the most powerful ways your nervous system regulates stress, emotion, and survival. In this episode of Trauma Rewired, we are joined by somatic practitioner and author Luis Mojica to explore the hidden relationship between trauma, cravings, and the nervous system. Together, we unpack why food can become a coping strategy for …
The mother wound is not just about your mother. It is about the first nervous system that shaped yours—the earliest relational field that told you whether you were safe, wanted, and free to take up space. And it lives in the body long before it lives in the story. In this episode, we are joined by Brooke Wolfe, somatic voice …
What if healing from trauma is not just a psychological process, but a fundamentally creative one? In this episode, we are joined by Laura Dawn, a psychedelic-informed author, researcher, and mentor who has spent more than two decades exploring how altered states can open creative pathways, support trauma recovery, and reconnect people with vision and possibility. Laura opens by naming …
In this episode, we are joined by Oren Shai, organizational psychologist, somatic executive coach, and NSI-certified practitioner, for a conversation about what happens when nervous system literacy meets the corporate world. After years working inside large organizations, including LinkedIn, Oren kept seeing the same pattern: all the right strategies, all the right tactics, and none of the essential human work …
This week on Trauma Rewired we step into a big and important conversation about how racism, historical trauma and systemic oppression impact nervous system health. Racism is often framed as a social or ideological issue, but neuroscience tells us something deeper. Chronic exposure to discrimination functions as a persistent threat signal to the nervous system. Over time, that threat shapes stress hormones, …
