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Explore "#cptsd" with insightful episodes like "Misattunement & Co-regulation", "Fawn & Sexual Fawn", "The Fluidity of Attachment Styles and the Capacity to create more security", "Continuity of Parts" and "Embodiment is Scary AF" from podcasts like ""Trauma Rewired", "Trauma Rewired", "Trauma Rewired", "Trauma Rewired" and "Trauma Rewired"" and more!

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Misattunement & Co-regulation

One thing you’ve probably heard over and over again on this season of Trauma Rewired is that nervous systems affect one another. In fact, our nervous systems are continuously responding and adapting to each other’s signals — a process called coregulation.

Coregulation is important for maintaining safe, healthy relationships but can have a negative impact on the nervous system when someone is dysregulated or experiencing misattunement. A lack of connection through coregulation also impacts our ability for emotional self-regulation, which can lead to maladaptive behaviors like drinking, binge eating and codependency.

During this episode, Elisabeth and Jennifer define coregulation and attunement, and explain their role in self-regulation and emotional expression. They dive deeper into the importance of coregulation and the development of self-regulating behaviors in childhood, as well as the impact mothers, and even fathers, have on an infant’s stress response. Finally, you’ll hear how you can create change in your nervous system, and the positive results Elizabeth has noticed in her own life because of her own nervous system work.

As Jennifer says in this episode, “knowledge is power when you put it into action.” So give this episode a listen now!

Topics discussed in this episode:

What it looks like to have a regulated nervous system
Our definition of coregulation
How nervous systems impact each other and our ability to regulate
Coregulating with pets or nature
When we learn how to be self-regulators
The role of attunement for regulation
The effects of misattunement in childhood
Can your children inherit your trauma response?
How the body responds to stress and the HPA axis
Creating change and repatterning your nervous system
The influence of fathers on infant’s development

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enOctober 09, 2023

Fawn & Sexual Fawn

The four trauma responses are the brain’s way of protecting us from threat, real or perceived. They are noncognitive, reflexive outputs that are deeply ingrained in those that have experienced trauma, which makes them incredibly difficult responses to rewire. In this episode, we explore the most dangerous F: fawn and sexual fawn response.

To help us dive deeper into fawn response, we’re joined by Luis Mojica, somatics practitioner and the founder of Holistic Life Navigation. Hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth have personally learned a lot from his teachings, including how the nervous system responds to fawn and the body boundary violations that occur with sexual fawning.

During this episode, Luis goes over the concept of over coupling, specifically how fear merges with intimacy and threat with arousal because of developmental sexual trauma. Luis also touches on the difference between threat and trigger, how the body can be traumatized sexually without the presence of assault, and MORE.

Tune in to learn how you can let go of shame attached to fawn response, recognize your fawn patterns, and start to heal!

Topics discussed in this episode:

The development of over coupling after developmental sexual trauma
Fawn response from a neurosomatic perspective
Shame as a protective mechanism and how to reframe it
How to become self-aware of your fawning
Trigger versus threat
Differentiation between sexual fawning and arousal
Fawning and freeze as a hybrid response
Lying as a trauma response
Finding compassion during healing
Body boundary violations in sexual fawning

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enSeptember 18, 2023

The Fluidity of Attachment Styles and the Capacity to create more security

When a child’s needs aren’t being met by their caregiver, by not being fed or feeling safe, they develop a distorted view of relationships. This attachment schema is the lens through which they examine the behavior of others, impacting their ability to form relationships and lead a healthy, happy life.

In past episodes, hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth have talked about connection being one of our survival needs, but an insecure attachment directly challenges this need. Being close to others, feeling vulnerable and connected, can also be very dysregulating to those who learned to survive with unemotional or unreliable caregivers.

So, how can you overcome your learned patterns to create healthy relationships with yourself and others? The answer is nervous system training.

In this episode, Jennifer and Elisabeth will walk you through attachment schema, how the three insecure attachment styles develop and show up as behavioral outputs, and how nervous system regulation has helped them work toward lasting change.

Tune in for all this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Attachment style from the NSI perspective
How insecure attachment schema affects social development
Nervous system regulation as a way to change our patterns
The areas of the brain responsible for creating neuro tags
How the 3 insecure attachment styles develop and are expressed
Misconceptions about avoidant attachment style
Disorganized attachment and complex trauma

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enSeptember 04, 2023

Continuity of Parts

Following our episode on embodiment, we’re diving into the topics of parts of self, sex and pleasure because without presence, we are cheating ourselves out of healthy relationships and empowered sexual experiences.

Hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth have brought back Dr. Joli Hamilton, relationship coach and sex educator, to help them further examine how the relationship with our parts of self impact the way we behave towards ourselves and others.

A disconnection between our parts of self causes dysregulation, a lack of safety and intimacy in relationships, and even projection. But in this episode, you’ll learn how to have conversations with your parts of self, how to take ownership of your orgasm, and how NSI practices can help you heal.

We also discuss the concept of multiplicity, how trauma affects our ability to connect with our parts, and if dissociation during sex and sexual fawning changes the rules of consent. Plus, can a cervical orgasm stimulate the vagus nerve?

Listen in as we share the NSI tools that have helped us regulate our nervous system and connect with our body!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Honoring your parts of self by giving them a voice
Projection of our disintegrated parts onto others
What we’ve gained from using NSI tools
Exploring pleasure and improving intimacy
The connection between nervous system regulation and orgasm
Dissociation during sex, sexual fawning and consent

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enAugust 07, 2023

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Embodiment is Scary AF

Embodiment has many different meanings, but to be embodied from a neurosomatic intelligence perspective relates to the integration of the body, mind and spirit. It means you are aware of the connection between your body and its internal sensations, your emotions, and your behaviors.

Sharing her journey to embodiment and how she uses it in her work as a mindset coach is Tracy Litt, speaker and founder of The Litt Factor. Tracy is also a bestselling author and her new book, “Expander: For Trailblazing Women Building a New World,” outlines the damaging paradigms that hold us back and what we can do to replace them.

In this episode, Tracy helps us look at embodiment through the lens of neurosomatic intelligence, including how it impacts our relationships, career, and health. You’ll learn more about dissociation, what keeps us from feeling and being in our bodies, and how emotional expression will transform your life.

There is a natural fear to change and embodiment, but you have to remember that YOU are the creator of your own life. Tune in to find out how to start healing through nervous system work!

Topics discussed in this episode:

What embodiment truly means
Embodiment as necessary for change
Our personal paths to embodiment
The importance of slowing down
What disconnects women to their bodies
The freedom of emotional expression
Training your nervous system to safely process emotions
How Tracy uses NSI tools to help clients
Tracy’s new book, Expander
What Tracy took away from the NSI Certification course

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enJuly 31, 2023

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CPTSD is an Attachment Wound

Our last episode introduced the brain as a social organ, and how this topic relates to the neurobiology of relationships. Today, we dive deeper into how the brain develops through social interactions, why social connection is a survival need, and what happens in the body when we experience connection with other people.

Matt Bush of Next Level Neuro is joining Jennifer and Elisabeth to discuss the impact of trauma on the brain’s functioning, and therefore, our relationships, expression, sense of safety, and overall health. They talk about what happens when you’re not primed for connection in childhood, how the brain is wired to be part of the social structure in relationships, what part of the brain guides us toward dysregulation and protective outputs, and lots more.

If any of this sounds confusing, be sure to listen for Matt’s definitions of attachment schema and C-PTSD from a neurosomatic perspective, which make it easier to understand how these systems and inputs come together for integration.

You’ll also finally learn why complex trauma is an attachment would, and most importantly, that change is possible and how you can get started NOW. Tune in for all this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

The impact of attachment patterns on brain function
How the brain develops through social interactions
The role of the insular cortex
John Bowlby’s attachment theory
How a mother’s nervous system impacts a child’s
The resiliency of our nervous system
Attachment styles and Bowlby’s experiment
Matt’s neurosomatic definition of attachment schema and C-PTSD
How we can rewire attachment

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enJuly 10, 2023

Social Connection, Survival, and the Neurobiology of Relationships

Hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth jump right into this season’s theme of attachment by discussing the neurobiology of relationships, covering our development from the womb to forming attachments throughout our life.

Using the work of Louis Cozolino in his book, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain, this episode explores the concepts of the social synapse and our brains as social organs. You’ll learn how the brain and nervous system evolved to help us communicate, the impact of dysregulation on relationships, and how attachment styles develop and affect social connection.

By the end of this episode, expect to also have a better understanding of how the brain and nervous system work together, the physiological signals that shape our reality and health, why attachment is a survival need, and MORE.

Tune in to discover the power you have to train your nervous system and change your relationship patterns!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Louis Cozolino’s social synapse and the brain’s development
An example of how trauma affects attachment
Co-regulation from a neurosomatic perspective
The brain as a social organ
Blushing and pupil dilation as social signals
Why training your visual system is so important
Emotional expression and our physiological releases
The impact of loneliness on our health
Why attachment is a survival need
Attachment styles and how they develop
How regulating your nervous system improves social connections

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain by Louis Cozolino

Lost Connections by Johann Hari

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enJuly 03, 2023

Trailer: Relationships & Your Nervous System

We’re excited to be back for our third season of Trauma Rewired! In this short episode, Jennifer and Elisabeth give a quick overview of what you can expect from this new season that’s centered around attachment and relationships.

Last season focused on the individual nervous system, laying the groundwork for this season’s exploration of how our nervous systems exist together. This season breaks down issues of attachment in our development and relationships, as well as how the experiences within our communities, in society, and with each other affect our health. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of topics like codependency, narcissism, empathy, and misattunement.

Plus, several exciting guests will be appearing on the show to help us talk about the impact of the vagus nerve on our social connections, our theory that complex trauma is an attachment wound, and more.

Tune in and get ready to start exploring these concepts in our first episode on the Neurobiology of Relationships and Attachment!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Topics we’ll be covering in Season 3
New and old guests we’ve invited on the show
How we prepared and recovered for Season 3

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enJune 26, 2023

Entrepreneurship, Emotions, and Healthy Work Spaces

Leadership, especially leadership as an entrepreneur, comes with unavoidable stress. Even those without a history of past trauma can struggle to manage the dysregulation that comes with this kind of consistent stress. Imagine if leaders added nervous system work to their leadership toolkit. Companies and organizations would look and function a lot different, that is for sure!

Sharing her unique perspective on the show today is Margy Feldhuhn, CEO of Interview Connections and executive coach for entrepreneurs. She is also a neurosomatic intelligence certified practitioner, and uses her training to help leaders build resilience and create a safe environment for their team to succeed.

Margy helps us shed light on the ways dysregulation affects our effectiveness as a leader, recounting her own mental health journey processing with grief and other trauma. Plus, hear how simple practices like neuro drills have yielded positive results for her team.

Tune in to learn why nervous system training is beneficial for everyone in leadership! Topics discussed in this episode:

● Margy’s mental health journey

● How NSI changed her approach to healing

● How the nervous system affects leadership

● Ways Margy integrated NSI into her company

● Processing grief and childhood trauma

● Recognizing a flight or fight response

● How dysregulation shows up in the workplace

● Why all leaders should have nervous system training

● Benefits to team performance

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enJune 12, 2023

Perfectionism is a Trauma Response

Our society rewards those who work hard, appear to never make mistakes, and seem to have everything under control. We’ve collectively decided on what perfect looks like and attributed perfectionism with the ideal person.

What if we told you that perfectionism is actually a protective measure used to prevent oneself from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and worthlessness? These words don’t quite scream “perfect” do they?

Trauma Rewired hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth have touched upon this trauma response before, but today’s episode is a deep dive into how it can develop and lead to harmful avoidance behaviors. They deconstruct perfectionism, including defining the three types of perfectionism and how it interplays with CPTSD elements like the inner critic.

You’ll learn the many health consequences that the chronic stress of perfectionism can cause, and how to distinguish excellence from perfectionism. Jennifer and Elisabeth also share their experience with perfectionism, and how it can push us into burnout or freeze states.

Perfectionism is not an attainable goal, which makes it debilitating and a hindrance to healing trauma. To take the first step towards moving out of perfectionism, tune in!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Defining the 3 types of perfectionism
Perfectionism as a trauma response
Jennifer’s example of setting yourself up for failure
The effects of perfectionism on our health
Maladaptive coping mechanisms for perfectionism
How to recognize perfectionist behaviors and thinking
Jennifer on taking action against her perfectionism
Trauma healing, neurosomatic intelligence, and integration
Limiting beliefs push the loop of perfectionism
Elisabeth on the importance on self-regulation tools in her life
How perfectionism negatively affects organizations and employees
Steps Elisabeth has taken to heal her perfectionism and workaholism

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Perfectionism is not an attainable goal, which makes it debilitating and a hindrance to healing trauma. To take the first step towards moving out of perfectionism, tune in!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Defining the 3 types of perfectionism
Perfectionism as a trauma response
Jennifer’s example of setting yourself up for failure
The effects of perfectionism on our health
Maladaptive coping mechanisms for perfectionism
How to recognize perfectionist behaviors and thinking
Jennifer on taking action against her perfectionism
Trauma healing, neurosomatic intelligence, and integration
Limiting beliefs push the loop of perfectionism
Elisabeth on the importance on self-regulation tools in her life
How perfectionism negatively affects organizations and employees
Steps Elisabeth has taken to heal her perfectionism and workaholism

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enMay 30, 2023

Dissociation

Disassociation is one way that our brain keeps us safe from things that may cause us stress or harm. Whether it’s a simple moment of daydreaming or constant state of dissociation in an abusive relationship, being cognitively and physically disconnected is not conducive to healing.

During this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer and Elisabeth discuss the spectrum of dissociation and how it can affect the interoceptive system, or how we process and send information to the brain. They go over the symptoms of dissociation, sharing their personal experiences of dissociation related to childhood trauma.

Our survival brain sees healing as a threat, but there are ways to rehab the deficits in the nervous system to give more clear information to the brain, helping us to think and see more clearly. For example, training our interoceptive system can fight our hypersensitivity to threats and bring us out of disassociation.

To learn what tools can help you retrain your nervous system and the learned conditioned responses that are no longer serving you, tune in to this episode!

Topics discussed in this episode:

● Misconceptions about dissociation

● The definition of dissociation and its symptoms

● Dissociation as a protective mechanism

● How the interoceptive system works

● Dissociation and the freeze response

● How dissociation affects the body and how we feel pain

● The link to avoidance behavior

● Tools to bring yourself back from a state of dissociation

● Body dysmorphia and deficits in the visual system

● Living in the body to find a safe place to feel and heal

● Dissociation as an effect of peak somatic experiences

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enMay 22, 2023

Feeling Emotions like Joy and Connection Can Be As Scary As Grief and Shame

In our first episode on emotional repression, we discussed how trauma can cause repressive behaviors and why emotional expression is necessary to living a healthy life. Today, we’re concluding the conversation by addressing two emotions that impedes the healing process: grief and shame.

Matt Bush of Next Level Neuro is back to continue the discussion with hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff. To showcase the effects of grief on the nervous system, they all give examples of client experiences with repressed emotions and their own grief practices.

Despite our innate need to express emotions and have connections with other human beings, expressing even positive emotions can be difficult. By the end of this episode, you’ll understand why positive emotions are so threatening to the nervous system and why minimum effective dose may be the key to healing.

Listen in to learn about how to work through shame, the healing power of nature, and finding safety in emotional expression!

Topics discussed in this episode:

● Why neuro trainers need to be trauma informed

● Jennifer’s grief practices and co-regulation

● How grief affects the nervous system

● Learning to connect with your grief

● Shame as an immobilizing and protective emotion

● Using NSI to work through shame

● Why positive emotions can be scary to the nervous system

● How our brain helps us heal

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enMay 15, 2023

Emotional Repression vs Healthy Expression, Anger

Why can it be so hard to feel and express emotions? What happens physiologically in the brain and nervous system when anger is stuffed down? Is emotional expression necessary for our physical health? Have these topics been studied, or can we only go off our own experiences?

Hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff, and Matt Bush of Next Level Neuro are answering all these questions and more. They break down the ways people with childhood trauma develop repressive behaviors, why emotional expression is crucial for our overall health, and the consequences of emotional repression in the nervous system.

Since repression is a subconscious defense mechanism, it affects our behavior and belief patterns, and changes our perception without us even realizing it. This makes it incredibly hard to change, but after listening to this episode, you’ll better understand how emotional repression impacts the different systems in the body and the power of nervous system regulation.

Tune in to learn how this knowledge can help you or your practice as a healer!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Why emotional expression is important for our health
How childhood trauma affects our capacity to feel and express emotion
Emotional repression and abandonment
Responses of suppression vs. repression
Consequences to the nervous system
Damage to the interoceptive system
Finding a safe space to work through emotions
Anger as a communication tool and expression
Effects on the immune system
The use of plant medicine and epigenetics

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enMay 08, 2023

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Emotions and Your Nervous System

“How many experiences in love do we have to have (where we burn it down or blow it up) before we actually understand love is real, and we start to change our response to those people or those situations?”

Emotions are necessary for our survival, telling us when to be scared or cautious for our own protection. Trauma causes us to view situations and people through the lens of our past experiences, making us hypervigilant and sensitive to any perceived threat of danger. This dysregulation of our emotions, and in turn our nervous system, undoubtedly has a profound effect on our health and relationships.

The quote above comes directly from this episode of Trauma Rewired, in which host Jennifer is joined by Elisabeth Kristof of Brain-Based Wellness and Matt Bush of Next Level Neuro, both founders of the Neuro-Somatic Intelligence Coaching Certification Program. They explore the topic of emotions with a neuro somatic intelligence approach.

You’ll learn how emotion is stored in the body, why emotional regulation is important for our body’s functioning, and how trauma affects our expression or suppression of emotions. Matt also shares new and exciting discoveries in the study of emotions.

Tune in for an in-depth conversation on emotions, including the physiology and why they’re important for the healing process!

Topics discussed in this episode:

● Emotions and the limbic system

● Why emotions are necessary for survival

● Homeostasis and emotional regulation

● Feelings vs. emotions

● How trauma affects how we express (or don’t express) emotions

● Elisabeth gives an example of suppressing her emotions

● The personal experience of pain

● Where emotions are stored in the body

● Mechanism of memory in relation to trauma

● Creating and releasing tension/trauma in the body

● Emotions as triggers

● How do we train ourselves to perceive emotions/relationships differently?

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enMay 01, 2023

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The Fawn Trauma Response

In this episode we will be discussing the least understood, and most insidious four F’s in trauma response, fawn.

This survival adaptation is difficult to pinpoint, because fawn can often be confused with empathy or general care, but if not dealt with, can get to a toxic level for the fawner. Neglecting yourself for the sake of others can cause chronic issues, not only in the body, but in creating genuine connections as well.

The missing piece to overcoming fawn is to first identify it, then to gain tools to regulate the nervous system to create safety in the body. However, the tools are difficult to implement when you are unaware of the trauma response in the first place.

Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff from Brain-Based Wellness, uncover what fawn looks like and how it may show up in your life. Along with practical tools to regulate the nervous system in situations where fawning was the automatic response, and how to override that with an intentional one.

Finding safety in your own body IS possible and so is living authentically. Listen in for more info!

Topics discussed in this episode:

What does fawn mean in terms of a trauma response
Why fawn develops
Recognizing fawn in yourself
How its triggered
Practical tools to move passed fawn
What is sexual fawning

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enApril 24, 2023

The Freeze Trauma Response

Have you been putting off sending that important email or having a difficult conversation? Thesecould be signs of freeze trauma response. Not taking action and procrastinating seems likeinnocent occurrences, because we all do it right? However, these can be seriously damaging to our lives and nervous systems.

The prolonged trauma that lives in our bodies that doesn’t have a chance to move through us
can wreak havoc in not only our lives but in our bodies. We have a hard time knowing when we
are in freeze response because it is so difficult to pinpoint because it gets roped in with
character attributes like laziness or dissociation.

Then why do we do this? Well, our brains are very good at protecting ourselves from real or
perceived threats, so they create these barriers to not put ourselves in situations where we
could potentially have an exaggerated stress response. Then we continue to procrastinate, and
go into numbing activities.

However, there is a way to move through this and design a life where procrastination isn’t the
norm, and we can live more fulfilling, healthier lives. Rewiring our bodies isn’t an easy task, but
the reward is exponential.

Tune in today to hear how you can move out of the freeze trauma response and into life!

Topics discussed in this episode:
● What is the freeze response?
● Why does the freeze response occur?
● What happens when someone stays in a freeze response?
● How dissociation falls under freeze response
● How working with the nervous system can help remedy freeze response
● Protective postures used in freeze response
● Interrupting the protective posture feedback loop
● Shame associated with freeze response
● Is freeze response related to depression?
● Importance of identifying and understanding freeze response

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enApril 17, 2023

The Flight Trauma Response

“Living a life of growth and expansion is as simple as living in your nervous system.” - Jennifer
Wallace

Arriving early, leaving late, overthinking, can’t sit still, breathing quickly, and always keeping
busy, are just a few examples of how the flight trauma response can manifest in our lives. This
response is biologically built in to keep us safe from harm, but what if that harm is perceived anddoesn’t require fleeing the scene? This can be detrimental to our personal and professional livesand keep us in a state of high alert with stress hormones coursing through our bodies that canbe quite harmful.

In order to combat this trauma response, the nervous system must be regulated, but it is difficult to do that when we can’t pinpoint whether the response is flight or what the trigger is. The first step is to understand the response, and come back to the body to understand the sensations that come with it.

This is where applied neurology has proven beneficial to create a safe container for nervous
system regulation to allow those of us with this response to come out on the other side with the tools and ability to self regulate. Regulate so we can have that hard conversation without
leaving half way through or to be able to finally relax and dig our feet in the sand while soaking
up the sun.

In this episode, hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff founder of Nero-Somatic Intelligence and Brain Based Wellness share their personal experiences with flight response and how it affected their lives when they didn’t
have the tools to regulate.

Tune in for information about tools on how to recognize and regulate the flight trauma response sensations to be able to live a full and expansive life!

Topics discussed in this episode:
● What is a flight trauma response
● What you can do to develop an awareness of this response and how to regulate it
● What role does respiration play
● Behaviors associated with flight response
● Jennifer and Elisabeth’s personal experiences with flight
● The physiological response that happens during flight response
● How applied neurology can help regulate the nervous system
● How breathwork during flight may not be right for you

● Best tools to get out of flight response
● How to deal with triggers in relationships

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enApril 10, 2023

The Fight Trauma Response

It is our brain’s job to protect us against danger. Whether that is a real or perceived threat, the
brain will activate and will result in an action, or inaction. This isn’t the most effective way to be
protected for people who have experienced trauma, because that trauma is stored so deep in
our subconscious, that the threat response can activate in the absence of a real threat but in thepresence of a trigger.

There is no way to avoid having your trauma retriggered and your nervous system regulated at
all times. These are lived experiences that have sown their way into our nervous systems, but
we can implement tools to regulate in the face of a response that may be harmful to others or
yourself.

Specifically the fight trauma response. This can be one of the most damaging to our
relationships and our bodies. Creating chaos in moments of intimacy with others, or chaos
within our bodies, can lead to living an unfulfilling life. There is a way out of this, and that is whawe want to talk about on today’s episode.

Jennifer and Elisabeth sit down to speak about fight response and how it manifested in their
lives. As well as tools you can use to help yourself move the anger through your body. They
worked with their nervous system and learned how to identify when they were in fight mode andhow to regulate it in that moment. They now want to share this knowledge with you.
Tune in to hear their stories and how you can start your journey to a regulated nervous system.

Topics discussed in this episode:

● What happens in your body when in fight response
● How fight response is automatic without cognitive awareness
● Benefits of creating a new relationship with fight response
● Four ways people respond to anger
● How feelings of unsafety in yourself can make others feel unsafe
● How trauma responses can be misidentified as a personality trait
● Reparenting yourself during a trauma response
● How to move anger through the body
● What happens to your body when you express emotion
● The truth about how dysregulation does not stop

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enApril 03, 2023

How Trauma Lives in the Body and Why You Should Heal It in Your Nervous System

If you haven’t begun a journey to heal your nervous system, this episode of Trauma Rewired will convince you why NOW is the time to start.

In this episode, we’re sharing clips from season 2 that explain how trauma lives in the body and why you should heal it. By gaining a deeper understanding of what trauma does to the body, you can start to build resilience to repair the behavior patterns that aren’t serving you.

Hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof also delve deep into the role of the nervous system for our overall health, and how it's affected by trauma. Plus, you’ll learn the foundations of applied neurology, including the neural exercises and tools that have helped Jennifer and Elisabeth, and their clients, make lasting change.

If you want to know how to regulate your nervous system, tune in today!

Topics discussed in this episode:

The role of the nervous system
Healing deficits in the nervous system
Why safety is crucial for healing
Defining the nervous system and what it means to train it
Uses of applied neurology
Protective outputs and dysregulation
Triggers in the brain and our responses
How trauma affects the brain
Creating new patterns in the brain
Dissociation and training the vagus nerve
Why the vagus nerve is so important
Understanding your unique nervous system

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enMarch 28, 2023

Trauma Rewired; the Healing Vortex

Trauma Rewired is a podcast rooted in science, and season 2 of the show has covered topics like complex post-traumatic stress disorder, the four Fs, and emotional repression through the lens of neurosomatic intelligence.

Through their research for each episode and recording tough conversations, hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof have discovered a lot about themselves and gained a deeper understanding of important concepts like disassociation.

In this episode, they recap the season and highlight the benefits of nervous system health. Jennifer and Elisabeth embodied everything discussed this season, utilizing neurosomatic practices and finding safety to feel their own emotions brought to the surface each episode.

Tune in to hear their insights and find out what new concepts they’ll be exploring next season!

Topics discussed in this episode: