#cptsd

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enMarch 13, 2023

Executive Leadership, Your Nervous System, and Success

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

Get more information on Margy Feldhoun’s company, Interview Connections, here:

Connect with Margy:

https://www.instagram.com/heymargy/

https://www.tiktok.com/@heymargy

Start your FREE Brain-Based Wellness 2-week neuro training:

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Get more information on the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification: https://www.neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://www.brainbased-wellness.com/membership/?aff=Jenebug

Join the Trauma Rewired Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/761101225132846

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

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https://www.instagram.com/trauma.rewired/

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enMarch 06, 2023

Grief, Shame, and Your Nervous System

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 Kristof. 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

Start your FREE Brain-Based Wellness 2-week neuro training:

Get more information on the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification: https://www.neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://www.brainbased-wellness.com/membership/?aff=Jenebug

Join the Trauma Rewired Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/761101225132846

Connect with Matt Bush:

https://www.nextlevelneuro.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nextlevelneuro/

https://www.facebook.com/nextlevelneuro/

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://www.instagram.com/trauma.rewired/

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enFebruary 27, 2023

Dangers of Emotional Repression, Healthy Expression, and Your Nervous System

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 Kristof, 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

Get more information on the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification: https://www.neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

Claim your two free weeks on the Brain Based Wellness Site: https://brainbased-wellness.com/membership/?aff=Jenebug

Join the Trauma Rewired Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/761101225132846

Connect with Matt Bush:

https://www.nextlevelneuro.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nextlevelneuro/

https://www.facebook.com/nextlevelneuro/

Work with Jennifer:

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

https://www.instagram.com/illuminatedwithjennifer/

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Trauma Rewired

enFebruary 20, 2023

#anger

#emotionalintelligence

Food and Nervous System Regulation

Food is integral to our survival and health, but it’s common for those with trauma to exhibit disordered eating, whether that be a history of dieting, bingeing, or fasting. These behaviors are truly a reflection of our dysregulated nervous system, and only once we start to heal it can we find food freedom.

During this episode, we’re talking about the health of our relationships with food and our body, and how nervous system regulation is a path to trauma healing. Jennifer and Elisbeth share their personal experience with distorted eating, and how they achieved food freedom.

We also explore the topics of diet culture, intuitive eating, the “good woman narrative,” and how food drives components of complex post-traumatic stress disorder, such as inner critic and perfectionism.

Tune in to learn more, and get guidance on establishing a healthier relationship with food!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Food as an output of the nervous system
How eating behaviors affect the interoceptive system
Effects of our traumatizing diet culture
Food numbing emotions
Additional pressures on women
Experiencing the pleasure of food
What distorts our perspective on our body
Scarcity mindset
Resources to start healing

Get more information on the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification: https://neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

Sign up for the Food Freedom program here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/food-freedom/

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://brainbased-wellness.com/membership/?aff=Jenebug

Learn more about Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com?aff=Jenebug

Join the Trauma Rewired Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/761101225132846

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://www.instagram.com/illuminatedwithjennifer/

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enFebruary 17, 2023

Complex Trauma, Relationships, and Your Nervous System

Do you have trouble getting out of your head and into your body? Does your trauma affect your ability to make deep connections with others? For today’s guest, following a neurosomatic intelligence framework allowed her and her partner to build a stronger relationship, while learning more about themselves in the process.

Sharing her NSI experience with hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisbeth Kristoff is Dr. Jolie Hamilton, a relationship expert who now brings neurosomatic intelligence into her practice. They discuss how our nervous systems interact with each other, healing generational trauma, and the power of using NSI tools anytime, anywhere.

Our nervous systems have the power to comfort or dysregulate ourselves and others, but it’s important to remember that dysregulation is inevitable in any relationship. The key is to expand the capacity of our nervous system, and you can learn that from this interview.

If you have an insecure attachment style, want to try NSI tools with your partner or just want to understand the science of this topic, listen to this episode!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Dr. Jolie’s progress after connecting with NSI/somatics
How Dr. Jolie’s clients use NSI tools to combat triggers
Interacting with each other’s nervous systems
Exploring NSI tools with a partner
The cycle of trauma bonding
Rewiring patterns and psychodynamic theory
Healing generational trauma
The collective unconscious
Warring internal parts of ourselves
Benefits of nervous system regulation

Contact Dr. Jolie Hamilton:

Website https://www.jolihamilton.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drjoli_hamilton/

Get more information on the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification: https://neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://brainbased-wellness.com/free-subscription/

Learn more about Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com?aff=Jenebug

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://www.instagram.com/illuminatedwithjennifer/

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enFebruary 13, 2023

Reflections on Neuro-Somatic Intelligence

Do you understand neurology, but have little comprehension of somatic healing? Or, are you trying to heal trauma with a therapy that lacks focus on the brain and body connection? Enter the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification!

Founders and educators of the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification, Elisabeth Kristoff, Melanie Weller and Matt Bush, just finished teaching the first cohort in the program and their expectations have already been surpassed. While coaching a diversity of professionals and non-professionals, they’ve also learned a lot about the far reach of this training for trauma healing.

Trauma Rewired host Jennifer is talking to them all about the various applications for this work, and the exciting results students and clients are achieving through the course. They also share how they’re navigating teaching students with a variety of prior knowledge, and the excitement and hardhips of teaching a new profession that doesn’t yet exist.

This is a time of growth in the NSI field, so tune in to join the conversation and find out how this certification can help you personally and/or professionally!

Topics discussed in this episode:

What everyone learned from the NSI program
What sets NSI apart from other certifications
How NSI can strengthen common therapies
Learning when not to use a tool, and what to do instead
The most important things taught in the course
Why they feel compelled to grow the program

Get more information on the Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification: https://neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series & Learn more about Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com?aff=Jenebug

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://neurosomaticintelligence.com?aff=traumarewired

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enFebruary 06, 2023

What is Applied Neurology?

If you’ve followed this podcast for even just a few episodes, you’ve heard about complex PTSD, the effects of trauma on the developmental brain, and how maladaptive behaviors form. Most importantly, you’ve learned that long-lasting change requires integration, a process supported by applied neurology.

Today, find out what applied neurology is and why it’s crucial to healing trauma from Trauma Rewired hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff of Brain-Based Wellness. You’ll learn about the nervous system, the effects of trauma on our input systems, and how all the systems in our body work together to keep us safe — even when it has a negative impact on our health.

Elisabeth and Jennifer also explain how neurosomatic intelligence tools are a true and practical way to change our brain’s patterns. Addressing any trauma-caused deficits in your input system with nervous system training works for them and their clients, and it can work for you too.

Listen in to start understanding what’s going on in your body, and get yourself one step closer to healing your traumas!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Defining applied neurology and why it’s important
Neurosomatic intelligence as an input driven system
Performance vs. protective outputs
The brain’s role in our survival and deficits in our input systems
Using NSI tools to support self-regulation
Emotional processing and breaking patterns
The importance of building a relationship with your body
Sensory mismatch and how we react to it
Key takeaways from this episode

Learn more about Neuro-Somatic Intelligence

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series:

https://brainbased-wellness.com?aff=Jenebug

Read the blog: www.podpage.com/trauma-rewired

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

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enJanuary 30, 2023

Complex Trauma and the Developmental Brain (cont'd)

“We all know this phrase, ‘if you wanna get out of the hole, stop digging.’ But when you're in complex PTSD, the brain is digging and you can't make it stop. It just keeps going back to these same experiences and these same feelings. It shows up in long-term development of the nervous system. It shows up in the physical body. It shows up because we don't know how to stop the digging.”

Today, co-hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff of Brain-Based Wellness are again joined by co-founder of the Neuro-Somatic Intelligence Coaching Certification Program, Matt Bush. During the second half of their discussion on complex trauma and the developing brain, you’ll learn why it’s so hard to break the brain’s unhealthy patterns and how you can “stop the digging.”

In this episode, Matt explains how the three areas of the brain make a framework to process emotions, regulate emotions, and incite action. Trauma Rewired has mentioned many times that without integration, long-lasting change is difficult, but without the survival brain and emotional brain working together, integration, specifically vertical integration, is impossible. This may sound overwhelming, but the good news change IS possible because of neuroplasticity.

If you want a deep understanding of vertical integration and how trauma affects the developing brain, tune in to learn more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

What is vertical integration?
Our brain’s protective mechanisms and what triggers them
Integration of emotional work and body work
How developmental trauma affects vertical integration
Dysregulation between the brain’s right and left hemisphere
Effects of imbalances in the nervous system
The SAID principle in relation to nervous system imbalance
Creating safety to break the pattern of dysregulation
Benefits of learning more about trauma and the brain

Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach? Visit www.neurosomaticintelligence.com

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://brainbased-wellness.com/free-subscription/

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Connect with Matt Bush:

Website

Facebook

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://neurosomaticintelligence.com/?utm_medium=aff-traumarewired&utm_content&utm_source

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enJanuary 23, 2023

Complex Trauma and the Developmental Brain

“Impaired integration is such a hallmark of the traumatized brain. It disrupts our ability to balance our nervous system. Neurobiologist Dan Siegel says that at its very essence, the purpose of trauma therapy is to restore brain integration.”

On today’s episode, co-hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff of Brain-Based Wellness discuss the neurological impacts of trauma, specifically how disassociation and fragmentation affect our brain integration. They’re joined by Matt Bush of Next Level Neuro and co-founder of the Neuro-Somatic Intelligence Coaching Certification Program.

Expect to understand more about how early childhood trauma results in brain dysfunction, shapes our basic functioning and filtration systems, and can overpower the cognitive mind. You’ll also learn what reintegrating memories actually means, and why integration is the key to healing.

Tune in to hear how neurosomatic intelligence can help get you to integrate and regulate your nervous system!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Defining complex trauma from a neurosomatic perspective
How complex trauma affects us in our daily lives and our future
Effects of trauma on brain development
Dissociation and fragmentation of self
Matt describes what high level integration looks like
Memory integration and why people feel “stuck”
Real examples of trauma responses overpowering their cognitive brain
Disassociating from the different parts of your self

Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach? Visit

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series:

https://brainbased-wellness.com?aff=Jenebug

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Connect with Matt Bush:

Website

Facebook

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired

This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique http://podcastboutique.com

enJanuary 16, 2023

Trauma and the Inability to Rest

We briefly talked about the death cycle of winter and rebirth in the “Trauma & the Holidays” episode, but today, Trauma Rewired is addressing how trauma inhibits our ability to rest — which is a crucial element to healing and changing maladaptive behaviors.

Hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff of Brain-Based Wellness discuss the consequences of poor rest, including derailing the brain’s functioning. Similar to when you’re fatigued and at your full capacity, constantly running on high alert can make us more susceptible to triggers and result in stress responses.

Most of us already know that sleep is necessary for our overall health and wellbeing, but letting the mind and body truly rest is also crucial to healing. Memory integration and nervous system regulation are infinitely harder to achieve when we don’t leave time for rest and recovery.

Tune in to learn why slowing down is sometimes hard to do, and how to support yourself in the process!

Topics discussed in this episode:

How trauma affects our internal states
Why rest is crucial to our health, but can also feel threatening
Actions Elisabeth is taking to change her behaviors and let herself rest
Reasons it’s difficult to rest and recover, and its effects
The loop of trauma and inability to rest
Trauma and Stress responses
Experiences with insomnia
Is rest a privilege?
Rest vs. freeze/shut down
The role of rest in the healing process

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://brainbased-wellness.com/free-subscription/

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired

This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique http://podcastboutique.com

enJanuary 10, 2023

Families, Children, and the Nervous System

enDecember 28, 2022

Beliefs, Future Self Attunement, and your Nervous System

“I think a lot of people try to move into manifestation and belief work, and can end up being really frustrated and down on themselves. It can be hard when you don't also have the tools to work with your nervous system.”

In this second part of the Trauma Rewired belief series, co-hosts Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristoff of Brain-Based Wellness are joined by Angella Jaber, an NSI practitioner who’s helping clients attune to their future self energy and create lasting change. During today’s discussion on the nervous system, they’ll explain the complex ways our past traumas keep us in a state of dysregulation, and why self-acceptance is key to truly healing.

Angella also shares her story of listening to her inner voice to live her authentic life, and bridging the work of nervous system healing and spirituality. You’ll also hear how applied neurology and NSI tools have helped them find self-awareness and work through the trauma responses, or protective outputs, not serving them.

As Elisabeth states above, our growth is limited when we don’t understand the way our nervous system operates. Tune in to start learning!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Angella’s journey to following her inner guidance
Combining NSI training with future self energy
Creating and preparing for permanent change
How she guides clients in future self attunement
Benefits resulting from integrating NSI tools
Shadow work and self-acceptance
Gaining freedom through self-regulation

Angella’s process for shifting vibrations and manifestation

Using neuro tools to reach a new level of connection to yourself

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired

This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique.

enDecember 20, 2022

Belief Rewire: Our Gift to You

From last week’s episode on perfectionism to topics like CPTSD elements or intuition, Trauma Rewired has discussed numerous issues that result from trauma. You’ve heard a lot about the nervous system and how important it is to regulate it, but how exactly do you do that?

During this first installment of a three-part series on core beliefs, you’ll learn how to deconstruct the beliefs that drive your harmful behaviors and create a loop of dysregulation. For example, Elisabeth shares her holiday-related anxiety that is leading to trauma responses like perfectionism; and Jennifer helps her trace back these beliefs and rewire the nervous system — just like they would any client.

In the spirit of the holiday season, Jennifer and Elisabeth will also be sharing two neuro drills that can bring you to a feeling of safety when in a state of high stress and dysregulation. This will enable you to challenge the beliefs that have a negative impact on your health and healing.

Change becomes possible when your brain and nervous system are on the same page, and listening to this episode will help get you there!

Topics discussed in this episode:

How core beliefs can develop in childhood
Changing limiting beliefs from a neurosomatic perspective
An example of tracing back a belief
Driving behaviors of limited beliefs
How the body feels accepting limiting beliefs vs. the opposite belief
Taking action and changing behavior
What happens after new beliefs are achieved?
Elisabeth and Jennifer teach a few neuro drills

Subscribe to the free Brain Training Video Series: https://brainbased-wellness.com/free-subscription/

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired

Trauma Rewired

enDecember 13, 2022

#nervoussystemregulation

Trauma and the Holidays

enDecember 06, 2022

How the Patriarchy and Systems of Oppression live in the Body

“In order to have a thriving world, a thriving ecosystem that works in harmony, we need variance… And yet because we are so far away from our own sense of inherent knowing of our enoughness, we’ve constructed a world where that’s not true for our bodies.”

This quote from author Sonya Renee Taylor perfectly puts the discussion on this episode of Trauma Rewired into context. Joining host Jennifer Wallace to share their perspectives on how systems of oppression live in the body are founders of Neuro Somatic Intelligence, Elisabeth Kristof and Melanie Weller, as well as Victor Jones, a neurosomatic practitioner.

Societal, racial, institutional, and ancestral oppression are just a few of these systems that lead to chronic stress and negative consequences for our health. We live in a world with oppressive systems like racism and unrealistic body standards, which festers a sense of unsafety, and results in a dysregulated nervous system, making it difficult to find connection and community. But there are ways we can overcome these inherited and learned responses!

To start the process of dismantling these oppressive systems and getting to a place of safety and healing, tune in to learn more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

The body hierarchy and how oppression lives inside the body/nervous system
How these systems of oppression affects us and how to challenge them
Melanie’s view on the effect of patriarchy and oppression on the body
Our bodies as ancestral artifacts
Victor on how NSI can help dismantle these systems
Finding compassion and connection
How the vagus nerve is impacted by oppression
Societal oppression in regards to fat phobia
Victor’s experienced conditioning around racism
Why regulation tools are so important
Mental illness stigma as oppression
Deep survival responses and regulating the nervous system
Benefits Elisabeth has seen from working with her nervous system

Connect with Melanie Weller on Instagram and her website: https://www.melanieweller.com

Connect with Victor Jones:

Victor LaRue Jones, MSW, LCSW, LCAS (he, him, his)

Certified Resilience Educator

Valiant Families, PC

PO Box 8064

107 SE Main St Ste 410

Rocky Mount, NC 27804

252-382-0682

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://www.traumarewired.com/

FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired

enNovember 29, 2022

Perfectionism: 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

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

www.traumarewired.com

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

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Ayahuasca, Integration, and Neurosomatic Intelligence

The many gifts received through ceremony with ayahuasca from start to finish cannot be measured within the confines of the days in a retreat. The potential reveals itself during ceremony, but the gifts are found once you’re released into the world again, armed with awareness. However, potential is just that. How do you take that potential and transform it into healing?

Integration after ceremony is arguably the most crucial part of the whole process, because this is where you train your body to receive and transmute the heavy dysregulated energy you’ve been carrying in your nervous system your entire life, into regulation.

Our host, Jennifer Wallace, recognized this after an extremely eye opening ceremony, that was in fact dysregulating in nature, so she knew there was a lot of work to be done post ceremony.

Integrating the new information into her life in order for her body to feel safe was one of the greatest gifts she gave to herself, because now it has helped her create the big life she knew she could live. Jennifer is able to live fully expressed, and if she isn’t, she has the tools to bring her back to that aligned place.

Jennifer has learned the tools to integrate the lessons that come up during plant medicine ceremonies and she wants to share her methods with you.

Tune in to hear the importance of integration and how Jennifer was able to achieve it by healing her nervous system.

Topics discussed in this episode:

The importance of preparation (ie. dieta) prior to ceremony
Shifts that could take place in your life during ceremony
Being open to all that comes up during ceremony
Who are you after releasing trauma?
Working with and transmuting anger
Why it is important to integrate after transformation
What are body boundary variations
The importance of nervous system healing
Changing your lived experience with awareness
The emergence of a long term healing blueprint
Recap of ACE scores
How your life shifts after healing

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren’t serving you!

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