Trauma Rewired

The Neurology of Empathy

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Believe it or not, empaths and narcissists have foundational similarities. Not only does the brain chemistry look the same, but empaths and narcissist...

Healing The Relationship To Our Body

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Relationship to the Body Season 03, Episode 30 Our bodies are always speaking to us, but often we're not able to understand or listen to what they're ...

Healing Dissociation

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"You can't be present and dissociated at the same time." These wise words from co-host Jennifer Wallace encompasses why this topic is so important to...

Self Abandonment of Complex Post Traumatic Stress

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The essence of who we are radiates when we live in our purpose. When we can connect with our true self and share it with others. There are many blocke...

Social Anxiety of Complex Post traumatic Stress

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The term social anxiety gets tossed around a lot these days, however individuals with CPTS who experience social anxiety feel its effects on a viscera...

Toxic Shame Of Complex Post Traumatic Stress

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a human, you have most likely felt shame to some degree. Although it is a normal human protective emotion to keep us safe on a societal level, sham...

The Inner Critic of Complex Post Traumatic Stress

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We've all experienced the inner critic to some extent. You know, that voice inside of your head saying you're not good enough, or that you're a bad pe...

The Emotional Flashbacks of Complex Post Traumatic Stress

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is C-PTSD?

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

  We first explored this question in Season 2 and felt it was necessary to revisit; with more altitude, updated research and further along in our hea...

Relationships and Your Nervous System; Closing the Season and Looking Ahead

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elisabeth Kristof and Jennifer Wallace close season three of Trauma Rewired by reflecting on the interconnectedness of trauma, the nervous systems and...

Transforming Trauma in Youths Through Athletics and Neuro-Somatic Intelligence

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's no secret that wellness programs like neurosomatic intelligence coaching often lack accessibility in marginalized communities, where populati...

Navigating Neurodivergence and Chronic Pain with Neuro-Somatics

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neurosomatic intelligence can be the key to healing not just trauma, but in the management of chronic pain. Joining us on this episode of Trauma Rewir...

Healing Relational Patterns

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered why you always end up in the same type of relationships? Or why so many of the people in your life cause you stress? This episo...

Reshaping Trauma Recovery Through Affirmation Music and Nervous System Health with Toni Jones

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No person exemplifies the healing power of music more than today's guest, Toni Jones. A former life coach, Toni wanted to create a tool for clients to...

Neuro-Somatics of Expressive Liberation: Honoring Personal Authenticity

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a neurosomatic relationship and intimacy coach, safety and nervous system regulation are at the heart of Piper Rose's work. They bridge the gap bet...

Empower Your Voice: Transforming Boundaries and Communication Through Neuro-Somatic Intelligence

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Voice and Visibility Season 03, Episode 35 Voice is a profound tool for self-expression, embodiment, and navigating the world around us. In this episo...

Rewiring Success: The Relationship Between Your Brand, Your Business, And Your Nervous System

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"These tools and drills create the results that we're actually looking for, and that allows us to show up more empowered, to show up more embodied, to...

Neuro-Somatics For Self-Compassion, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, and Holistic Healing

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring the intersection of neurosomatic intelligence and self-compassion, this insightful conversation with applied neuro practitioner Amanda Smith...

Stress Response In Relationship

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Trauma Rewired, hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth welcome back Matt Bush of Next Level Neuro to explore the physiology of stress and the trans...

The Pelvic Floor and It's Relationship to Healing Freeze, Dissociation, and Shame

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The pelvic bowl is the center of our somatic experience, but the majority of women are disconnected from this crucial part of the body. So today, host...

Healing the Relationship With Our Bodies

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our bodies are always speaking to us, but often we're not able to understand or listen to what they're trying to communicate. In this episode, hosts J...

Healing the Relationship to Our Bodies

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our bodies are always speaking to us, but often we're not able to understand or listen to what they're trying to communicate. In this episode, hosts J...

Complex Trauma Impacts Brain Development

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Impaired integration is such a hallmark of the traumatized brain. It disrupts our ability to balance our nervous system. Neurobiologist Dan Siegel sa...

Presence

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you show up in the world, in relationships, at work? Even just sitting in a sauna. Can you safely say you are fully present in these situations...

Dissociation

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dissociation 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 cons...

Attachment Styles Can Change and Are a Lens That Filters Relationships

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 attac...

Attachment is the Root of Complex Trauma

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

Holidays Attachment

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The holidays can be a magical time full of celebrations and connection, but they can also evoke feelings of loneliness and overwhelm — especially fo...

Secure Attachments & Nervous System Health

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you intellectualize all the concepts and theories heard on this podcast or the ones you read on The Holistic Psychologist's social media, but can't...

Emotional Neglect

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When we think about adverse childhood experiences, emotional neglect is often seen as less significant compared to other forms of trauma. Its subtleti...

Trauma Informed Police Care

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to work through trauma and improve nervous system health when your job requires you to disconnect from your body in order to survive? I...

Historical Trauma and Attachment

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What role does our ancestral history play in our attachment styles, and mental health as a whole? Joining us on the show to help answer this question ...

Shame

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Shame Season 03, Episode 19 If you listened to our episode on toxic shame last season, then you know that shame is a debilitating emotional response t...

Birthing and Medical Trauma

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this season in episode 3, Trauma Rewired explored the impact of a mother's nervous system on their child even before birth. But let's take a s...

Chronic Pain & Emotions

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we dive deeper into applied neurology and the immune system, we're joined by the founder of Stop Chasing Pain, Dr. Bruce Perry. He helps us explore...

Misattunement & Co-regulation

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Empathy and the Nervous System

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Trauma Rewired explored the neurology of narcissism, so this week we're focusing on empathy. Matt Bush, co-lead educator of the Neuro Somat...

Narcissism

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What's the difference between possessing narcissistic traits and being a narcissist? Can we say narcissistic personality disorder is real when we don'...

Fawn & Sexual Fawn

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The four trauma responses are the brain's way of protecting us from threat, real or perceived. They are noncognitive, reflexive outputs that are deepl...

Codependency

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you have a pattern of staying in unbalanced, chaotic relationships, this episode is for you. If it's hard for you to set boundaries with friends, f...

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

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 attac...

Our Relationship to Society Impacts Our Relationship To Self

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trauma Rewired has talked a lot about threat, including its neurobiology, what happens in the body when we don't feel safe, and how a history of traum...

Overcoming Dissociation and Emotional Repression to Create Presence

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you show up in the world, in relationships, at work? Even just sitting in a sauna. Can you safely say you are fully present in these situations...

Continuity of Parts

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Following our episode on embodiment, we're diving into the topics of parts of self, sex and pleasure because without presence, we are cheating ourselv...

Embodiment is Scary AF

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Embodiment has many different meanings, but to be embodied from a neurosomatic intelligence perspective relates to the integration of the body, mind a...

Setting & Receiving Boundaries

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In order to talk about boundaries, we must first understand what they are and why they're important. That's why we start off this episode with a defin...

Relationships to Cultural Beliefs

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Believe it or not, the brain and nervous system process social threat and physical threat the same way, making them equally as harmful to our health. ...

CPTSD is an Attachment Wound

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

  Our last episode introduced the brain as a social organ, and how this topic relates to the neurobiology of relationships. Today, we dive deeper int...

Social Connection, Survival, and the Neurobiology of Relationships

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth jump right into this season's theme of attachment by discussing the neurobiology of relationships, covering our developme...

Trailer: Relationships & Your Nervous System

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

Relationships, Complex Trauma, and your Nervous System

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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'...

Entrepreneurship, Emotions, and Healthy Work Spaces

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leadership, especially leadership as an entrepreneur, comes with unavoidable stress. Even those without a history of past trauma can struggle to manag...

Leadership, Visibility, and Boundaries and your Nervous System

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're back for another episode on the nervous system and leadership, talking to Jessica Rhodes, the founder of podcast booking agency Interview Connec...

Perfectionism is a Trauma Response

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Dissociation

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 co...

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

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our first episode on emotional repression, we discussed how trauma can cause repressive behaviors and why emotional expression is necessary to livi...

Emotional Repression vs Healthy Expression, Anger

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 emotio...

Emotions and Your Nervous System

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"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 cha...

The Fawn Trauma Response

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we will be discussing the least understood, and most insidious four F's in trauma response, fawn.    This survival adaptation is dif...

The Freeze Trauma Response

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you been putting off sending that important email or having a difficult conversation? Thesecould be signs of freeze trauma response. Not taking a...

The Flight Trauma Response

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Living a life of growth and expansion is as simple as living in your nervous system." - Jennifer Wallace Arriving early, leaving late, overthinking, ...

The Fight Trauma Response

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Trauma Rewired; the Healing Vortex

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, a...

Visibility, Leadership, and Podcasting

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're back for another episode on the nervous system and leadership, talking to Jessica Rhodes, the founder of podcast booking agency Interview Connec...

Executive Leadership, Your Nervous System, and Success

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leadership, especially leadership as an entrepreneur, comes with unavoidable stress. Even those without a history of past trauma can struggle to manag...

Grief, Shame, and Your Nervous System

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our first episode on emotional repression, we discussed how trauma can cause repressive behaviors and why emotional expression is necessary to livi...

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

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 emotio...

Food and Nervous System Regulation

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Complex Trauma, Relationships, and Your Nervous System

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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'...

Reflections on Neuro-Somatic Intelligence

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

What is Applied Neurology?

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

Complex Trauma and the Developmental Brain (cont'd)

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"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 i...

Complex Trauma and the Developmental Brain

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Impaired integration is such a hallmark of the traumatized brain. It disrupts our ability to balance our nervous system. Neurobiologist Dan Siegel sa...

Trauma and the Inability to Rest

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We briefly talked about the death cycle of winter and rebirth in the "Trauma & the Holidays" episode, but today, Trauma Rewired is addressing how trau...

Core Beliefs and Resolutions

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's a common tradition to make resolutions in the New Year, most often relating to our bodies and our habits. New Year's resolutions usually have an ...

Families, Children, and the Nervous System

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beliefs, Future Self Attunement, and your Nervous System

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"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...

Belief Rewire: Our Gift to You

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From last week's episode on perfectionism to topics like CPTSD elements or intuition, Trauma Rewired has discussed numerous issues that result from tr...

Trauma and the Holidays

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Perfectionism: A Trauma Response

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Emotions and the Nervous System

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ayahuasca, Integration, and Neurosomatic Intelligence

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 pote...

Dissociation

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Integration of Peak Somatic Experiences

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Healing Autoimmune in Two Worlds: Plants & Western Medicine

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trauma Rewired has addressed many issues that arise when trauma is stored in the body for years, decades, or even a lifetime. One of them is that this...

Self Abandonment: CPTSD Component

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Arcana, Closing Ceremony

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's the fourth and final day of Jennifer's ayahuasca retreat and, in this short and sweet episode, she shares why she bridges neurosomatic intelligen...

Social Anxiety: CPTSD Component

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Humans are a social species, and we crave human connection and intimacy. Even when our nervous system has been severely affected by trauma, we ultimat...

Surgery, Death, and Rebirth

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This account of Jennifer's second to last ceremony is arguably the most profound, in that it highlighted the complete integration and release of the p...

Inner Critic: CPTSD Component

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Soul Retrieval & Root Chakra Restoration

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the first short episode detailing Jennifer's ayahuasca experience, she shared her intentions for healing. In this next installment, you'll hear her...

Toxic Shame: CPTSD Component

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Wolf & the Buried Secret

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this short episode, Jennifer recounts her powerful healing experience at an ayahuasca retreat on the beaches of Costa Rica. Contrary to Western med...

Emotional Flashbacks: CPTSD Component

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emotional Flashbacks: CPTSD Element Season 02, Episode 21   The nervous system is our body's control center, telling us when to move, think, and brea...

The Magic Tea & the Tumor

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Magic Tea & the Tumor  Season 02, Episode 20   We, as humans, are more powerful than we can fathom. We have the ability to heal with our minds a...

What is CPTSD?

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is only recently beginning to be recognized thanks to the Healing Revolution but its roots actually go back to ...

Psychedelic Integration meets Neurosomatic Intelligence

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mental Health Crisis, Trauma, Psychedelics .... big words during these times. Plant medicicne is not a quick fix and the lack of support on the backen...

Navigating Grief, Trauma, and Healing; Jennifer's story

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please meet my client Jennifer who shares her journey of grief and nervous sytem healing in this candid conversation.    Head to https://calendly.co...

Safe or Unsafe

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's short focuses on safe or unsafe? The question your old brain is asking at a rate that we can't even comprehend. This primal part of your brain...

Freeze: the Trauma Resposne

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas