Trauma Rewired

Dissociation is more common than you think and exists on a spectrum, impacting personal experiences and healing. The hosts discuss its protective role during trauma and stress, revealing how it can distort memory and emotional processing. They delve into how dissociation affects body perception, complicating issues like body dysmorphia. The conversation also emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with emotions and the body, exploring tools like vagus nerve training. Finally, societal pressures and their impact on self-perception are examined, advocating for self-acceptance and emotional safety.

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 type of chronic stress can lead to autoimmune diseases, heart disease and more, as well as intensify pain experienced from these serious health issues. A dysregulated nervous system resulting from trauma leads to emotional and physical pain, but how do you heal yourself from trauma, while also fighting for your physical health? Tune in to hear how both plant medicine and Western treatments can work together to heal the different facets of your health.   It’s been two years since Anna Gieselman was on the podcast to speak about her lupus journey, an autoimmune disease, but she’s back today to update us! In this episode, she shares the lows and highs of getting to a better place with her health, including making the decision to use Western medicine and becoming healed energetically and psychically with plant medicine.   Jennifer and Anna go over pivotal moments of their ayahuasca trip, such as experiencing a dark energy, healing generational trauma, and the divine feminine. Listen to their conversation about overall wellness for all this and more!   Topics discussed in this episode:   Anna gives an update on her health Negative and positive effects of her new medication Living in “permanent disease thought” with chronic pain Learning about her trauma with plant medicine Healing generational trauma and divine femine energy Jennifer and Anna on experiencing dark energy during an ayahuasca ceremony Long-lasting life changes from reaching the divine Regulating your nervous system   Connect with Anna Gieselman: Instagram Website   Join the Trauma Rewired Facebook Group!   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://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Instagram FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired   Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach please visit  www.neurosomaticintelligence.com

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 intelligence with psychedelic integration.   By training and reprogramming your nervous system, you will discover that anything is possible. You already embody the capacity for change. Add a powerhouse plant medicine like ayahuasca, which only increases that capacity, and there is the potential for infinite transformation.   Jennifer believes that neurosomatic intelligence not only allows for more presence, awareness, clarity, and focus in your day-to-day life, but also prepares you for psychedelic integration by creating a greater sense of safety in the body.   Tuning in, you’ll hear Jennifer’s account of her closing ceremony, some of the profound and painful realizations that came from tapping into her womb space, and why she was so grateful for the support of a neurosomatic intelligence coach throughout this experience.   To learn more about how you can benefit on a deep spiritual level from bringing neurosomatic intelligence to any of your healing modalities and experiences, join us today!   Topics discussed in this episode:   Preparing for the integration through nervous system work Neurosomatic intelligence as a tool for greater clarity and awareness Jennifer’s intentions for this closing ceremony Returning to “surgery” in the maloka Realizations that came with tapping into her womb space Jennifer’s passion for bringing neurosomatic intelligence to everyone How processing trauma can reveal what is possible   Head to 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 beyond the behaviors that aren’t serving you!   Work with Jennifer: Linktree Instagram   FREE 1-Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired   Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach? Visit neurosomaticintelligence.com.

Humans are a social species, and we crave human connection and intimacy. Even when our nervous system has been severely affected by trauma, we ultimately need to socialize in order to feel fulfilled and meet all of our survival needs.   But how does someone living in a chronic state of stress, cycling through the stages of a dysregulated nervous system, balance this need for socialization while also regulating our emotions and behaviors during extreme, instinctual panic?   Elisabeth Kristof of Brain-Based Wellness is again joining host Jennifer to discuss social anxiety, the fourth characteristic of CPTSD. You’ll learn what social anxiety is through the filter of trauma, and how it connects with the other components of CPTSD: toxic shame, inner critic, and emotional flashbacks.   In this episode, Jennifer and Elisabeth share their personal experiences with social anxiety, including what physiological symptoms they’ve endured and how they dealt with them using both harmful self-soothing behaviors and healthy regulation tools.   Tune in for a deeper understanding of how social anxiety and the other components of CPTSD interconnect, and free resources to help you find the balance between self-care and socializing!   Topics discussed in this episode:   What is social anxiety? Jennifer and Elisabeth tell stories of their own experience social anxiety Hypervigilance The physiology of being in a state of social anxiety Amygdala hijacking Cognitive vs. survival brain The importance of human connection Self isolation vs. introversion How to know when you’re in a state of anxiety Planning ahead for social situations Social situations triggering emotional flashbacks Ways to start healing   Jennifer and Elisabeth are inviting you to a special live-recording Q&A episode on October 21st! The topics being discussed include integration, training the nervous system, using neuro-somatic tools, and lots more. This is the first EVER community discussion, so don’t miss your chance to be part of the conversation!   https://brainbased-wellness.lpages.co/trauma-rewired-live/   Books mentioned in today’s episode:   Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk Gabor Mate Judith Lewis Herman 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://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Instagram FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired   Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach please visit  www.neurosomaticintelligence.com

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 previous ceremonies, and there is hope.  In today’s short episode, you will hear Jennifer so eloquently narrate the journey through “jaw surgery” in the maloka, and her resurrection from the experience. The clarity, bliss, and awareness, created a new foundation for the rest of her life that transpires into her life’s work today.    Coming out on the other side of the death of who Jennifer once was, created the offerings she presents you with today. From a deep excavation, she has learned the route to deep healing in a way that only personal experience can provide, and she shares these lessons with you now.   Tune in to hear more of what Jennifer experienced in ceremony and the importance of deep, somatic integration.    Topics discussed in this episode:   Jennifer’s intention going into the second to last ceremony The sadness from awareness Jennifer’s “surgery” experience in the maloka Total rebirth incoming Scenes of “surgery” post-op Psychedelic and their power in sensory enhancement 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://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Instagram FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired   Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach please visit  www.neurosomaticintelligence.com

Exploring the impact of the inner critic on individuals with complex PTTSD and how unmet emotional and attachment needs contribute to its development. The chapters cover the impact of negative self-talk and toxic shame, the negative effects of negative self-talk and judgmental behavior, the impact of joy, love, and attachment on the nervous system and relationships, how CPTSD affects attachment and relationships, and understanding the survival mechanisms of the nervous system.

In the first short episode detailing Jennifer’s ayahuasca experience, she shared her intentions for healing. In this next installment, you’ll hear her firsthand account of how she, with help from two shamans, was able to retrieve her soul and restore a feeling of safety.   After drinking the ayahuasca tea and being enveloped in the impassioned sounds of Maestros Maricella and Francisco singing icaros, Jennifer was able to find parts of her that were lost through her life’s trauma.   Jennifer describes being back in the maloka for a second night, once again feeling connected to the universe through vibrant visions of herself and nature. The magic of the ayahuasca medicine, combined with the progress made on the first night, allowed her to process deeper emotions and finally reach a place of self-love.   Hear all about her transformative experience and process to integration in today’s episode!   Topics discussed in this episode:   Jennifer’s history shared with the two shamans Different ways to purge Jennifer’s visuals, emotion, and thoughts Soul retrieval Why night two was so important to Jennifer’s healing Processing anger and rage Who can she be now? Using her voice and feeling safe   Jennifer and Elisabeth are inviting you to a special live-recording Q&A episode on October 21st! The topics being discussed include integration, training the nervous system, using neuro-somatic tools, and lots more. This is the first EVER community discussion, so don’t miss your chance to be part of the conversation!   https://brainbased-wellness.lpages.co/trauma-rewired-live/   Learn more about the Soltara Healing Center: https://soltara.co   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://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Instagram FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired   Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach please visit  www.neurosomaticintelligence.com

Exploring the concept of toxic shame and its impact on individuals with CPTSD, including its effects on personal boundaries and friendships. Navigating trauma triggers while showing up for loved ones and the importance of setting boundaries and using tools for emotional regulation. The consequences of not being connected to oneself, including instability, trauma bonding, and codependence.