About this podcast
The podcast where neuroscience becomes a pathway to greater capacity, deeper connection, and expanded possibility.
Episodes
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- Attachment Styles Aren't Fixed: How Nervous Systems Adapt In Relationships · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 308We tend to talk about the nervous system as if it belongs entirely to one person: my trauma, my attachment style, my healing. But none of us developed in isolation. From our…
- When Shame Gets in the Way of Belonging: The Neuroscience of Connection · 56 min · Season 5 Episode 307Long before we can explain who we are, our nervous systems are learning what it takes to belong. Facial expressions, tone of voice, touch, and responsiveness all shape how our…
- More Than Regulation: What Nervous System Healing Is Really About · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 306Nervous system regulation has become part of the everyday conversation, from therapy and coaching to wellness culture and social media. But as the language spreads, it gets…
- Beyond the Triune Brain: The Neuroscience of Prediction, Emotion and Change · 48 min · Season 6 Episode 305What if your brain isn't divided into separate systems for survival, emotion, and rational thought? And what if understanding how the brain actually works could change the way…
- We Are Shaping Each Other: The Science of Co-Regulation · 1 h 4 min · Season 5 Episode 304Co-regulation has become almost synonymous with calm: the steady voice, the safe person, the nervous system that helps another nervous system settle. But what if that definition…
- Why Safety Matters More Than Intensity in Psychedelic Healing · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 60Peak somatic experiences can create profound shifts in awareness, emotion, and perception—but intensity alone does not create healing. In this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer…
- Why Post-Traumatic Growth Requires Nervous System Reorganization · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 60Post-traumatic growth is often described as finding meaning after adversity, but insight alone does not reorganize a nervous system that is still predicting threat. In this…
- How Trauma Creates High Achievers: Fight Response, Perfectionism & Burnout · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 59Success can become a survival strategy when the nervous system learns that achievement equals safety. In this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof…
- Why Trauma Changes the Brain: Complex Trauma, Inflammation & Neuroplasticity · 1 h 4 min · Season 5 Episode 58Trauma doesn't just shape your memories. It changes how your brain predicts, interprets, and responds to the world. In this episode, Jennifer and Elisabeth sit down with clinical…
- Undiagnosed TBI: Why Brain Injuries Are Often Missed and Misunderstood · 49 min · Season 5 Episode 57Traumatic brain injuries are incredibly common, yet many mild TBIs and concussions go unrecognized. And when the symptoms of a brain injury overlap with the effects of complex…
- The Science of Feeling Safe in Your Body: Emotional Regulation and Trauma · 1 h 2 min · Season 5 Episode 56Episode Summary Why do you know you're safe logically, but your body still reacts as though you're in danger? Emotional regulation isn't about staying calm, avoiding difficult…
- Boundaries, Attachment, and the Fear of Losing Connection · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 55Most people think boundaries are about saying "no," protecting themselves, or keeping others at a distance. But from a nervous system perspective, boundaries are something much…
- Sexual Fawning: When Survival Gets Mistaken for Intimacy · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 54Why do so many trauma survivors say "yes" when every part of their body is saying "no"? In this deeply compassionate episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth…
- The Fawn Response Explained · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 53The fawn response is one of the most common—and most misunderstood—trauma adaptations. While many people recognize it as people-pleasing, saying yes too often, or avoiding…
- Why Being Yourself Can Feel Dangerous After Trauma · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 52What if authenticity isn't a personality trait—but a sign of nervous system capacity? Many people believe they struggle to be themselves because they lack confidence, boundaries…
- Grief Is a Body Experience: The Neuroscience of Loss · 1 h 4 min · Season 5 Episode 51Grief is often thought of as an emotional response to death, but grief is much more than that. It is a full-body physiological process that accompanies every meaningful loss…
- From Shame to Self Expression: Healing Body Boundaries After Trauma · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 50Childhood sexual trauma doesn't end when the event is over. It can shape the nervous system for decades, influencing boundaries, shame, relationships, chronic pain, dissociation…
- How Self-Compassion Changes the Brain and Rewires Shame · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 49Shame is one of the most powerful forces shaping the nervous system. It can quietly influence how we think, relate, perform, heal, and even how we experience ourselves. Yet most…
- Why You Shut Down: Freeze, Flop, and Tonic Immobility Explained · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 48S5 E48 – Why You Shut Down: Freeze, Flop, and Tonic Immobility Explained Have you ever found yourself unable to speak during an important conversation? Staring at your computer…
- How Trauma Turns Fear Into Hustle, Overworking & Burnout; The Flight Response. · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 47In this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof explore the flight response through the lens of trauma, nervous system regulation, emotional processing…
- The Fight Trauma Response: Suppressed Anger, Inner Critic & Nervous System Repatterning · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 46Fight response isn't just anger or "being reactive." It's a nervous system adaptation shaped by experiences where safety, protection, repair, or authenticity were missing. In…
- How Trauma Shapes the Brain, Body, and Nervous System · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 45What if your chronic stress, emotional triggers, anxiety, or exhaustion are not a mindset problem, but signs that your nervous system has learned protective survival patterns? In…
- When the Nervous System Rewrites Reality: Emotional Flashbacks and CPTSD · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 44You are not overreacting. Your nervous system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it learned to do in environments where threat was the norm. In this episode, Jennifer…
- When Social Anxiety Is Actually a Complex Trauma Response · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 43Social anxiety is often framed as shyness, insecurity, or fear of judgment. But for many people living with complex trauma, social anxiety is a nervous system output shaped by…
- Toxic Shame: When Complex Trauma Becomes Your Identity · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 42There is a difference between feeling ashamed and living inside shame. One is a passing signal. The other is the background atmosphere of an entire nervous system. In this…
- Complex Trauma and the Inner Critic: Why You're So Hard on Yourself · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 41Everyone has a critical inner voice. But if you grew up in an environment shaped by chronic relational stress, that voice does not just comment. It runs. It loops. It drives your…
- Why You Leave Yourself: The Complex Trauma Pattern of Self Abandonment · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 40The deepest wound in complex trauma is not emotional intensity. It is the learned loss of connection to yourself. In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof open the…
- From Complex Trauma to Post-Traumatic Growth: A New Way to Understand CPTSD · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 39You could not think your way out of the pattern. That is not a failure of insight. That is the nature of complex trauma. In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof…
- Food Freedom: How Your Nervous System Uses Food for Regulation · 1 h 4 min · Season 5 Episode 38You were not failing at your diet. Your nervous system was doing exactly what it learned to do to survive. In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof go deep on one…
- The Hidden Link Between Trauma, Food, and Your Stress Response · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 37Food is not just fuel. It is one of the most powerful ways your nervous system regulates stress, emotion, and survival. In this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer Wallace and…
- The Mother Wound: How It Shapes Your Relationships, Voice, and Emotional Expression · 1 h 10 min · Season 5 Episode 36The mother wound is not just about your mother. It is about the first nervous system that shaped yours—the earliest relational field that told you whether you were safe, wanted…
- Creativity, Trauma, and the Nervous System: Why Healing Expands What's Possible · 57 min · Season 5 Episode 35What if healing from trauma is not just a psychological process, but a fundamentally creative one? In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof are joined by Laura…
- The Nervous System of Leadership: Why Strategy Isn't Enough · 60 min · Season 5 Episode 34In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof are joined by Oren Shai, organizational psychologist, somatic executive coach, and NSI-certified practitioner, for a…
- Racial Trauma and the Nervous System: How Chronic Stress Shapes Our Bodies and Culture · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 33This week on Trauma Rewired we step into a big and important conversation about how racism, historical trauma and systemic oppression impact nervous system health. Racism is…
- The Sister Wound: How Relational Stress Shapes the Female Nervous System · 57 min · Season 5 Episode 32The wound between women is not just interpersonal. It is neurobiological, historical, and deeply rooted in systems that were designed to divide us. In this episode, Jennifer…
- Why Authenticity Feels Unsafe After Trauma (And How Capacity Changes That) · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 31What if authenticity isn't a personality trait — but a measurable marker of nervous system capacity? In this episode of Trauma Rewired, we explore authenticity and forgiveness…
- How Psychedelic Experiences Support Growth When the Nervous System Is Prepared and Integrated · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 30Psychedelics are having a cultural moment. Research is promising. Stories of healing are everywhere. But here's the truth: these experiences aren't magic cures. And they aren't…
- The Father Wound: How Paternal Absence Shapes Attachment and the Nervous System · 1 h 16 min · Season 5 Episode 29In this episode of Trauma Rewired, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof welcome author, speaker, and embodiment coach Preston Smiles for a powerful conversation on the Father…
- Why Boundaries Feel Like Rejection After Trauma (And How to Rewire That) · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 28For many people with a history of chronic stress, attachment wounds, or complex trauma, boundaries don't land as neutral information — they register in the nervous system as…
- Autoimmunity and Post-Traumatic Growth: When the Body Becomes the Teacher · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 27In this episode of Trauma Rewired, we explore autoimmune conditions through a nervous-system and psychoneuroimmunology lens—moving beyond the idea that the body is "attacking…
- From Survival to Learning: Why Motivation Shuts Down Under Chronic Stress · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 26Have you ever shared an idea, been met with silence, and felt your body instantly brace like something was wrong? Or walked to your car and suddenly felt flooded by an old fear…
- The Difference Between Coping and Emotional Capacity · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 25Have you ever felt like you have done everything "right" and you still hit a stress ceiling? You have gone to therapy, set boundaries, practiced self-care, learned regulation…
- Post Traumatic Growth Starts With Self Attunement · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 24What if the places we have been hurt most, our relationships, can also become the places where we grow? In this episode, we explore relational healing as a powerful driver of…
- What Post Traumatic Growth Really Is · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 23Post-traumatic growth gets talked about like a mindset shift, but real change often starts somewhere else: the nervous system. In this episode, we explore why being around happy…
- What Happens When The Nervous System Opens Too Fast · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 22You can have the most mind-blowing healing experience of your life and still find yourself right back in familiar patterns. Why? Because the nervous system defaults to what it…
- Integration Is A Nervous System Skill - Not A Mindset · 52 min · Season 5 Episode 21Integration is often treated as something that happens after a breakthrough — once insight, therapy, or a peak somatic or psychedelic experience is complete. But what if…
- Feeling Again: The Nervous System Science of Grief, Shame, and Joy · 1 h 9 min · Season 5 Episode 20When Jennifer was asked how she felt getting her cancer diagnosis, her first word was not "scared," it was "shame." If you have ever felt like your emotions are too much, or you…
- Why Repressed Emotions Distort Your Reality (According to Your Nervous System) · 56 min · Season 5 Episode 19Have you ever found yourself immediately reaching for a coping behavior like scrolling or stress eating, without even realizing what emotion triggered it? That could be a sign of…
- The Childhood Pattern That Silence's Your Emotions · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 18What if "nothing happened" in your childhood, yet you still feel numb, flooded, or stuck in people pleasing or hyper-independence? This episode explores childhood emotional…
- Are You Living In An Emotional Flashback Without Knowing It · 56 min · Season 5 Episode 17What if those sudden waves of fear, shame, or despair are not "too much," but your nervous system remembering something your mind cannot see yet? In this episode, co-hosts…
