Trauma Rewired
Elisabeth Kristof & Jennifer Wallace
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S5E45 How Trauma Shapes the Brain, Body, and Nervous System
What 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 this episode of…
S5E44 When the Nervous System Rewrites Reality: Emotional Flashbacks and CPTSD
You 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 Wallace and Elisabeth…
S5E43 When Social Anxiety Is Actually a Complex Trauma Response
Social 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 chronic relational…
S5E42 Toxic Shame: When Complex Trauma Becomes Your Identity
There 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 episode, Jennifer Wallace…
S5E41 Complex Trauma and the Inner Critic: Why You're So Hard on Yourself
Everyone 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 body into a stress…
S5E40 Why You Leave Yourself: The Complex Trauma Pattern of Self Abandonment
The 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 next chapter of the…
S5E39 From Complex Trauma to Post-Traumatic Growth: A New Way to Understand CPTSD
You 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 return to one of the…
S5E38 Food Freedom: How Your Nervous System Uses Food for Regulation
You 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 of the most personal…
S5E37 The Hidden Link Between Trauma, Food, and Your Stress Response
Food 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 Elisabeth Kristof are…
S5E36 The Mother Wound: How It Shapes Your Relationships, Voice, and Emotional Expression
The 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, and free to take up…
S5E35 Creativity, Trauma, and the Nervous System: Why Healing Expands What's Possible
What 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 Dawn, a…
S5E34 The Nervous System of Leadership: Why Strategy Isn't Enough
In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof are joined by Oren Shai, organizational psychologist, somatic executive coach, and NSI-certified practitioner, for a conversation about what…
S5E33 Racial Trauma and the Nervous System: How Chronic Stress Shapes Our Bodies and Culture
This 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 often framed as a social…
S5E32 The Sister Wound: How Relational Stress Shapes the Female Nervous System
The 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 Wallace and Elisabeth…
S5E31 Why Authenticity Feels Unsafe After Trauma (And How Capacity Changes That)
What 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 through the lens of…
S5E30 How Psychedelic Experiences Support Growth When the Nervous System Is Prepared and Integrated
Psychedelics 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 right for every…
S5E29 The Father Wound: How Paternal Absence Shapes Attachment and the Nervous System
In 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 Wound — and how…
S5E28 Why Boundaries Feel Like Rejection After Trauma (And How to Rewire That)
For 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 abandonment, threat, or…
S5E27 Autoimmunity and Post-Traumatic Growth: When the Body Becomes the Teacher
In 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 itself." Instead, we…
S5E26 From Survival to Learning: Why Motivation Shuts Down Under Chronic Stress
Have 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, even though nothing…
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