How do you rebuild yourself after loss, grief, anxiety, or a major life transition?

In this deeply meaningful episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy sits down with author, speaker, yoga teacher, and founder of Swagtail Yoga, Kym Coco, to explore how movement, mindfulness, breathwork, and nervous system regulation can help us heal.

After experiencing profound loss following her husband’s illness and passing, Kym shares how sports, golf, yoga, structure, and simple daily practices helped her regain confidence, reconnect with herself, and move forward with purpose.

Together, Tammy and Kym discuss:

✔ Nervous system regulation and healing after grief

✔ Anxiety, overwhelm, and the mind-body connection

✔ Why movement helps emotional healing

✔ Breathwork techniques to calm the nervous system

✔ Building confidence through small daily actions

✔ How to stop feeling stuck and create momentum

✔ The power of mindfulness and staying present

✔ Kym’s PIVOT framework for emotional resilience and confidence

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, stuck, or struggling through a difficult life transition, this conversation will remind you that healing happens one small step at a time.

Sometimes healing isn’t about giant leaps. Sometimes healing starts with one breath, one pause, and one tiny pivot.

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

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Why do so many adult children of dysfunction struggle to trust themselves?

In this episode of Tammy’s Takes, Tammy pulls from her powerful conversation with therapist Kara Lissy to unpack one of the biggest hidden wounds of growing up in dysfunction: losing trust in yourself.

If you grew up around addiction, emotional neglect, criticism, unpredictability, narcissism, or chaos, you may have learned to second guess yourself, overthink decisions, people please, and ignore your own needs in order to survive.

But here’s the truth: you are not broken. You were conditioned.

Tammy explains how childhood trauma wires the nervous system for survival, why so many adult children struggle with self-doubt and anxiety, and most importantly, how to begin rebuilding self-trust one small step at a time.

In this episode, Tammy teaches:

✔ Why dysfunction disconnects you from your intuition

✔ How childhood trauma creates self-doubt

✔ The hidden connection between people pleasing and survival mode

✔ Why overthinking is often a trauma response

✔ How nervous system healing helps rebuild self-trust

✔ A simple practice to stop abandoning yourself

Healing is not becoming someone new. Healing is finally becoming safe enough to trust yourself again.

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If you’re tired of overthinking, feeling stuck in survival mode, or struggling to trust yourself, this free call is a safe place to begin understanding what’s really keeping you stuck and how to reconnect with yourself again.

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

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What happens when childhood dysfunction follows you into adulthood?

In this deeply healing episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy sits down with licensed therapist and ACOA specialist Kara Lissy to unpack the lasting effects of growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home.

Together, they explore childhood trauma, nervous system dysregulation, people pleasing, grief, shame, perfectionism, emotional neglect, boundaries, and what healing actually looks like as an adult child of dysfunction.

If you've ever struggled with anxiety, hypervigilance, relationship issues, emotional triggers, or feeling “not enough,” this episode will help you understand why and show you that healing is possible.

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Did you grow up walking on eggshells, feeling hypervigilant, anxious, emotionally neglected, or constantly trying to keep the peace?

If so, you are not alone.

In this powerful episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy sits down with licensed therapist, ACOA specialist, and author Kara Lissy, LCSW, to talk about what really happens when you grow up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family system and how those childhood experiences continue shaping your relationships, nervous system, self-worth, and emotional patterns as an adult.

Kara brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this conversation, sharing her own story of growing up with alcoholism in the home, navigating shame, grief, hypervigilance, people pleasing, and eventually turning pain into purpose through therapy and healing work.

Together, Tammy and Kara discuss:

✔ Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) and dysfunctional family patterns

✔ Childhood trauma and nervous system dysregulation

✔ Why people pleasing and perfectionism develop

✔ Shame, grief, and healing your inner child

✔ Emotional neglect and hypervigilance

✔ Why leaving home doesn’t automatically heal trauma

✔ Boundaries, emotional regulation, and self-trust

✔ Breaking generational cycles of dysfunction

✔ How to stop living in survival mode

This episode is for anyone who grew up in chaos, emotional neglect, addiction, criticism, unpredictability, or dysfunction and wants to finally understand why they struggle with triggers, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or relationships.

Healing is possible. And no, it was never your fault.

CONNECT WITH KARA LISSY

Instagram: @kara_bout_yourself

Website: www.karalissy.com

Blog/Substack: karalissylcsw.substack.com

Grab Kara’s book: Healing From a Dysfunctional Family

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

Did you know I also offer access to an amazing travel savings program that can help you save up to 70% on hotels, resorts, cruises, and more? Let’s compare your next upcoming itinerary and see how much you could save.

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Are you functioning but not really feeling?

If you grew up in dysfunction, emotional neglect, addiction, chaos, criticism, or unpredictability, emotional numbness may have become a survival response.

In this episode of Tammy’s Takes, Tammy Vincent follows up on her conversation with Megan Margherio to explore why adult children of dysfunction often feel disconnected from themselves, struggle with nervous system dysregulation, and stay stuck in survival mode long after childhood ends.

Tammy breaks down:

✔ Emotional numbness and childhood trauma

✔ Nervous system healing and regulation

✔ Why peace and safety can feel uncomfortable

✔ Survival mode, hypervigilance, and emotional shutdown

✔ Why adult children struggle to feel joy

✔ Body awareness and emotional healing practices

✔ How to stop spiraling and reconnect with yourself

✔ Practical nervous system tools you can use today

If you’ve ever wondered, “Why do I feel numb even though my life looks okay?” this episode is for you.

Because you are not broken. You adapted.

Listen to Tammy’s full episode with Megan Margherio for deeper healing around emotional numbness and trauma recovery.

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What happens after survival?

If you grew up in dysfunction, emotional neglect, abuse, addiction, or chaos, chances are you learned how to survive. But what happens when survival mode becomes emotional numbness? What happens when you no longer feel the pain… but you also can’t fully feel the joy?

In this deeply powerful and validating conversation, Tammy sits down with trauma-informed embodiment coach, speaker, and author Megan Margherio to talk about healing trauma through the body, reconnecting with safety, and learning how to feel alive again.

Together, they unpack how childhood dysfunction shapes the nervous system, why so many adult children of dysfunction struggle with numbness, hypervigilance, anxiety, and emotional shutdown, and why healing is about so much more than “thinking positive.”

Megan vulnerably shares her own healing journey and explains why survival is only half the story. The real work comes in learning how to trust yourself again, reconnect with your body, and create enough emotional safety to let joy, peace, delight, and goodness back in.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why dysfunction impacts us even without addiction in the home

• Emotional numbness and feeling like a shell of yourself

• Why trauma survivors often struggle to feel joy

• How trauma gets stored in the body

• Nervous system regulation and survival mode

• Somatic healing, trauma-sensitive yoga, and body awareness

• Why talk therapy sometimes isn’t enough

• EMDR, breathwork, and healing stored trauma

• Learning to feel safe enough to receive good things

• Why healing is not about perfection — it’s about becoming more alive

One of the biggest takeaways from this episode: you did not survive everything you survived just to exist. You survived to experience joy, connection, peace, and a life that feels safe to live.

Connect with Megan Margherio:

Website: MeganMargherio.com

Instagram: @megan_margherio on Instagram

TikTok: @megan_margherio on TikTok

Grab Megan’s book: Everwoven: A Memoir, A Reckoning

If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who needs the reminder that survival is only half the story.

Healing is possible. And you deserve all good things

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

Did you know I also offer access to an amazing travel savings program that can help you save up to 70% on hotels, resorts, cruises, and more? Let’s compare your next upcoming itinerary and see how much you could save.

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In this powerful Tammy’s Takes episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy Vincent expands on her conversation with Irin Rubin, founder of Mama Zen, to explore a difficult but important truth:

Your child may not actually be the trigger… your nervous system is.

If you’ve ever found yourself snapping, yelling, shutting down, feeling overstimulated, or wondering:

“Why am I reacting this strongly?”

This episode is for you.

Tammy dives into how childhood dysfunction, emotional neglect, trauma, and growing up in chaotic environments shape the nervous system and influence the way we parent today. She explains why many parenting reactions are not about the child’s behavior—but about old wounds, subconscious survival patterns, and nervous system dysregulation.

Most importantly, Tammy shares a practical 3-Step Nervous System Reset for Parenting Triggers to help parents pause, regulate emotional overwhelm, stop reactive patterns, and begin breaking generational trauma in real time.

This episode covers emotional regulation, co-regulation, repair after conflict, parenting after dysfunction, and why healing yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children.

Because your children don’t need perfect parents.

They need healing ones.

• Why your child may not actually be “the trigger”

• How childhood dysfunction impacts parenting reactions

• The connection between trauma and nervous system dysregulation

• Tammy’s 3-Step Nervous System Reset for parenting triggers

• Why co-regulation matters more than control

• How repair builds emotional safety with children

• Why shame keeps generational trauma alive

• The difference between reacting and responding

If you’re tired of feeling emotionally flooded, reactive, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode, Tammy created a simple, practical guide to help.

Grab the Nervous System Reset Guide here:

https://workshops.tammyvincent.com/offers/y4ucfW2w/checkout

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

Did you know I also offer access to an amazing travel savings program that can help you save up to 70% on hotels, resorts, cruises, and more? Let’s compare your next upcoming itinerary and see how much you could save.

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In this powerful episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy Vincent sits down with Irin Rubin, Founder and CEO of Mama Zen, a global mental wellness platform helping parents regulate anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and parenting triggers through nervous system support and emotional regulation tools. Inspired by her own motherhood struggles, Erin created Mama Zen as a practical solution that is now being used in over 45 countries.

Together, Tammy and Erin explore the hidden roots of parenting triggers, nervous system dysregulation, childhood trauma, emotional overwhelm, and why so many parents react in ways they never intended. They unpack how unresolved childhood experiences shape adult emotional responses and why healing yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children.

This episode dives into powerful concepts like co-regulation, emotional regulation, parenting anxiety, guilt, perfectionism, repair after conflict, and breaking generational cycles. Erin shares practical tools to help parents move out of fight-or-flight mode, regulate their nervous systems, and respond more calmly during difficult parenting moments. Tammy also opens up about her own experience growing up in dysfunction and the importance of modeling emotional safety for children.

If you’ve ever worried about repeating unhealthy family patterns, feeling emotionally reactive, or struggling with parenting stress, this episode offers practical tools, compassionate guidance, and hope that healing and change are absolutely possible.

• Why your child isn’t actually “the trigger”

• How childhood trauma impacts parenting reactions

• What nervous system dysregulation looks like in parents

• The power of co-regulation with children

• Why repair matters more than perfection in parenting

• How guilt and perfectionism affect motherhood

• Practical tools to calm your nervous system

• How to break generational cycles of shame, yelling, and emotional overwhelm

🌐 Website:

www.mamazen.com

📱 Instagram:

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

Did you know I also offer access to an amazing travel savings program that can help you save up to 70% on hotels, resorts, cruises, and more? Let’s compare your next upcoming itinerary and see how much you could save.

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In this powerful Tammy’s Takes episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy Vincent expands on her conversation with Lori Montre and explores one of the biggest frustrations in healing: Why do we keep repeating the same patterns even when we know where they come from?

If you’ve ever thought:

“I know why I do this… so why can’t I stop?”

This episode is for you.

Tammy dives into why awareness alone does not heal trauma patterns, and how nervous system regulation—not just mindset—plays a critical role in changing behaviors like people-pleasing, emotional eating, anxiety, overthinking, shutting down, and emotional overwhelm.

Through a trauma-informed lens, Tammy explains why many survival patterns were learned as protection in childhood and why trying to “think your way out” of them often doesn’t work. Instead, she shares a practical 3-Step Pattern Interrupt Reset listeners can begin using immediately to create more emotional safety, regulate their nervous systems, and begin changing patterns from the inside out.

If you’re tired of feeling stuck in the same cycles, this episode offers hope, understanding, and practical tools to begin healing.

• Why awareness alone doesn’t create lasting change

• How childhood survival patterns become adult behaviors

• Why nervous system regulation matters more than mindset

• The hidden reason you keep repeating old patterns

• Tammy’s 3-Step Pattern Interrupt Reset

• How to stop shame and start healing

• Why healing begins with safety—not perfection

If this episode resonated with you, Tammy created a practical guide to help you begin calming your nervous system and interrupting survival patterns in real life.

Grab the Nervous System Reset Guide here:

https://workshops.tammyvincent.com/offers/y4ucfW2w/checkout

In this deeply healing episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy sits down with Lori Montre, trauma-informed coach, former corporate lawyer, and author of You’re Not the Problem, for a powerful conversation about childhood trauma, nervous system regulation, emotional eating, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and healing the patterns that keep us stuck.

Lori shares her personal story of surviving childhood sexual abuse, growing up feeling like a burden, and turning to food as emotional comfort and protection. Together, Tammy and Lori unpack how trauma — whether “big T” or “little t” — shapes the way we see ourselves, the world, and relationships. They discuss why understanding your patterns logically is not enough, and why healing must start in the body before lasting change can happen.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why nervous system regulation must come before mindset work

• How childhood dysfunction creates survival patterns like people-pleasing, anxiety, overthinking, and emotional eating

• Why trauma changes the stories we tell ourselves about worthiness and safety

• How to stop scanning for danger and begin rewiring your brain for safety

• The difference between calming your nervous system and actually processing stored stress and emotions

• Practical body-based tools to reconnect with yourself and feel safer in your body

• Why healing isn’t about “fixing yourself” — because you were never the problem to begin with.

If you’ve ever wondered, “Why do I still struggle even though I know better?” this episode will help you understand the deeper roots of your patterns and remind you that healing is possible.

You are not broken. You adapted to survive. And what was learned can be unlearned.

Connect with Lori

Website: www.LoriMontry.com

Youtube: Lori Montry -Somatic Healing Practitioner - YouTube

www.facebook.com/LoriMontry

https://www.lorimontry.com/book-intro

Hey there, I’m so glad you’re here and tuning in! If this episode spoke to your heart, just know there’s even more support waiting for you.

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Trials To Triumph: An Adult Child's Emotional Freedom Blueprint: Use code THRIVE25 for 75% off today. https://workshops.tammyvincent.com/offers/DSbcgrZZ/checkout

As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

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In this heartfelt Tammy’s Takes episode of Adult Child of Dysfunction, Tammy expands on a powerful concept from her conversation with child advocate and trauma-informed clinician Paula Yost: sometimes healing doesn’t begin with perfect circumstances—it begins with one safe person.

Tammy explores how childhood dysfunction shapes the nervous system and why so many adults struggle with anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, overthinking, and relationship challenges later in life. Through a trauma-informed lens, she explains the powerful role of co-regulation—the way safe relationships help calm and retrain the nervous system—and why many adult children of dysfunction never received enough of it growing up.

This episode is a compassionate reminder that healing happens in safe relationships, not perfect ones. Tammy also shares a practical 3-step process listeners can begin using today to create more emotional safety in their lives, improve relationships, and start becoming the safe person they may have never had.

If you’ve ever struggled with feeling emotionally unsafe, overwhelmed, or disconnected, this episode will help you better understand why—and offer hope for what healing can look like moving forward.

• Why one safe person can change a life

• What co-regulation is and why it matters

• How childhood dysfunction impacts the nervous system

• Why healing happens in safe relationships, not perfect ones

• The hidden effects of emotional unpredictability growing up

• A 3-step process to begin creating emotional safety today

• How to become the safe person you may have never had

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As an international inspirational speaker, NLP Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Coach, Neurofit Trainer, and Best-Selling Author, I bring both deep personal experience and professional training to the work I do. I believe in prevention, not just intervention — and use a body, mind, and spirit approach to guide others toward becoming the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

My holistic toolbox includes nervous system regulation, trauma-informed coaching, nutritional support, and natural healing strategies,

Find ALL THE THINGS HERE: Anything that I have to offer is right here

Did you know I also offer access to an amazing travel savings program that can help you save up to 70% on hotels, resorts, cruises, and more? Let’s compare your next upcoming itinerary and see how much you could save.

👉 Try the Trip Check: https://calendly.com/tammyvincent/trip-check

📺 Subscribe to My YouTube Channel

👉 Adult Child of Dysfunction on YouTube

🌟 Book Me to Speak at Your Event

👉 Let’s connect: https://calendly.com/tammyvincent/speakers-event-chat

📩 Email: [email protected]

📱 Text: 513-280-3555

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