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Have you ever found yourself thinking:

“I’ve done so much work on myself…
 So why do I still feel stuck sometimes?”

You’ve been to therapy.
 You’ve read the books.
 You understand your patterns.
 You’ve grown.

And yet…

There can still be moments where something inside you feels slightly braced and on edge. Like you’re doing well in life… but not fully relaxed inside it.

In this deeply honest episode, Dr Nat Green explores one of the least talked about stages of trauma healing:

👉 When your life is safe…
 👉 But your body is still catching up.

This episode explains — in simple, real language — why you can understand your healing journey mentally, but still feel tension, hesitation, or fear in your body.

And most importantly:

Why this is not failure.
Why this is not you being broken.
Why this is actually incredibly normal after trauma and chronic stress.

🌿 What You’ll Learn In This Episode

• Why you can feel stuck even after years of therapy or personal development
 • The difference between understanding your trauma and your body feeling safe
 • Why your nervous system can still react to old danger — even when life is different now
 • How early survival patterns can show up as perfectionism, overworking, hyper-independence or overthinking
 • Why body-based healing approaches (like TRE — Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) can help release stored stress patterns
 • What real “moving forward” often feels like (and why it’s usually quiet, not dramatic)

💛 Who This Episode Is For

This episode is especially for you if you:

✔ Have done therapy or deep personal development work
 ✔ Consider yourself self-aware and reflective
 ✔ Are high-functioning but still feel tension or “brace” in your life
 ✔ Feel confused about why growth doesn’t always feel easier
 ✔ Want trauma healing explained in real, relatable language
 ✔ Are curious about nervous system healing and body-based approaches
 ✔ Are ready for healing that feels safe, not forced

🌱 About Body-Based Healing & TRE

This episode also introduces the idea that trauma and stress aren’t just stored in thoughts — they can be stored in the body.

Dr Nat gently explains how approaches like TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) help the body release long-held stress and survival tension safely and naturally.

No forcing.
 No rehashing your story.
 Just allowing the body to let go of what it no longer needs to hold.

This episode may include a short message from Dr Nat about her upcoming live masterclass:

Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

🗓 Friday 27 February 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

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Have you ever thought…
 “I understand the pattern… so why does it still feel so hard to change?”

In this second episode of The Invisible Ceiling mini-series, Dr. Nat Green explores the missing link that so many high-functioning, self-aware people overlook:

Insight alone doesn’t create transformation — your nervous system must feel safe enough to come with you.

Because survival patterns aren’t stored only in the mind…
They live in the body.

In your breath.
In your bracing.
In your over-functioning.
In the way your system tightens at the edge of visibility, success, rest, or receiving.

This episode is a compassionate deep-dive into the nervous-system foundations of the Invisible Ceiling — and why expansion can feel like threat, even when life is different now.

In This Episode, We Explore:

✨ Why awareness doesn’t always equal change
 ✨ How trauma responses are physiological — not just psychological
 ✨ The nervous system’s primary job: protection, not expansion
 ✨ Why visibility, ease, rest, and receiving can feel unsafe
 ✨ The truth about “self-sabotage” (it’s often self-protection)

High-Functioning Survival Strategies (That Aren’t Personality Traits)

Many people aren’t collapsing…
They’re coping through high-functioning protection, such as:

• Over-functioning and carrying everything alone
• Constant productivity and inability to slow down
• Perfectionism and fear of mistakes
• Hyper-independence and difficulty receiving support
• Always being “the strong one”
• Chronic urgency and nervous system rushing
• Overthinking as a form of threat prevention
• Emotional containment and staying tightly composed

These aren’t flaws.

They are adaptive nervous system strategies — often rooted in what Dr. Nat calls an Identity Fracture: an early agreement about who it was safe to be.

Why Expansion Can Feel Like a Threat

Here’s what surprises so many people:

The threat is not fear of failure.

The threat is often:

• Being seen
• Rest
• Ease
• Receiving
• Growth

Because the nervous system prefers what is familiar…
Even when the familiar is exhausting.

The Somatic Path Forward (TRE + Nervous System Completion)

This episode also introduces the power of somatic healing, including:

TRE — Trauma & Tension Release Exercises

TRE is a gentle mind–body practice that supports the nervous system in discharging

This episode may include a short message from Dr Nat about her upcoming live masterclass:

Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

🗓 Friday 27 February
 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

This 90-minute live session is for people who have done therapy or personal growth work but still feel like something is holding them back.

You can find registration details via the link in the show notes.

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Have you ever wondered why… even after therapy, self-awareness, and years of inner work… you still feel stuck?

Why you keep hitting an invisible ceiling?

Why growth sometimes feels like it should be easier by now — but something inside you quietly holds back?

In this powerful opening episode of the mini-series The Invisible Ceiling, Dr Nat Green introduces a deeply transformative concept:

Identity Fractures

Identity fractures are not a mindset problem.

They are not a sign that you are broken.

They are the unconscious, nervous-system-based agreements we form early in life about who it is safe to be — often in moments of shame, trauma, adversity, or emotional disconnection.

In this episode, Dr Nat explores:

✨ Why not all limits are chosen — some are learned early and carried quietly
 ✨ How identity fractures form beneath conscious awareness
 ✨ The difference between healing, insight, and true integration
 ✨ Why high achievers, coaches, therapists, and healers often feel capped even after “doing all the work”
 ✨ How childhood experiences can create invisible identity agreements such as:

• Don’t stand out
• Don’t take up space
• Don’t be fully seen
• It’s safer to stay small

Through a powerful client story, Dr Nat shows how the nervous system remembers the “cost” of visibility — and how these protective patterns can shape our leadership, relationships, success, and sense of freedom for decades.

This episode is an invitation into compassionate awareness…

Because the goal is not fixing.

The goal is wholeness.

And integration begins with understanding.

Dr Nat closes with a gentle guided reflection to help you begin recognising your own identity agreements — and to remind you that nothing is wrong with you.

Your system adapted intelligently.

And your next chapter is possible.

🌿 Guided Reflection Included

At the end of this episode, you’ll be guided through a short nervous-system-safe reflection to explore:

• Where you feel your own invisible ceiling
• What early identity agreement may still be shaping you
• How integration begins through safety, not force

🎧 This Episode Is For You If…

✔ You’ve done therapy but still feel held back
 ✔ You feel stuck at the edge of your next level
 ✔ You are a high achiever, coach, healer, or therapist who secretly braces for visibility
 ✔ You want to understand trauma through an identity and nervous system lens
 ✔ You’re ready for gr

This episode may include a short message from Dr Nat about her upcoming live masterclass:

Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

🗓 Friday 27 February
 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

This 90-minute live session is for people who have done therapy or personal growth work but still feel like something is holding them back.

You can find registration details via the link in the show notes.

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Have you ever felt like you’re “doing all the right things” for your health, yet your body still won’t cooperate? In this deeply powerful episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green is joined by Jodi Geline, a health expert known for helping people age healthier, banish bloat, IBS, and chronic health issues, and reclaim lasting wellbeing.

Jodi shares her lived experience of years of debilitating gut symptoms including intense bloating (to the point she looked “nine months pregnant”), severe pain, and a life dominated by the bathroom. But what makes her story especially meaningful is what she discovered underneath it all: the emotional energy of trauma, shame, and chronic stress stored in the body.

Together, Nat and Jodi explore the mind–body connection, how trauma can disconnect us from our bodies (and intuition), and why symptoms are often your body’s way of saying: “This needs to be healed.” If you’ve experienced childhood adversity, narcissistic abuse, chronic gut issues, or you’re on a post-traumatic growth journey and ready for deeper integration, this conversation will land.

In this episode, we cover:

• The link between trauma and gut health (bloating, IBS, chronic symptoms)
• Why “knowing” the mind–body connection isn’t the same as embodying it
• How shame can become a core wound that impacts health, relationships, and identity
• The trauma pattern many people recognise: repeating dynamics with narcissistic or abusive partners
• What it really means to build self-love and self-compassion when it wasn’t modelled
• Jodi’s practical “Step Away Method” to calm an overactive mind when meditation feels impossible
• How to begin reconnecting to your body by asking: “What do you need right now?”
• Why your symptoms aren’t your enemy: your body may be signalling unprocessed emotional energy
• Moving from survival and hiding to visibility, safety, and post-traumatic growth

Key takeaways

Your body hears your inner dialogue. Unprocessed emotions can lodge as tension and symptoms. And healing isn’t just about food, supplements, or protocols—it can also require deep work with identity, nervous system patterns, and emotional wounds.

Connect with Jodi Geline

• Website: JodiGeline.com
• YouTube
• Instagram

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Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

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 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

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In this opening episode, for 2026 Dr Nat Green invites you to pause — before pushing forward — and reflect on who you are now, after everything you’ve lived through.

As we close the Year of the Snake and step into the momentum of the Year of the Fire Horse, this episode explores what it really means to stand tall after trauma, adversity, or major life disruption — without shrinking, forcing, or abandoning yourself.

This conversation goes beyond “getting back to who you used to be” and into the deeper work of identity, integrity, and nervous system integration — the often-missing pieces in post-traumatic growth.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why you don’t go back to who you were after trauma — and why that’s not a problem
• What identity wounds are and how they form through survival and adaptation
• The often-overlooked impact of integrity wounds — when staying safe meant overriding yourself
• A powerful real-life case example showing how early experiences shape what feels safe, possible, and allowed
• How the nervous system remembers moments when it wasn’t safe to be seen, heard, or fully yourself
• Why insight alone doesn’t always lead to change — and why the body must be included
• How old “agreements” formed in childhood or adversity can quietly limit visibility and growth
• Gentle, practical strategies to begin restoring identity, integrity, and nervous system safety

This episode is for you if:

• You’ve done a lot of healing but still feel held back or misaligned
• You feel ready for growth but notice your body pulling you back when you become more visible
• You struggle with the idea of “going back to who you were”
• You want to understand why standing tall can feel unsafe — even when you’re capable and confident
• You’re ready to move forward in a way that honours your nervous system, not overrides it

A powerful reframe explored in this episode:

You are not stuck in the past —
you may be organised around it.

And growth doesn’t always require pushing harder.
Sometimes it asks us to gently update agreements that no longer fit the life we’re living now.

As we begin 2026 together, I’ll leave you with this reflection:

Who am I now — really — and what is ready to move forward with me this year?

This episode sets the foundation for a new season of Growing Tall Poppies, featuring solo episodes and guest conversations exploring identity after trauma, archetypes, nervous system wisdom, visibilit

This episode may include a short message from Dr Nat about her upcoming live masterclass:

Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

🗓 Friday 27 February
 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

This 90-minute live session is for people who have done therapy or personal growth work but still feel like something is holding them back.

You can find registration details via the link in the show notes.

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As we close out 2025, Dr Nat Green reflects on a powerful year of growth, integration, and becoming — both personally and collectively within the Growing Tall Poppies community.

This episode is a gentle yet honest Year in Review, exploring the arc many of us travelled this year: from burnout and emotional exhaustion, through meaning-making and identity grief, and into deeper integration and wholeness.

Together, we revisit the conversations, themes, and insights that shaped 2025 — including burnout, nervous system wisdom, post-traumatic growth, identity shifts, and the courage it takes to let go of who we once needed to be.

This is not just a recap. It’s an invitation to pause, reflect, and honour how far you’ve come.

 We Reflect on:

•  Burnout isn’t always about doing too much —  vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and nervous system overload often play a role
• The concept of identity grief 
• Why healing is the doorway, not the destination — and what lies beyond it
• A guided reflection to help you honour what you’ve released, what you’re nurturing, and what you want to carry forward
• Reframing the urge to “burn it all down” as a call toward truth, integrity, and alignment

A Special Reflection: 2025 — The Year of Shedding & Sacred Completion

In this episode, Dr Nat also names something many have felt but struggled to articulate: 2025 has carried a strong energy of completion.

Across cultures and traditions, this has been symbolised as a year of shedding — of letting go of skins that no longer fit. If you’ve felt an urge to:

• walk away
• simplify
• release old roles or identities
• question what no longer feels aligned

You’re not broken — and you’re not self-sabotaging. Your nervous system knows when something has run its course.

This episode gently explores how unbecoming can be just as vital to growth as becoming — and why endings are often the gateway to post-traumatic growth.

Who This Episode Is For

This episode is especially for you if:

• You’ve experienced burnout, exhaustion, or emotional heaviness this year
• You feel like you’re in a season of transition or completion
• You’ve done a lot of inner work, but sense something deeper is shifting
• You’re curious about post-traumatic growth, identity change, and nervous system-led healing

Looking Ahead to 2026

As we move into 2026, the invitation is no longer to chase perfect healing — but to live from integration, auth

This episode may include a short message from Dr Nat about her upcoming live masterclass:

Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

🗓 Friday 27 February
 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

This 90-minute live session is for people who have done therapy or personal growth work but still feel like something is holding them back.

You can find registration details via the link in the show notes.

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When violence occurs in a shared public space, it doesn’t only impact those directly involved — it ripples through communities, values, and our collective sense of safety.

In this short, reflective episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green explores community trauma, collective memory, and why events like the recent violent attack at Bondi during a Jewish Hanukkah gathering can feel deeply triggering for so many Australians (and audiences worldwide).

Violence in familiar, public places can shake us in ways that are difficult to explain. Even if we weren’t there. Even if we don’t know anyone directly affected.

Dr Nat speaks gently to the community trauma  — and why these events can reawaken old wounds, both personally and collectively. Drawing on decades of trauma-informed work, including her involvement in community recovery following the Port Arthur massacre, Dr Nat reflects on how trauma memory lives in the nervous system and why reactions such as fear, hypervigilance, sadness, anger, or numbness are deeply human responses.

This episode also acknowledges the specific impact of violence on communities gathering in faith and celebration, and speaks directly to the Jewish community with compassion and validation.

Importantly, listeners are offered clear, practical, trauma-informed strategies to support themselves in the days and weeks following community violence — not to fix or bypass what’s happened, but to help the nervous system settle and feel supported.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn About:

• What community trauma is and why it affects all of us
• How collective and historical trauma can be reactivated by current events
• Why heightened vigilance, sleep disruption, emotional swings, or numbness are normal trauma responses
• The impact of violence on communities gathering around faith and culture
• Trauma-informed grounding strategies to support the nervous system
• How compassion, connection, and shared values support collective healing

7 Trauma-Informed Strategies Shared in This Episode

• Creating psychological distance from distressing news and social media
• Orienting the body to present-moment safety
• Grounding through movement, breath, and sensory awareness
• Normalising emotional fluctuations after community trauma
• Staying connected to others as a buffer against isolation
• Lowering expectations and prioritising self-care
• Seeking additional professional or community support when needed

Resources & Support (Au

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Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

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Today’s episode marks a deeply meaningful transition.

In this personal and reflective solo episode, Dr Nat Green shares why she has chosen not to re-register as a Clinical Psychologist after 35 years in the profession — and why, instead of feeling heavy or sorrowful, this decision feels grounded, aligned, and freeing.

This is not a rejection of psychology.
 It’s the completion of an identity — and the conscious integration of lived experience, professional wisdom, and post-traumatic growth into a new chapter of work.

In this episode, Dr Nat explores what it means to:

• honour an identity that has completed without bitterness or rebellion
• navigate identity grief — the quiet, often unnamed grief that can accompany growth
• step into a new version of yourself with integrity, nervous system safety, and self-trust

This conversation is especially for you if:

• you feel like you’ve outgrown a role, title, or version of yourself
• you’re on the edge of a transition and unsure how to let go with clarity
• you’ve done a lot of inner work but sense there’s another chapter calling
• you want reassurance that growth doesn’t have to come through collapse

✨ In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why identity completion is not failure — but maturity
• How identity grief shows up (even when a decision feels right)
• The difference between burnout, rebellion, and true alignment
• Why nervous system regulation matters more than rushing to redefine yourself
• Three grounded strategies to support yourself through an identity shift
• How ethical, embodied transformation can exist beyond traditional systems

🧭 Three Grounded Identity Transition Practices Shared:

1. Honour the identity you are completing — recognise what it gave you before moving on
2. Allow identity grief without pathologising it — grief means it mattered
3. Regulate before you redefine — somatic clarity precedes identity clarity

💬 A Reflection to Sit With:

📝 Important Note

This episode is shared for reflection, education, and personal growth.
 It is not therapy and does not replace professional mental health care.
 If you are experiencing distress or need additional support, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional.

This episode may include a short message from Dr Nat about her upcoming live masterclass:

Why You Keep Hitting An Invisible Ceiling — Even After All The Work

🗓 Friday 27 February
 🕚 11:00am AEDT (Sydney, Australia)

This 90-minute live session is for people who have done therapy or personal growth work but still feel like something is holding them back.

You can find registration details via the link in the show notes.

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In this powerful and deeply personal solo episode, Dr. Nat Green shares the truth that so many eventually discover: healing isn’t the destination — it’s the doorway. After 35 years as a psychologist and trauma specialist, Dr Nat opens up about her own evolution from therapist to integrated leader and the moment she realised her next chapter required not more “doing the work,” but living it.

She recounts her frustration with trauma treatment models that made it acceptable for lengthy trauma healing, describes the birth of her ABS Method® through lived experience, and the profound identity shift that unfolded during her recent overseas trip — where she learned that integration, embodiment, and alignment were the missing pieces she had been seeking.

This episode is a soul-stirring exploration of what happens after healing…
and why the next level of your leadership, business, and purpose is found in your integration, not your trauma story.

Dr Nat introduces the Seven Archetypes of Transformation© — and looks at how  they represent a crucial part of your integrated identity as a leader, coach, healer, or entrepreneur.

She also shares her own raw truth: the identity she must now let go of — her long-standing role as a psychologist — in order to fully step into the work she knows she was born to do.

This episode will speak directly to you if:

•  You’ve done the healing work but feel something deeper calling
• You’re craving alignment, purpose, and identity clarity
• You’re a coach, healer, practitioner, or conscious entrepreneur ready to lead from your wisdom
• You’re navigating identity grief or stepping into a new version of yourself
• You’re ready to thrive, not just survive

🔥 What You’ll Hear in This Episode

• Why healing is not the end point — and what lies on the other side
• How the ABS Method® was born from lived experience
• The role of identity, embodiment, and integration in leadership
• How a transformative overseas experience revealed the next layer of Nat’s purpose
• A dive into the Seven Archetypes of Transformation©
• How each archetype influences your leadership and business
• The identity Nat is now courageously releasing to fully step into her next chapter
• A powerful invitation for coaches, healers, and leaders who feel the pull to evolve

✨ Links & Resources Mentioned

Take the Archetypes of Transformation™ Quiz
Discover which archetype is leading your transformation — and what you

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Content Warning ⚠️ - This episode discusses child loss, hospitalisation, grief and end-of-life decisions. Please listen with care and have support available and take breaks as needed.

In this deeply moving conversation, Dr Nat Green speaks with psychologist and grieving mum Kimberly Stevens, who lost her 13-year-old son Ethan to T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in 2021. Six months later, back at work and searching for what was missing between therapy sessions, Kimberly set out to solve a critical gap for bereaved parents—local, lived-experience connection.

After three years of development, she launched Kids Connecting Parents (April 2025), a geolocation app helping grieving parents find and message one another nearby, build real-world support, and feel less alone.

Key Highlights / Takeaways

• Ethan’s story: from misdiagnosed “asthma” to ICU, and the family’s final days filled with love.
• The truth about grief: why integration (not “moving on”) is the most compassionate path.
• The basket of tools: how Kimberly used her clinical wisdom and lived experience to feel everything and re-engage with life.
• The connection gap: why many parents lose support—and how local, face-to-face community transforms healing.
• Building the app: funding hurdles, unexpected allies, and a “dating-app-style” interface (without the dating!).
• Boundaries & return to work: practical ways professionals can pace capacity after loss.
• Hope in action: 2,200+ messages exchanged since launch, connecting parents across Australia, NZ, Canada, the US & Germany.
• Tiny steps matter: water, sleep, a walk, a text—each builds capacity to hold what hurts.
• It truly “takes a village to grieve a child.” Creating and joining that village is healing.

About our guest — Kimberly Stevens
Registered Psychologist, founder of Kids Connecting Parents, and devoted mum to Ethan and Jett. Kimberly blends professional training with lived experience to create safer, closer, local support for parents navigating life after child loss.

Resources & how to help

• Kids Connecting Parents App — Available on Apple & Android 
• Website: www.kidsconnectingparents.com
• Financial accessibility: 99¢ AUD/month helps cover hosting and security. If cost is a barrier, email kimberly@kidsconnec

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