In the Nude: naked truth of healing

Silence can feel terrifying.  A life filled with noise, trauma and dysregulation: I found silence triggering. This episode walks through not only the truth of the impact and power of silence and it's direct correlation to your having more peace but also how to take baby steps that won't cause triggers.

We all know we need to wash our body or brush our teeth but scoff at the idea of silence, rest and play BUT it is a deeply needed "wash" of our brain and feelings. 

Silence literally helps your body, brain and soul.  It helps your cardiovascular system, your immune system, your sleep, it aids brain regeneration, helps creativity, enhances focus and aids processing emotions instead of them getting locked up in the body. 

This conversation isn't getting into the muck of the scientific benefits as much as it is an emphasis on how to cultivate it simply within your life now. Taking the concept and applying it in real ways and real actions that can help it feel less confusing and more integrated. 

The noise of life can get in the way of us really living our life and thriving in it. A simple proof of this is one of the only moments of silence we have is right before we go to sleep: How often is your brain just throwing words and thoughts at you that you struggle to fall asleep.

Andrew's practical challenge is to listen to your favorite song and just listen. It doesn't have to look like long meditations or silent retreats: it can look like focused breathing for 90 seconds. 

Start where you are with what you can: tangibly making your life better in sustainable ways. 

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If you are exhausted from trying to change your life, completely defeated because you keep making the same mistakes, and feeling deeply isolated in a struggle nobody else seems to talk about... this raw conversation is the honest, practical compass you have been waiting for.

When you grow up with behavior-focused, emotionally unintelligent parents or inside a high-control religious environment, you learn very early that your worth is tied to your performance. You were taught that following the rules perfectly kept you safe, while your true feelings, boundaries, and needs were treated like an inconvenience. Years later, you might not even realize you are carrying the invisible weight of Complex PTSD (CPTSD). You just know you are deeply tired, struggling with constant self-doubt, and trapped in an exhausting loop of trying to fix your life without ever feeling like you are actually thriving.

You are not broken, and you are not failing. You are navigating the terrifying reality of trying to unlearn a childhood script that taught you to abandon yourself. Most people make healing sound like a clean, 5-step formula, which leaves you feeling completely alone and defeated when your brain naturally freaks out over the unknown. You might find yourself secretly waiting for someone to rescue you or fix the pain, only to fall back into old patterns of self-protection and self-sabotage.

In this heartfelt, deeply vulnerable episode of In The Nude, Rachel Abi breaks down how love actually conquers fear when change feels uncomfortable and terrifying. Sharing raw personal memories of feeling excluded, unworthy, and invisible as a child, Rachel reveals how those early wounds silently create our adult patterns of self-doubt and relationship anxiety.

This is an honest, practical guide to true transformation. You will learn why beliefs are simply repeated actions, and why real healing does not happen through a massive overnight overhaul. Instead, it happens through tiny, consistent acts of daily care that slowly teach your nervous system a brand-new truth: that you are worthy, lovable, and capable of creating a life you actually enjoy.

What We Unpack in This Naked Conversation:

• Dismantling the Rescue Fantasy: Why waiting for someone else to complete or save you keeps you stuck in childhood patterns, and how to safely take your power back.

• The Science of Small Actions: How micro-habits like stretching, taking a short walk, showering, or practicing a quiet breath physically teach your brain that you are worthy of love.

• Unpacking the Exclusion Wound: How childhood memories of feeling left out or hyper-criticized by emotionally unavailable parents create your adult fear of change.

• Moving Beyond Toxic Formulas: Why healing from a hard childhood is messy, non-linear, and requires radical self-compassion rather than rigid rules.

• Choosing Love Over Fear: Practical somatic tools to help you show up for yourself when your nervous system is screaming at you to run back to what is familiar.

Finding access to this conversation can directly alter how you treat yourself on your darkest days. You do not have to navigate this difficulty alone anymore. Tune in to step out of survival mode and start building a life rooted in genuine self-worth.

If I asked you to name 3 things you hated about yourself you could likely without any time write that list: we have been taught to critique ourselves, shame our bodies, and all the while quietly take on loads that aren't ours. 

This pattern we follow like those before us is digging our own grave: the grave of our souls, hearts bodies AND the ability to have a life we love. If we want to have a different life and feel differently we have to be willing to do, think and be different. Self worth and self acceptance IS that work. 

Not a rest when you achieve. Not reward when you are productive enough. Not love when you are that size INSTEAD seeing the powerhouse you are in this exact moment and embracing this current version of you fully loving and accepting it, holding it's hand with the love you never received and SHOWING yourself that you are lovable by being the first person to do so. 

Bringing that acceptance to the table and decompressing the beliefs that aren't working for us is the real magic to getting weight to drop off and achieving the joy and peace you desire. 
Stop waiting to see yourself as loveable and worth it and start being it for yourself: listen to hear practical tools and steps to get you towards a life you love. 

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What if you could really have a life you loved?  One you woke up excited about. What if you could really take giant strides towards gaining yourself that life. What if I told you it was time travel? What if i told you the gateway to timetravel is gratitude? 
After 3 years of healing and very little movement forward and loads of anger: i learned a lesson about acceptance, grace and love.  A lesson about belief systems how they impact our lives AND how to shift them without feeling fake. 
This episode I breakdown a simple shift you can do for yourself. It isn't a how to guide with three easy steps but it is a perspective that you can pull out and see each individual situation in your life and with that you can gain the personal weighted knowledge on what to do within your own power. 
Let's change the story. Let's gain a life bigger than the dreams of our childhoodself. Let's really live.

In this raw and honest episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, Rachel sits down with Dr. Christopher Cortman: a licensed psychologist with over 40 years of clinical experience and more than 85,000 psychotherapy sessions : to explore forgiveness, resentment, trauma recovery, grief, and emotional healing.

For many people living with CPTSD, religious trauma, high-control upbringing wounds, or chronic anxiety, forgiveness can feel impossible. Dr. Cortman explains why bitterness often becomes a form of protection, how resentment can shield us from vulnerability, and why holding onto anger may keep us emotionally stuck long after the original harm occurred.

The conversation dives into one of the most misunderstood topics in trauma healing: the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. Forgiveness is about releasing the emotional grip of the past; reconciliation is about rebuilding trust and intimacy = and those are not the same thing.

Rachel and Dr. Cortman also discuss grief, unresolved trauma, emotional triggers, nervous system responses, and guided imagery therapy. They explore how unfinished pain can shape relationships, self-worth, and daily life for years, and how intentionally revisiting painful memories in a safe therapeutic context can help people process, reframe, and release what they’ve been carrying.

This episode challenges the belief that time heals all wounds. Instead, it offers a compassionate and practical path toward healing through facing the pain, telling the truth, feeling the feelings, and choosing acceptance.If you’re healing from childhood trauma, emotional abuse, religious trauma, toxic relationships, or complex PTSD, this conversation will help you understand how forgiveness can become an act of self-liberation, peace, and coming home to yourself.

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If I hear one more person talk about what to do I might just scream.There is so much noise, so much to do and so many must haves that I feel exhausted just thinking about it. You don't need another list of actions. You don't need another person who doesn't know your life telling you what to do YET you also want help getting to a life you love and feel lost as to who to listen to. I cannot promise you a life of money coming out of your ears, I cannot promise you that you will gain that relationship, or that car you desire but I can promise you that if you listen to this and actually apply these filters to your life you will gain more JOY, CONTENTMENT, and a life filled with more PEACE.If you want to thrive, wake up excited about your life and really be present in enjoying your existence, listen in.  Hundreds of books read, hundreds of hours of therapy in all different modalities: I have taken all of that knowledge and wisdome and boiled it down to the foundation and offered those steps up for you. Walking you through step by step how to go from where you are to where you love the life you are in with joy, contentment and peace as a status you come home to as default.  Giving my own personal life as example and collateral damage to the cause. If you listen to only one podcast I have ever done, this is the one to listen to. 

Many of us believe we're seeing reality clearly.

But what if the thoughts, beliefs, fears, and patterns shaping your life were built from old wounds instead of truth?

In this Naked Conversation, I sit down with Beth Jones to explore the life-changing power of radical self-awareness and how healing begins when we're willing to question the stories we've been carrying for years.

Beth shares her deeply personal journey from trauma, survival mode, and unconscious bias into a life rooted in self-love, compassion, and authenticity. Together, we discuss how childhood experiences, relationship trauma, religious conditioning, and old coping mechanisms quietly shape our perspectives, often without us realizing it.

In this conversation, we explore:

• How unconscious beliefs and biases influence your relationships, choices, and healing journey
• Why trauma survivors often struggle to see themselves with compassion
• The pivotal shift that helped Beth move from surviving to thriving
• Practical tools for healing trauma and rewiring limiting beliefs
• How self-awareness helps break generational patterns and cycles of pain
• Why self-compassion and boundaries are essential parts of emotional healing
• The truth about healing being a lifelong journey rather than a destination

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or frustrated by repeating the same patterns despite years of personal growth work.

Healing is not about becoming someone new.

It is about uncovering who you were before fear, trauma, shame, and survival convinced you otherwise.

You are not broken.

You are becoming aware.

And awareness changes everything.

🎧 Listen now and discover how self-awareness can become the first step toward healing, self-love, emotional freedom, and a life that feels more fully your own.

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Quantifying value wastes energy and time, yet it is prolific. #1. Winner. All words that don't actually convey full truth.
"Normal" is another waste of time. We each have "normals" within ourselves or within our families. "Normal" however as a thing isn't real.  It is a box. A way to quantify ineffectively. 
While definitions and understanding trends can helps us feel understood or less alone holding tightly to boxes of "identity" are more like shoving our body through a cookie cutter we were never met to fit perfectly instead take from the frame work that this is a "generalization" and that all things are in fact a spectrum. 
Depression can look like a few weeks of being down; it can also mean someone who is close to unaliving themselves= not the same despite being boxed the same. When we let go of the boxes and controls others have given ourselves and instead gain curiosity for our unique personhood we gain MUCH more clarity and actionables to who we are and what to do with that.  How to process our feelings. How to adjust to the situation. How to gain more peace. How to thrive. 
In this epsidoe I breakdown how "normal" isn't real AND freeing yourself from white knuckled grip on our "identities" actually free us into a beautiful world where we can actually thrive with ease following our own magic.  

If you are running yourself into the ground trying to manage your life through mental constructs, rigid logic, and pure control: but you still wake up feeling anxious, isolated, and completely defeated... this conversation will shatter the walls of your cage.

For those of us raised inside high-control religious structures or under the roof of behavior-focused, emotionally unintelegent parents, certainty was our only protection. You were conditioned to distrust your body, ignore your desires, and treat your intuition like a dangerous sin. You learned to navigate life using a strict, logical formula: obey the rules, hit the milestones, dominate your emotions, and keep everyone else comfortable. You became an expert at reading external scripts, but you are living with a deep, silent emptiness. You are likely fighting the exhausting, chronic freeze response of Complex PTSD (CPTSD) without even realizing it: wondering why the more you try to control your life, the more disconnected and paralyzed you feel.

In this profoundly disruptive episode of In The Nude, Rachel Abi sits down with scientist, author, and intuitive pioneer Dr. Sophia Trevenna to completely strip away the western paradigm of hustle, control, and domination. Sophia shares her radical transition from rigid scientific skepticism to an unfiltered life of intuitive adventure and energetic co-creation. This isn’t an aesthetic talk about trendy manifestation; it is a raw, real-time experiment on what happens when you decide to live beyond what you know.

Together, Rachel and Sophia reveal how trauma forces us to externalize our solutions, why forcing your life to fit into traditional societal boxes keeps your nervous system in a state of high alarm, and how to physically retrain your body to read the subtle somatic signals of true alignment. This conversation is a practical, non-linear blueprint for the woman who is tired of just surviving the corporate and cultural matrix and is ready to step into her absolute creative sovereignty.

What We Deeply Unpack in This Naked Conversation:

• The Trap of Mental Constructs: Why relying solely on what you "know" keeps you looping in the exact same generational trauma patterns.

• Somatic Manifestation vs. Domination: Why trying to force your dreams through aggressive control leaves you spiritually bankrupt, and how to "surf" life's energy instead.

• The Seven Feminine Principles: Shifting out of hyper-masculine survival structures and into collaborative, fluid, and ecosystem-based business and lifestyle models.

• Interpreting Your Body’s Radar: Practical rituals to clear stuck energy, trust your posture cues, and translate the unconscious wisdom of your physical self.

• Embracing the Sacred Pause: How to handle hardships, setbacks, and divine timing without spiraling into a freeze response or toxic self-criticism.

Be warned: This conversation requires a complete surrender of your need to control the room. It is a raw, naked invitation to step off the cliff of certainty and find community in the unknown. Finding this door could alter the entire trajectory of your life's work and healing.

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Chaos is not fixed by control. The more we try and shove our life into the pretty picture we think it should be the more it explodes out of the bottom  and sides of the box. Leaving us riddled with anxiety. Which not to be dramatic is slowly killing us. 
What then do we do?

Pressure from so many sides telling us what we should do, be, have, own, achieve... Internally the "not good enough" "not enough" "unlovable" drums beat louder and louder till we cave to the pressure and shatter... This might be binge eating, this might be sickness, this might be depression, the list goes on.  
Let go. Terrifying as it sounds. Let go. 
This episode I go into depth on the principles and some practical ways I act on "letting go" in my own life. The noise of this world is never going to stop. Life is too short to keep living on default.  Too short to be living with this stress inside of us making this existence miserable AND shorter than it could be. 
If you want a different life than you have... one with more peace and contentment and fulfillment: join me on this adventure.