Life After PTSD Podcast: Healing From Trauma

What if the thing that once protected you is now holding you back?

Lindsay Roberts shares her powerful story of surviving a devastating car accident at 15, enduring numerous surgeries and years of physical recovery, and later recognizing how trauma continued to shape her life.

She talks openly about parenting while healing from childhood trauma, sobriety, breaking generational cycles, and the realization that the mental protections that once helped her survive could eventually become barriers to the life she wanted.

Her decision to train for Hyrox became an unexpected part of her healing journey, forcing her to confront a belief she had carried for years: that she could never run again. Along the way, she discovered the difference between physical limitations and the protective stories trauma can leave behind.

The conversation also explores the power of lived experience, community, vulnerability, and helping others while you're still healing yourself.

At its heart, this episode is about surviving, healing, breaking cycles, and discovering that the things that helped you survive may not always be the things you need to move forward.

• What if the thing that once protected you is now holding you back?

• At 15, Lindsay survived a horrific car accident that nearly took her life—and she was told she might never walk, let alone run, again.

• She survived the accident. But years later, she realized the trauma hadn't necessarily survived with her—it had become part of how she lived.

• What happens when your biggest limitation isn't your injured body, but the story your brain has been telling you for years?

• Lindsay was told never to run again. Years later, she signed up for a competition that required five miles of running—without even realizing what she'd signed up for.

• Can healing mean doing something that terrifies you? Lindsay's answer is yes—but maybe not in the way you think.

• She broke one cycle by getting sober. Then she realized she was also breaking a generational cycle for her children.

• You don't always need to be completely healed before you help someone else. Sometimes being one step ahead is enough.

• What if you could become the parent, partner, or person you needed when you were younger?

• Lindsay's story asks a powerful question: Are you still living by rules that were created to keep an earlier version of you safe?

Lindsay Roberts survived a catastrophic car accident at 15, underwent numerous surgeries, and was told she might never walk—or run—again. Years later, she confronted the emotional impact of that trauma through sobriety, motherhood, fitness, and a determination to break generational cycles.

In this episode, Lindsay talks about trauma, memory, addiction, parenting, healing, and the unexpected ways our survival mechanisms can become limitations. Her story is ultimately about moving forward—even when you don't know exactly where the road leads.

Important: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. The stories, conversations, and information shared here are not therapy, counseling, diagnosis, or a substitute for professional mental health or medical care. Everyone's experience with trauma is different, and what works for one person may not be appropriate for another.

If you're struggling with trauma, PTSD, substance use, or thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please reach out to a qualified mental health or medical professional.

If you are in the United States and are experiencing a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you are in immediate danger or need emergency medical assistance, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.

You don't have to navigate a crisis alone. This podcast is sponsored by FirstOrlandoCounseling.com and LifeAfterPTSD.org

Each week the Life After PTSD Podcast shares stories of about creating a Life After PTSD. FirstOrlandoCounseling.com The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes and NOT a substitute for treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider. Are you in crisis? Call:or TEXT: 988

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Join us to listen to WWII veteran and champion of mental health healing, Mel Jenner, as he shares part of his life story and his journey-from the Michigan Air National Guard to the skies over Europe. In a few short sessions, he is free from 90+ years of trauma.

Each week the Life After PTSD Podcast shares stories of about creating a Life After PTSD. LifeAfterPTSd.org

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The show is intended to provide encouragement for the listener but is for entertainment purposes and NOT a substitute for treatment or to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever. Please seek help from a qualified mental health provider. Are you in crisis? Call: 988 or TEXT: Talk to 74174

Life After PTSD has a chat with siblings Mohammed and Maria, who they met through missionary work in the Tyre (Lebanon) Counseling Center and were trained in the "Quick Protocol" the Arabic version of Managing Emotional States Effectively.

Join the Life After PTSD Team as we catch up with Chris who hosted us in Lebanon. Chris is a missionary living in Tyre, Lebanon serving primarily refugees of the Syrian War. Chris's ministry there serves educating children as well as their newly opened community counseling center. Chris and his mission hope to spread this model and state of the art counseling techniques throughout the Middle East and other war torn areas. If you would like to know more about Chris's ministry or would like to support please go to :

https://www.wordsofisa.com/