Naked Insights Podcast - Honest Talks about Trauma, Health and Relationships

In this deeply personal season finale, Sam shares the raw truth behind stepping back, slowing down, and honouring her own limits. After facing a series of personal losses, she opens up about what it really means to choose yourself - even when it means disappointing others.

We explore:
 💔 The hidden cost of keeping promises that tip you over the edge
 🌱 Why sometimes the bravest thing you can do is break your word to others to keep it with yourself
🧘‍♀️ How grief reshapes identity, purpose, and self-trust
💡 The art of conscious pause - knowing when to rest instead of push
❤️ What endings can teach us about courage, compassion, and renewal

This episode is raw, reflective, and profoundly human - a reminder that integrity isn’t about never breaking promises; it’s about knowing which ones to keep.

🎧 Tune in for Sam’s final reflection of Season 1 — a tender closing to a season of growth, honesty, and healing.

Are you always the one fixing, pleasing, or holding everything together, even when it hurts?

In this raw and revealing episode, Adele dives into the hidden psychology of codependency and pathological accommodation - the deep, often unconscious patterns that make us sacrifice our own needs to keep the peace.

We explore:
 🌀 The difference between healthy empathy and self-erasure
 ❤️‍🩹 Why “helping” can sometimes be a trauma response
 💣 How childhood survival strategies turn into adult relationship traps
 🧠 The inner drivers behind rescuing, over-giving, and emotional burnout
 💬 Steps to break free — reclaiming your boundaries, voice, and authentic self

This isn’t about blaming yourself, it’s about seeing yourself. Because you can’t heal what you can’t name.

🎧 Tune in for a powerful deep dive into how to stop rescuing, start receiving, and finally learn that you don’t have to disappear to be loved.

Your attachment style is running the show, whether you realise it or not.

In this episode, Adele unpacks the powerful science of attachment theory and how early experiences wire the way you love, fight, and connect.

We dive into:
 💞 The three core attachment styles - anxious, avoidant, fear attached and secure - and how they play out in adult relationships
🔥 Why opposites attract… and then drive each other crazy
🧠 How trauma and childhood patterns silently shape your emotional reactions
❤️‍🩹 What healing looks like - and how to move toward secure attachment, no matter your history
💬 Practical ways to recognise triggers, communicate better, and build real emotional safety

Whether you’re dating, married, or healing from heartbreak, this episode will help you finally understand why your relationships feel the way they do and how to change the script for good.

🎧 Tune in to uncover your attachment blueprint — and start loving from a place of security, not survival.

Should you fight for your relationship, or walk away?

In this episode, Adele and Sam break down a clear, research-backed process to help you decide with data, not just feelings.

We cover:
 💔 The cost of skipping compatibility “due diligence” and why many couples do it too late
 ⚡ The Gottman Four Horsemen: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling — early warning signs your relationship is in trouble
 🧠 Four essential questions every couple must ask before deciding to stay or leave
 🌱 How love languages, personality traits, and character strategies shape compatibility
 🔍 Two powerful case studies: one couple who rebuilt, one who left with clarity and peace

This isn’t about pushing you to stay or go, it’s about giving you a roadmap to know for sure.

Tune in to learn how to evaluate your relationship with honesty, compassion, and evidence.

This episode is raw, real, and deeply personal. Sam opens up about her journey of becoming a young mum: the challenges, the resilience it demanded, and how those early experiences shaped her into the health professional she is today.

We explore:
 👶 The struggles and lessons of navigating motherhood at a young age
 💡 How those challenges sparked her passion for functional medicine
 🌱 The transformation from surviving to thriving and building a career that now supports hundreds of people every month
❤️ The power of vulnerability, grit, and purpose in turning life’s toughest moments into a calling

It’s not just Sam’s story — it’s a testament to how adversity can carve out passion, direction, and a life devoted to healing others.

Tune in for an inspiring, eye-opening journey from motherhood to medicine.

What if your body isn’t failing you… but protecting you?

In this episode, Adele, Sam are joined by Dr. Karen Baikie as they unpack the science of metabolomics - the study of your body’s real-time chemistry - and how it reveals why so many people with trauma, chronic illness, or burnout can’t heal.

Dr Karen Baikie (PhD, MClinPsych, MAPS, FCCLP, CHT, SEP) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 25 years experience working with individuals and couples, and providing supervision, in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Karen is the Director and Founder of Grow Mindfully: Centre for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health, a group practice of like-minded therapists working with mindful, somatic, compassion-based and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches.  Karen is a Certified Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team, Lead Trainer on the Sydney Comprehensive Training, Organiser for Hakomi trainings in Sydney, and co-facilitator in the Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationships Training (H.E.A.R.T.). She runs workshops on aspects of Hakomi and H.E.A.R.T. throughout Australia. Karen holds a PhD in psychology on the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of trauma. She has worked extensively with adult survivors of child abuse and is also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and Somatic Experiencing.  Karen supports people with difficulties in the areas of attachment, trauma, childhood abuse, emotional health, relationships, parenting, fertility, eating, and gut health. She is passionate about assisting individuals, couples and other therapists in using mindfulness-based approaches to support healing as well as deepening awareness and connection with themselves and others.

We explore:
 ⚡ The Cell Danger Response (CDR) - your mitochondria’s survival program that gets stuck in “war mode”
🧬 How trauma, toxins, infections, and even psychological stress hijack your biology
🧠 Why mental health issues like anxiety, PTSD, and depression leave measurable chemical footprints
🌱 The new model of metabolomics and salugenesis which is healing through restoring safety, connection, and cellular cooperation
💡 Why somatic therapy, rest, and nervous system regulation aren’t “nice extras” - they’re biologically essential for recovery

This is a move from pure psychology, linking to trauma and providing a roadmap to move from survival → healing.

🎧 Tune in and discover why you’re not broken — your cells just think you’re still in danger.

#CellDangerResponse #TraumaHealing #Metabolomics #ChronicIllness #MindBodyConnection #SomaticTherapy #PodcastDrop

This episode pulls back the curtain on something rarely shared: a real therapy session where Adele’s body diagnosed an injury before doctors did.

Featuring our guest Dr. Karen Baikie on this episode, she talks about using Hakomi, a powerful somatic therapy, where Adele’s child state of consciousness revealed exactly what was happening in her foot, long before medical tests confirmed it.

Dr Karen Baikie (PhD, MClinPsych, MAPS, FCCLP, CHT, SEP) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 25 years experience working with individuals and couples, and providing supervision, in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Karen is the Director and Founder of Grow Mindfully: Centre for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health, a group practice of like-minded therapists working with mindful, somatic, compassion-based and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches.  Karen is a Certified Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team, Lead Trainer on the Sydney Comprehensive Training, Organiser for Hakomi trainings in Sydney, and co-facilitator in the Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationships Training (H.E.A.R.T.). She runs workshops on aspects of Hakomi and H.E.A.R.T. throughout Australia. Karen holds a PhD in psychology on the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of trauma. She has worked extensively with adult survivors of child abuse and is also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and Somatic Experiencing.  Karen supports people with difficulties in the areas of attachment, trauma, childhood abuse, emotional health, relationships, parenting, fertility, eating, and gut health. She is passionate about assisting individuals, couples and other therapists in using mindfulness-based approaches to support healing as well as deepening awareness and connection with themselves and others.

We dive into:
 🧠 How child states hold unspoken truths about trauma and the body
 ⚡ What really happens inside a somatic therapy session (the “black box” revealed)
 👣 How the body’s wisdom can outpace even medical professionals
 💡 Why Hakomi changes the way we understand healing and diagnosis

This one is raw, controversial, and eye-opening and a rare look at the intersection of psychology, somatics, and the body’s intelligence.

Listen now to hear how therapy can uncover truths hidden deep in the body.

Born into pain. Raised in resilience.

In this deeply personal episode, Adele shares how a traumatic birth, childhood surgeries, and years of chronic pain shaped her path into trauma therapy, trauma-informed coaching psychology and health psychology. Her story takes you through:

 🩺 Surviving congenital hip dysplasia and the medical system’s blind spots
 🧠 How early trauma fuels lifelong patterns like people-pleasing and silence in pain
 💊 Hard truths on the opioid crisis and flaws in modern healthcare
 💡 Why self-advocacy is a non-negotiable in healing - both physically and emotionally

From hospital wards to a doctorate in health psychology, Adele reveals how curiosity, grit, and a refusal to be defined by her pain transformed her life and career.

Listen now for a raw, inspiring look at how to turn trauma into purpose and reclaim your power.

99% of your DNA isn’t human — and it’s running the show.

In this mind-bending episode, Adele and Sam uncover how the trillions of microbes in your gut influence:
 🧠 Mood, anxiety & trauma recovery
 💡 Neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine & GABA
 🔥 Inflammation, cravings & even your body clock

We bust outdated myths (goodbye serotonin hypothesis of depression) and explore how stress and trauma hijack gut health — triggering everything from anxiety to diabetes. You’ll also hear the real story on microbiome testing, probiotics, and why quick-fix trends like DIY fecal transplants can backfire.

If you’ve ever wondered why your gut feelings are so powerful, this episode is your deep dive into the science and the solutions.

Tune in and learn how to harness your “second brain” for lasting mental and physical health.

When your stomach is talking, your mind should listen.

In this eye-opening episode, Adele and Sam pull back the curtain on the powerful gut–brain axis and why IBS isn’t “just in your head,” but deeply connected to your mental health.

We dive into:
 🧠 Why 90% of your serotonin is made in your gut, not your brain
 ⚡ How trauma and chronic stress rewire your microbiome
 🌸 The link between endometriosis, “cyclical IBS,” and hormonal shifts
 🌀 Why your gut reacts before your brain registers fear
 🌿 Tools that actually work — from psychobiotics and microbiome testing to trauma-informed therapy

If you’ve been told “it’s all in your head” or feel trapped in the IBS–anxiety loop, this episode is your roadmap out — one gut feeling at a time.

Listen now and learn how to break the cycle from the inside out.