In this solo episode Nicoleta continues her Trauma Healing series and explores the impact of cultural and social trauma.

Cultural trauma is created and allowed by the local cultures, is rooted in religious and scientific fiction and maintained by our societies which are led by the systems and institutions of each era.

Cultural trauma has brought and still brings a lot of suffering and has historically affected some particular cultural groups

Social trauma is the result of the social disparity, inequality, discrimination and prejudice that are affecting so many of us even to this day.

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In this solo episode Nicoleta continues her Trauma Healing series and explores how to heal collective and ancestral trauma.

Explore where you’re coming from, reconnect with the universe, the Earth, the nature and the ecosystem as one of 100 zillion organisms.

Discover the impact of the 2.5 mil years of human history and understand evolutionary, genetic and karmic memory. 

Find how your ancestry continues to live through you.

See how the pain and the hurt of the humanity live inside of you and how they affect your life.

Then learn how to heal the collective and ancestral trauma.

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In this solo episode Nicoleta continues her Trauma Healing series and explores how to heal the trauma of the 4th part of you: your social persona.

What is the social persona?

And what shapes your personality?

How do you develop this social persona which is the mediator between your internal 

and external world?

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 In this episode Nicoleta talks about trauma and happiness with dr. Aimee Apigian from California, USA.

When own health struggles inspires a medical physician to look beyond conventional medicine.

What is functional medicine?

Looking underneath the symptoms into the cause of illness.

Why is preventative medicine important?

A holistic and integrative view on trauma.

The impact of trauma on our body.

What we learn from addiction medicine.

When the nervous system is wired for trauma responses.

How to properly self-regulate our internal life. 

When brain inflammation is a sign of trauma response. 

How unresolved trauma gets passed onto the next generations.

Why trauma impacts our capacity for happiness.

The grief work open the door to happiness.

How somatic exercises bring safety into the body and mind.

When your deepest desire is your greatest fear.

How our health issues are linked to adverse childhood experiences.

How healing trauma improves the physiological functioning. 

Why the healing potential is limitless. 

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In this solo episode Nicoleta continues the Trauma Healing series and explores the impact of trauma on our soul and heart, and how we can heal our inner wounds.

What is the soul?
How can the soul get hurt?
What is the impact of trauma on our soul?
Is healing possible?
The power of presence and awareness.
Steps towards spiritual wellbeing.
When transformation happens.

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In this interview Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with dr. Ava Pommerenk, trauma recovery specialist from Mexico.

Life in isolation on an organic farm in Hawaii.

Growing up in a dysfunctional family environment.

From trauma to seeking a deep sense of connection.

When the overachiever opens up to spirituality.

Being guided to a Buddhist psychology school.

When the soul searching journey begins.

How transpersonal psychology opens the door to holistic healing.

On the quest to true happiness.

Why absence of suffering does not equal happiness.

How happiness can arise from the acceptance of what is.

Happiness in the good-enoughness of the current moment.

When happiness is more than a feeling or emotion.

The art of holding love and kindness in times of hardship.

Happiness through self-regulation and inner balance.

What is trauma and transgenerational trauma.

Why trauma makes it difficult to be present.

The pain of the disconnection from self and others. 

Nervous system regulation in trauma healing.

Why it’s important to express feelings and exit dissociation.

Clarity, authenticity and accountability in trauma healing.

Why self-love and self-acceptance are essential to healing trauma. 

When shame, fear and perfectionisms blocks your trauma healing.

How to heal and be well adjusted in our modern world.

Find more about dr. Ava Pommerenk here: https://www.avapommerenkphd.com/

In this episode Nicoleta talks about trauma and happiness with dr. Aimee Apigian, medical physician specialized in Preventive Medicine and Addiction Medicine  from California, USA.

When own health struggles inspires a medical physician to look beyond conventional medicine.

What is functional medicine?

Looking underneath the symptoms into the cause of illness.

Why is preventative medicine important?

A holistic and integrative view on trauma.

The impact of trauma on our body.

What we learn from addiction medicine.

When the nervous system is wired for trauma responses.

How to properly self-regulate our internal life. 

When brain inflammation is a sign of trauma response. 

How unresolved trauma gets passed onto the next generations.

Why trauma impacts our capacity for happiness.

The grief work open the door to happiness.

How somatic exercises bring safety into the body and mind.

When your deepest desire is your greatest fear.

How our health issues are linked to adverse childhood experiences.

How healing trauma improves the physiological functioning. 

When the healing potential is limitless. 

Download your gift from Dr. Aimie Arpigian here:

https://traumahealingaccelerated.mykajabi.com/steps-to-identify-and-heal-trauma-a-roadmap-for-healing-podcast-aff

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In this solo episode Nicoleta continues the Trauma Healing series and explores the impact of trauma on our minds and how this prevents us to access joy, happiness and fulfillment.

What is the mind? 

How it develops?

What does it do?

What’s the impact of trauma on the mind?

And how can you regain your mental health after trauma?

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In this episode Nicoleta chats about relationships and happiness with David Cooley, restorative relationship process facilitator from North Carolina, USA.

Life growing up surrounded by racial violence in the US.

The impact of social injustice and cultural oppression.

Shifting from the justice system to intimate relationships.

What is the restorative relationship conversations model.

What it means to be a man in our modern world.

Reflection on happiness and inner peacefulness.

Finding wellbeing through self-care and self-discovery.

The toxicity of the inherited cultural trauma.

How transgenerational trauma affects us all.

When conflict blocks our happiness.

How to heal the harm and repair relationships.

The role of our needs and wants in happiness.

When suffering comes from conflict with dear people.

From adversarial to restorative communication.

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In this episode Nicoleta explores transgenerational trauma and happiness with dr. Pilar Jennings, psychoanalyst from New York, USA.

From medical anthropology to psychoanalysis.

Insights from a long term student and teacher of Buddhist Psychology.

How our ancestry impacts our work.

The source of human suffering.

Why suffering is powerful.

How self-attack leads to suffering.

When personal suffering helps you attune to the suffering of others.

How we carry transgenerational trauma. 

When karmic memory brings suffering.

The importance of the relationship with the self.

Why real compassion is essential to healing trauma.

When we search for happiness outside.

Be authentic to be happy.

The link between love and happiness.

Why curiosity and self-inquiry are necessary to heal trauma.

Buddhist wisdom for modern times. 

Find more about dr Pilar Jennings here:

https://drpilarjennings.com/