Trauma Rewired

Our society rewards those who work hard, appear to never make mistakes, and seem to have everything under control. We've collectively decided on what perfect looks like and attributed perfectionism with the ideal person. What if we told you that perfectionism is actually a protective measure used to prevent oneself from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and worthlessness? These words don't quite scream "perfect" do they?

Trauma Rewired hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth have touched upon this trauma response before, but today's episode is a deep dive into how it can develop and lead to harmful avoidance behaviors. They deconstruct perfectionism, including defining the three types of perfectionism and how it interplays with CPTSD elements like the inner critic.

You'll learn the many health consequences that the chronic stress of perfectionism can cause, and how to distinguish excellence from perfectionism. Jennifer and Elisabeth also share their experience with perfectionism, and how it can push us into burnout or freeze states.

Perfectionism is not an attainable goal, which makes it debilitating and a hindrance to healing trauma. To take the first step towards moving out of perfectionism, tune in!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Defining the 3 types of perfectionism
• Perfectionism as a trauma response
• Jennifer's example of setting yourself up for failure
• The effects of perfectionism on our health
• Maladaptive coping mechanisms for perfectionism
• How to recognize perfectionist behaviors and thinking
• Jennifer on taking action against her perfectionism
• Trauma healing, neurosomatic intelligence, and integration
• Limiting beliefs push the loop of perfectionism
• Elisabeth on the importance on self-regulation tools in her life
• How perfectionism negatively affects organizations and employees
• Steps Elisabeth has taken to heal her perfectionism and workaholism

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

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The many gifts received through ceremony with ayahuasca from start to finish cannot be measured within the confines of the days in a retreat. The potential reveals itself during ceremony, but the gifts are found once you're released into the world again, armed with awareness. However, potential is just that. How do you take that potential and transform it into healing?

Integration after ceremony is arguably the most crucial part of the whole process, because this is where you train your body to receive and transmute the heavy dysregulated energy you've been carrying in your nervous system your entire life, into regulation. Our host, Jennifer Wallace, recognized this after an extremely eye opening ceremony, that was in fact dysregulating in nature, so she knew there was a lot of work to be done post ceremony. Integrating the new information into her life in order for her body to feel safe was one of the greatest gifts she gave to herself, because now it has helped her create the big life she knew she could live. Jennifer is able to live fully expressed, and if she isn't, she has the tools to bring her back to that aligned place.Jennifer has learned the tools to integrate the lessons that come up during plant medicine ceremonies and she wants to share her methods with you. Tune in to hear the importance of integration and how Jennifer was able to achieve it by healing her nervous system.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The importance of preparation (ie. dieta) prior to ceremony
• Shifts that could take place in your life during ceremony
• Being open to all that comes up during ceremony
• Who are you after releasing trauma?
• Working with and transmuting anger
• Why it is important to integrate after transformation
• What are body boundary variations
• The importance of nervous system healing
• Changing your lived experience with awareness
• The emergence of a long term healing blueprint
• Recap of ACE scores
• How your life shifts after healing

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Trauma Rewired has addressed many issues that arise when trauma is stored in the body for years, decades, or even a lifetime. One of them is that this type of chronic stress can lead to autoimmune diseases, heart disease and more, as well as intensify pain experienced from these serious health issues.

A dysregulated nervous system resulting from trauma leads to emotional and physical pain, but how do you heal yourself from trauma, while also fighting for your physical health? Tune in to hear how both plant medicine and Western treatments can work together to heal the different facets of your health.

It's been two years since Anna Gieselman was on the podcast to speak about her lupus journey, an autoimmune disease, but she's back today to update us! In this episode, she shares the lows and highs of getting to a better place with her health, including making the decision to use Western medicine and becoming healed energetically and psychically with plant medicine.

Jennifer and Anna go over pivotal moments of their ayahuasca trip, such as experiencing a dark energy, healing generational trauma, and the divine feminine. Listen to their conversation about overall wellness for all this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Anna gives an update on her health
• Negative and positive effects of her new medication
• Living in "permanent disease thought" with chronic pain
• Learning about her trauma with plant medicine
• Healing generational trauma and divine femine energy
• Jennifer and Anna on experiencing dark energy during an ayahuasca ceremony
• Long-lasting life changes from reaching the divine
• Regulating your nervous system

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It's the fourth and final day of Jennifer's ayahuasca retreat and, in this short and sweet episode, she shares why she bridges neurosomatic intelligence with psychedelic integration.

By training and reprogramming your nervous system, you will discover that anything is possible. You already embody the capacity for change. Add a powerhouse plant medicine like ayahuasca, which only increases that capacity, and there is the potential for infinite transformation.

Jennifer believes that neurosomatic intelligence not only allows for more presence, awareness, clarity, and focus in your day-to-day life, but also prepares you for psychedelic integration by creating a greater sense of safety in the body.

Tuning in, you'll hear Jennifer's account of her closing ceremony, some of the profound and painful realizations that came from tapping into her womb space, and why she was so grateful for the support of a neurosomatic intelligence coach throughout this experience.

To learn more about how you can benefit on a deep spiritual level from bringing neurosomatic intelligence to any of your healing modalities and experiences, join us today!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Preparing for the integration through nervous system work
• Neurosomatic intelligence as a tool for greater clarity and awareness
• Jennifer's intentions for this closing ceremony
• Returning to "surgery" in the maloka
• Realizations that came with tapping into her womb space
• Jennifer's passion for bringing neurosomatic intelligence to everyone
• How processing trauma can reveal what is possible

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Humans are a social species, and we crave human connection and intimacy. Even when our nervous system has been severely affected by trauma, we ultimately need to socialize in order to feel fulfilled and meet all of our survival needs.

But how does someone living in a chronic state of stress, cycling through the stages of a dysregulated nervous system, balance this need for socialization while also regulating our emotions and behaviors during extreme, instinctual panic?

Elisabeth Kristof of Brain-Based Wellness is again joining host Jennifer to discuss social anxiety, the fourth characteristic of CPTSD. You'll learn what social anxiety is through the filter of trauma, and how it connects with the other components of CPTSD: toxic shame, inner critic, and emotional flashbacks.

In this episode, Jennifer and Elisabeth share their personal experiences with social anxiety, including what physiological symptoms they've endured and how they dealt with them using both harmful self-soothing behaviors and healthy regulation tools.

Tune in for a deeper understanding of how social anxiety and the other components of CPTSD interconnect, and free resources to help you find the balance between self-care and socializing!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What is social anxiety?
• Jennifer and Elisabeth tell stories of their own experience social anxiety
• Hypervigilance
• The physiology of being in a state of social anxiety
• Amygdala hijacking
• Cognitive vs. survival brain
• The importance of human connection
• Self isolation vs. introversion
• How to know when you're in a state of anxiety
• Planning ahead for social situations
• Social situations triggering emotional flashbacks
• Ways to start healing

Jennifer and Elisabeth are inviting you to a special live-recording Q&A episode on October 21st! The topics being discussed include integration, training the nervous system, using neuro-somatic tools, and lots more. This is the first EVER community discussion, so don't miss your chance to be part of the conversation!

https://brainbased-wellness.lpages.co/trauma-rewired-live/

Books mentioned in today's episode:

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

Gabor Mate

Judith Lewis Herman

Learn more about Elisabeth Kristof and her company, Brain-Based Wellness, here: https://brainbased-wellness.com/about/

Head to https://calendly.com/traumarewired/consultation for a consultation to identify trauma responses in your own life and learn how to train your nervous system to move out of behaviors that aren't serving you!

Work with Jennifer:

https://linktr.ee/traumarewired

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FREE 1 Year Supply of Vitamin D + 5 Travel Packs from Athletic Greens when you use my exclusive offer: www.athleticgreens.com/rewired

Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach please visit

www.neurosomaticintelligence.com