In this powerful minisode, we walk through a live coaching moment that reveals how anger often protects a much younger, hurting part of us. When old beliefs—like “I should always be able to help”—collide with present-day realities, they trigger deep emotional echoes from our past.

Through this session, we explore how shame hides beneath anger, how childhood patterns of responsibility for others’ emotions form, and what it means to listen to your body instead of solving it.

This conversation beautifully illustrates the Tionatam principle that trauma isn’t what happens to us—it’s what happens inside us.

💡 What You’ll Hear:

• How conflicting beliefs create emotional dissonance in daily life
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• The role of anger as a protector for exiled parts of self
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• How childhood “shoulds” become subconscious rules that drive adult reactions
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• Recognizing the moment when shame first took root
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• Using sensory awareness to locate emotion in the body
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• The difference between thinking about healing and feeling it
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• Understanding the dorsal vagal “collapse” response and why your body uses it to survive
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• A reframe for healing: listening to the emotion instead of fixing it
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