Trauma Rewired

Jennifer Wallace & Elisabeth Kristof

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The Podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma gets stored in the body and what you can do to heal.

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Perfectionism: A Trauma Response

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11/22/22 • 51 min

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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11/22/22 • 51 min

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Burnout, Diet Culture & The Default Body _ 12 _ ELK revisited

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01/25/22 • 51 min

Coping Skills for Your Toolbox with Jenifer Wallace

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12/21/21 • 30 min

In this episode I will be talking about different coping tools you can add to your toolbox right now. We will be changing the physiological state in the body to the rest and digest place.

In this episode, I discuss:

When I discovered nervous system healing and fight to repair my mind and body
My encouragement to you to nurture yourself on your journey to heal
Using your senses as coping tools that can help you relax
Co-regulating and the different methods and reactions of it
Giving gratitude for the physical body and its help with expansion
Meditation, trauma, and training your nervous system
Respiration tools – I guide you through 2 different breathing exercises
The vagus nerve

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12/21/21 • 30 min

The Truth About Food, Bingeing, Diet Culture & Intuitive Eating with Elisabeth Kristof

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01/11/22 • 50 min

Today we’re talking about FOOD with Elisabeth Kristof, an expert in using applied neurology for behavior change. In this conversation, you're going to learn about cravings, emotional eating, subconscious patterns, and how you are using food to regulate your nervous system. We will also dive into her program Food Freedom, which offers you actual freedom through discovering your subconscious patterns, your beliefs, and what is in food that you really desire.

In this episode, we discuss:

How we associate comfort, nourishment with food and how we replace the safety we’re not getting in our world.
Food is fuel
Scarcity mindset, disordered eating & stress eating
Fight or Flight / Freeze or Fawn Response
Dissociation
Outputs of your nervous system
What the Vagus nerve is and upregulating your parasympathetic nervous system
What is applied neurology?
Food Freedom – And Jennifer's takeaway
Interrupting the cycles we want to be free from
Emotions and its relationship with food and emotional suppression

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Food Freedom: End stress and emotional eating, LOVE your body, EXPAND your life.

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01/11/22 • 50 min

Auto-Immune, Childhood Development, & Terrain Theory with Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher

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01/04/22 • 38 min

Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher Founder of Take Root Brain & Body joins us today, she is also a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist, and a Holistic Auto-Immune Practitioner. She had an auto-immune disease as a child and a later discovery of Lyme Disease. This is what drew her into holistic health and healing. She has multiple degrees in anatomy, biology and clinical neuroscience. She weaves perspectives from all of these disciplines to support full body wellness.

She uses integrative neurology and functional medicine to help people struggling with post concussion syndrome, childhood developmental disorders, chronic pain, and many other neurological and auto-immune conditions. Her hope is to build a community where anyone suffering from chronic illness can seek wellness and feel supported by a wide variety of resources specific to the healing journey.

In this episode, we discuss:

Dr. Karla’s auto-immune disease and what lead her to holistic health
Is auto-immune rooted in childhood trauma?
Self Regulation – children vs. adults
What is Lyme disease and who is susceptible to it?
TH1, TH2 & Parasites
When she found functional neurology
Childhood disorders she treats

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01/04/22 • 38 min

Miraculous Healing: Quadriplegic to Ninja Warrior with Alison Leitheiser

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12/28/21 • 39 min

Joining us is Founder of Inner Restoration, Alison Leitheiser. Her story is nothing short of miraculous and a testament to what is possible when you’re determined to heal. She found her passion helping others find hope and healing.

In this episode, we discuss:

Alison’s health challenges during her younger years
Being quadriplegic, life before, her mental health and how she felt through her battle with it
Gaining her mobility and independence back
NFP and applied neurology
Alison’s time on American Ninja Warrior and hanging out with Olympians
Bush Flower Essences and Biophoton Therapy
Alison’s programs, what they do and how she works with her clients

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About Alison Leitheiser

Everyone has their own challenges, but when I was 16, mine stopped me in my tracks! I had seizures, fatigue, organ damage and paralysis. I could not move from the neck down. A virus had gotten into my spinal cord and I became quadriplegic. Unwilling to accept my seat on the sidelines, I wanted to participate in life more and spent two decades learning and healing.

My experiences changed the course of my life as I found a passion for helping others find hope and healing. I started my road as an alternative health care practitioner in 2002, started my own clinical practice in 2009 and today I love working with people's health challenges and helping them find their way to wellness. Now I want to give that experience of feeling better, help you to participate in life more and reclaim your health!

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12/28/21 • 39 min

F*CK New Year New You with Elisabeth Kristof

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01/18/22 • 46 min

Elisabeth Kristof is here from Brain Based Wellness and we are going to get into why you are not meeting your new year’s resolutions. There's NOTHING wrong with you! You are setting yourself up to fail, when you don’t have the right tools & understandings. We will teach you how to set attainable goals. Diet culture and the wellness industry are harmful. We also talk about the work we do at Brain Based Wellness & the Food Freedom program.

In this episode, we discuss:

New year, return to YOU
Diet culture is here to ruin you
Creating safety in the body
What ‘Regulation’ means
Our sympathetic nervous system
The subconscious mind
Body boundary violation
What we do in Food Freedom
Self Sabotage
How the economy runs on scarcity - it’s profitable...
True healing means removing the limitations
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01/18/22 • 46 min

Saving Lives with Our Story

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12/14/21 • 40 min

Joining us is Best-Selling Author & Founder of Thought Leader Academy, Sara Connell. She helps coaches, writers, and entrepreneurs become successful published authors and TedX in-demand speakers. She’s not just here to share her story but she wants to share yours too. You are unique and you are not an imposter, there are beliefs that are holding you back that are not yours to carry anymore.

In this episode, we discuss:

External validation comes with a loud inner critic
Creativity is a powerful force that we don’t realize
Sarah’s history of trauma in her life
The work Sarah did to heal from her eating disorder and sexual trauma
Identifying our repressed memories of childhood sexual trauma
Sarah’s process of meditation ‘Meditate or Medicate’
The Thought Leader Academy: the purpose and what to expect
The fear of passing down generational trauma
Having fun is underrated

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About Sara Connell

Ata young age her dream of being a writer was shut down when a teacher told her she wasn’t good enough. Fast forward to 17 years ago when a book saved her life. Sara in between flights after a long day of traveling, in the airport book store, picks up a book that she absolutely finds herself in. Reads it endlessly & tirelessly, wakes up and makes a vow to herself. She left the abusive job, sought the help she needed to regain physically and emotionally.

Resources From This Episode:

Connell, Sara. 21 Ways to Double Your Productivity, Improve Your Craft & Get Published!: A Field Guide for Writers

Connell, Sara. Bringing in Finn: An Extraordinary Surrogacy Story

Bullitt-Jonas, Margaret. Holy Hunger: A Woman's Journey from Food Addiction to Spiritual Fulfillment

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12/14/21 • 40 min

Suicide Awareness, Prevention, & Risk

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12/07/21 • 47 min

Julie Smith From The Sam Foundation joins us to talk about suicide awareness the prevention, risks, and healing form losing someone to this tragic event. Suicide, according to the CDC, is the most preventable death. In this conversation, we open up about our stories of suicidal ideation stemming from depression and domestic violence, and Julie shares the warning signs and programs they offer to bring educational training into communities, schools, and mental health professionals.

In this episode, we discuss:

Reducing stigmas
Julie’s experience with mental illness
How Julie’s brother was the inspiration in creating The SAM Foundation
Looking after the youth
Jennifer’s suicidal ideation experience
Cultural shame and trauma guilt
Suicidal people don’t want to die, they want the pain to stop
Suicide occurs when there is no hope left
Programs and tools for people
Recognizing the signs of suicide

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About Julie Smith

Julie Smith is the President and GA director for The SAM Foundation operating virtually, as well as in person in GA and AL. She along with her sister, Nicole Goggans, founded the organization in 2017 with the mission to prevent suicide through public awareness and education, in honor and memory of their brother Sam Johnson; because Suicide...Awareness... Means... Hope. The SAM Foundation has trained over 5000 individuals that include mental health professionals, teachers, students, school counselors, nurses, first responders and concerned community members in vital suicide prevention programs. The rapid growth of The SAM Foundation has been the result of the extreme need to combat suicide in our communities, which is a continual heartbreak.

Julie is committed to breaking the stigma of issues within mental health and becoming a resource for those affected by suicide. Julie knows the effects of extreme trauma first hand and is truly committed to learn how dealing with trauma may prevent other mental health issues and crises and will spread this awareness to others within her work in hopes of changing the stats of suicide in our nation and worldwide. Suicide has become a silent epidemic in which so many are unaware. Together with education, study, and awareness, change is possible, therefore hope is restored...

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12/07/21 • 47 min

MDMA & Ketamine Therapy to treat PTSD with Sara Reed

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02/09/22 • 53 min

Ketamine therapy is paving the way for psychedelic therapy and today we talk with Sara Reed on healing racial and generational trauma through psychedelic assisted therapy. Sarah was the first black therapist to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical trial and today she shares with us her first hand experience working with these life changing modalities.

In this episode, I share:

How Sarah became involved in psychedelic studies
MDMA and Ketamine therapies
The spirit in therapy sessions and how we can work with it
Mental health advocacy in underserved American communities
Functional PTSD and race based trauma in society
Changing the way we talk about mental health to take our power back
Using Psychedelics as a tool to help resolve trauma stored in the body
What the potential impact of Covid 19 could have on mental health going forward
What common threads Sarah has noticed through her experience with psychotherapies
The effectiveness of psychedelics in psychotherapy
Amazing personal stories of change in participants with trauma and PTSD
The use of music and how it can be used to heal along with these therapies