29. You're Not Failing - Your Body's Been Protecting You
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Release Date: 06/23/2025
29. You're Not Failing - Your Body's Been Protecting You
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Feeling stuck in your trauma healing journey? In this episode, I share a personal story of how freeze responses, hypervigilance, and dissociation show up — even after doing "all the right work." You'll learn how body-based trauma tools like pendulation, bilateral stimulation, and somatic orienting can help release stored trauma energy, regulate the nervous system, and create real, lasting healing. If you’re frustrated with slow progress, this episode offers trauma-informed insights and simple somatic practices to move forward with compassion. Learn more and sign up for Basic Foundations ...
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28. The Freeze Response - Thawing From Sexual Numbness
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Sometimes, the body - and our younger selves - remember before we do. In this tender episode, I share what it was like to meet my inner child in a moment of shutdown—and to hear her say, “This is really hard for me.” Join me as I share a personal *story about navigating the freeze response—especially when it shows up as **sexual numbness. I explore how past trauma shaped my body’s protective shutdowns and how gentle tools like breathwork, inner child dialogue, somatic awareness, and bilateral tapping helped me begin the slow, sacred work of thawing. If you've ever wondered why...
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27. When I Caught Myself Fawning
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Ever caught yourself saying something just to smooth things over—then walked away feeling small, tight, or ashamed? In this episode, I share how I recognized a fawn response in real time, how my breath helped me reconnect, and what it means to reclaim our truth after self-abandoning. Healing from trauma doesn’t mean we never fawn again. It means we learn to notice when we do, breathe into the fear, and slowly find our way back to ourselves. This episode is a soft landing for anyone who’s been there. If you're healing from people-pleasing or navigating trauma responses, I invite you...
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26. "Not This Again" and The Flee Response
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Understanding and Healing the Flee Response: Personal Insights, Grounding & Releasing Tools Did you know that you can let go of past trauma and that your body already knows how? In this episode, I discuss the trauma response of fleeing, both physically and energetically. Through my own experiences, I share practical tips for recognizing and addressing the 'flee' response, providing grounding techniques and emotional processing tools that can help us reconnect with our body and find safety in the present moment. This episode emphasizes honoring our healing journey and understanding...
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25. The Fight Response and My Hair
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Reclaiming Power: Understanding Trauma and the Fight Response In this episode, I dive into a personal story and insights about trauma and the fight response in my situation. I explore how past trauma can resurface and how it manifests as anger, control, or defensiveness. I share a personal year long journey with my hair, examining a visceral reaction tied to a memory of my father's criticism. Through somatic tools, mindfulness, and compassionate self-dialogue, I share how I was able to release the fight for control that came as a visceral response and transform these reactions into...
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24. I thought I was over this...
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
I can't tell you how many times I used to think this thought when I would get triggered, or when a visceral response would come up in my body that made zero sense to my present self. I want to honor that it's ok. In this episode I share many different aspects of why and how this might come up. I offer ways we can be more kind to ourselves and some possible new reframes. Throughout the episode I invite you to check in and honor what your experience has been. Please reach out if you have any questions. I offer a FREE 30 min chat. https://camibirdno.com/schedule/
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23. Safety 1st - Before, the River of Misery
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Things are seeming to get worse.... Is this a thought you've had during your healing journey? The River of Misery is a tool we offer to our mind when this comes up. It makes sense that as we start to change, rewire our brain and offer ourselves new reframes that the parts of us that are used to the way we do things will freak out a little or maybe a lot. And this is what the river of misery refers too. However, when we add trauma to the mix, sometimes it's not safe yet in our body to step even one foot into that river. If you have tried to push through the hard and everything in you screams...
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22. Resiliency Means What Again?
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
Resiliency is a common word we hear when we start to heal our trauma. And it's one that I always forgot the meaning of. Does that happen to you? You hear a word, it makes sense and then when you hear it again, you don't understand how it applies to you or your trauma healing? Today, I share a little about my journey with this word and the different phases I see myself and my clients going through in the space of resiliency during our trauma healing. A basic definition of resiliency means being able to 1- feel sensations & emotions in our body, 2- let them come up, and 3- trust and know...
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21. Somatic EMDR Goodness
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
If you are wondering how Somatics and EMDR could work together, I break it down on this episode. I invite you to listen as I offer ways my clients and I find somatic work helpful, EMDR helpful and then how the combination of the two can be a powerhouse tool for healing. Again, your body knows what you need, so pay attention to how it feels as I share. You can take the nuggets that resonate and leave the rest. If you want to learn more, or learn how we can work together, reach out for a free chat with me. We will see if I can answer your questions and see if we are a good fit....
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20. Day 2 of My 3 Day Challenge for Get Into Your Body
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights
The first week in March I did a 3 day challenge and invited people to join me for a Get Into Your Body for 30 minutes each day series. It was so much fun! And so I wanted to share some of it here on the podcast. Today I share what we did for Day 2. We focused on releasing stress or tension in our chests. The practices I shared are some of my favorites. They are ways to offer ourselves acceptance of where we are, not seeking to change it, but acceptance of what our present moment expereince it. This can often give us some space to offer our body a chance to release, if it is ready to do...
info_outlineFeeling stuck in your trauma healing journey? In this episode, I share a personal story of how freeze responses, hypervigilance, and dissociation show up — even after doing "all the right work."
You'll learn how body-based trauma tools like pendulation, bilateral stimulation, and somatic orienting can help release stored trauma energy, regulate the nervous system, and create real, lasting healing.
If you’re frustrated with slow progress, this episode offers trauma-informed insights and simple somatic practices to move forward with compassion.
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