When Life Stops Feeling Safe: Understanding Trauma
Release Date: 04/14/2026
Trauma and Anxiety: When Your Mind Won't Switch Off
The Safe Place Podcast - BOC
Focuses on the overlap between trauma and anxiety, including constant worry, overthinking, panic, dread, and the sense that danger is everywhere. • Trauma can train the brain to expect threat • Anxiety after trauma is common • Counselling can help reduce alarm responses over time
info_outline
The Body Remembers: How Trauma Lives in the Nervous System
The Safe Place Podcast - BOC
Looks at the body-based impact of trauma, including fight, flight, freeze, fawn, shutdown, and nervous system overload. Listener takeaways: Trauma is physical as well as emotional Your body may react before your mind catches up Regulation skills matter just as much as insight
info_outline
Why Am I Like This Now? Common Trauma Responses Explained
The Safe Place Podcast - BOC
The episode explores common trauma responses and aims to make sense of them in plain language, emphasising that trauma responses are protective and not random. It encourages understanding and self-respect when recognising these responses, and provides insights into how to respond with care instead of contempt.
Takeaways
- Trauma responses are protective
- Understanding trauma responses can lead to self-respect
When Life Stops Feeling Safe: Understanding Trauma
The Safe Place Podcast - BOC
An introduction to trauma, what it is, how it affects the mind and body, and why people can feel changed after difficult events. This episode helps normalise trauma responses without minimising pain.
info_outlineAn introduction to trauma, what it is, how it affects the mind and body, and why people can feel changed after difficult events. This episode helps normalise trauma responses without minimising pain.