S3:E8 How To Communicate Why Your Nervous System Is So Important Personally & Professionally
Release Date: 01/07/2025
S4 - E22: The Scarcity Code - Part 3
Who Turned The Lights On?
Probably my best iteration yet of how I I found my way out of the dark. I chose to share this information as an article I wrote for my younger self. Recording it and sharing it through audio with an invitation for you to come listen in. This final episode in this 3 part micro series speaks to how those of us from high stress childhoods, ongoing stress careers, now aged 40sih, can find our way out of the dark. How the nervous system is so much more than a piece of anatomy, and why #nervoussystemintelligence is so fundamental our quality of life - to everything. Resources mentioned in this...
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S4-E21: The Scarcity Code - Part 2
Who Turned The Lights On?
In this episode, this audio explores how nervous system adaptations silently shape the way we price, earn, and show up in business. From freezing at bigger ticket opportunities to collapsing under visibility, this recorded audio for my younger self, unpacks how survival logic—not strategy—often drives our decisions. We trace the five-layer Scarcity Code loop and reveal what shifts when pricing, receiving, and success stop being trauma responses and start showing up from places we've made whole. ______________________________________________________________________ Meet Shannon...
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S4-E20: The Scarcity Code - Part 1
Who Turned The Lights On?
In a Who Turned The Lights On first, I invite you to listen to a reading I recorded for my younger self, and perhaps for yours, too. This is Part 1 of a short series called The Scarcity Code, exploring how survival, money, and self-limitation are shaped by the nervous system from a time long, long ago. If you’ve ever felt stuck in patterns of under-earning, overgiving, or financial fear — even after years of strategy, effort, or mindset work — this may offer a different lens with which to explore the code that was added, that we can now choose to keep as is, or replace it with...
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S4-E19: Distinctions, Insights & Context, As You Find Your Way Out Of The Dark
Who Turned The Lights On?
The final episode in an 8-part micro series exploring the 70 page book - Successful Outside, Struggling Inside. This final episode summarises the last 7 episodes, before we get stuck into some very helpful distinctions, insights & context as you find your own way out of the dark. I include some more lived experience to bring these ideas to life, and ultimately, give you a clear map and suggestions on how and where to start, or continue along your own path to the exit from whatever this chapter gets called. The point being - there is an exit. We know where it is. We know how to get...
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S4-E18: NeuroCity & BioCity is why micro moments, 3x daily for 12 weeks is so effective.
Who Turned The Lights On?
While we don't really need to understand Neuroplasticity or Bioplasticity to recover, it is very helpful to undestand its role. Maybe understanding a bit about this, will make the path out of the dark a bit easier. Episode 18, is part 7 of our mini series exploring Successful Outside, Struggling Inside - a wee book of 70 pages that is my first attempt at articulating how I found my way out of the dark, and transformed my life more in 2 years than the prior 25. Neuro(pasti)City - rewires the brain ... but why, and what is it rewiring, and where did those original wires come...
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S4-E17: Rabbits & Turtles to Help Us Stop Overriding The Body
Who Turned The Lights On?
The area I ignored most, that likely added at least a year or more to my recovery. This is part 6 of our mini series exploring the wee book: Successful Outside, Struggling Inside. Page 45-48 in that free 70 page PDF, examines pace & progress. We start by putting a few key distinctions on the table, and then examine pace for both your thinking self, and separately for your nervous system. We look at how you, hijack you. Specifically the 3 most common markers where flares up happen. The pace of self regulation being long before you become dysregulated. The cost of...
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S4-E16: Supporting Your Nervous System To Make T.H.E. C.L.I.M.B.
Who Turned The Lights On?
This is episode 16, also known as part 5 of our mini series on We explore all 8 bio-items that are the building blocks for optimum nervous system health. Those 8 bio items are captured as an acronym: T.H.E. C.L.I.M.B. Each of these 8 will be applied differently pending which run of the nervous system ladder your baseline currently is. We take a brief tour in and around each 1 and I make sure to add lived experience as we go, to ensure these feel as accessible as possible, for you to take away and work with right after the episode. The 8 bio-items? Thoughts Habitat Emotion...
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S4-E15: Changing That 5yr old Wiring, Hijacking Your Current Reality
Who Turned The Lights On?
Episode 15 is also part 4 in this mini series, exploring the 70 pg wee book - Successful Outside, Struggling Inside. This episode recaps the prior 3 episodes, before taking a deep dive into The Rulebook installed in childhood, reinforced into adult years, that hijacks your current reality as it creates all sorts of shenanigans while it is left unchecked. Quite literally, it is like having your 5 year old self make decisions for your 40ish year old self today. We take a close look at what the Rulebook is, where it comes from, what it does, and a few ways (out of countless ways) to...
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S4-E14: Perception? Nah its projection!
Who Turned The Lights On?
Episode 14 coincides with a lived experience from this very morning that is used to shape, direct and explain this section of that wee book titled: Successful Outside, Struggling Inside, page 27-35 You can get the pdf in your inbox by going to this page, leaving your email, before hitting submit. Should land within a few minutes. This episode examines perception as projection. We look at two nervous system states and explore how different their respective perception is. We cover how the nervous system uses long forgotten past experiences to shape the vibe of today's...
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S4-E13: Nervous System 101
Who Turned The Lights On?
Get instant access to the wee book here: We are back with the 2nd of our mini series discussing the wee book - Successful Outside, Struggling Inside, pages 16-25. This episode focuses exlusively on the nervous system, tabling distinctions between dysregulated and depleted, nervous sytem states as our baseline vs the places our nervous system moves in and through, before taking a much closer look at each of the 4 states, and why state specifc recovery matters. For example, if you're stuck in survival mode - the red zone, and trying to help yourself with tools and resources from the peak...
info_outlineA Behind-The-Scenes conversation with Roseanne Reilly as we resolve how best to incorporate feedback we've received on our 2025 content plans. We have been exploring how best to communicate why the nervous system is so important to you personally and professionally. As it goes, this podcast left me (Shannon Eastman) with new take aways, new perspectives and a bit more clarity on how to package, prioritise and present what Roseanne calls, a nervous system informed approach to living a life that feels good. This is the evolution of Trauma Informed.
You'll hear the challenges, the debate and some criticism of how, and when and why along with a fair bit of Roseanne and I comparing notes that align her subject matter expertise, with my feelings, ideas and thoughts on the 40+ professional who is Highly Functioning, Not OK, and how we go about marrying the two.
This #WTTLO content initiative we're organsing for 2025 is personal and important. Personal becuase Roseanne and I both know life before and after nervous system regulation, and important because this information has the potential to change your life if we get it's delivery just so.
If you have an opinion, feedback or ideas to add to this exploration, you are welcome to get in touch with Roseanne or myself directly on email, whatsapp or linkedin. If you want to be involved as a content contributor, we'd love to hear from you too.
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Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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