Code Calm

Code Calm is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Melanie Gray, PhD, RN— a trauma-informed care and wellness strategist who has spent decades in nursing, leadership, and education. Designed for leaders, healthcare professionals, and high-responsibility women navigating stress and constant change, Code Calm explores how trauma, chronic stress, and emotional dysregulation silently shape behavior, performance, and culture at work and at home. Each episode blends evidence-informed insights on trauma-informed care and leadership with practical tools for nervous system regulation, communication, and self-protection in high-pressure environments. Listeners will learn how to recognize “invisible injuries,” respond to emotional intensity with steadiness, and create spaces of psychological safety—for themselves and the people they lead. Forward-looking and solutions-focused, Code Calm is about more than surviving burnout; it is about building emotionally safe systems where calm becomes a core competency, not a luxury.