[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood trauma, family violence, compulsive coping behaviors, religious and cultural trauma tied to LGBTQ identity and shame, and grief following the death of a parent.

What happens when the anger you've been taught to suppress finally has somewhere to go? In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan Broberg sits down with Devin Scott, LMSW, NBC-HWC, and founder of Find Your Meaning, to talk about the parts of trauma recovery that don't get talked about enough: rage, disgust, and the long, non-linear road back to an authentic self.

Devin brings both clinical training and lived experience to this conversation, walking through why anger needs to be permissioned before it can be processed, how a child's disbelief from the adults around them can turn PTSD into complex PTSD, and why the coping strategies that once kept us safe often resemble pieces of who we really are underneath.

The conversation moves through breathwork and embodied consent, Buddhist and yogic frameworks for integrating mind and body, the double bind many LGBTQ people face between social conformity and countercultural pressure, and in one of the episode's most tender turns, what it means to make new meaning after profound loss.

This is a conversation about slowing down, trusting the body, and learning that healing isn't a straight line toward feeling nothing. It's learning to read the pain, the anger, and the grief as information, and building a life that can hold all of it.

Where To Find Devin M. Scott:
Find Your Meaning

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[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood trauma, addiction, feelings of isolation, abandonment wounds

What does it actually take to heal, not manage, not cope, but truly heal, from the wounds we carry from childhood? In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan Broberg sits down with Jessica Baum, licensed mental health counselor, founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach, and author of the new book SAFE, to explore what the neuroscience of healing really tells us.

Jessica brings her expertise in interpersonal neurobiology and attachment theory to some of the questions survivors ask most: Why can't I just heal on my own? Why do my closest relationships feel the most unsafe? Why do I keep repeating the same patterns no matter how many self-help books I read?

The answer, she explains, lives in the body, in streams of implicit memory laid down long before we had words for what was happening to us. And the path is not a solo one. Healing, Jessica argues, requires at least one anchoring relationship: a safe nervous system to hold space while we revisit and integrate what we could not process alone.

Jan shares her own journey openly in this conversation, her experience of intergenerational trauma, the abandonment wounds she carried into adult relationships, and the moment when being truly believed by another person accelerated her healing in ways decades of effort had not.

Jessica also introduces her free Wheel of Attachment tool and a 40-minute bonus conversation with her mentor Bonnie Badenoch.

Where To Find Jessica:
Insta: @JessicaBaumLMHC

Buy Jessica's Books:
Safe: An Attachment-Informed Guide to Building More Secure Relationships
Anxiously Attached

Bonus Goodies From Jessica:
Wheel of Attachment (PDF)
Bonus 40-min conversation with Bonnie Badenoch

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[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, trauma responses, addiction, and intergenerational trauma

What happens when talk therapy takes you as far as it can go, and something still feels missing?

In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan Broberg sits down with Christina Prokos, intuitive coach, shaman, and author of Embrace Your Shadows, a practical guide to inner child and shadow work. Christina has spent fifteen years helping survivors move from knowing their story to feeling relief in their bodies. She works where traditional therapy often plateaus, in the energetic, somatic, and spiritual dimensions of trauma healing.

Jan and Christina explore why shame sits at the center of almost every trauma response, how the body stores what the mind has tried to put away, and what it actually means to give your inner child what it needs. Christina shares her own history of childhood sexual abuse, family dysfunction, and the moment a healer showed up and named the wound she'd never been able to voice.

They also discuss soul retrieval, which is the shamanic process Christina uses with clients who have experienced deep soul loss through prolonged abuse and why healing in community, not isolation, is what moves the needle.

If you've done the work and still feel stuck, this conversation is for you.

Where to find Christina:
ChristinaProkos.com
Soul Thrive (Podcast)
Buy Christina’s Book: Embrace Your Shadows
Insta: @christina_life_spiritual_
Youtube: @christinaprokoslifespiritu6689

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