Welcome back everyone to the Truth &Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with askingthe questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth

There’s a moment in almost every healing journey when you look back at the relationships you’ve chosen—romantic partners, friendships, even professional dynamics—and you ask yourself, “Why did I stay? Why did I choose someone who hurt me? Why did I feel so connected to something that was destroying me?” And for many people, the answer lies in something most of us don’t recognize until long after the damage is done: thetrauma bond.

A trauma bond is one of the most powerful anddeceptive emotional attachments a human being can experience. It doesn’t feel toxic in the beginning. In fact, it often feels like the most intense, addictive, magnetic love of your life. There’s chemistry, connection, passion…but there’s also fear, inconsistency, and pain. And because the highs are so high, we tolerate the lows. We become conditioned to chase the moments of affection, validation, and closeness, even if they’re followed by hurt,manipulation, or abandonment.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth.

Core wounds are the emotional imprints left from our earliest experiences—the moments when our needs weren’t met, when we felt unseen, unheard, unimportant, unsafe, or unworthy. These experiences areoften subtle, not dramatic. You don’t need a chaotic childhood to carry a corewound. Sometimes it’s a parent who was physically present but emotionally distant. Sometimes it’s a household where achievements were celebrated butfeelings weren’t allowed. Sometimes it’s growing up as the “responsible one,” the “quiet one,” the “strong one,” or the “easy one,” roles that might have kept the family functioning but left pieces of you unexpressed.

Core wounds are not memories—they’re beliefs.Beliefs about who you are and what you’re allowed to receive. They sound like: “I’m not good enough.” “I’m too much.” “My needs don’t matter.” “People alwaysleave.” “I have to earn love.” “If I want peace, I have to stay small.” These beliefs are so deeply woven into your identity that they feel like truth. But they’re not truth; they’re stories your younger self created to surviveemotionally overwhelming moments.

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Welcome back everyone to the Truth & Freedom Podcast, where awakening begins with asking the questions most people are afraid to ask. I’m your host, Dr. Dan Amzallag —and this is not just another podcast. This is a journey into awareness, courage, and truth.

In our previous Episode , we talked about facing truth and how it becomes the doorway to real transformation. Today, in Episode 2, we’re stepping deeper into thatjourney. Because once you finally see the truth—your truth—the next challenge becomes breaking free from the emotional patterns that have kept you stuck foryears. And if you’ve ever felt like no matter how hard you try, you keep hitting the same walls, this episode was created just for you.

Let’s start with a powerful image. Imagineyou’ve been living in a room with walls made of glass. You can see the world outside. You can see possibilities, relationships, dreams, experiences. But every time you take a step forward, you hit an invisible barrier. It startlesyou. You step back. You try again later. Same thing. You begin to think the problem is the world, or maybe the timing, or maybe other people, when inreality what you’re running into is your own unprocessed fear, your own anxiety, your own patterns that were formed long before you ever realized they wereshaping your life.

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