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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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Happy New year everyone and Welcome to Season 3 of 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.

Today we’re starting with a topic that sits at the heart of every personal transformation, every breakthrough, and every moment of real growth: the truth. Not the filtered truth, the comfortable truth, or the version we tell ourselves to avoid discomfort—no. I’m talkingabout the kind of truth that liberates you. The truth that sets you free. And yet, ironically, it’s often the last thing we’re willing to face.

I want you to imagine holding a beach ball underwater. At first, it seems manageable. You push down, you apply pressure, you keep it submerged. But the longer you hold it there, the more exhausted you become. Your arms ache, your shoulders tighten, and the moment you loosen yourgrip even a little, that ball shoots right back up. This is what happens when we suppress truth—about our relationships, our mental health, our habits, ourpatterns, our fears. We spend so much energy keeping the truth underwater that we don’t realize how much it's draining us.

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As this is the last episode of Season 2, I want to end this last episode with a big bang, and lets call it FREEDOM. Freedom is not a location, a salary, or a circumstance. Freedom is a state of mind. It’s the internal space where you are no longer bound by the chains of fear, doubt, or limiting beliefs. And yet, most of us carryinvisible walls in our minds — assumptions, stories, and patterns that tell us what we can or cannot do, who we are, and who we are allowed to become. Thesebeliefs, often inherited or absorbed without question, shape every decision,every emotion, every reaction. The first step to true liberation is understanding that if your mind is not free, nothing else can be.

Beliefs are like software programs running in the background. Most of them were installed when you were young, when your brain was like clay, highly impressionable. Some of these programs were designed to protect you, to help you survive. Others, however, were designed by fear, misunderstanding, or external influence — and they continue to limit you long after their usefulnesshas expired. The freedom mindset is about recognizing those programs, analyzing them, and choosing which ones to keep and which ones to overwrite.

The first principle of the freedom mindset is awareness. You must notice the beliefs that run your life unconsciously. Listen to your inner dialogue. Whatstories do you tell yourself repeatedly? “I’m not capable.” “I don’t deserve success.” “I can’t speak up.” These statements are not truths — they are programs, scripts that you’ve internalized. And the moment you become aware of them, you begin to take the first step toward liberation. Awareness is not passive observation; it is the recognition that these beliefs are optional, notabsolute.

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Fear is a strange companion. It tells us it is protecting us, but more often than not, it enslaves us. From the moment we’re born, fear becomes a teacher, a guide, and, if unchecked, a jailer. We are taught to avoid discomfort, to play it safe, to seek certainty. And in many ways, that’s how survival works. But survival is not the same as living. When we make avoidance a habit, when we letfear dictate our choices, we are trading freedom for illusionary safety.

And the paradox of fear is that the very thing we run from is often the path to liberation.

Avoidance is seductive because it provides immediate relief. It’s easier to stay in a job that feels stagnant than risk pursuing your passion. It’s easier to stay in a relationship that drains you than confront the truth. It’s easier to remain silent than to express your ideas, desires, or boundaries. Every act of avoidance creates a tiny chain, and over time, these chains accumulate untilyou barely recognize yourself. You feel trapped, but you can’t see that you’ve been shackled by your own hesitation.

The paradox lies in the fact that fear exists to teach you, not to stop you. Fear signals opportunity for growth, a challenge for courage, a call to presence. But the moment you choose avoidance over engagement, fear growsstronger, and your sense of freedom diminishes. Avoidance convinces you that comfort equals safety, but in reality, comfort without courage is captivity.You can have ease, but you lose expansion. You can have routine, but you lose evolution. And the more you avoid, the louder your fear becomes, echoing through every decision you make.

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We like to believe that we are free. That every choice we make is a product of our own mind, our own will, our ownintention. But the truth is, freedom is far more limited than we often realize.The systems we live in — social, economic, political, technological — are designed to guide, influence, and constrain our decisions. From the food we eatto the news we consume, from the careers we pursue to the relationships we form, much of what we call “choice” is already being shaped long before we even recognize it. And if we’re not conscious, if we’re not awake, we end up living in an illusion — believing we are autonomous while being subtly controlled.

These systems operate in ways that feel invisible, natural, and even necessary. Advertising, for example, doesn’t justsell products — it sells desires, insecurities, and a sense of identity. The way options are presented, the way success is defined, the way scarcity and urgency are communicated — all of it nudges our decisions without us realizing it. We feel like we’re picking freely, but in reality, we’re choosing from a menu that’s been carefully curated. And when that menu is designed to maximizeprofit, power, or conformity, the choices that benefit us personally may never appear at all.

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Welcome back to Season 2 of Truth and Freedom, where awakening begins with asking the questions mostpeople 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 today’s segment, we will discuss the topic of “Freedom from Fear: The Biology of Bravery"

Comfort is a seductive thief. It whispers promises of safety, ease, and stability, but beneath that soft voice lies an invisible chain. Most of us believe that comfort is freedom — a warm home, a steady routine, a life without struggle. But what we fail to see is that comfort, when unexamined, is one of the most effective tools of stagnation. It lulls us into repetition, numbs our curiosity, and steals our capacity for growth. The chains of comfort are not visible; they are psychological, emotional, and habitual, and they tighten slowly, almost imperceptibly, until one day, you realize your life has been carefully contained.

Complacency starts innocently. It shows up asprocrastination, rationalization, or avoidance. “I’ll start tomorrow,” we say. “I’m fine where I am,” we convince ourselves. And the world applauds it because society rewards stability. But stability is not the same as freedom. Stability is often the absence of challenge, the absence of discomfort, and it is discomfort that catalyzes transformation. Every time we avoid discomfort in thename of comfort, we lose a piece of our potential. Every time we choose convenience over courage, we give up freedom.

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