Trauma Rewired

Neuroplasticity & What we do we get better at

What we do we get better at. It's neither good nor bad it just is. Same with neuroplasticity. So after exploring this simple principle and the physiological truth that is neuroplasticity can you turn to your own life with a better understanding?  It's just you and me for this little quickie.  Find me on IG: @trauma.rewired    Free Consultation  https://linktr.ee/traumarewired   Athletic Greens offer  www.athleticgreens.com/rewired   Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic...

Bingeing & Survival 2

Remember the first time we told you Bingeing is a surivival output from a well functioning nervous system? Well, we're back to talk about what it looks like to resolve our disordered eating and what it's like to eat intuitively.  This is a follow up conversation to the very first episode we recorded. You will find Part 1 in Season One of Illumianted.    Interested in becoming a Neurosomatic Intelligence Coach please visit  www.neurosomaticintelligence.com    Head to https://calen...

Fight: Trauma Response

It is our brain’s job to protect us against danger. Whether that is a real or perceived threat, the brain will activate and will result in an action, or inaction. This isn’t the most effective way to be protected for people who have experienced trauma, because that trauma is stored so deep in our subconscious, that the threat response can activate in the absence of a real threat but in the presence of a trigger.    There is no way to avoid having your trauma retriggered and your nervous ...

Neurosomatic Intellligence II

The untapped potential of the nervous system is a point we want to address. The way we move through our lives can be exponentially improved by implementing the right tools to train the brain to regulate itself in times of usual distress. These tools can be life changing and could possibly even save someone’s life.    Neurosomatic Intelligence coaching is a joint effort between Melanie Weller, Elisabeth Kristoff, and Matt Bush, who have created this program for anyone that creates space w...

Addiction and Trauma

Society paints addiction as an individual character flaw, pointing the blame solely on the person who is experiencing the addiction. However, addiction is much more nuanced than that. Especially since we live in a highly dysregulated world, addiction should be expected. Trying to function in society while needing to dissociate has become a part of our collective culture. Since our nervous systems are on overdrive with the amount of sensory overload that is thrown our way, coupled with unreso...

Neurosomatic Intelligence: Part 1

Neurosomatic Intelligence: Part 1  Season 02, Episode 08 “Neuroplasticity is the science of hope” - Matt Bush’s wife has coined this saying and we cannot agree with it more! What a beautiful thought is that you are not stuck where you are and you have the power and ability to change your reality. The ability to change and adapt to interpret incoming signals accurately from any level of trauma. Mindset is important when moving out of trauma, however a mindset change alone does not cover t...

Flight: The Trauma Response

Flight: A Trauma Response  Season 02, Episode 07 Arriving early, leaving late, overthinking, can’t sit still, breathing quickly, and always keeping busy, are just a few examples of how the flight trauma response can manifest in our lives. This response is biologically built in to keep us safe from harm, but what if that harm is perceived and doesn’t require fleeing the scene? This can be detrimental to our personal and professional lives and keep us in a state of high alert with stress h...

Trauma Response or Trigger: Cooking & Baking

Nervous System Healing Has No Boundaries

Trauma Rewired: The Science of Applied Neurology Season 02, Episode 05 The same tools you use to rehabilitate your knee can also be applied to decreasing anxiety. Our bodies are incredibly intelligent machines wired to keep us alive and thriving, but what if that same wiring that is there to protect us, works against us in ways we aren’t aware of? In the same breath, what if that same knowledge is the key to, not only our healing, but our acceleration as physical and intelligent beings. T...

Fawn the Trauma Response

In this episode we will be discussing the least understood, and most insidious four F’s in trauma response, fawn.  This survival adaptation is difficult to pinpoint, because fawn can often be confused with empathy or general care, but if not dealt with, can get to a toxic level for the fawner. Neglecting yourself for the sake of others can cause chronic issues, not only in the body, but in creating genuine connections as well. The missing piece to overcoming fawn is to first identify it,...

ACE scores and your health across your lifetime

Did you know you can measure your life expectancy by taking a short quiz about childhood experiences? Depending on the score, your lifespan either increases or decreases by 20 years!  Advances in science have found a link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and poor physical and mental health later in life. This distinction has been difficult to prove, but thanks to Dr. Vincent Filetti’s dedication to studying this phenomenon, we can make a correlation between traumatic events fro...

How Trauma Lives in the Body

Trauma Rewired: How Trauma Lives In The Body Season 02, Episode 02] There is a fundamental key to healing trauma that is often overlooked, but crucial to move from survival mode to a balanced fulfilling life. That is, understanding that our bodies have a highly intellectual memory system that holds on to trauma for years. We focus so much on the mind, but neglect the intricacies of our physiology to heal traumas long term. Your mood, finances, intimacy, productivity, etc, are essentially...

Why Heal Your Nervous System

What if I told you that 90% of your issues can be solved just by healing your nervous system? It sounds like a simple solution for the complexity of issues in our lives, but the reality is, most of life is navigated by our nervous system, and for people who have experienced trauma, this can have a range of negative consequences from digestion issues to trouble with intimacy in relationships.   In this episode, Jennifer Wallace sits down with the creator of Brain Based Wellness, Elisabeth...

TR S2 Trailer Master

Welcome to Season two! A brief introdroduction to me and the incredible benefits of healing your nervous system. My hope is that you find yourself within these conversations and answer the call. The call to  healing, to beahvior change, to your truest thrive ever, and back to the essence of your being. This podcast is rooted in science and in wholeness.  Link to the FREE neuro series is below as well as the links to stay in touch. Find me: @trauma.rewired  https://linktr.ee/traumarewir...

MDMA & Ketamine Therapy to treat PTSD with Sara Reed

Ketamine therapy is paving the way for psychedelic therapy and today we talk with Sara Reed on healing racial and generational trauma through psychedelic assisted therapy. Sarah was the first black therapist to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical trial and today she shares with us her first hand experience working with these life changing modalities.    In this episode, I share:  How Sarah became involved in psychedelic studies MDMA and Ketamine therapies The spirit in...

Burnout, Diet Culture & The Default Body _ 12 _ ELK revisited

F*CK New Year New You with Elisabeth Kristof

Elisabeth Kristof is here from Brain Based Wellness and we are going to get into why you are not meeting your new year’s resolutions. There's NOTHING wrong with you! You are setting yourself up to fail, when you don’t have the right tools & understandings. We will teach you how to set attainable goals. Diet culture and the wellness industry are harmful. We also talk about the work we do at Brain Based Wellness & the Food Freedom program.    In this episode, we discuss: New year, return ...

The Truth About Food, Bingeing, Diet Culture & Intuitive Eating with Elisabeth Kristof

Today we’re talking about FOOD with Elisabeth Kristof, an expert in using applied neurology for behavior change. In this conversation, you're going to learn about cravings, emotional eating, subconscious patterns, and how you are using food to regulate your nervous system. We will also dive into her program Food Freedom, which offers you actual freedom through discovering your subconscious patterns, your beliefs, and what is in food that you really desire.   In this episode, we discuss: ...

Auto-Immune, Childhood Development, & Terrain Theory with Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher

Dr. Karla Mehlenbacher Founder of Take Root Brain & Body joins us today, she is also a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist, and a Holistic Auto-Immune Practitioner. She had an auto-immune disease as a child and a later discovery of Lyme Disease. This is what drew her into holistic health and healing. She has multiple degrees in anatomy, biology and clinical neuroscience. She weaves perspectives from all of these disciplines to support full body wellness. She uses integrative neurology...

Miraculous Healing: Quadriplegic to Ninja Warrior with Alison Leitheiser

Joining us is Founder of Inner Restoration, Alison Leitheiser. Her story is nothing short of miraculous and a testament to what is possible when you’re determined to heal. She found her passion helping others find hope and healing.    In this episode, we discuss: Alison’s health challenges during her younger years Being quadriplegic, life before, her mental health and how she felt through her battle with it Gaining her mobility and independence back NFP and applied neurology Ali...

Coping Skills for Your Toolbox with Jenifer Wallace

In this episode I will be talking about different coping tools you can add to your toolbox right now. We will be changing the physiological state in the body to the rest and digest place.    In this episode, I discuss: When I discovered nervous system healing and fight to repair my mind and body My encouragement to you to nurture yourself on your journey to heal Using your senses as coping tools that can help you relax  Co-regulating and the different methods and reactions of it ...

Saving Lives with Our Story

Joining us is Best-Selling Author & Founder of Thought Leader Academy, Sara Connell. She helps coaches, writers, and entrepreneurs become successful published authors and TedX in-demand speakers. She’s not just here to share her story but she wants to share yours too. You are unique and you are not an imposter, there are beliefs that are holding you back that are not yours to carry anymore.    In this episode, we discuss: External validation comes with a loud inner critic Creativity i...

Suicide Awareness, Prevention, & Risk

Julie Smith From The Sam Foundation joins us to talk about suicide awareness the prevention, risks, and healing form losing someone to this tragic event.  Suicide, according to the CDC, is the most preventable death. In this conversation, we open up about our stories of suicidal ideation stemming from depression and domestic violence, and Julie shares the warning signs and programs they offer to bring educational training into communities, schools, and mental health professionals.    In ...

Incarceration, Trauma, & Beyond Bars

Elisabeth and I are joined by two incredible women from the Truth Be Told program, Angie Hijl and Heather Emerson. Truth Be Told provides transformational programs through self discovery for women who are or who have been incarcerated. Resulting in increased self worth, accountability, and positive contributions to society. They focus on making women’s time behind bars more meaningful. They break generational traumas so mothers and daughters don't repeat history. We will be hearing vulnerabl...

Returning to Purpose & Self Love After Struggling Mentally and Physically

Today we’re joined by Holly Joy McCabe. She is a leader in holistic and wellness with a company called Zen in a Bottle. She will be sharing her story with us and shows up so authentically with her knowledge of an understanding of the healing that the body is capable of. And how she helps thousands of women transform their own patterns, they’re bodies and it’s really beautiful!   In this episode, we discuss: Suicide attempt in her teenage years Being curious about religions Her traum...

Healing with Ketamine Therapy

I’m really looking forward to exploring ketamine and ketamine assisted therapy with Alli Waddell, Co-Founder of Illumma Ketamine Clinic. She is here to share her big story and how she found ketamine. She has an incredible story, she’s going to show up very openly and authentically.  I’m a big fan of psychedelic therapy and plant medicine. It’s helped me greatly with anxiety, depression, and purpose. But ketamine isn’t a tool that I’ve worked with yet. Ketamine is breaking down barriers and...

Auto-Immune, Aces, Disordered Eating, A Year of Healing

Elisabeth Kristof and I sit down to talk about our five takeaways from a year of healing and a year of recording. We revisit some of our past episode conversations to discuss what we learned and our hopes for the future.  Work with Jennifer Get 25% Off a Private Coaching Session with me   Sign-up for the Newsletter and stay up to date on my latest workshops, services, and speaking events.    Become a Member & Support the Illuminated Podcast on Patreon   FREE 1 Year Supply o...

No One Path to Healing

There is no one path to healing and we’ve gone deep this year with 33 women, different modalities all leading to healing, wellness, and the life you desire. Disordered eating, auto immune, sexual freedom, CPTSD, hypnotherapy, astrology for our times, sacred medicine, racial and generational trauma.. Let’s celebrate one year, the diversity in the wellness industry and incredible women that have joined the Illuminated community this year. Thank you.    Work with Jennifer Get 25% Off a P...

Functional Nutrition, Hormones, Your Gut, & Lasting Change

Carly Pollack, Founder of Nutritional Wisdom, joins us this week to talk about gut health, detoxing, diet dogmas and much more. She has created a coaching system that includes nutrition, science, spirituality, and psychology. Her clients have long term success and you won't find anything like it. This episode is packed with so much information so grab your notebook, you won’t want to miss this.   In this episode, we share:  90% mind work and 10% functional nutrition Mind, Body, Spirit...

Addiction, Dependency, & Trauma

My lovely Co-Host, Elisabeth Kristof, is back with us again this week. We will be talking about our personal stories that we haven’t expressed or talked about yet. That is our addictions and dependencies on substances other than our food habits. We will talk about the trauma and neurological components to addiction and give some helpful tools you can use for staying connected to your body.   In this episode, we share:  How compulsions are an adaptive response to providing relief The d...

Healing From Breast Cancer

This week I will be sharing my journey from being diagnosed with Stage 3, HER2+ breast cancer, to healing in the top 40th percentile. This story is dedicated to the work I did along the way and what I hope for you is an inspiring story of healing. I will be sharing tips and tools that worked for me as a message of hope. I did it and so can you!   In this episode, I share:  How I handled getting diagnosed with cancer Finding a doctor that was right for me Going through chemo, radiati...

Redefine Success & Forget The Hustle

Joining us this week is Corporate Women's Empowerment Coach, Laura Rubin. She mentors other corporate and entrepreneurial hustlers in their midlife to take charge of their lives by owning who they are and to forget the hustle and unwind from the grind of overwork and burnout.    In this episode, we discuss:  Helping corporate & entrepreneurial women in midlife When do you hit midlife? The power of the ‘pause’ Finding your purpose Burnout vs midlife crisis Why women need commun...

Subconscious Mind & The Life You Desire

Did you know that your subconscious is responsible for 80% of the physical world you create around you. In this week’s episode Elisabeth Kristof joins us again, as we dive into the subconscious. Elisabeth and I will be sharing our own stories with subconscious scripts, talk about subconscious blockers that keep you from expanding, and subconscious blockers that block you from keeping weight off.    In this episode, we discuss:  Belief work Think, Act, Feel vs. Feel, Act, Think Child...

Healing with Hypnosis & Heart Math

Joining us today is local Austenite, Krista Jack, M.S. I’m so excited to share her work with you, this is a very relevant conversation and is really an episode of groundbreaking wellness. She is an incredible practitioner, predominantly works with the subconscious mind, and enjoys working with a wide variety of issues that her clients come to her with.   In this episode, we discuss:  How we are designed to be in a state of ease and not in a state of stress What is keeping us in a figh...

Taken In Turkey: My Story (Part 2)

Hey ya’ll, I appreciate you coming back and joining me for part 2 of my story. I have sprinkled this story in some Illuminated episodes and I have sat down with other podcasters and shared it as well but I have never told this story in its entirety so I'm looking forward to finishing it. I feel really good to be at a place where I can share this now.  Resources From This Episode: Athletic Greens ~ Exclusive Discount for listeners   Work with Jennifer 25% Off a Private Coaching Ses...

Taken In Turkey: My Story (Part1)

In this week’s episode I will be sharing how I understand my story and how it all began for me when I was taken in Turkey in 2009. This story contains kidnapping, sexual assault, and violence. This is a very exciting story and SPOILER ALERT, I make it in the end! I’m here, thriving and healing. It's a fair amount of trauma and a ton of healing work featuring a number of modalities. Now this is only part 1 of my story so tune in next week to find out what happens next.    Resources From T...

ACE Scores & Health Across Your Lifetime

Elisabeth Kristof is back with us again this week. In this intense conversation we get into ACE Scores, CPTSD, our health, the health and wellness industry as it is today and what you should look out for when you are seeking your own trauma resolution.    In this episode, we discuss:  ACE Score categories Dr. Vincent Colletti and how he discovered ACE Scores What CPTSD is Obesity Study (Disordered Eating) Childhood traumas Substance dependence & abuse Overactive or suppresse...

Intellect, Heart, Passion, Instinct

Dr. Barbara Dalle Pezze joins us this week to cover relationships, role models, courage, resilience, trust, and stepping into your own power, self evolution and conscious leadership. She inspires individuals, entrepreneurs, and leaders to reconnect with their most authentic essence, discover their purpose, and bring about positive change in their lives and in the world.   In this episode, we discuss:  The narratives that don’t belong to us as women Losing yourself after your kids leav...

Human Design & a Unique Parenting Approach

Joining us this week is Kristy Martin, a life coach and energy practitioner who helps empower moms with tools that will help them navigate life and motherhood with more confidence, joy, and less overwhelm. Kristy breaks down Human Design and how to read your charts. I’ve got my graphs ready to go for this conversation, follow along with me as I learn about my charts from Kristy. Grab your chart HERE and follow along with us!   In this episode, we discuss:  How long Human Design has been...

Market Your Genius

Joining us this week is Marketing Genius, Podcast Host, and Coach, Nikki Nash. Her mission is to help 1,000 women build million dollar businesses by 2030. She’s the creator of The Genius Profit Society, a training development company on a mission to help entrepreneurs with the tools and resources they need to share and profit from their message. She will be sharing insightful information that can help you on your journey of building your business and bridging the gender and racial pay gaps. ...

Unblock Your Subconscious Mind

Hey Illuminated family, in this week’s episode I am sitting with Adele Spraggon, award winning Author, Thought Leader, and International Speaker and Trainer. We live in a left brain dominant society which is the root cause of all our problems. Join us as Adele breaks it all down for us - the subconscious mind, patterning, the right/ left brain hemispheres, and much more!   In this episode, I share:  Relying on past created patterns to carry us through situations The purpose of pattern...

Lions Gate: Awakening the Heart of Humanity

In this episode of Illuminated, we’re talking with our resident astrologer Melody Mystic Joy. Melody is an intuitive astrologer, shaman and spiritual activator. Melody has years of experience in the Metaphysical and medical field, working to assist others in healing and activating the highest versions of themselves. You won't want to miss this illuminating conversation where we discuss the upcoming New Moon on Lionsgate, energetic shifts we can expect within it and how we can enter our desir...

End Burnout, Anxiety, Stress

She’s back y’all, Elisabeth Kristoff, Co-Host and Founder of Brain-Based Wellness. Elisabeth is a Certified Applied Neurology Practitioner who has been in the movement industry since 2007. Brain-based Wellness is a unique online holistic practice that combines applied neuroscience with strategic, high-energy workouts to achieve deep and lasting wellbeing. Join Elisabeth and I as we discuss brain-based consciousness, burnout and processing emotion.    In this episode, I share:  How burno...

Ayahuasca Healing

This week on Illuminated, we’re talking with Melissa Stangl, Founding Partner and COO of The Soltara Healing Centre in Costa Rica. Melissa works with psychedelics and plant medicines, starting her journey back in 2015 when she quit her corporate job to live and work with ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. This week we share our own personal healing journeys with ayahuasca and how transformative this mode of therapy can be.    In this episode, I share:  Mine and Melissa own personal healing...

Psychtherapy & Healing Racial Trauma

Today I am joined by the incredible Sarah Reid, CEO of Minds I Health Solutions and Clinical Researcher. This week we are discussing healing racial and generational trauma through psychedelic assisted therapy. Sarah was the first black therapist to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical trial and today she shares with us her first hand experience working with these life changing modalities.    In this episode, I share:  How Sarah became involved in psychedelic studies MDMA ...

Food Freedom

Co-host Elisabeth Kristof, Founder of Brain-Based Wellness is here today to break down emotional, stress, binge, and disordered eating to show us a new way through her incredible program “Food Freedom’. Eat intuitively, say NO to diet culture, no more macros, fads, or quick fixes. Just Food Freedom!    In this episode, we share: Taking emotion and safety out of food Why food is much more complex than other addictions and disorder behaviors Applied neurology gives new tools for self ...

Kambô & The Spirit Path

Rebecca “Radiance” Naylor joins me in this episode to share her experience with Kambô frog medicine and its amazing healing power. She is a wonderful soul, a modern-day medicine woman, shamanic ceremonialist, energy healing worker, space healer, and certified practitioner of Kambô medicine with the International Association of Kambô Practitioners (IAKP). Tune in if you want to know more about this ancient shamanic medicine, and to find out how to reach a complete cleansing and purification o...

Auto-Immune, Yoga, & Wellness

This week the amazing Lizzie Brooks joins me to discuss her approach to breathing, yoga and exercise, and their benefits on the body and the mind. She is a fantastic, funny, energetic yoga and fitness teacher, and also a wellness writer. Tune in to find out more about meditation techniques, breathing, yoga, strength training, auto-immune diseases, and much more!   In this episode, we share: Lizzie's approach to life through levity The importance of body-mind connection Combining mov...

Empaths: Waking the Magic Within

Get ready ya’ll, joining me this week is motivational speaker and psychic, Stephanie Roman. She is a divine channel that helps you remember how to unlock the magic we were all born with. Her mission of helping empaths learn how to stabilize and strengthen their abilities has led her to create 2 courses. She shows empaths the light and joy and their unique talents and gives them a tribe to encourage their journey. In this episode, we share: Stephanie’s Ted Talk on how Barbie shaped her life...

Long Hauler Covid & Neuroscience

Kathy Mauck began her journey in medical research at Oregon Health Sciences University and launched a neuroscience-education company called Z-Health. She now uses her passion to provide high-end business growth coaching and neuro health education for health professionals through KJM Consulting and Next Level Neuro. Join us today as she dives further into the science of those recovering from the roller-coaster of symptoms of long COVID as well as her insights into business growth development ...