Triumph After Trauma

Hello friends, and welcome back to Triumph After Trauma! If you're new here, I'm so excited you found this podcast and we can start connecting!  This is it friends, the final episode of 2023.  What a year it has been. The roller coaster called life had plenty of ups and incredible memories were made, but I'd be lying to say there were no massive bumps throughout the year. Today frie...

Welcome back friends, to the show and the last few weeks of 2023! I can't believe we're already at the end of the year, but here we are, into the final TWO episodes of Triumph After Trauma for 2023! If you're new here, I'm so excited you found my podcast and can't wait to connect! Today we're having an important and heartfelt conversation. Life throws curve balls at a...

Welcome (back) to Triumph After Trauma! If you're new here, I'm so glad you found my podcast and are here friends! As we enter the last few weeks of 2023, I wanted us to have a conversation where I take some time to remind you all of a few important reminders as we get into the height of the holiday season, and (somehow, already) the end of this year. Whether part of your year was hard o...

Welcome back to Triumph After Trauma!  If you're new here, I'm so glad you found my podcast! Welcome to the show, I'm happy to be connected with you! This podcast is all about mental health, understanding/working through trauma together, and supporting one another on this life journey. I love growing, learning, and connecting with every one of you who reach out!  Our chats are often...

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY EPISODE! Welcome back to Triumph After Trauma!  If you're new here, I'm so glad you found my podcast! Thank you so much for being here! I turned 32 yesterday! While most of the time I don't feel any specific age which makes it often feel surreal I'm truly in my 30's, I'm in fact now part of the 32 club.  Life has been beautiful, incredible, and s...

After an unplanned two week break due to my microphone breaking I am back, and it feels SO good! If this is your first time listening into Triumph After Trauma, welcome! I'm so happy you're here! As you know, this podcast is dedicated to talking openly about three things essentially: talking openly about mental health, understanding ourselves better, and sharing healthy ways I've di...

Welcome back to Triumph After Trauma! If you're new here, I'm so happy you found this podcast! We have recently had good conversations about things such as navigating seasons that are both good and really hard (ep. 61), signs your body/nervous system need a reset (ep. 60), and ways to recall trauma if your memory is repressed (ep. 59). Today friends, we're going to have a chat about...

Hello friends, welcome back to Triumph After Trauma!  If you're new here, I'm so happy you found my podcast. Welcome! For those of you who don't know much or anything about me I'm 31 (will be 32 next month) and have lost almost everyone on my mothers side of the family. I lost my first uncle when I was 9 years old. In total I have lost both my aunts, both my uncles, and my gran...

Hello friends, and welcome to another episode of Triumph After Trauma! If you're new here, welcome to my podcast! In last week's episode (#60, wow!) we had a good but important conversation about ways you can tell your body and nervous system are signalling it's time for a slow down, or complete reset. If you haven't checked it out, you can by clicking the link below or searchi...

Hello and welcome back to Triumph After Trauma! On today's episode friends, which is somehow already episode 60, we're going to have a chat about some signs that you and your entire nervous system need to slow down and completely reset.  Since last week we had a great chat about signs of trauma that may currently be repressed/suppressed memories you need to work through, I thought talkin...

Welcome (back) to Triumph After Trauma; I'm so glad you're here for another chat! Today friends, we're taking a slightly deeper dive into talks about trauma than we're already used to. I felt like having a conversation about signs of suppressed or repressed trauma and what we can do for ourselves (or people we care about) when these signs show up is important, because sometimes...

In this week's episode friends, we're having a chat about some triggers of anxiety that while are common aren't talked about as othe triggers are. Not only do we have a chat about what some of them are, but I sharw how each of the triggers mentioned have and/or do affect me. I also share some tips on how when we are triggered (because we are human and it will happen), we take steps...

All trauma is valid, I want to start by saying that. But, the kind of resources/support we need to work through our trauma is different. I have learned recently about little T and big T trauma, and how knowing (when working through a specific event/experience) which type of trauma you're working through can not only help you understand better what kind of help you may need/most benefit from,...

I'm going to share something that really irritated me when I first heard this, but turned out to be an incredibly important piece of advice. I don't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this "an important part of your healing is  you admitting where and how you are creating your own suffering". If you felt a twitch of anger or a weird feeling in your stomach/g...

I am an advocate of rest and taking breaks when needed.  Sometimes we plan for it, sometimes (and not always in the best ways) we really don't.  I had some health issues really kick my ass the past few weeks and someone I love going through something tough needed me, so I was of course there to support them. That is why I unexpectedly have been away. None of how my life has gone the past 4-5...

This topic and (some of) what I say may ruffle some feathers, but I'm going there.  Today we're having an important discussion about family dynamics, and how the dynamic you have with any number of family members (whoever it is you consider to be your real family) can either help or hinder and hurt your mental health. A healthy and supportive relationship where all parties make effort is...

PART TWO OF TWO, HERE WE GO! You have heard (if not, check out episode 53 first) about some of the things that got me to my lowest points and over time heard different stories of some of the hardest obstacles I have had to overcome.  Now it's time to share the hard work, amount of time, patience, self dedication + responsibility and resources/tools it took to get me from there to where I am n...

TW: This is my personal story (part one of two) of where I was at, how I felt, and how I was(not) showing up in the world when I was at my worst. Parts of what I talk about may be hard for people currently in a rough season or struggling mentally. If you are not in a good mental state, other episodes of mine may be better for you to hear.  I asked my Instagram followers (follow me at @thisiskaitey...

In today's episode we're talking about the b word. That's right friends, today we have a conversation about boundaries!  They are hard to stick to. Some people don't even have any. Other people's can feel hard to accept and respect (because you know, us humans can take things personally we dang well know we shouldn't). Yet, having and respecting boundaries is super im...

In today's episode, we're having a great conversation and unpacking a lot!  We're diving into automatic trauma responses, what the four F's are in regards to automatic trauma responses, and what it takes/ways we can rewire our brains.  As someone who has been through a lot of trauma but also done a lot of hard work to work through different things, I feel that by sharing what I...

This is my 50th episode of Triumph After Trauma, holy freaking crap! I am so grateful to be here, have this opportunity to be a podcast host, and help change lives (in all sorts of ways) doing this! I wanted to first say thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I'm beyond grateful to be connected to you! For my 50th episode friends, I decided we're going to have a chat about the differ...

Believe it or not, there is a version of me that was not the most kind or responsible.  There is a time I lashed out when I was angry, cut people off the second I felt betrayed in any way, isolated myself a lot, didn't prioritize my mental health, sabotaged myself, self harmed, and didn't make an effort to be healthy/responsible/self-compassionate. None of that was good for me or people...

HELLO PODCAST FRIENDS <3 After a full two month break that I didn't plan for, I am elated to be back! This episode is short and sweet but I wanted to talk about what lead to that break, and share why I think breaks are important not bad. I felt a little squirrely brained here, but I hope (at least some of) what I said make sense, and resonates with some of you! If it does, feel free to mes...

I hope you're ready for a good chat today friends, because we're diving into things about grief we could do with better understanding as a society.  To be in 2023 and all over the world most countries (because of things like government, as one example) still not have truly helpful AND affordable mental health services is not surprising - especially here in North America - but it's a...

Life is beautiful, precious, and incredibly fun in so many ways.  It is also cruel, unfair, brutal, tragic, and traumatic unfortunately. Before I go any further, I want to say I know life can be so tragic and traumatic that the hardest thing in the world to do is NOT give up on yourself - and I have been there myself.  That being said, the last part of the above comment is actually the reason this...