Gabriella Rebranded | Healing After Trauma, Spiritual Growth, Brain Injury Recovery & Dark Humor

Send Gabriella a Text Message. exercise, neuroplasticity, neurotransmitters, neuroscience Plot twist: exercise changes your brain perhaps even more than it does your body! To close out the season, I’m breaking down the actual neuroscience behind why movement helps mood, motivation, focus, recovery, brain fog, stress, and mental health—and how I experienced it rebuilding my life after being my acci...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. healthy boundaries, medical trauma, invisible disability A long recovery can change far more than your physical body—it can completely alter how safe you feel in relationships, and suddenly something as simple as saying “no” can feel threatening.  I’m joined by Jessica Miller of Mind Your Boundaries to get very practical about what it actually looks like to set bound...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. trauma-informed care, recovery, boundaries, emotional healing “Just get over it” sounds like typical advice from the outside, but to someone living through trauma, it sounds dismissive and cheapens their experience. Let's unpack why that mindset fails—and what survivors actually need: patience, consent, compassion, and support that doesn’t turn into an interroga...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Trauma can erase the version of you that felt familiar. Then, you’re left figuring out who tf you are now. And that figuring out period, girrrrlllllll...... In part 3 of the Identity After Trauma Series, we're talking that fun lil Identity CRISIS aspect that gets violently pelted in. Trying to “go back to normal” can make recovery feel so damn much worse. And wh...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. trauma-informed coaching, career pivot, TBI, recovery A brain injury or any health scare will clean up your priorities fast. Enter Stephanie Ang, a fellow TBI survivor who agrees with me that she would not let her pain be for nothing. From it, Stephanie created SGA Coaching & Consulting: trauma informed transformational coaching with an emphasis on TBI survivors....

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Patient/Female Advocacy & Agency, Cervical Cancer, Double Mastectomy, Uterus & Ovary Removal They can take your organs, but they don’t get to take your identity...and they can give you back your organs if you relentlessly remind them. Time for a brief exhale. Same story, same reality—but this time we giggle. Alissa & I are still talking cervical cancer &a...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Patient advocacy amidst a double mastectomy, ovary & uterus removal, & the 2024 election   Contrary to popular belief, hearing “You have cancer,” is not even close to the toughest part of the journey. Alissa's real grind was everything that follows: decisions she never wanted to make, pain she did not expect, and a medical system that can feel weirdly ca...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Reiki healing, breathwork, burnout, AI, transactional energy, love Make energy healing mainstream - that is Luminara's goal. Meet Romain Daumont, the founder of the energy healing talent agency, Luminara. Energy healing talent agency? I'm sorry - what?  Born from grief & devastation over the loss of his son, Luminara is an online immersive platform that...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Everyone on the internet (TikTok......) thinks their nervous system is dysregulated - but what does that actually mean? Many people say their nervous system is exhausted or dysregulated, as if those two states equate to the same thing.  However, they are two completely different things - and you can't treat yourself correctly if you don't actually know what...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Year of the horse, year of the snake, Saturn return, Aries Welcome back Danny Santos of Danny Santos and the Crystal Visions, astrologer, ayahuasca shaman, spiritual life coach, and integrative healer. Danny is breaking down for us what it means to be in 2026: the year of the horse. 2025 was the year of the snake, we left it, so what did that mean and what does this...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Concussions, TBI, Brain Injury, Athletes, Veterans  CTE is something that negatively effects the daily life of millions, but we are just barely beginning to talk about; Former team USA Olympic bobsledder, William Person @OneManWithAChamber, is leading the conversation, seeking to help all victims - but he needs our help.  William has a new purpose, more fulfilling th...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Identity crisis, morning pages, meditation, sense of self Losing yourself is, unfortunately, a pretty common part of trauma. When things - perhaps many things - that were so integral to who you thought you were or your daily life suddenly vanish, it usually feels like part of you has gone with it. That’s terrifying, bro - especially if you thought said things defined...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Invasive questions, the survivor/patient archetype, incorrect assumptions vs validation, honesty, empathy. One of the hardest parts about reconnecting with friends and family, as well as forging new relationships, after medical trauma is hearing the same sentences on repeat that everyone thinks are appropriate - because they’re what everyone says - but we don’t actua...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Tightening your circle, misalignment, outgrowing people, quality over quantity, discernment, friendships that no longer fit….the list goes on. Oof! This was a tough one - tough to live and tough to write. Peer reviewed by fellow medical trauma survivors, this is our take on friendship after trauma. The reality of how friendships change after trauma, how to show up fo...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Healing to live in harmony & balance, the lost art of listening, true inclusivity for all abilities When Puerto Rican immigrant, Carlos Rodriguez, returned from Vietnam, he bravely chose to devote himself to a life of peace. Already an accomplished athlete, Carlos took up a study of Aikido that eventually led him to learning and then teaching golf.  A PGA pro, Ca...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Identity, Re-Birth, Acceptance, Self-Transformation, Growth, Emotional Healing.  In this new series I’m doing ‘Identity After Trauma,’ I will be giving step by step guidance on the process of finding yourself again after the re-birth of you. Trauma changes you…forever. You can never go back to quite the same life or same way of navigating the world after your mentali...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. A deeply honest caregiver-focused episode, My Mom and I unpack the reality oflife after a traumatic brain injury—for both the patient and the people who love them. Together, we reflect on the long road from returning home to outpatient rehab and more surgeries, my move back to LA to try to be an adult and live solo, and the many more medical, mental, and subsequent e...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. A family unites during a daughter’s NDE (near death experience), caregiver ptsd & struggle, strength & dependance on each other, love from the community.  How does a parent cope when they think their child is going to die? How does a family handle a loved one’s brutal accident & health scare? I somehow convinced my mother, Laura Tranchina, to come to the...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Where emergency medicine currently is, the future of diagnosis, including medical AI , & patient advocacy.  Introducing Dr. Carl Berdahl, an emergency medicine physician at Cedars Sinai who saved my life. He will say emergency medicine is a team sport - which it is - but he was the captain & delegator of the ER team who saved me. To me, this man is the ultima...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. 2025 brought growth & healing: trauma work for my CPTSD diagnosis, career expansion, faith strengthening, intrapersonal divulgence, family relationship appreciation, friendship fine tuning. Each day, I got closer and closer to reaching alignment as my highest self. That’s thanks to me, but it’s more of a thanks to all of you. My listeners, my supporters, my famil...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Mental disability accommodations for TBI’s include extra fast passes, private sections at events, escorts, jury duty exemption - and that’s only the literal! The theoretical? Even better! Bit of a hot take today, but in the spirit of the holiday season, we are in celebration mode. If I’m going to celebrate every part of myself, that includes my disability. Life has n...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Whether it’s sexual trauma, like assault, abuse, violation, vaginismus or nonsexual trauma like a brutal accident, sex after trauma can lead to aversion, hypersexuality, and unsafe decisions. Do you need exposure therapy? Is that a bad idea? How do you feel safe in your body again? In this episode, I hear from Nadège, CEO and creator of Pleasure Science. Nadège is a...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. A quick hack to align with positivity, manifestation, and drop into a state of attraction is to practice gratitude.  There is always something to be grateful for, even if it doesn’t look like it at first glance. Happy Thanksgiving!! We’re celebrating the week by reminding ourselves what this holiday is about. Gratitude is a lot more hype than ya’ll realize. It’s a sh...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Divulging into my battle with CPTSD and healing my trauma with the help of neuropsychology. A healthy positive mindset that comes allowing yourself to grieve and celebrating the good, but acknowledging the bad. Refusing to allow yourself grief and denying your loss creates a feux mask of toxic positivity. Instead of moving on, you are pushing down your emotions - whi...

Send Gabriella a Text Message. Fellow automobile-pedestrian accident survivor, actor Kathryn Prescott,  shares the story of her own recovery from being hit by a truck. Together, we chat about our common similarities in PTSD and CPTSD, invisible disability, years of surgeries, the complexity of a patient-caregiver relationship, and life after long-term rehabilitation. Kathryn (Kat) Prescott, a UK a...