Get Trauma Informed Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 5 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we explore one of the most powerful shifts a leader can make: moving from fear-based leadership to empowerment-focused leadership. Trauma often teaches people to seek safety through control, perfectionism, h...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 4 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we explore a topic that is often overlooked in leadership conversations: organizational trauma. While trauma is commonly viewed as an individual experience, it can also exist within teams, workplaces, minist...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 3 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we explore how trauma can shape the beliefs we carry about ourselves, our abilities, and our potential. Many leaders possess the skills to succeed but remain limited by internal narratives that were formed d...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 2 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we take a deeper look at the relationship between unresolved trauma, emotional intelligence, addiction patterns, and leadership effectiveness. Many leaders are highly skilled at helping others while quietly...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Welcome back to the Get Trauma Informed Podcast. I am your host, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding. In Part 1 of our Trauma-Informed Leadership Series, we begin by exploring a reality that impacts every community, workplace, ministry, family, and organization. Trauma is more common than many people realize, and its effects often show up in the way people co...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Trauma-informed leadership is not limited to counseling, healthcare, or recovery settings. It matters in families, workplaces, schools, ministries, businesses, and communities. In this episode, Coach Liz Blanding explores the importance of leading with awareness, empathy, and emotional intelligence. Many behaviors that are often misunderstood may be connected to u...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview In this repurposed episode of Mini Trauma Recovery Talks , Coach Liz revisits one of the most important parts of recovery. Learning how to recognize the difference between emotional red flags and healthy relational traits. For many trauma thrivers, chaos can feel familiar while consistency may feel uncomfortable at first. In this conversation, Coach Liz explores h...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s Mini Trauma Recovery Talk, we are revisiting one of our foundational conversations about the many different forms of trauma that people experience throughout life. 🔁 This is a replayed foundational episode from our podcast archives because awareness is a critical part of recovery. Many individuals are struggling with symptoms of trauma without fully recognizing what th...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore how recovery can create emotional distance from familiar patterns, relationships, and environments that once felt normal. Sometimes growth requires separation, not as punishment or rejection, but as protection for your recovery journey. In This Episode You Will Learn: Why personal growth can create discomfort in familiar environments How boundaries and...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, we take a deeper look at why setting boundaries can feel uncomfortable, heavy, and even wrong. What if the guilt you feel is not a sign that you are doing something wrong… but a sign that something is changing? This conversation reframes guilt as a natural part of trauma recovery and personal growth, especially w...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview:  In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz reframes one of the most misunderstood concepts in trauma recovery: boundaries. If setting boundaries feels uncomfortable, it does not mean you are doing something wrong. It means your body is learning something new. Coach Liz walks listeners through how trauma shapes the nervous system to overextend,...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview: In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz Blanding challenges the belief that being emotional or sensitive means you are “too much.” She reframes emotional intensity as a response to a lack of protection and safety, not a flaw in identity. This conversation invites listeners to shift from self-blame to self-awareness by understanding how unmet...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz explores how many of our adult behaviors were not intentionally chosen but formed through survival. Patterns like people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, and control often begin as childhood adaptations to unsafe or unpredictable environments. Over time, these patterns can feel like identity. But recovery...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Episode Summary In this foundational episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz explores one of the most important questions in recovery: Who am I without the trauma? Many of us unknowingly build our identity around survival. We become “the strong one,” “the people pleaser,” or “the peacekeeper,” not because that is who we are, but because that is who we needed to be...

Send us Fan Mail Special Release: Domestic Violence Series Episode 8 of 8 🎧 Episode Summary This episode is being released out of order as we continue aligning the Foundations Podcast Series inside the Oasis Wellness Academy . You may also hear a reference to the All Things Recovery Patreon Community . That community has been retired and transitioned into the Oasis Wellness Academy, where everyth...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Many people think of recovery only as relief from pain. However, trauma recovery produces something much deeper. It produces wisdom, compassion, and understanding that can help others find freedom. In this episode, Coach Liz explains how recovery becomes a form of wealth. The lessons learned through recovery become valuable guidance that can support others who are...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Many people begin trauma recovery with one simple goal. They want the pain to stop and the patterns to change. However, as recovery progresses, many people discover something deeper. Their story begins with helping others find hope. In this episode, Coach Liz explores how trauma recovery often moves beyond personal recovery and becomes an assignment to help others...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Many people say they want healthy love. However, after trauma recovery begins, healthy love can feel unfamiliar. Peace, consistency, and kindness can feel strange when past relationships were shaped by chaos, inconsistency, or emotional instability. In this episode, Coach Liz explores why healthy love may feel uncomfortable at first and how trauma recovery helps r...

Send us Fan Mail In This Episode We Discuss: ✨ The pivotal moment when survivors decide they deserve more  ✨ How trauma shapes patterns of self-worth  ✨ Why we tolerate inconsistency, disrespect, and emotional chaos  ✨ How trauma quietly rewrites identity without permission  ✨ The two levels of identity recovery: Awareness and Application  ✨ Why your worth is not negotiable  ✨ A guided affi...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview In this powerful conversation, Preston Wheeler joins us to discuss his book “Put Dating Back in the Box,” co-authored with Alonzo McLittle. This book offers a structured and character-centered approach to relationships. Instead of rushing into connections, Preston encourages individuals to first develop self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and personal responsi...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Some wounds are not personal choices.  They are inherited patterns. In this episode, we explore how generational trauma quietly shapes identity, belief systems, attachment styles, and our view of love. Trauma does not always begin with us. Sometimes it begins in silence, secrets, and survival patterns that were never addressed. This conversation invites compassion...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Description In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Peer to Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding explores what it means to support someone in crisis without derailing your own trauma recovery. When someone we care about is going through a painful life transition, such as divorce or betrayal, it is easy to slip into overfunctioning, emotional waiting, or self-abando...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Description Trauma does not stop at the door when we step into purpose-driven work or entrepreneurship. In this episode, Coach Liz explores how unresolved trauma shows up in business relationships and decision-making, often leading to over-giving, people-pleasing, silence, and financial loss. This conversation brings awareness to how early wounds can repeat themselves thro...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary In this episode, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding explores how unresolved trauma can make survivors more vulnerable to narcissistic manipulation. What begins as charm, attention, and emotional safety can quietly shift into control, self-doubt, and emotional harm. This conversation brings clarity to patterns many survivors sense but struggle to name. Coach Liz breaks dow...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview In this episode, Coach Liz explores the unseen cost of loving someone with unprocessed trauma. Drawing from lived experience, she unpacks how unresolved trauma can quietly enter relationships, creating emotional instability, fear, and numbness that the partner often feels responsible for managing. This conversation invites listeners to reflect on the difference be...