The Finding Peace Podcast

In this episode, Troy L. Love explains why sleep problems are often a safety—not willpower—issue rooted in trauma and hypervigilance. He offers compassionate, practical tools to help the nervous system feel safer at night. Learn three simple strategies—predictability, warmth, and gentle transitions—and a mindset shift from fighting sleep to partnering with your body so rest can slowly return.   ht...

In this short episode, Troy L. Love explains emotional flooding, when your nervous system is overwhelmed, and why insight is offline during these moments. He offers practical, trauma-informed steps to recover: name the state, reduce sensory input, simplify choices, and postpone processing. Learn accessible strategies to lower stimulation, create predictability, and return to calm before trying to...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast with host Troy L. Love focuses on practical, trauma-informed tools you can use in everyday life. In this episode Troy shares a personal story about parenting and introduces micro-regulation: small, intentional actions to keep your nervous system engaged rather than defensive during conflict. Learn simple techniques — slow your speech, lower your shoulders, gro...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools with host Troy L. Love. This episode introduces the simple skill of tracking sensation to reconnect with your body without overwhelming your nervous system. Learn the difference between noticing and diving in, and discover pendulation — moving between discomfort and safety — to build choice and agency over your experienc...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast explores trauma-informed, practical ways to support the vagus nerve and nervous system—not through quick hacks, but through repeated experiences of safety. Host Troy L. Love explains why connection, gentle rhythm, predictability, warm presence, vocal vibration, and movement help regulation more deeply than forced techniques, and how healing is a relationship b...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast shares practical, trauma‑informed tools you can use in daily life to support your nervous system. Host Troy L. Love explains how bilateral stimulation—like walking rhythmically, tapping left/right, or using the butterfly hug—can help regulate emotions, reduce overwhelm, and create space for clearer thinking. These short, accessible practices are designed to he...

In this short episode, Troy L. Love guides a trauma-informed approach to breathing that emphasizes choice, diaphragm engagement, and gentle lengthening of the exhale. You’ll learn simple, practical steps—and a four-minute guided practice—to help your nervous system settle without pressure or performance. Perfect for moments of anxiety, overwhelm, or everyday stress, this episode offers accessible...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode Troy L. Love explores how naming sensations and experiences—descriptive before interpretive—helps calm the nervous system and prevent shame-driven reactions. Try the simple practice: notice "Something's happening in me," name bodily sensations and impulses, breathe, and ask what wound o...

In this short episode of Finding Peace, host Troy L. Love shares a personal story of lying awake, flooded with shame and intense emotions, and introduces a trauma-informed tool called containment. He guides listeners through a simple visualization—naming feelings, placing them gently into an imagined container, and choosing when and how to return to them—emphasizing that containment is self-compas...

Welcome to Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast with Troy L. Love. In this episode Troy shares a personal story of his abandonment wound being triggered at an event, and how the rhythm of pendulation—moving between felt pain and safety through connection—helped him slowly find relief and grounding.   Troy offers a short, trauma-informed practice to notice uncomfortable sensations, briefly touch t...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help you stay present when emotions run high. In this episode, host Troy L. Love guides a short orientation exercise (the 5-4-3-2-1 practice) to gently bring attention back to the present and support nervous system regulation. Through a brief in-session example with a client, Troy shows how naming neutral sensory deta...

In this episode, Troy L. Love shares a raw personal story of a panic attack that reconnects him to childhood wounds, showing how transference and the inner critic can amplify shame. He reframes peace as the capacity to feel without collapsing, to stay connected, and to return to ourselves after being triggered, offering practical, trauma-informed guidance on responding with curiosity rather than s...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for moments when emotions run high, relationships feel heavy, or your nervous system needs support. In this episode, host Troy L. Love shares Sarah’s story to illustrate how healing attachment wounds can feel unfamiliar and even threatening — growth often registers as danger before it feels like freedom. Learn brief, act...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast presents practical, trauma-informed tools to help when emotions run high and relationships feel heavy. In this episode, host Troy L. Loved explores identity confusion—how trauma and survival roles (the politician, the martyr, the judge) shape who we become—and shares personal stories and the example of "Jason" to illustrate how we adapt by taking on roles. Tro...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers short, trauma-informed tools you can use when emotions run high, relationships feel heavy, or your nervous system needs support. In this episode Troy L. Love shares a powerful ninth-grade story to show how shame started as protection, then explains the "shadows of shame" (the Judge, the Royal, the Politician, the Martyr, the Impotent One, and the Rebel)...

Season 8 of Finding Peace explores how controlling behaviors often develop as nervous-system coping strategies rooted in attachment wounds. This episode reframes control as information, offers simple questions and a practical practice to trace behavior back to unmet needs, and invites compassion over shame as the path to healing and safety.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast

Season 8 of Finding Peace offers short, trauma‑informed tools for everyday life. In this episode, Troy L. Love explores how childhood experiences can teach us to bury anger, the cost of suppressing emotions, and the difference between self‑control and self‑regulation. He explains how anger is a signal that something matters, why regulation must come before responsibility, and offers gentle practic...

Troy L. Love uses a personal wisdom-teeth story to expose the ‘martyr’ voice that drives overgiving and self-sacrifice. He explains trauma-informed boundaries as nervous-system–aware limits that protect connection without abandoning yourself.   This short episode offers practical reframes and simple phrases to challenge beliefs like “rest must be earned,” helping you set limits that honor your cap...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help when emotions run high and relationships feel heavy. Hosted by Troy L. Love, this episode explains why arguments often aren’t about the issue at hand but about nervous system survival. Using the metaphor of relationship "BRPEx"—Blame, Rescue, Protest, Escape—Troy shows how fight-or-flight responses shut down thin...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help when emotions run high and motivation fades. Troy L. Love explains how chronic procrastination and emotional flatness can be nervous-system protection—called freezing—not laziness, and invites listeners to reframe self-judgment into curiosity about what needs are being protected. Learn simple steps to honor still...

Host Troy L. Love explores how growing up with unpredictable anger trains the nervous system to stay on guard, and why hypervigilance is an adaptive response rather than a flaw. He offers a simple, trauma-informed grounding exercise (5-4-3-2-1) and compassionate reframing to help the body learn to relax safely and find more peace, joy, and connection.     https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast

Host Troy L. Love shares a personal teenage story to explain how our nervous system uses fight, flight, freeze, or fawn to survive. He reframes these reactions as learned survival strategies—not identities—and shows how shame loses power when we listen to our body with curiosity. This short episode offers simple, trauma-informed tools—breathing, grounding, and self-compassion—to help you respond d...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers short, trauma-informed tools to help you when emotions run high and your nervous system needs support. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains why “calm down” often backfires, how shame and threat escalate activation, and invites a simple replacement: ask, “What would help my system feel 5% safer right now?” Learn practical, relational strategies—breath,...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools you can use in everyday life—short episodes to support you when emotions run high, relationships feel heavy, or your nervous system needs grounding. Host Troy L. Love guides listeners toward more peace, joy, and connection, one moment at a time. In this episode we explore the "window of tolerance": the zone where the ner...

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers short, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains how stress, trauma, and shame differ, using a real-life story to show how mislabeling feelings can keep our nervous system stuck. Learn how to recognize the "judge" of shame, ask what wound is being triggered, and use simple practices—naming shame and refusing to hono...