The Mending Trauma Podcast

Trauma has become a buzz word in the last several months. And this episode will help clarify some of the terms we see on social media and in the public. We will examine the difference between being trauma informed, trauma trained, and certified in trauma. This will help listeners distinguish what to look for when seeking professional help on their trauma recovery journey.  Learn more about the Who...

This time of year, is when many of us focus on intentions or goals. This year we invite you to heal your nervous system from past trauma, and give you tools and tips for how to start your journey of trauma recovery. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube: Mending Trauma LinkedIn: Mend...

This week we interview a member of Mending Trauma's Whole Health Lab, Siri Hoffman. Siri discusses her journey with alcohol and her experience with trauma recovery within the Whole Health Lab. She touches on the power of community, and her experience with EMDR, and the recovery process. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendi...

In this episode, Amy and Leina discuss the seminal aces study that took place in the mid 90s. The study was originally done to link adverse childhood experiences and long term physical health problems. What the trauma recovery community has noticed, is that these adverse childhood experiences often lead to complex or developmental trauma. Finally we discuss how there is hope for recovery from thes...

Join and Leina as she offers some quick tips for getting through family gatherings during the holidays. Learn how to have flexible thinking and flexible expectations to reduce stress during the holidays, consider creative was to limit alcohol consumption, and find ways to graciously take leave of a holiday gathering.  Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mend...

Today we talk about complex trauma and one of the symptoms that can develop - dissociation. We discuss how it develops, what it looks like, and how to minimize it while you are recovering from trauma.  Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube: Mending Trauma LinkedIn: Mending Trauma Tik...

In today's episode we discuss the best type of therapy to recover from trauma or cPTSD. We look at EMDR, internal family systems, and neurofeedback, and discuss the benefits and opportunities of each when healing trauma.  Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube: Mending Trauma LinkedIn...

As the holiday season approaches, we once again revisit ways to protect your family gatherings from conflict and empower you to take care of your emotional health. These gatherings can often trigger old wounds and lead to re-experiencing childhood trauma. Learn ways to regulate your nervous system and avoid participating in problematic dynamics.  Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with...

In this episode, we explore the way that complex trauma creates a belief that connection is dangerous. Our traumatic experiences alter our perception of the world and can lead us to misinterpret or assign motivation to other people's behavior. This leads to emotional suffering for us, and can disrupt our important connections with others. Join us as we explore ways to pay attention to this without...

Trauma shows up in our everyday lives as reactions and sensations - because we spend the majority of time at work, this episode dives into how trauma presents in workplaces. We go over typical reactions from trauma as well as ways to minimize conflict in the workplace that ultimately stems from trauma. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ I...

This episode examines the different definitions of trauma, the types of trauma, and the signs and symptoms of trauma. We also go over the most emerging research for trauma recovery. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube: Mending Trauma LinkedIn: Mending Trauma Tik Tok: @mendingtrauma...

This week we will continue our discussion about Trauma Dumping and look at how boundaries can help to minimize the potential for trauma dumping. We will give you clear and specific tips to help you identify and resolve trauma dumping. Transcript Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube:...

In this episode, Amy and Leina discuss what trauma dumping is, and what it is not, as well as why we are seeing an increase in trauma dumping. Also discussed are ways to set boundaries around trauma dumping.  Transcript Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube: Mending Trauma LinkedIn:...

In this week's episode we go over Dr Steven Porges' Polyvagal Theory and how it relates to trauma recovery. We dive into the different states of the nervous system and look at how depression can show up through the dorsal state. If you have experienced trauma of CPTSD this episode will be very helpful. As always we also give actionable tips for how to move out of dorsal into a ventral, connected s...

Many people with trauma or CPSTD wonder how long they will need to work on their trauma in order to find total relief. This episode addresses how recovering from trauma is not a linear process and involves many different types of therapies. We examine tips in order to help when symptoms reappear after actively working on your trauma recovery. Transcript Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connec...

In today’s episode we go over how trauma and cPTSD can lead to hypervigilance. We cover how you know you are being hypervigilant and what to do to minimize being in a constant state of threat. Transcript Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @mendingtrauma Youtube: Mending Trauma LinkedIn: Mending Trauma T...

Many survivors of trauma and cPTSD suffer from memory loss or gaps in memory. In todays episode, we dive into why we have memory loss after trauma, how to know if you should recover loss memories, and how to minimize dissociation so that you can create memories in the present. Transcript Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mend...

Three skills that will help you when deciding how to limit contact with a toxic family member or friend and knowing when to go no contact. - Communicating with the person that hurt you - Setting Boundaries - Avoiding Triangulation We'll also cover the difference between limited contact and no contact and when to use those appropriately. Transcript Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Connect with...

Do you find yourself adding in a lot of details and explanations each time you ask for things or change your plans? Do you over explain because you are nervous that people will be upset with you or not believe you? Many survivors of complex trauma (cPTSD) long to be heard, see and validated. Over-explaining or over-communicating is a trauma response that comes out of a deep need to feel seen, hear...

In today’s episode of The Mending Trauma Podcast, Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT discuss how perfectionism can be a trauma response and how to get out of the perfection, procrastination trap that cPTSD survivors find themselves in.  Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Transcript Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @mendingtrauma Facebook: @men...

In today’s episode,   Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT discusses the trauma response of judging ourselves and how to overcome our judgmental inner voice. Listen in as they teach you a powerful way of halting the inner critic as you develop more self-compassion. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Transcript Connect with us! Website: https://www.mendingtrauma.com/ Instagram: @m...

In today’s episode of The Mending Trauma Podcast , Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT look at how our hope gets diminished when trauma happens to us. They discuss how the brain is trying to help us survive but this can lead to a lack of hope. Listen in as they teach you how to develop new neural pathways of hope, despite your past. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Transcript...

In today’s episode of The Universe Is Your Therapist , Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT address how to value others, even when we disagree with them, without people pleasing. Listen in as they look at the way in which relationships that value both people can be a source of strength and hope despite viewing the world with different lenses. Learn more about the Whole Health Lab Tr...

In today’s episode of The Universe Is Your Therapist , Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT discusses how trauma and cPTSD set us up to control our environment, others and ourselves to the point of hurting our relationship with ourselves and others. Listen in as they guide you through letting go of some of the need to control and adopting "radical acceptance" to find more peace and...

In today’s episode of The Universe Is Your Therapist , Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT discusses the way we respond to trauma in order to survive. These survival skills become engrained and eventually become our coping mechanisms in times of stress throughout our lives. Some of these coping styles are helpful (adaptive) and some of these coping strategies no longer serve us and...