Sep / 2023
Fawn and Sexual Fawn

“…everything that I teach, I can only teach if I’ve experienced it. So I am so well experienced in the Fawning response, like incredibly. So when I learned about it, it was this kind of mind blowing moment for me of, ‘oh, this thing that I’ve been doing my whole life has a name and there’s a purpose’. And a
Sep / 2023
S3 E13 TRANSCRIPT Fawn & Sexual Fawn

[00:00:00] Elisabeth: Today we’re joined with Luis Mojica, who teaches people how to release stress and trauma through listening to their bodies. He’s an incredible somatics practitioner that we found through Instagram. And hearing his brilliant teachings and the way that he looks at our different responses relationally and how they show up in the body has really impacted me
Sep / 2023
Codependency

“I wanna support the people that I’m close to, but not at the expense of my own health and wellbeing. I can better draw those lines and individuate because I’m not so dysregulated by and afraid of other people’s emotional experience.” -Elisabeth Kristof, Trauma Rewired Co-Host and Founder of Brain Based Wellness and Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification Do you prioritize
Sep / 2023
S3 E12 TRANSCRIPT Codependency

[00:00:00] Jennifer: Welcome to Trauma Rewired, the podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body, and what you can do to heal. My name is Jennifer Wallace. I am a Neuro Somatic Psychedelic Preparation and Integration guide. [00:00:12] Elisabeth: And I’m Elisabeth Kristof, Founder of Brain-Based Wellness, an online platform that teaches you how
Sep / 2023

“There’s typically one way that our brain finds to be the most adaptive, and that’s based on our early childhood experiences. But it certainly can change over time and it can change based on the other types of nervous systems that we’re around.”-Elisabeth Kristof, Trauma Rewired Co-Host, Founder of Brain Based Wellness and Founder of Neuro Somatic Intelligence Coaching Certification
Sep / 2023

Jennifer: Hello and welcome back y’all to Trauma Rewired, the podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body, and what you can do to heal. I’m your co-host Jennifer Wallace, a Neuro Somatic Psychedelic Integration and Preparation Guide. Elisabeth: And I’m Elisabeth Kristof, founder of Brain-Based Wellness, a virtual platform that teaches you to
Aug / 2023
Our Relationship to Society Impacts Our Relationship to Self

“ …how do we, and for me how do I, start to regain my natural capacity for connection, but at the same time not overload myself to the point that there’s a backfire and I end up pulling away again? That is another part of what makes sense to me about this work, or this understanding of the nervous system,
Aug / 2023
S3 E10 TRANSCRIPT Our Relationship to Society Impacts our Relationship to Self

[00:00:00] Elisabeth: I’m excited today to zoom out a little bit. I feel like we’ve been taking this relationship conversation very deep and internal with Parts of ourselves and Presence and Embodiment. Now today we’re going to fly up and have some altitude and look at the bigger context of relationships- relationship to society and social threat. And how all
Aug / 2023
Astrology, Cosmology and Divinity: Connecting Deeper Through Regulation

“…the ancient mythologies, the ancient texts, including the Vedas and the Bibles- are really cosmologies. They are telling us the stories of our anatomy and physiology and how we mimic the cycles of the cosmos. And how the stories of the stars are quite literally alive within us.” -Melanie Weller, Co-Lead Educator of Neuro Somatic Intelligence Certification, Vagus Nerve Expert,
Aug / 2023
S3 E9 TRANSCRIPT Astrology, Cosmology and Divinity: Connecting Deeper Through Regulation

Elisabeth: Today we are going to discuss the relationship to something larger than ourselves, to the divine, to spirituality and how that impacts our nervous system and our relationships. Not just how it impacts our nervous system, but also how the state of our nervous system and having the tools to regulate and work with our nervous system to increases
Aug / 2023
Overcoming Dissociation & Emotional Repression to Create Presence

S3 E8 “Presence, and rewiring for Presence, is the exact opposite of self abandonment. It’s you choosing yourself. It is you saying: I don’t have to “survive” this, I can make new choices. I can be here for this. I can have a new feeling in my body and I don’t have to endure the way that things have always
Aug / 2023
S3 E8 TRNSCPT Overcoming Dissociation and Emotional Repression to Create Presence

TR S3 E8 Presence [00:00:00] Elisabeth: Hey everyone, could we just take one moment to take a collective breath together? If you’re somewhere where you can stop, stop. If you’re driving, just bring your attention to your breath and let’s just take a gentle inhale through the nose, and then a nice long relaxed exhale. Maybe give me one or
Aug / 2023
Continuity of Parts

S3 E7 “…if I don’t acknowledge the members of my inner counsel- even the ones I do not like, even the ones that feel like too much or not enough- then I, in the immortal words of Carl Jung, will project them to the outside and see them as attackers on me. That was a paraphrase, not his direct quote.
Aug / 2023
S3 E7 TRNSCPT Continuity of Parts

[00:00:00] Elisabeth: We did an episode last season that really got everyone’s attention and it was Your Nervous System and Relationships with Dr. Joli Hamilton. Really, that’s a lot of the reason why this entire season is devoted to taking a deep dive into exploring nervous system health in the context of relationship. There was one moment in there when
Jul / 2023
Embodiment is Scary AF

Season 3 Episode 6 “We are creators, but we cannot be creators when we’re living in a state of survival. It’s a non-starter. So everything, every affirmation you wanna do, every manifestation program you wanna take, every energy healing thing you wanna be present for- if your inner environment is in a state of survival everything else will elude you
Jul / 2023
S3 E6 TRANSCRIPT Embodiment is Scary AF

Jennifer: Embodiment is something that, until I was doing it and practicing it, it wasn’t something that I really understood. I could cognitively make sense of the concept, but it didn’t really hold true as a foundational experience in my body until NSI and really being the safe container and then that safe container holding the presence of me. Elisabeth:
Jul / 2023
Setting and Receiving Boundaries

S3 E5 “…in order to have boundaries and really even start to understand them, you have to be able to get comfortable in the discomfort of the duality between we’re all interconnected and we’re all autonomous. And both those seemingly opposite things are true at the same time.” -Margy Feldhuhn, Neuro Somatic Certified Practitioner and CEO of Interview ConnectionsDoes the
Jul / 2023
S3 E5 TRNSCPT Setting and Receiving Boundaries

Elisabeth: Welcome back. Today everyone we are talking about a topic that is near and dear to my heart- boundaries. I can never talk about boundaries or think about boundaries without thinking about the quote by the somatic practitioner Prentis Hemphill, who says “boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously”. This season we are
Jul / 2023
Relationships to Cultural Beliefs

S3 E4 “…I’m doing all my internal work and I’m healing myself so that I can be strong and do the work in the world that I wanna do and support others to do that work. I have been really wanting to make sure that it’s not just an individual solution, so it’s not just about me. It’s about me
Jul / 2023
S3 E4 TRNSCPT Relationships to Cultural Beliefs

[00:00:00] Elisabeth: As human beings our history evidences are tribal nature and co-dependence. Throughout time we’ve had to cooperate to survive. Going it alone led to extinction. Our brains evolved as social organs and our nervous system functions in part to keep us connected to our primary caregivers and development. [00:00:16] Into our herd as we move into adulthood. Psychoneuroimmunology,
Jul / 2023
cPTSD is an Attachment Wound

S3 Episode 3 “…as our brain grows and develops through infancy and early childhood, a lot of the developmental processes that occur are initiated by social interactions or social bonds. It’s like our brain is gathering repetitions or experiences and interactions in order to actually create the inputs that will drive the growth and development that has to happen. So
Jul / 2023
S3E3 TRNSCPT cPTSD is an Attachment Wound

Prelude Elisabeth: I’m so excited for today’s episode. As we were recording Season 2 I kept thinking about complex trauma. I just kept thinking ‘man, this is relational, this has to do with our attachment and this has to do with the way our nervous system developed to be in relationship and what happens inside of our body as we
Jul / 2023
Social Connection, Survival and the Neurobiology of Relationships

Season 3 Episode 2 ‘We are shaped by memories even if we don’t remember them cognitively. Our bodies and nervous systems do remember and trauma impairs the coherence of imprinted narratives. You’ve often heard us say neurons that fire together, wire together. People who touch, talk and connect wire together and survive together. Our brains are social organs formed by
Jul / 2023
S3E2 TRNSCPT Neurobiology of Relationships

[00:00:00] Elisabeth: Welcome to Trauma Rewired, the podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body, and what you can do to heal. I’m your co-host, Elisabeth Kristof, founder of Neuro Somatic Intelligence Training, an ICF accredited course for healers, therapists and coaches to help bring behavior change, trauma resolution, and mindset change from the
Jun / 2023
Trailer: Relationships and Your Nervous System

Season 3 Trailer “It’s going to be a fun season with a lot of meaty subject matter to explore. As always we’ll be going into the science, but we’ll also be sharing our personal experience and the experiences of our clients and community. Hopefully, we’re really creating a space to start to have a conversation about creating optimal relationships for
Apr / 2023
The Fawn Trauma Response

Episode 59 “Are you a self-proclaimed people pleaser? Do you have a hard time setting boundaries? Or maybe you set boundaries and then you find yourself overwhelmed with panic, migraine pain in your body? It feels just really scary and uncomfortable. That’s what we’re gonna be talking about today, the trauma response of Fawn. Fawn is a behavioral adaptation. It’s
Apr / 2023
S2 E59 TRANSCRIPT The Fawn Trauma Response

TR S2 E59 Fawn: Trauma Response [00:00:00] Elisabeth: Are you a self-proclaimed people pleaser? Do you have a hard time setting boundaries? Or maybe you set boundaries and then you find yourself overwhelmed with panic, migraine, pain in your body it feels just really scary and uncomfortable. That’s what we’re gonna be talking about today, the trauma response of Fawn.
Apr / 2023
S2 E57 TRANSCRIPT The Freeze Trauma Response

TR2 E58 Freeze: Trauma Response [00:00:00] Jennifer: Hello. Welcome to Trauma Rewired, the podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body and what you can do to heal. Hi, I’m your co-host, Elisabeth Kristof, founder of Neuro Somatic Intelligence Training, an ICF accredited course for healers, therapists, coaches to help bring behavior change, trauma
Apr / 2023
The Freeze Trauma Response

Episode 58 “Welcome to the Freeze Trauma Response. Unlike the other three responses <Fight, Flight and Fawn>, which are a call of action in the external world, Freeze happens in our bodies. Freeze is so fascinating. And as someone who really relates to this trauma response, I understand the dangers of it as well. It’s a reflexive response that’s turned
Apr / 2023
S2 E57 & 7 TRNSCPT The Flight Trauma Response

New TR S2E57 Flight [00:00:00] Jennifer: Yeah, I’m really excited. I love that we’re breaking down the four Fs of trauma- Fight, Flight, Fawn and Freeze and taking a deeper dive into each one of these. Even as I was doing my own research for this episode, I could really see how this response has shown up a lot in
Apr / 2023
The Flight Trauma Response

Episode 57 “When we have this constant feeling inside that we are preparing to take action and it’s not safe to be still a lot of times we do move into overworking or creating things to stay busy all the time or over training, because at the level of our physiology, that’s what feels right. It feels right and safe
Apr / 2023
The Fight Trauma Response

Episode 56 “…anger is a very natural response. It is part of our emotional landscape, it triggers our fight and flight response, and it developed as a protective mechanism. When we had to be able to react quickly to protect ourselves against animal attacks throughout our human evolution. This is one of the tools that was developed, and everybody has
Mar / 2023
How Trauma Lives in the Body and Why You Should Heal it in Your Nervous System

Episode 55 “How can we hear our intuition? How can we know what is good for our body if we can’t hear the signals that it is sending us? How can I be someone who honors and respects and listens to my body to know what’s in alignment for my life if I can’t read the signals that my body
Mar / 2023
Trauma Rewired, the Healing Vortex

Episode 54 “This season is a journey for people. We’ve laid it out in an easy way that it is digestible and that people can find themselves in. Not only just for your own awareness, but so that you can understand that there’s a new journey ahead of you that involves compassion, healing and forgiveness. We are showing you what
Mar / 2023
Visibility, Leadership and Podcasting

Episode 53 “Fear of success is really worth noting because there are entrepreneurs that want to get visible and want to get out there and want to be more successful. Then you are more visible, the stakes get higher. … I think the real truth is, and you know I say this as an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurs are often dysregulated
Mar / 2023
Executive Leadership, Your Nervous System and Success

Episode 52 “…whether you have a big organization or not, I think everybody should think of themselves as a Leader, and I think empowering yourself with these <NSI> tools is a way to have an impact no matter where you are or what you’re doing.” “…being an entrepreneur is traumatic, leading people, and I don’t mean Trauma in a dramatic
Feb / 2023
S2 E51 TRNSCPT Grief, Shame and Your Nervous System

Jennifer: Welcome back, ya’ll, thank you for joining Elisabeth, Matt and I for the continued conversations of the Dangers of Emotional Repression, Healthy Expression and your Nervous System. If you haven’t had the opportunity, please go back and listen to that conversation. You don’t have to hear it first before you listen to this one, but it’s got some beautiful
Feb / 2023
Grief, Shame and Your Nervous System

Episode 51 “You can’t out mindset, your emotional brain, right? You can’t use your cognitive thinking skills and cognitive talking types of therapy to manipulate your emotional brain. Your emotional brain’s gonna win that battle every single time. So this is where tools like NSI are so valuable because if we’re gonna help the survival brain and the emotional brain
Feb / 2023
S2 E49 TRNSCPT Dangers of Emotional Expression

[00:00:00] Jennifer: So I don’t think this conversation is gonna come as any surprise for our listeners who have been following Trauma Rewired this season- in nearly every conversation, one of the three of us says repressed emotions are dangerous in the body. We sat together on November 15th for emotions in the nervous system. I feel like that conversation
Feb / 2023
Dangers of Emotional Repression

Episode 49 If you’ve ever asked yourself ‘why am I so broken?’ This episode is sure to be eye-opening, educational and hopeful. Matt Bush, Co-Lead Educator of NSI Certification and Founder of Next Level Neuro joins us for a deep discussion about the dangers of repressed emotions, healthy expression and your nervous system. Our bodies and nervous systems are brilliantly
Feb / 2023
Food and Nervous System Regulation

Episode 50 What if your stress eating, binges and caffeine or sugar habits are what’s keeping your nervous system and body feeling safe in the world? What if these behaviors have been your nervous system’s way to protect you? What if the guilt and shame of stress and binge eating could be lifted by understanding that these behaviors are protective
Feb / 2023
Complex Trauma, Relationships and Your Nervous System

Episode 48 “You’re not just having your relationship, you are also having all of the past relationships that you had modeled for you. They’re all at work. And so while all of those dynamics are all playing out and all the micro stories are playing in, in your mind intellectually, they’re also playing out at the level of the nervous
Feb / 2023
Reflections on the Neuro-Somatic Intelligence Certification

Episode 47 The premise is that everything starts and ends with your nervous system, so no matter where you are implementing this type of work, it will be impactful. Neuro-Somatic Intelligence can help people feel safer in their bodies, whether they have big T or small T trauma, everyone can benefit greatly from this work. Hello Pod-Fam! We’re sitting down
Feb / 2023
Exploring c-PTSD & it’s 5 distinguishing characteristics

Episodes 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29 We have gotten so many DMs from folks who, after listening to the Trauma Rewired series on c-PTSD say – holy sh*t, this is the missing puzzle piece of info. If you’re all caught up on Trauma Rewired, you know we are taking a deep dive into Complex-PTSD… what is it? What are
Jan / 2023
What is Applied Neurology?

Episode 46 What is Applied Neurology? Think of daily NeuroSomatic Intelligence practice as nervous system hygiene. “At its most basic level applied neurology is using the latest research in neuroscience and brain science and making it applicable to everyday life to train our brain and our nervous system to function better. NeuroSomatic Intelligence training uses applied neurology to create neural
Jan / 2023
Complex Trauma & the Developmental Brain, con’t

Episode 45 “Because of my Neuro-Somatic education and tools, I feel hopeful in my brain’s own story, in the way that I can rewire limiting beliefs, balance emotionally and start to light up different parts of my brain. Your brain is your whole body and relational world, and you can change your life by training your nervous system. I’m here
Jan / 2023
Complex Trauma & the Developmental Brain

Episode 44 Imagine all of your childhood experiences as a pool of water. All your relationships, experiences, emotions and memories become this water that you’re swimming in. What does the water look like? How does it feel against your skin? Can you swim or do you struggle to stay afloat? At the most basic level Trauma is an overwhelm of
Jan / 2023
Sleep is Potent Medicine

Episode 43 Despite knowing this, many of us find it hard to rest in this hustle of the new year. Even though biologically we are wired to wind down in winter, culturally this is go time for new projects, behavior change, launches, personal development – all the things keep us from resting. When we have trauma, achieving quality rest can
Nov / 2022
S2 E36 TRNSCPT Perfectionism

[00:00:00] Jennifer: Hello. Welcome to Trauma Rewired, the podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body, and what you can do to heal. [00:00:09] Elisabeth: Hi, I’m your co-host, Elisabeth Kristof, founder of NeuroSomatic Intelligence Training- an ICF accredited course for healers, therapists and coaches to help bring behavior change, trauma resolution, and mindset
Nov / 2022
Perfectionism is a Trauma Response

Episode 36 “Perfectionism is really difficult because it is a protective response with real health consequences. … You hear people wear their perfectionism like a badge of honor and are often rewarded for perfectionistic traits. So how do we start to distinguish between striving for excellence and putting out work that is in alignment with your highest values and being
Nov / 2022
Emotions and Your Nervous System

Episode 35 “…our emotions create a sense of safety for us, a sense of belonging. But then when things get flipped, whether it’s from trauma or an unsafe environmental pattern, it’s our emotions that first clue us in to say, ‘Hey we’re not safe. This is not a safe survival location or safe environment.’ And we feel fear or dread.
Nov / 2022
S2 E35 TRANSCPT Emotions and the Nervous System

[00:00:00] Welcome back to Trauma Rewired. The podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body and what you can do to heal. Today is going to be super fun. Elisabeth Kristof from Brain-Based Wellness and Matt Bush from Next Level Neuro are here. [00:00:16] They are both founders of the NeuroSomatic Intelligence Coaching Certification
Nov / 2022
S2 E33 TRNSCPT Dissocation

TR S2E33 Dissociation [00:00:00] Jennifer: Hello. Welcome to Trauma Rewired, the podcast that teaches you about your nervous system, how trauma lives in the body, and what you can do to heal. I’m your co-host, Elizabeth Kristoff, founder of Brain-Based Wellness, a virtual platform that works with your nervous system to resolve trauma, change, behavior, and mindset at the level
Nov / 2022
Dissociation

S2E33 “Dissociation is a big way that we keep from feeling the pain of whatever we’re about to experience when we’re caught <by a predator>. Dissociation is a normal defense mechanism that helps us cope during a traumatic event. And so it’s really natural to experience it when you’re in a natural disaster, an invasive medical procedure, or in a
Aug / 2022
S2 E12 TRANSCRIPT Bingeing and Survival 2

Jennifer: Hey ya’ll, Elisabeth and I are back today to talk to you as a follow-up to our very first conversation, Bingeing and Survival. You know we love to talk about food as one of our favorite ways to regulate our nervous system! We have several episodes really about food, but it is no coincidence that Bingeing and Survival is