Stay ConnectedFormerly Trauma Informed Growth. Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
I would use words like alignment, allowing, and endless access to everything to describe life with a regulated nervous system. It's being able to meet and greet conflict with compassion and self awareness, not the absence of conflict. It's being met with direct confrontation and feeling neutral in your body. The need to defend, retaliate, or set the record straight becomes less important than having compassion for miscommunication, blindspots and stepping on toes that you didn't mean to step on.
In this episode I take a candid look at the version of excruciating I have left behind, and what life is like at this part of the river. What I get to do now, who I get to be, along with the choices, the capacity and the curiosity I have now where there was once so much anger.
Creating Life with a Regulated Nervous SystemSuddenly, there's space to breathe, to choose, to feel without being drowned.
You begin to design days rich with purpose and meaning, not just merely survive them.
Relationships feel safer. Rest becomes real. You move from defense to design.
Life becomes co-creative — with your body, with others, with the world.
There's ease, hum, alignment — not because life is easy, but because you're no longer at war with your own system.
Everything took ten times the energy, if you could even be bothered then.
Joy was fleeting, or suspicious.
Restless nights. Tight jaw. The constant edge of collapse or explosion.
The body was not a home — it was a battlefield that I avoided, or drank to numb.
Stability was a performance but inside, it was a flood, a fire, or a freeze.
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Shannon Eastman
Shannon Eastman is a business growth strategist fluent in both boardroom dynamics and nervous system regulation.
With 25 years of experience scaling businesses across tech, finance, and regulated industries worldwide, she brings a systems-thinking approach to performance, leadership, and wellbeing.
After five years studying the neurobiology of trauma, Jungian psychology, and polyvagal theory, Shannon now integrates nervous system intelligence into the way business gets done—through corporate pilots, strategic partnerships, and a global network of innovators driving this shift.
Her work bridges performance and wellbeing, laying the groundwork for a more human, sustainable way to lead.
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NEW: Nervous System Economy™
You'll hear us refer to the Nervous System Economy™ — a industry level educaiton initiative committed to integrating Nervous System Intelligence into business and leadership. You'll find more about this over here: www.nervoussystemeconomy.com
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A Note on Safety
Your mental health, wellbeing, and sense of safety matter deeply. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make a significant difference.
While this podcast shares insights, reflections, and tools, it is not a substitute for professional support. If you're seeking a qualified practitioner, visit the Directory on our website.
Our community includes psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists who work through a trauma-informed lens — often with a special interest in supporting professionals aged 40+ or working within organisations.
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#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #NervousSystemEconomy #CPTSD #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #40PlusProfessionals #Anxiety #TraumaRecovery #NervousSystemRegulation #WellbeingAtWork #Edutainment #NervousSystemBasics #NervousSystemInformedApproach
#CPTSD, #Nervous System, #Mental Wellbeing, #Nervous System Regulation, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System EconomyI'm taking an episode (or two) to get real about what life is life 5 years into my own recovery from C-PTSD using nervous system regulation. Kind of like a before and after as I reflect on 10 of the more obvious (for me) insights and distinctions.
1. Survival Mode Can Look Like Success You can be sharp, fast, productive — and still be running entirely on stress hormones. Just because it's working doesn't mean it's well.
2. You're Not Broken — Your Nervous System is Braced The exhaustion, disconnection, and inability to "bounce back" aren't flaws. They're signs your system is over-capacity and doing its best to protect you.
3. Burnout Isn't a Mindset Problem You can't mindset your way out of nervous system depletion. More grit, more goals, and more gratitude lists won't fix a body that's stuck in overdrive. And holy gawd did I ever get the t-shirt on the mindset effort.
4. Rest Is Not a Reward It's not something you "earn" once everything's done. Rest is a biological need — and the gateway back to creativity, clarity, and joy and.. more productivity. Who knew?
5. Emotional Intelligence Isn't a Skill — It's a State EQ isn't something you do. It's something you Be. It's a by product of a healthy nervous system. Dysregulated = disconnected.
6. You Don't Heal by Thinking — You Heal by Feeling (Safely) No amount of insight replaces what your nervous system needs to feel. Healing is about experiencing safety in your actual nervous system. That stringy bit of anatomy is what needs to feel safe.
7. Boundaries Aren't Walls — They're Regulation Tools Saying no isn't selfish. It's how you teach your system that you matter too. And when you do, your Nervous System can trust you and start to relax.
8. You Can't Cope Your Way Into Aliveness Coping got you here — and that matters. But at some point, surviving becomes its own kind of stuck. Aliveness needs capacity, not just coping strategies.
9. Your (Body) Nervous System Isn't the Enemy — It's the Compass It's not trying to ruin your life — it's trying to keep you alive. Learning to speak its language is the most powerful thing you'll ever do.
10. You're Allowed to Build a Life That Doesn't Require You to Abandon Yourself to Succeed That's not weak. That's wisdom. That's leadership. That's freedom.
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Shannon Eastman
Shannon Eastman is a business growth strategist fluent in both boardroom dynamics and nervous system regulation.
With 25 years of experience scaling businesses across tech, finance, and regulated industries worldwide, she brings a systems-thinking approach to performance, leadership, and wellbeing.
After five years studying the neurobiology of trauma, Jungian psychology, and polyvagal theory, Shannon now integrates nervous system intelligence into the way business gets done—through corporate pilots, strategic partnerships, and a global network of innovators driving this shift.
Her work bridges performance and wellbeing, laying the groundwork for a more human, sustainable way to lead.
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NEW: Nervous System Economy™
You'll hear us refer to the Nervous System Economy™ — a industry level educaiton initiative committed to integrating Nervous System Intelligence into business and leadership. You'll find more about this over here: www.nervoussystemeconomy.com
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A Note on Safety
Your mental health, wellbeing, and sense of safety matter deeply. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make a significant difference.
While this podcast shares insights, reflections, and tools, it is not a substitute for professional support. If you're seeking a qualified practitioner, visit the Directory on our website.
Our community includes psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists who work through a trauma-informed lens — often with a special interest in supporting professionals aged 40+ or working within organisations.
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#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #NervousSystemEconomy #CPTSD #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #40PlusProfessionals #Anxiety #TraumaRecovery #NervousSystemRegulation #WellbeingAtWork #Edutainment #NervousSystemBasics #NervousSystemInformedApproach
We're back with Dr. Abrar Hussain to kick off Series 4, Episode 1 as we bring another lens on all things "40+ professional, highly functioning, not-always-ok" with an emphasis on all things relational.
Here's a brief summary of what Dr. Hussain covers in this podcast:
We Exist Within Systems — Not in IsolationWe are not isolated beings; we exist within a complex web of systems. Internally, we have biological systems like the nervous system. Externally, we are embedded in relational systems — families, communities, societies — all of which interact with and influence each other. Dr. Hussain introduced the Rule of Thirds: You bring a third of the dynamic. The other person brings a third of the dynamic, and the space in between you holds the other third.
The Nervous System: Our Internal Command CenterAmong our internal systems, the nervous system is perhaps the most powerful. It is always learning, constantly scanning for cues that it is either safe and can trust what is happening, or it is not safe, it can't trust, and needs to go into defence mode, and then adapt accordingly.
It helps us make judgments, assess risk, and grow. But it is also vulnerable. Its bandwidth is limited, and it can become overwhelmed or dysregulated when too much is happening — especially in environments, or with people it determines to be unsafe, or not trustworthy.
What happens around us directly affects our nervous system. Our relational experiences — how people treat us, respond to us, or ignore us — are encoded as safety or threat. Our nervous system learns not just from what is said, but from tone, facial expressions, body language, and presence.
The Blueprint of Relationships: Childhood and "The Dance"Our earliest relationships create the template we carry into adulthood. Childhood experiences — whether nurturing or challenging — shape our nervous system's default settings. They teach us what to expect from others, how to relate, how to protect ourselves, and what it means to be loved or rejected.
Dr. Hussain explains how these patterns are reflected in what CAT (Cognitive Analytic Therapy) calls reciprocal roles — learned dynamics that we replay in adult relationships. This becomes "the dance" — a repeating pattern, often unconscious, driven by our nervous system's learned responses to relational cues.
Relational Safety: A Two-Way StreetOur nervous system is relational — it is in constant communication with the nervous systems of those around us. For true safety to exist, both people in a relationship need to feel safe with each other in mind AND nervous system. This mutual co-regulation is the foundation of secure connection.
Trauma and the Nervous SystemTrauma lives in the nervous system. Nearly all trauma is relational — caused by someone, something, or the absence of someone or something. When left unhealed, trauma fragments become lodged in the memory networks of the nervous system.
These fragments don't stay quiet. They resurface as flashbacks, nightmares, emotional dysregulation, or even physical symptoms. The nervous system holds onto these pieces, waiting for the safety and opportunity to process and heal.
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Dr. Abrar Hussain
Dr Abrar Hussain is a pioneering force in #NervousSystemIntelligence (#NSQ), redefining the way professionals understand #coregulation, #relationalhealing, #highperformance and #wellbeing.
As a consultant, psychiatrist, speaker and advisor, he specialises in guiding individuals and organisations toward deeper #nervoussystem awareness, helping them shift from #nervoussystemdysregulation to #resilience. With a lifetime of expertise in #CognitiveAnalyticTherapy (CAT) and innovative nervous system frameworks, Dr. Hussain empowers professionals to navigate complexity, foster psychological safety, and optimise energy for long-term success.
Follow Dr. Abrar on LinkedIn >
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Shannon Eastman
Shannon Eastman is a business growth strategist fluent in both boardroom dynamics and nervous system regulation.
With 25 years of experience scaling businesses across tech, finance, and regulated industries worldwide, she brings a systems-thinking approach to performance, leadership, and wellbeing.
After five years studying the neurobiology of trauma, Jungian psychology, and polyvagal theory, Shannon now integrates nervous system intelligence into the way business gets done—through corporate pilots, strategic partnerships, and a global network of innovators driving this shift.
Her work bridges performance and wellbeing, laying the groundwork for a more human, sustainable way to lead.
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NEW: Nervous System Economy™You'll hear us refer to the Nervous System Economy™ — a industry level educaiton initiative committed to integrating Nervous System Intelligence into business and leadership. You'll find more about this over here: www.nervoussystemeconomy.com
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A Note on SafetyYour mental health, wellbeing, and sense of safety matter deeply. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make a significant difference.
While this podcast shares insights, reflections, and tools, it is not a substitute for professional support. If you're seeking a qualified practitioner, visit the Directory on our website.
Our community includes psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists who work through a trauma-informed lens — often with a special interest in supporting professionals aged 40+ or working within organisations.
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#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #NervousSystemEconomy #CPTSD #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #40PlusProfessionals #Anxiety #TraumaRecovery #NervousSystemRegulation #WellbeingAtWork #Edutainment #NervousSystemBasics #NervousSystemInformedApproach
Roseanne Reilly joins me (Shannon Eastman) for episode 5 of our 6 part series - A #NervousSystemInformed approach to finding your way out of the dark. We do a brief recap on the #NervousSystemContinuum and its 4 states: Survival Mode, Dysregulation, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation. We revisit how each state determines your inner world... we used me as an example so words like 'fear-soaked' insides, that impacts your outer world, which looked a lot like the need to 'defend', 'protect', 'ghost', 'chaos' and 'hide'.
This episode examines the difference between what it means to be #NervousSystemInformed vs what it looks like to live this work. As it goes, we ended this exchange in just short of 30-minutes.
It's not easy to wrap our heads around what life is like AFTER we find our way out when you're still lost in the dark - I do my best to objectively reflect on who I was, what I was like, the evidence my life demonstrated before this work, and now who I get to be, what I get to do, and how I show up, today.
Recently, a dear friend of mine shook her head, looking me dead in the eye and suggested she hardly recognises me today. That life for me before this work was on par with a dumpster fire. I reckon 5% of me flinched recognising its truth. 95% of me embraced her, laughing, and shaking my head in disbelief at how much can change, and how much is available on this side of doing the nervous system work. I wouldn't have (couldn't have) dreamed that I could have a quality of life like the one I have now. This episode attempts to communicate that exact distinction.
If you're reading this and feeling any sort of grip, pinch or shallow breathing wondering how I did it and if it might work for you too, www.handsoftimehealing.com is Roseanne's website. Her DIY program is 97 USD.
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ABOUT ROSEANNE REILLY
R.I.S.E. by Roseanne: her Flagship Self-Directed Program for $97 USD >
ABOUT SHANNON EASTMAN
ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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Follow the WTTLO? LinkedIn Page >
Subscribe to the #WTTLO? newsletter if you want details on impromptu live classes, industry reports, and exclusives. www.whoturnedthelightson.com -
#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #Anxiety #CPTSD
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
#NervousSystemEconomy
#anxiety, #Mental Wellbeing, #Nervous System Informed Approach, #Nervous System Economy, #Who Turned THe Lights On, #WTTLOWe are in part 4 of a 6 part series as we unpack Roseanne's Nervous System Informed Approach to finding stable ground in ways that are long lasting. So ways that engage neuroplasticity, bioplasticity and easily accessible to you, when you know what's what.
In this episode we do a quick recap on the 6 dynamic stages of the Nervous System Informed Approach, we revisit the Nervous System Continuum and its 4 key states: survival mode, dysregulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation. We recap the Inner World and how it informs you Outer World. And then dive into Environment.
"The environment is the sole governing agent of the particle!" - Einstein
We can change the programs running our human on autopilot by consistently feeding new information in 60-second increments to our body. We do this through self-awareness that allows us to both recognise the internal grip that shows up in the body, and the things in our environment, that when we pause and connect with for 60-seconds, release the grip. Doing this consistently throughout your day, day-to-day provides your body with new information that changes the programs.
Our 5 senses consume information from our environment at the rate of 500 soduko books a minute (let's say). That information being taken in through a body locked in survival mode, will be distorted and misread signalling our nervous system that we are not-safe-can't-trust, which wil instruct 50 trillion cells in our body to animate accordingly. We can bring awareness that this is happening. Then we can cultivate an environment that deliberately feeds our 5 senses infromation that we are safe. The nervous system will then instruct 5 trillion cells in your body to animate accordingly. Improving executive function, opening up imagination, creative problem solving, all the stuff we need to be excellent at life.
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ABOUT ROSEANNE REILLY
R.I.S.E. by Roseanne: her Flagship Self-Directed Program for $97 USD >
ABOUT SHANNON EASTMAN
ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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Follow the WTTLO? LinkedIn Page >
Subscribe to the #WTTLO? newsletter if you want details on impromptu live classes, industry reports, and exclusives. www.whoturnedthelightson.com -
#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #Anxiety #CPTSD
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
#NervousSystemEconomy
Part 3 of a 6 Part Series, Roseanne Reilly sharing her Nervous System Informed Framework To Finding Your Way Out Of The Dark. The recap that gets us here starts with episode 1: An Introduction to the Framework and the 6 dynamic states:
Episode 2 focuses on the Nervous System Continuum mapping its 4 key states: Survival Mode, Dysregulation, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation.
And this episode...
Explores what your inner world looks like based on where you currently are within the nervous system continuum, and how that directly informs your outer world.
Roseanne puts a lot into context, including:
I add a handful of examples from my own lived experience, and find myself connecting a few more dots as we go.
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ABOUT ROSEANNE REILLY
R.I.S.E. by Roseanne: her Flagship Self-Directed Program for $97 USD >
ABOUT SHANNON EASTMAN
ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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Follow the WTTLO? LinkedIn Page >
Subscribe to the #WTTLO? newsletter if you want details on impromptu live classes, industry reports, and exclusives. www.whoturnedthelightson.com -
#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #Anxiety #CPTSD
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
#NervousSystemEconomy
Roseanne Reilly joins me for part 2 of a 6 part series sharing her framework on a Nervous System Informed approach to finding your way out of the dark. The Nervous System Continuum is covered as a critical first piece to this puzzle. We cover why and how we can find our nervous system inside these states, and take a closer look at the two forms of Survival Mode; the one that has you locked in and requires a nervous system restoration practice to unlock, and the Survival Mode we can find ourself visiting from time to time when we are inside the new stage of meeting & greeting our felt sense of self. When locked in survival mode is in effect, we can't move along the nervous system continuum in any sustained or elegant way. When we restore the nervous system, we can.
This episode shares a bit more detail on what life is like in the Self-Regulating phase of the continuum, what is avaialble, how life is different and more importantly, how to get there.
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ABOUT ROSEANNE REILLY
R.I.S.E. by Roseanne: her Flagship Self-Directed Program for $97 USD >
ABOUT SHANNON EASTMAN
ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
The 5 States Along The Nervous System Continuum:
Survival Mode - Locked In
Survival Mode - Just Visiting
Dysregulation
Self-Regulation
Co-Regulation
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Subscribe to the #WTTLO? newsletter if you want details on impromptu live classes, industry reports, and exclusives. www.whoturnedthelightson.com -
#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #Anxiety #CPTSD
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
#NervousSystemEconomy
I'm all for a self-guided, DIY it till something changes kind of approach to finding your way out of the dark. I did exactly that for the first 3.5 to 4 years years of my recovery. Actually, a friend recently pointed out that my MSc I'm doing is kind of like my version of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) - she's not wrong. But one day, by chance, I find myself in a conversation with someone who clearly articulted the pathway out of the dark for folks like me, inside 12 weeks.
I don't know if I believed her. I definitely wanted to and some part of me recognised it as true but my mind raced wondering how could it have taken me the guts of 4 years to do what she faciliates in 12 weeks. It would be months before I could get my head around the fact that intelligence has little to do with recovery.
Roseanne Reilly, Nervous System Restoration Practitioner has signed up for a 6 part series sharing her framework to shifting your life in pretty significant ways inside 12 weeks. We're taking it slow, keeping it small, and doing our best to ensure that Roseanne's Nervous System Informed Approach to finding your way out of the dark lands. It won't surprise you to hear I interject, interrupt and shimmy questions as I get really present to what exactly would I have needed to hear to just get me to pause long enough to hear her out. I've not quite found that magic place yet, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Hah!
Here's the overview we're mapping out over these 6 episodes:
A Nervous System Informed Approach has 6 dynamic parts: We are going to present all 6 parts of this framework starting what the Nervous System Continuum so that by the end, you will feel like you have a really solid introduction and a good idea of what to do next.
The 6 dynamic parts in Roseanne's Framework:
Nervous System Continuum: Survival Mode Lock In, Survival Mode when you are just visting, Dysregualtion, Coregulation.
Inner State - what is going on inside the brain body for each state along that continuum.
OuterState - what, how and why that expresses in your day-to-day the way it does.
Environment - it plays a big role. We explain why and how. And then what we do to manage our own respective spaces.
Knowing the approach - REcap wtih highlights, cheatsheets and a copy of Roseanne's FRamework as a PDF to download and keep.
Living the approach - Why this is so different to just knowing this material. How to change your life significantly in about 12 weeks, rather than the nearly 4 years it took me.
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ABOUT ROSEANNE REILLY
R.I.S.E. by Roseanne: her Flagship Self-Directed Program for $97 USD >
ABOUT SHANNON EASTMAN
ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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Follow the WTTLO? LinkedIn Page >
Subscribe to the #WTTLO? newsletter if you want details on impromptu live classes, industry reports, and exclusives. www.whoturnedthelightson.com -
#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #Anxiety #CPTSD
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
#NervousSystemEconomy
Roseanne Reilly, Nervous System Practitioner over at Hands Of Time Healing Dot Com shares the what, why and how of boundaries mapping what they look like when you are in survival mode, how they shift form when you are dysregulated, and what having boundaries in a self-regualted state looks like. A lot of firsts for me on a subject I had not taken to heart until recently.
Roseanne delivers quality insights, connects dots and seamlessly ties the idea of healthy boundaries to your neurobiological markers pending where on the Nervous System Continuum you are navigating life from. For example - people in survival mode don't have boundaries as much as they have the need to defend, protect, ghost, and abruptly throw up electric fences. People who are moving from survival mode into the dysregulation stage will have secret boundaries to master, until self-regulation states are achieved. People who spend a good bit of time navigating life nside self-regulation, boundaries look and feel very different.
One of my favourite take aways from this episode was learning that boundaries are neurobiological. They exist with the intention of keeping us centered, and not falling into emotional dysregulation. That grown up boundaries emerge fully when we know who we are, and have a good handle on where we start and end, in relation to others.
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ABOUT ROSEANNE REILLY
R.I.S.E. by Roseanne: her Flagship Self-Directed Program for $97 USD >
ABOUT SHANNON EASTMAN
shannoneastman.com/resources
ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
#NervousSystemEconomy
It started offline as a challenge about using the word 'toxic' to describe workplaces, cultures, teams that were being made sick by dysregulated leaders. 3 minutes in to this debate and Roseanne and I hit record. This felt like one for the library.
Roseanne Reilly, joins this series as a master practitioner of nervous system restoration. She speaks fluently on the topic of trauma, stress, body, and behaviour joining me (Shannon Eastman) for deep dives into the practical application of this science in business. I've brought up the idea of the toxic boss for a year now after looking in my own rearview mirror at my past self and seeing that my dysregulated nervous system, dysregulated others. Was that what we mean by toxic bosses? Roseanne says No! Let's not be hasty as toxic is a big word, void of compassion for a lot of people suffering and leaking all over the shop.
We also flipped the table and looked at this from the perspective of the dysregulated employee, working in the dysregulated business and got honest about what they might call it on the receiving end of working with/for a toxic boss.
Roseanne brings her insight and expertise to the table to explain what, why and how this is happening, and when we might want to call it toxic, and when we might want to call it something else.
While we don't bring any specific direction to labels, and constructs, we do open up a big conversation about what is going in the workplace through, and why, at the bottom of toxic workplaces, we find a lot of dysregulated nervous systems.
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ABOUT #WTTLO?
Life after Complex-PTSD, and just beyond those first stages of recovery, is a lot like having someone turn the lights on after years navigating in the dark.
On this side of it, I reckon a lot more can be done to improve the sign posts that mark the way out. This podcast exists to discuss life in the dark, compare notes on mapping the way out, and explore what life is like with the lights on.
Who Turned On The Lights is the evolution of Trauma Informed Growth. All 27 episodes from Trauma Informed Growth, Season 2 will remain available on this channel.
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Follow the WTTLO? LinkedIn Page >
Subscribe to the #WTTLO? newsletter if you want details on impromptu live classes, industry reports, and exclusives. www.whoturnedthelightson.com -
#WTTLO #WhoTurnedTheLightsOn #Wellbeing #MentalHealth #Anxiety #CPTSD
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An important disclaimer
Your mental health, wellbeing and felt senses of safety is really important. Working with a trauma-informed practitioner can make all the difference. We (myself, the host of this show, and the guests) have many qualified health practitioners that we can recommend - many of whom will be on this show.
And should you need one now, we have a Directory on our website www.whoturnedthelightson.com for you to peruse. We tend to attract Trauma Informed Psycholgists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists who have a specific interest in the 40+ professional and/or work well with organisations.
So the information provided across "Who Turned The Lights On?" is for informational and edutainment purposes and not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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#CPTSD, #mental health, #40+ Professionals
#Wellbeing, #Mental Health, #Nervous System, #Wellbeing At Work, #Nervous System Regulation, #C-PTSD, #Nervous System Basics, #Nervous System Informed Approach
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