Healing Toolkit: Overcoming Childhood Trauma | The Mel Robbins Podcast

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In this episode, I’m making the topic of #trauma easier to understand by taking you step by step through my recent revelation that I was struggling with past trauma.
Note: this episode covers sensitive material, including discussion of trauma and sexual assault. If this topic isn’t for you right now - please skip this episode.
The words “trauma” and “nervous system” are thrown around like candy online.
I want to share the profound things that I’ve learned about both topics and how I’ve started to address and heal the trauma in my #nervoussystem.
This episode is personal, it’s important, and tactical, and most of all - it’s packed with tools you can start using right now.
Xo Mel
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This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional.
In this episode, you'll learn:
00:00 Intro
03:38 This episode is one of the most important I’ve ever created
08:26 What is trauma anyway?
09:47 Do you recognize yourself in these signs of past trauma?
10:42 Getting honest: my personal story
22:18 What happens to me when I hear the sound of crunchy snow (and how this applies to you)
26:22 Do you have to remember trauma to heal from it?
28:06 If I have little-T trauma, does that mean my parents are to blame?
35:10 This is what your nervous system is (and it’s not what I used to think)
40:13 You have the power to heal your trauma
44:03 Here’s why your triggers were helpful then and why they’re not now
53:06 How can you get yourself out of survival mode and start to focus again?
58:52 The difference between your two nervous systems
1:01:13 Six takeaways to help you switch from fight or flight to rest and recovery
1:09:58 You have the ability to heal yourself
1:14:54 The power is inside of you
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  • @melrobbins
    @melrobbins4 ай бұрын

    I hope you found some of your own healing from this video. I’m so grateful for you watching today’s episode and would love it if you can show your support by liking and subscribing!

  • @juwaybhalla76

    @juwaybhalla76

    4 ай бұрын

    Am hooked on Mel’s podcast. Almost all subject matters feels like you are talking with me

  • @juwaybhalla76

    @juwaybhalla76

    4 ай бұрын

    That was poor gold, loved the menu advice on healing trauma, absolutely grateful. I need to listen in again and take notes, especially around the vagus nerves treatment, journaling, cold baths n list the continues on - thank you so much, Mel for your time that you are giving so regularly -you are amazing

  • @vandfan1838

    @vandfan1838

    3 ай бұрын

    😮😮😮​@@juwaybhalla76

  • @montgomeryyana5356

    @montgomeryyana5356

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you a lot Mel for all your very helpful videos. Currently, I'm on the healing of my oldest trauma. What do you think about EMDR therapy ?

  • @kathylongjura8308

    @kathylongjura8308

    2 ай бұрын

    I got that feeling when you said "I am loved", so I changed it to "I love me".

  • @evaphillips7193
    @evaphillips7193 Жыл бұрын

    I never remember feeling loved growing up. I remember sitting in class at school a little girl, looking out the window like I wasn't even in class. I made terrible grades. I couldn't even absorb anything in class. Going home after school which we lived across the street from school. I don't remember meals or Christmas or going to bed I don't remember anything about being a family in that house. I do remember one thing, my mom was caught doing something that angered my father, and every thing got violent and me and my sisters ran next door to be safe. I remember the ladies poodles. Nothing else in that house across the street from school. I barely rember the school. My sisters remember almost everything about our lives as little girls. My childhood is a blank in so many areas. I am the person who just goes paralyzed over hard things. I have to make myself come out of the dark hole of limbo. I cry when I see photos of myself as a child. When I look at this child in the photo I cry. I let her down. I want to turn it around for her and love her and let her know that she is special to me. No matter how dysfunctional her life was, she is still alive and I want to make her life special. I have always tried to make others lives better. I have had toxic relationships and some have harmful. I remember thinking when I was a young woman, that if I ever had children they will know that they are marinated in love. Now they are grown. My only son my youngest died at the age of 27 years. I have had to face this head on alone. I have been applying you advice to my life. I want to feel better and just start living. I've been alive but never lived. Thank you Mel Robbins for being real.

  • @laquila72

    @laquila72

    Жыл бұрын

    🫂 this is so relatable. Thank you for sharing.

  • @TeresaH888

    @TeresaH888

    Жыл бұрын

    Sending lots of love and healing energy ❤

  • @kaidigemify

    @kaidigemify

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh, sweetie!!! I understand, I so understand. I shared a small portion of my life in a comment on here. But I can relate to this, only I don't remember any happy. I was a "bad girl" and I was always "naughty". I am sending so much POSITIVE HEALING ENERGY your way, as well!! You will have A FULL LIFE AND FIND THE ABUNDANCE WITHIN YOU, I PROMISE!!! I KNOW I CAN MAKE THAT PROMISE, TOO!!! The less you know of your past, the BRIGHTER AND MORE JOYOUS AND BEAUTIFUL AND FULL OF LOVE YOUR NOW AND FUTURE HOLDS!! 💕❤️💕 Please have faith. Have faith in the YOU that Mel is helping you find!! BEYOND WORTHY!! PRICELESS!! 🤗

  • @tiffanybonn258

    @tiffanybonn258

    Жыл бұрын

    This is exactly how I feel about my childhood and never understood it either.I feel for you❤️❤️❤️

  • @carom6879

    @carom6879

    Жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @beautifulsunshine352
    @beautifulsunshine3526 ай бұрын

    My mom abused me physically, mentally, and emotionally. My dad was an alcoholic. Both parents committed suicide. Dad when I was 15, mom when I was 19. Im an only child. Both sides of my family treated me like a black sheep. I had never been validated so unconsciously chose dysfunctional relationships. Today, im searching to heal

  • @Julia-vu2ph

    @Julia-vu2ph

    6 ай бұрын

  • @MelandRandy

    @MelandRandy

    6 ай бұрын

    Please don’t ever forget that you have a purpose and you are not defined by what happened to you. Find what makes you happy and make yourself happy every day. You are loved❤️

  • @NokiaNokia-dh3oz

    @NokiaNokia-dh3oz

    2 ай бұрын

    🤍🤍🤍🤍

  • @iamit6565

    @iamit6565

    2 ай бұрын

    Jehovah God our creator of the universe love you sooo much! He knows what you've been through and every time you get thru a challenging life trauma or experience, just know he was how you managed to overcome 💪 ✨️ ❤❤

  • @beautifulsunshine352

    @beautifulsunshine352

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you guys. Much appreciated.

  • @peggybaker1852
    @peggybaker1852 Жыл бұрын

    My childhood and trauma started my perfectionism journey into adulthood. The people pleasing tendencies have hurt not only me, but now my children. Trying to change step by step

  • @Affirmitforyourbestlife

    @Affirmitforyourbestlife

    Жыл бұрын

    Omg same! And then you feel so guilty like screwing up your kids! I am 100 percent there. I did talk to a therapist though and she said “just being aware that we do not want to do to our kids what our parents did makes us 100 percent better.” Just you watching this and being aware and wanting to change is more than 90 percent of the population. So you go! You just do the best you can ❤❤

  • @Confused2023

    @Confused2023

    3 ай бұрын

    Like turning an aircraft carrier.. Getting myself to accept the concept of good enough is a daily practice. I’m 3 yrs into my quest to value myself even when I’m not meeting my own (often unreasonable) standards. EMDR has been transforming Diet habits …being intentional, eating as whole, organic and unprocessed as I’m able And this was free and amazing…working the word ‘should’ out of my lexicon. I was constantly berating myself with an avalanche of shoulds. I swapped out should for could or asking my brain (‘should I really do that?” Is that task job whatever.. only my responsibility ? That small bit of checking opened the door to a new way of speaking to myself…still have crap downhill slides…though few and fewer. It’s a climb … though a worthy one. Sending you strength 💪💪

  • @kimberlyk3928
    @kimberlyk392811 ай бұрын

    My dad was an alcoholic and my mom was very angry all the time & took it out on us 4 kids. Now as adults we all suffer from anxiety and depression! Thank you for this!!

  • @JoyCaringal

    @JoyCaringal

    7 ай бұрын

    I can relate to you.. I feel you..I feel like I am depress most of the times..

  • @Krystal620

    @Krystal620

    2 ай бұрын

    Here here ❤️

  • @kuhnemund6523

    @kuhnemund6523

    Ай бұрын

    Are we related? It can be a rough haul, but it can be done.

  • @kimberlyk3928

    @kimberlyk3928

    Ай бұрын

    @@kuhnemund6523 we could be related! Yes I am working on it everyday

  • @classyconversationswithrho344

    @classyconversationswithrho344

    16 күн бұрын

    Many Blessings and Healing love

  • @APOLLINAIREBARTHOLOMIEU
    @APOLLINAIREBARTHOLOMIEU2 ай бұрын

    Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

  • @elizabethwilliams6651

    @elizabethwilliams6651

    2 ай бұрын

    Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!

  • @Jennifer-bw7ku

    @Jennifer-bw7ku

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes, dr.sporessss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

  • @IkamiLog

    @IkamiLog

    2 ай бұрын

    I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.

  • @elizabethwilliams6651

    @elizabethwilliams6651

    2 ай бұрын

    Is he on instagram?

  • @Jennifer-bw7ku

    @Jennifer-bw7ku

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes he is. dr.sporessss

  • @joysarahc7437
    @joysarahc7437 Жыл бұрын

    I've been fighting with myself about the validity of my trauma for years! I was doing it today. Every time I feel a trauma response, I blame and shame myself and try to fight the feeling. No wonder I'm so exhausted. This episode is so good! Thank you!!!

  • @AnnaBlooms

    @AnnaBlooms

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too. Thanks for putting words to that feeling.

  • @maryjobarrios6238

    @maryjobarrios6238

    11 ай бұрын

    Me too thank you for sharing! We will be better

  • @jenniferl6553

    @jenniferl6553

    Ай бұрын

    you're so right, it's exhausting

  • @elizabethbryan7601
    @elizabethbryan7601 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Mel. I am 77 years old and have misplaced my desire to live. This video is an enlightening tool box. Thank you for your transparency and generosity! I come from long lived people and probably have about 20 years ahead of me. What an adventure!❤

  • @bclo4549

    @bclo4549

    Жыл бұрын

    Oooh you've helped me Mel.thank you soooo much. I was feeling deeply sad b 4 I listened to this

  • @flowerchild89

    @flowerchild89

    Жыл бұрын

    Sending you many, many blessings, Elizabeth! I love your positivity ☺️!!! 🙏👍❤️👋🕊️🌼. Many blessings to you, B Clo!!! Smile and keep up on your healing journey 🙂😌🙏❤️.

  • @VeganTrove

    @VeganTrove

    Жыл бұрын

    ♥️♥️♥️ Please read Eckhart Tolle ❤️❤️❤️

  • @deedee9312

    @deedee9312

    Жыл бұрын

    Love how mel really speaks to all of us ;) take control and never give up 🔝 to the vagus nerve 🎉

  • @anna_ulrike

    @anna_ulrike

    Жыл бұрын

    Dear Elizabeth, I am so sorry to read that. I send you love with all the birds coming your way ❤❤❤ And you just encouraged me to keep going healing and healing. I thank you for ever to have shared your heart, now well send it healing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💎

  • @TJ-rb9rk
    @TJ-rb9rk Жыл бұрын

    When I tell you I cried… I mean I UGLY CRIED. I didn’t realize how much I suppressed.

  • @ikkarus87

    @ikkarus87

    2 ай бұрын

    😂 i loved that expression ugly cried. Will use it too...oh I feel you! ❤

  • @classyconversationswithrho344

    @classyconversationswithrho344

    16 күн бұрын

    Many Blessings and Healing love

  • @kateribarry
    @kateribarry Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that mindset change: thinking of things like depression and anxiety originating in the nervous system rather than the mind. It really helps remove the shame.

  • @michaelknapp8961
    @michaelknapp8961 Жыл бұрын

    I suffer with migraine headaches and I know there is a connection with my learning disability that I’ve had my whole entire life. I’m 55 years old and I can’t tell you exactly how many times I was teased and called retarded during my childhood because it happened so much. I believed one hundred percent that I was the dumbest person on the face of the earth!!!! This is what I was taught by my community by my village. I was cast as a poor bird that couldn’t fly. Like I said I’m 55 now and I’m tired of feeling crappy. I’m tired of thinking about 1976. I’m ready to make a transformation and finally deal with my childhood trauma.

  • @tinaobrien348

    @tinaobrien348

    3 ай бұрын

    I can relate❤

  • @classyconversationswithrho344

    @classyconversationswithrho344

    16 күн бұрын

    Many Blessings and Healing love. Children can be so mean in school. You're a beautiful person with a beautiful heart

  • @ocrockstar82
    @ocrockstar82 Жыл бұрын

    My 16 year old suffered through severe and prolonged child abuse by her mom and stepdad. Lived through what no child should ever have to. this podcast is just what I needed to understand her better. Court sent her to live with me 3 months ago and we're working with her daily on her CPTSD and MDD.

  • @marthedreamer7629

    @marthedreamer7629

    11 ай бұрын

    I'm so sorry she experienced all that, it's so unfair and messed up :( Thankfully, she has you. Thanks for being such an amazing and loving father

  • @ocrockstar82

    @ocrockstar82

    11 ай бұрын

    @@marthedreamer7629 thank you. Yeah, she's a survivor, very special kid. She's gone no contact with her mom and has really begun to thrive and start living a good life here with us.

  • @TERRY5933

    @TERRY5933

    Ай бұрын

    I hope that your daughter gets healing and she’s able to pull through the trauma.

  • @ocrockstar82

    @ocrockstar82

    Ай бұрын

    @@TERRY5933 thank you! she's on the mend, is now 17 and has had some 50 therapy sessions, including lots of EMDR. CPTSD is very difficult to treat but she's healing.

  • @mariams.akhtar7983
    @mariams.akhtar7983 Жыл бұрын

    Childhood traumas. I am 58 and never tried to talk about my childhood traumas. Lots of my traumas been self healed. It's overwhelming and still suffering from it until today, and I am already 58 years old. I love listening to all episodes of your podcast and utube and will be buying your books. I have been stuck for 51 years with out healing it. I would need help. MARY

  • @kimberlyk3928

    @kimberlyk3928

    11 ай бұрын

    Exactly me too and I’m 60 years old now!

  • @peggybaker1852

    @peggybaker1852

    3 ай бұрын

    You got this👏 and are so worthy of healing and enjoying life to the fullest! Life has a way of showing you where you need to heal and so far, you are doing amazing!!! Sending you love and positivity on your journey!!!

  • @jacquelinecapes562

    @jacquelinecapes562

    Ай бұрын

    💗💜❤️💚

  • @betsyc6055
    @betsyc6055 Жыл бұрын

    I had the best results using body-based approaches to trauma and now I'm a trauma recovery coach. It's astounding how much you can feel joy when you didn't even know you didn't have any! I would highly recommend working on your nervous system before talk therapy - sometimes you can't even get the words out.

  • @Mustlovehorrorfilms

    @Mustlovehorrorfilms

    Жыл бұрын

    In what kind of ways can I work on my nervous system? I'm just trying to help my anxiety

  • @jacrowe3477

    @jacrowe3477

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Mustlovehorrorfilms I used david Bercelli TRE exercises, it's here on you tube, this helped me to go into my body and feel my emotions, I find I can feel into my body now without the exercises.

  • @matejajager9063

    @matejajager9063

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jacrowe3477 Thank You

  • @carolhopetyler2178

    @carolhopetyler2178

    9 ай бұрын

    I had a dog named Freckles when I was very young. Thank you Mel for everything you do to help us all. God bless you.

  • @tinaobrien348

    @tinaobrien348

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank You! prayers for my son. Schizophrenia? He beat my husband 58 to a pulp one night. We are living elsewhere until we can get our place back. Retraining order. Jail/rehab./therapy? He doesn't believe anything is wrong with him. Even after beating his Dad. (He is 28) only child. A brilliant mind. It's gone his businesses etc. He blames his Dad for stealing it all from him.(childhood asthma) intravert. Cops did nothing. We are jumping through hoops to get our place back. Cops said they didn't want to have to shoot and kill him, if he came after them. ? Defund the police? .....not enough Cops. I can't wait to get out of CA.

  • @catduran5038
    @catduran5038 Жыл бұрын

    I was diagnosed with PTSD, in 2012. I never realized that I have never dealt with my childhood trauma, now understanding that my childhood added onto my adult trauma has shut me down, and I’ve literally became weak. I was a very strong women in my 30’s and early 40’s. Now I am gifted with Peace (thanks be to God). Your gifted with something very special Mel, and in these days and times, you are given the strength and knowledge to guide us. Your a Heaven Sent.

  • @JudeScott007
    @JudeScott007 Жыл бұрын

    A few years back, I asked my therapist if one can have PTSD that isn't due to one event, but cumulative events. That opened alot for me.

  • @fdematteis9
    @fdematteis96 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your vulnerability Mel! I Definitely need to to repair my nervous system. My childhood is a big blur. At 51, I am understanding how most of my life has been shaped by the person I became as a result of that trauma. I am now ready to release the version of myself I created to survive!

  • @rolandtoth4361
    @rolandtoth4361 Жыл бұрын

    This woman is a blessing. What a precious gift we have got in this video. Thank you Mrs. Mel 🙋‍♂️

  • @willtroy1986

    @willtroy1986

    Жыл бұрын

    She seems to talk about herself alot, does she get more into the technical part of it later in the video?

  • @anneflanagan9242
    @anneflanagan9242 Жыл бұрын

    EMDR IS AN INCREDIBLE PROCESS TO USE AND THE DRAMA DISAPPEARS FROM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

  • @OmOnWheels
    @OmOnWheels Жыл бұрын

    I’ve gone through so much trauma, since I was an infant, that I’m numb. I’m numb to the world today at 64. I’ve gone through the drugs, the alcohol, the recovery, the counseling, spirituality, and I just feel like it’s so much work, that I’m over, even trying to recover. I’ve spent so much money on trying to get well from the traumatic childhood, that I’ve given up. I just take certain vitamins each day that help me get through, barely. No drugs, no alcohol. I get triggered watching this video, that I can’t watch the whole thing. It upsets me very much.

  • @Lee-255

    @Lee-255

    Жыл бұрын

    Sending you support, that’s not easy dear soul. You might go to 49 mins on the video - there’s nothing triggering from this point, just free tools to try ✨ May you feel some comfort and peace within 💕

  • @DiLifeandStyle

    @DiLifeandStyle

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you tried psychadelics? Not as a way to numb, but as a way to cope? The world is not a just place. I am so glad you're still here. I'm glad I'm still here. ❤️

  • @OmOnWheels

    @OmOnWheels

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lee-255 thank you. I will do that. I appreciate the very specific info. 💕 i’m glad you’re still here, too. It isn’t something that is easily discussed with friends and/or family.

  • @OmOnWheels

    @OmOnWheels

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DiLifeandStyle ironically, when I used them years ago in my late teens and 20’s, it was the best thing. I recall thinking that if I didn’t have drugs and alcohol during high school, I’m not sure I would’ve made it. Fortunately, I stopped all drugging at 30. I wish I could get access to the clinicals that are being done on psilocybin. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and support. 💕

  • @leticiakerlegan6677

    @leticiakerlegan6677

    Жыл бұрын

    I wish I could rewrite the past for you. I have similar feelings and feel your pain. You are not alone ❤

  • @JennyGaston
    @JennyGaston Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your transparency Mel. Our body holds on to our traumatic memories even when we are not fully conscious of it. As a therapist, I'm always the 1st to say I get counseling. Healing takes intention but it's worth it❤️

  • @devikaputti8723

    @devikaputti8723

    Жыл бұрын

    So true I have experienced it.

  • @evaphillips7193

    @evaphillips7193

    Жыл бұрын

    I got grief counseling, and it helped.

  • @sherrygreen8822
    @sherrygreen8822 Жыл бұрын

    Wow Mel, that was another amazing informative show! You Rock, you explain everything in a way everyone can understand. I'm 46 and have lived my whole adult life in FIGHT, FLIGHT OR FREEZE mode, and it sucks in every aspect of my life. This will definitely help with becoming the woman I'm truly meant to be. I love you so much, and thank you for being you. You are an inspiration for many. I would absolutely love to meet you in person some day! ❤️🙂🙏 May God continue to bless you and your family. ❤️ Ox

  • @findmeallways4422
    @findmeallways4422 Жыл бұрын

    So while your speaking I finally got up and started cleaning and organising my room. We moved two years ago to escape trauma. Turns out you take your 'Baggage' with you....found real help and comfort in many of your points. Thank you 💖

  • @along9971

    @along9971

    10 ай бұрын

    As a fellow 'bag lady' I can vouch for taking baggage with you you aren't alone, be kind and patient with yourself get help if you can and keep watching Mel

  • @annettecoombs9842
    @annettecoombs98424 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video. I had a very loving childhood. I was married to a very emotionally abusive man. I finally left after 34 years of marriage. I have had so much drama over the years that it will still take years to recover. Thank you for giving me the tools to heal this drama.

  • @zeemarie1998
    @zeemarie1998Күн бұрын

    Darn it Mel! I always start the day so angry, it makes my partners morning just as hard as mine and my birth mother who beat me severely for years is dying of multiple kinds of cancer. I couldn't cry for days, i just get more and more angry and I found this, cant stop crying, thank you for everything you do! 😭🥺🖤

  • @kaidigemify
    @kaidigemify Жыл бұрын

    I live in Muskegon Michigan, now. Talk about the perfect place for trauma. Born in GH and I went to Fruitport, for almost my entire school career... I was bullied terribly in HS. I told my parents. They sent me to Webster House to solve the problem, ME. I ended up changing schools to Grand Haven, when I was able to drive. I NEVER USED MY LOCKER. Not only was the school HUGE, so I ended up tardy, but the trauma of being kicked everytime those girls would walk past me. Also, as a child, I would end up ALWAYS staying the night, it several nights, at my sitter's house. So now, EVERY. TIME. I LEAVE MY HOUSE, I HAVE TO BRING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING I COULD POSSIBLY NEED WITH ME. I PACK FOR A MONTH. IT IS A TERRIBLE HABIT... I just haven't felt like I have had a safe place. As a matter of fact, I keep telling this story, so... I keep reliving this trauma. It is horrible. I crave stability. And I KNOW IT COMES FROM WITHIN ME. I APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL YOU ARE TRYING TO DO FOR THOSE OF US LOST IN OUR HEADS AND NERVOUS SYSTEMS. THANK YOU. I AM DIGGING DEEP INTO YOUR GUIDANCE. I WANT BETTER. KNOWING BETTER DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN DOING BETTER. THAT TAKES SO MUCH WORK.

  • @better.together.healing
    @better.together.healing5 ай бұрын

    This made me see that my nervous system is in a sense, f*cked to believe and see the good in everyone because I was forced to see the good in those who hurt me because "they loved me".

  • @jacquelinecapes562

    @jacquelinecapes562

    Ай бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @aggiepetrofsky5059
    @aggiepetrofsky50592 ай бұрын

    Hi Mel, I love you . Thank you . I'm just getting started repairing my nervous system. I'm 52 yo. And been this way my entire life. My CPTSD ,my Truama, is debilitating. I'm an immigrant child from Poland. My entire childhood was driven by Stress, abuse, neglect, violence and more Truama then a child can handle. Never knew what's wrong with me until now because of you Mel and a couple others. Thank you for probably saving me from undeniable despair. I'm so fresh to all this. I'll be watching and learning and healing. Slowly. It took a long time to get here.

  • @nik8423
    @nik84232 ай бұрын

    Hi Mel, I love your videos. They are major part of my self healing journey. I have many childhood trauma because of my parents. But I know my parents also had very difficult childhood. They both were neglected as a child and were living in a dysfunctional family. My father has people pleasing behavior, he also shows trait of dependency. He was emotionally neglected as a child My mother avoids emotional conflicts and she has a trait of rejection. She denies whatever she doesn't like or want to hear even when she herself did that thing to me and others. She can't connect with others at emotional level. My childhood was a mess. Now I understood myself and how helpless, lost,sad I was as a kid. Now I am adult. I am dealing with my trauma and working on them. But I am not able to blame my parents for the trauma they gave to me because I know they had difficult childhood too. This causes me to feel frustrated, confused and angry. I don't want to dissociate because of this anymore. How can I tackle this? How can I deal with this? Please help. Thank you.❤❤❤❤

  • @amyvanslambrook
    @amyvanslambrook11 ай бұрын

    As a trauma specialist for high profile, high achieving women entrepreneurs, this is so incredibly powerful! (And healing for that little one inside of us)

  • @bellakhanom
    @bellakhanom11 ай бұрын

    Thank you Mel, I'm not someone who posts comments, but I need to write this to say how grateful I am of you and everything you share with the world. I pray for you to have even more success and reach with the work you're doing x

  • @carolinewambua7777
    @carolinewambua777720 күн бұрын

    I have always felt helpless and unable to change my emotional state as a result of my chaotic childhood. I have already started feeling different as I keep watching this video. Thanks Mel ❤

  • @janellmooretolife2426
    @janellmooretolife24269 күн бұрын

    Ms. Robbins, I appreciate all you shared in your Ted Talks podcast. Even as a therapist, I know these processes and how to help my clients move through their experiences. I do see that you have taken your experiences in therapy processing and life experiences and are now sharing them with the world, which is another way of dealing with trauma responses and healing. I just wanted to thank you for your personality and upbeat communication and the opportunity to acknowledge that as I continue working with my clients, they are getting the experience that connects to this process. I do believe some of my clients are so overwhelmed by the idea of processing trauma they stunt their progress. Most people do not seek help because they feel this is normal or what to expect.

  • @JamieR
    @JamieR Жыл бұрын

    It's kinda funny -- in my early 20s, I knew that we HAD to heal what we experienced through our developmental years up until early adulthood to be healthy human beings. I'm so thankful you cover this. It's what humans needs to heal at a global level. We're all using technology, sex, food and other things to NOT deal with our trauma. It leads to trauma driven behavioural patterns which cause so much misery and self sabotaging in our socities. It took 15 years to finally figure out chronic health issues might be related to it, how trauma affects the body and mind, and what it takes to actually heal (inner child healing, somatic experiencing, EMDR, polyvagal theory etc). I need to add one thing. I grew up in rough environments. Alcohol and drugs at young age. Emotional abuse and neglect at home. Escapism into video games. Everything to not feel and relive the past. Anyone who has CPTSD has a longer road to healing than those with a one off event. The reason being the one off event has a specific point of origin and can be dealt with directly. The issue with ongoing trauma that happens day in and day out. It causes your nervous system baseline to move up. So you're constantly in fight or flight. Which means your body gets chronic inflammation. Less sleep. More anxiety. Deeper mental issues. Gut health deterioration. And it all falls one block at a time as time progresses. Auto immune and other dis-eases show up. So it takes time. The CNS has to regrow the synapses. The good news is it can be done. And once the cells begin feeling safe we end up as a whole new person, literally. With CPTSD inner child work is paramount. Probably the most important part to deal with. It's the root of alcoholism and other addictions. Of adults who act as children. Real narcissism and other disorders. And what's so cool is you can use a guided meditation and it will over time heal. John Bradshaw wrote a book called homecoming. I cannot recommend it highly enough. You can find his meditations made into audio tracks on KZread for each developmental stage. Reddit and other places does have communities which can be supportive and helpful. r/CPTSD. And lastly for those who want to dive deeper into vagus nerve -- polyvagal theory. Be safe. Be well.

  • @jacrowe3477

    @jacrowe3477

    Жыл бұрын

    very true Jamie

  • @thisiskdn

    @thisiskdn

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this!

  • @sabinagal9953

    @sabinagal9953

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Jamie for your kindness in sharing

  • @coventryartscollective

    @coventryartscollective

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Jamie ❤

  • @woowoo2358

    @woowoo2358

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this, do you have any guided meditations you recommend for someone on the healing path?

  • @trudijansen5553
    @trudijansen5553 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, thank you Mel. I am asthmatic. I thought I was over it when I discovered a dominant colleague trickered an attack. Now I think it is smother love by my mother when I was a little girl and my big sister 8 years older. I am 70 now and the wheezing has to be healed.

  • @Priitreatment
    @Priitreatment9 ай бұрын

    I don’t think many people will admit that their success comes from healing or fixing their nervous system. I personally haven’t heard it from anyone. Thank you so much for sharing this ❤

  • @tonima4784
    @tonima4784 Жыл бұрын

    You really describing me .the trauma is so strong its hard to let go or overcome. Traumatic experience, particularly childhood trauma and abuse,Its like playing the tape in your head over and over non-stop draining your energy sucking the living life out of you. It affects every aspect of your life . People notice you constantly bring upset because they feel how you feel and your voice and vibe and energy sends signals your not feeling ok. And it sucks when people notice that ur not feeling ok and you can notice when people notice your sad,upset and angry and the question , how you feel today ? Makes you even angrier. Its a constant struggle just want to feel normal and confident. I hope people struggling or suffered trauma get better .

  • @rondie.x53
    @rondie.x53 Жыл бұрын

    I cried through this mel. Thank you. 😢

  • @Christy.huffmanstarseed
    @Christy.huffmanstarseed Жыл бұрын

    So grateful, she is able to convey her experiences on how she got through her life experiences.

  • @Paveyhill
    @Paveyhill4 күн бұрын

    Wow this checked so many boxes for me. You made me remember A time when I was babysitting, a regular gig but this time she had moved to a new place. Boxes everywhere no curtains etc. she was out and I went to sleep on the mattress in the living room….middle of the night, the window above my head opens and the cold air wakes me up and I jump up and confront a burglar!!! I’m going to focus on nervous system repair. Thank you!!

  • @JamieR
    @JamieR Жыл бұрын

    Had to add one more thing after my second listen. Don't forget that parasympathetic is necessary for digestion, deep sleep, and mental wellness. The challenge is staying in it when we've been in fight or flight has been activated since childhood. It's the baseline at that point. So it takes time to re-regulate and grow new nerves. It's amazing that it can be done. I'm not trying to be doom and gloom. Just pointing out that it doesn't change over night for those of us with severe CPTSD. Hang in there. Do the work. And we'll heal 🙂 After doing the polyvagal type exercises like pressing chest and repeating mantras like the one you say here, I can instantly feel my body relax and endorphins flow through the body. Stress melts away. Feels so good ♥️

  • @carolinecullen7441

    @carolinecullen7441

    5 ай бұрын

    I will look into it. I don't want to live like this...

  • @carolinecullen7441

    @carolinecullen7441

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I needed this today...

  • @JamieR

    @JamieR

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@carolinecullen7441I hope you find a way through! Personally, somatic and parts work has been incredibly helpful for me with all this.

  • @dianaliford5112
    @dianaliford5112 Жыл бұрын

    When I was in 6th grade, and my older sister was in 7th grade, I was a straight A÷ student and popular, and one of two of the teacher's pets because I could also draw really well. My sister, though, was more interested in boys than schoolwork and when she failed 7th grade, they flunked me too, simply because they didn't want us in the same room. When I had to walk BACK INTO THAT 6TH GRADE ROOM the following fall, I lost my desire for learning, felt like I was just laughed at by these kids younger than me. In 2016, after moving to Georgia, I enrolled in a university to finish my Masters degree in nursing, and IMMEDIATELY felt that same shame as I saw how young the students were and felt I'd wasted so much of my life. I DID manage to get my degree, but I switched my major to Forensic Psychology and went in another direction.

  • @DiLifeandStyle

    @DiLifeandStyle

    Жыл бұрын

    Holy sh. That's terrible. 💔 Sounds like you still made it despite the bad start.

  • @kathleen7825
    @kathleen7825 Жыл бұрын

    Against so many odds, I managed to heal over past several years too, but feel I cannot get past this specific point. You have been, " spot on ", regarding options to move forward again. Look forward to more encouragement and tools, in moving closer to future goals ! God Bless Your Beautiful, Precious Soul 🙏💗🙏💗

  • @nechamaturk3936
    @nechamaturk39366 ай бұрын

    This is so powerful to hear. My husband is a trauma therapist and I hear a lot from the therapist end. He practices a variety of trauma therapies and can help reconcile the trauma and reduce the PTS.

  • @sheilacarter4741
    @sheilacarter4741 Жыл бұрын

    I feel like this video and the comments were talking about my life. I was sexually abused by my father starting at around age 5 he was an alcoholic but this never happened while he was drinking. I didn't tell anyone about any of this until I was thirty-five years old. A friend of mine at work could tell something was wrong with me. she started trying to talk to me about things and I told her about my life growing up. She talked me into getting help and I did. It took years of therapy to get better from living this horrible childhood. I truly hated my father and after getting a lot of therapy I ended up loving him and was with him at the nursing home when he passed away at age 84. My entire life was screwed up. I got married the first time at age 18 just to get the heck away from that life. I married someone who only cared about his self and I had no idea how to stand up for myself and ended up and lots of messed up relationships after I divorced him. I never remember my father telling me he loved me not even once until he got old and sick I never got to confront him about what he did because he had a massive stroke at age 50 and live to be 84 he was a hundred percent disabled and we had to take care of him until we just couldn't do it anymore and we had to put him in a nursing home. I have had depression and anxiety all this started at age 5 I am 74 now and I can truly say I'm the happiest now than I have been in my whole life. I'm really proud of myself for working hard to try to heal some of this nightmare. I spent years crying and feeling hopeless and unloved. My mom told me she loved me all the time but I never believed it because I'm pretty sure she knew what my father was doing to me and never protect me so for years I had bad feelings about her I could never confront her either to find out if she knew because she ended up having five kinds of cancer for 28 years and suffered so much that I could not ever ask her about anything. Even if I have never been abused my whole life was horrible.

  • @Mail4Lisa

    @Mail4Lisa

    Жыл бұрын

    Your story gives me hope,ty for sharing

  • @MelandRandy

    @MelandRandy

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing and know you aren’t alone. You are an amazing woman to be able to be so strong and write about your trauma. If I could, I would give you a great big hug❤️❤️❤️

  • @maureengannaway8635
    @maureengannaway8635 Жыл бұрын

    Mel thank you for this so much. I'm 57 and since the post pandemic era, im on a healing journey. The metaphor you used is perfect. 54321...time to find the switch.❤

  • @theanxietymd
    @theanxietymd Жыл бұрын

    Looking so forward to talking to you again tomorrow Ms Mel!! Here's the thing about"TRAUMA" : we ALL are exposed to stressful events in childhood it is absolutely unavoidable. BUT if we have parents or caregivers , or even a compassionate teacher in school that we are securely attached to and we KNOW we are seen, heard, protected (for the most part) and loved, the "traumatic" event or experience doesn't get "stuck" or "frozen" into our nervous system. Trauma as I define it, is anything that "fastens" itself to our nervous system that does not allow the system to return to a baseline state of peace and calm. It's kind of like the old railroad switches that redirect the train into a different path or track. Trauma, or painful events can flip that switch and get stuck or locked into the new path of protection, BUT if we have a loving and caring interaction at the time of the "trauma" the switch doesn't get thrown, or even if it does get thrown, the loving parent can flip the switch back so we dont get stuck in a chronic protective state. When we have a supportive adult we can tell and that helps us, we don't get stuck in the new path of PROTECTION and we can continue on the path of GROWTH we were originally on. I have often wondered what would have happened if you were able to tell your mother so she could soothe you right then and there and prevent the switch being thrown in the first place, instead of trying to handle it yourself as a 10 year old, which resulted in your nervous system getting stuck in a protective reaction that it could not recover from.

  • @brendadavis5391
    @brendadavis5391 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Mel, for explaining trauma is regular speaking. I've been dealing with trauma for a long time. Just recently, I've been learning where to start my healing process. Thank you!

  • @amandamariemuise
    @amandamariemuise Жыл бұрын

    I have two books on the vagus nerve and how to activate it that I read last year. But - I did notice something. I found it jarring when the video goes from you without headphones and the focus is clear to you to with the headphones and the focus unclear. That's because I'm an HSP (PLEASE do an episode about this, my life changed when I discovered it a age 54) and I find certain things jarring that others probably don't even notice. My point here is that most of my trauma was my trying to be like everyone else and failing, and being teased and bullied (my classmates would throw the dodgeball at my face on purpose to break my glasses, crack them against my nose and get to watch me cry) for being different the whole time I was in elementary school. Most of my trauma is from me being in the 20% of people who are HSP and nobody knowing of it's existence back in the 70's and 80's. I was just a "crybaby". The rest of the trauma is from parents that bickered day and night. (They still do.) The sympathetic nervous system no longer rules me, I've done a lot of work on this. It's hard fricking work! That being said, I'm looking forward to your next episodes regarding this topic, there may be more I can learn.

  • @nathalielanthier526
    @nathalielanthier526 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I have been told over and over to get over it. It feels good to know that it's normal and I am not a drama queen. You help me heal so much.

  • @Confused2023

    @Confused2023

    3 ай бұрын

    Similar… I was crowned - melodramatic, intense, difficult and looked at like I was part of the problem. When recovery comes (and it can) the world is the same and yet …wildly foreign and new. Much like Mel, I spent 45+ yrs waking up in a state of anxiety (feeling: already late, wrong, like I’d F’d something up)….a few months ago I simply, woke up. Felt like an out of body experience, literally pinched myself. EMDR has been amazing and I’m feeling better by leaps and bounds…it’s like compound interest Also did a couple psychedelic guided experiences …while not for everyone, for me they were delightful and deeply calming. Food is a big contributor… moving sugar to the sidelines has been a gift to myself. Pain goes down, skin looking better than 10yrs ago and I just feel better. You can … rooting for you…healing and body calm can happen…I didn’t think it possible and I’m delighted to be wrong. 💪

  • @justpassingby0
    @justpassingby0 Жыл бұрын

    Mel, Thank you so much for this podcast. Tried that cold shower. Was a revelation. You are right. Once that blast of cold water hit, the trauma became clear and when i caught my breath, the affirmation required.

  • @estherfortoday2366
    @estherfortoday2366 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!! This information is Huge, I have been looking for, praying about a solution… To my bottled up pain, anxiety which has led to absolute state of frozenness. I’m looking forward to applying these methods to live again. Still learning at over 60❤ yeah singing praises and straight up hallelujahs

  • Жыл бұрын

    The best technique for permanently turning off the triggers that throw us into fight and flight is PDTR. I was literally a walking trauma with a bunch of traumas. I went to treatment every week for a few months and thank God we turned off a bunch of triggers. I am functioning much better and have gotten rid of various health problems. Now I'm still going to integral body therapy to resolve some traumas emotionally and I'm also seeing great results and progress. Singing was and remains my first therapy. 😊 I practice it daily.🥰

  • @evaphillips7193

    @evaphillips7193

    Жыл бұрын

    I am very grateful that your life is so improved. I will look into PDRT. God bless you always.

  • @ZensationalKids
    @ZensationalKids Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. thank yo. Thank you. Although I actually teach the science and practices for healing trauma to educators, students and families, I know that your reach is getting this valuable information to the "masses." I can know this is creating a massive ripple effect, sending out waves of forgiveness, compassion and world-wide healing. You are a gift.

  • @latteliz
    @latteliz Жыл бұрын

    ❤ WOW! I think my current issues are trauma, based on battling breast cancer all of 2022. Of course my nervous system is jacked up. This is huge! Thank you Mel!

  • @janetdacruz9400
    @janetdacruz940011 ай бұрын

    Thank you. I suffer from multiple traumas. I am 76 years old and don’t have much time for life. I thought I was ok until last year when the love of my life left me triggering the past traumas all over again.

  • @jenrich111

    @jenrich111

    10 ай бұрын

    I offer the book title and concept "Fierce Self-compassion"

  • @j.t.1215
    @j.t.1215Ай бұрын

    This is SO GOOD. I will get the Audible program and listen to it also. THANK YOU LOVELY MEL!!!!!!!

  • @MaryGaia-em7hl
    @MaryGaia-em7hl Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your important work, Mel. You may be interested in this; Had Endometriosis from about 25 years with conventional medical treatment (including operations) being ultimately unsuccessful. Also had Acupuncture and Chinese medicine - was much more helpful but endo pain persisted. One Acu Practitioner asked me if I had been sexually abused as a child - I was too freaked out to admit that I had (pre 6 years old). Did Landmark Forum Life Coaching course at about 40 years where many techniques are presented to try. Used one a few years later; 'challenge yourself to so something you thought was impossible'. Mine was to do studio move when my period had just started - I would usually spend 2 days in bed in pain. So on the day, I took a mild pain killer then went to the event - and was able to do the task with no pain at all over 3 days, which was a major miracle. I learnt from this that if I got stressed out and expected pain before a period, I would get it, but if I relaxed, I would not. More importantly, I made the connection between the Endo pain and feeling sorry (stressed) for myself ; when young I gained my mother's attention thru faking illness. Having Endo as an adult was my body's way of continuing to enact this attention seeking behaviour and to signal that an important , scary and traumatic event had happened - the sexual abuse - when I was too young to understand what it was and to call attention to it to my mother. I had a number of counselling sessions over the years but none had allowed me to make this connection between the SA and the Endo, After this, the Endo pain stopped completely. I feel that some sensitive TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practioners and also Homeopathy therapists may be able to add a lot to this area of enquiry, Mel. If only I had not been so chicken and sceptical when that Practioner first said this, perhaps the Endo situation would have ended a lot earlier....! But I also believe that 'dealing' with such issues is as much to do with having trust/belief/faith that it is possible to heal - something that , for me, time and experience trying different many things, led me to eventually. Much Regards, Deb

  • @user-er5mn2qv1f
    @user-er5mn2qv1f Жыл бұрын

    Hello, first of all, thank you so much for this episode and making difficult situations, triggering situations understandable. I'm 62 and still struggling with different trauma episodes in my life. Today I got aware of some situations, during my entire childhood that still trigger me until today and I'm so thankful to you, putting these podcast out and talking about so many personal things out loud. I will work to find my switch and be the happiest person on earth to be able to turn it off. Thank you again.

  • @ktillotson4256
    @ktillotson4256 Жыл бұрын

    OMG Mel, thank you for this episode! I have been aware of major traumas in my life, and recently, through regression hypnotherapy, I have realized moments in my infancy and childhood that have been driving my behavior and experiences; I am 58 years old and am finally realizing some of the things that are at the root of my life experiences. This episode really brings home the realization that a lifetime of "little t" traumas along with the "big T" traumas have shaped my life, relationships, experiences, etc. I am grateful that you have shared this with the world, simplifying a complex subject; you, Mel, have made it possible for me to begin to heal my nervous system --> all of the tools you explain here are accessible, and I trust that they are effective. I have already begun to intentionally implement them and can hardly wait to see the results. I can think of many people who I will share this podcast with; what a lovely gift you have given with this episode. All of your episodes, actually! Thank you, again, Mel. Your love and generosity along with your vulnerability clearly speak to the type of person you are! You are making the world a much better place by helping people live their best lives. With gratitude, Kathy

  • @ellyjoy8989
    @ellyjoy8989 Жыл бұрын

    Huge lightbulb moment for me when you mentioned waking up every morning feeling like something is wrong! I have done this forever. Just this morning I was wondering why do I always wake up with this feeling of anxiety mixed with some kind of misplaced guilt or shame, like something terrible has happened and I can’t remember what. Thank you for this awareness ❤

  • @tammymcintee9762
    @tammymcintee9762 Жыл бұрын

    Love love love this! ❤️ Thank You for this! Very traumatic childhood who has been told for the majority of my life that healing and getting help is for losers and no one will ever love me, it's been so hard to get help even though I know I have too. It's a constant silent fight in my head. Listening to this gives me hope and makes me understand things better and hearing you say it's not a convo for losers really touched me and makes me feel I can do this and I know I will be better for it. I look forward to hearing more from you on this 💖🥰

  • @taraduddy7687
    @taraduddy7687 Жыл бұрын

    This really brought up some things for me. In fact when you talked about the car accident, I was floored. I experienced the same thing only in a rental Caravan. My mom was driving my sister was in the passenger seat and i was seated in the back behind my mom. A man hit us HARD on the left side and we tumbled several times across a busy street. I was the only one who wasn't injured. My mom was bruised all on the left side of her body, she absorbed most of the impact. My sister still has the scar on her arm from broken glass slicing it, she had to get several stitches. I remember being taken in an ambulance to the hospital and my mom and sister disappearing to be checked out fully. I was so scared. The jaw of life had to be used to get us out of the van. My memory is a little fussy on what position the van stopped in on the road. I'm pretty sure it ended up on its left side. After you explained what happened to you Mel it was only a matter of 5 minutes that I started crying and losing it. I had just finished doing my makeup for work. Had to call my husband at work to have someone to talk me through what I was feeling. I thought I was over this but today proved I still hold this in my nervous system.

  • @patriciacurran3989
    @patriciacurran398910 ай бұрын

    I don't fight or flee I FREEZE. Anything that resembles a bully makes me freeze and as a nurse during covid and the dysfunctional reactions to the passings of the residents in the memory care center brought out the worse in the staff under my watch who took it all out on me. Compound that with bully syblings and your looking at a mess.

  • @melvang353
    @melvang353 Жыл бұрын

    So happy I found this Mel Robbins! You make the connection & it’s simplified. Thank you I needed to understand so I can heal, transform & let go & move forward with my life.

  • @amyallen3476
    @amyallen3476 Жыл бұрын

    The body keeps the score, right?! Thank you Mel! ❤

  • @jennyferguson5583

    @jennyferguson5583

    Жыл бұрын

    Gabor Mat’e. In the last 2- years I’ve Dug Deep ♥️

  • @JamieR

    @JamieR

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm honestly not a fan. It's deeply activating for many, myself included. With heavy CPTSD it seems to reactivate the NS more severely. I rather recommend Homecoming by John Bradshaw. I feel that book is a lot better since it focuses solely on how to heal and not the why.

  • @lisbethbird8268

    @lisbethbird8268

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jennyferguson5583 actually, this one's by Bessel Van der Kolk, excellent book. One of the first to work in this field 50+ years ago and still going. Mate 's book is When the Body Says No, I think, according to another commenter. I haven't read yet, but have read other books of his and I love his writing style. Seen some of the talks he's given on it.

  • @vijaishreesivaswamy7867

    @vijaishreesivaswamy7867

    9 ай бұрын

    ​​@@JamieRThe thing is if you want to truly heal you must bring the trauma to the surface and allow yourself to feel those unresolved emotions once that's out you can focus on other aspects of healing. It's tough it will be overwhelming i am going through this but it's worth it in the end. I'm a fan of Russell Kennedy and his practice for healing anxiety has been truly rewarding. I am going through periods of intense anger but I'm healing everyday little by little.

  • @Josh-fu8di
    @Josh-fu8di7 ай бұрын

    This podcast is making a lot of sense. Unfortunately, I was missed diagnosed for all my life. I was told I had depression and anxiety. Also, I agree everyone has diffrent degrees of traumatic events. In my situation it appears I am at a higher end of it all. Thankfully. For the first time in my life I get to work on it all.

  • @denisecatlett7203
    @denisecatlett7203Ай бұрын

    I was diagnosed with anxiety a couple of years ago. I always have known I was anxious, but thought it was because my life was/is complicated. Alcoholic parents, poverty, to many siblings, complicated relationship with life partner, difficult child, lack of self-care, being self employed, employees, finances etc…………… This list keeps going. For the last 54 years I believed if I can make my life right, I would feel peace. That’s another problem I have is feeling like I can fix anything, WRONG! I actually make things worse!!! Mel, I have also always felt there is something wrong with me. Realizing that my anxiety is my emotional reaction to things I can’t control has helped me to take a good long look at my real situation , and realize there are things I just can’t fix. And that’s ok. I just have to stop myself making things worse.

  • @cathydorie1887
    @cathydorie1887 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video! I am experiencing anxiety that I thought I had overcome years ago. This helps me to understand why I'm experiencing it again and more important, to have tools to work through it!

  • @Mail4Lisa
    @Mail4Lisa Жыл бұрын

    I had the exact same experience with an older male in my life!! Ty for this video,I really appreciate you!!!!! I'm still healing..I can absolutely resonate with the checking out of my body feeling!!

  • @marysanders257
    @marysanders257 Жыл бұрын

    I’m still smiling, Thank you Mel! May all that positive love energy and healing you share, come back to you a million fold. ❤🧡💛💚 💖💜💖💝

  • @lisap7084
    @lisap70842 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Mel, for sharing. I am at the beginning of my healing journey. At 50 years old and a lifetime of complex ptsd, I am ready. I am hopeful.

  • @sharonmunoz5491
    @sharonmunoz5491 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Mel !! We love you too !!

  • @tracethomas5137
    @tracethomas5137 Жыл бұрын

    Hello Mel, Your podcast episodes are just one masterpiece after another. I learn something in every episode, and with tangible steps to take. I have takeaways each episode. Dang girl, you friggin rock. Have a fantastic day. 🙂

  • @gitaschweitzer9682
    @gitaschweitzer9682 Жыл бұрын

    Mel, you are a treasure! This is an eye-opener!! My list of traumatic experiences is a highway throughout my life, I’ve been through quite a bunch of therapies and each of them was in a way helpful, yet I was still missing exactly this toolkit you just gave me and everyone else. I love you too ❤❤❤

  • @larondacisneros2573
    @larondacisneros2573 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for all your help and support and being so wonderful

  • @JL-sw3sb
    @JL-sw3sb Жыл бұрын

    At 26 mins. Trauma can happen even when you are in your mother's womb. This happened to me when I was pregnant with my baby girl. I was living with my in-laws. One day, while my mum-in-law was vacuuming the house, she opened my room door without knocking and before she could come in, her older son charged into my room and shouted that I had an evil spirit in me and he wanted to attack me. The vacuum cleaner was still running while the commotion was happening, and I had to scream at him and my mom-in-law to get out of my room. My baby curled up into a tense ball in my tummy, and I was in so much pain. Since then, my daughter does not like the sound of the vacuum cleaner. She is 26 years old and still does not know why she tensed up whenever she heard the sound of vacuum cleaner. That's why I do not use vacuum cleaner.

  • @klaudiazmigrodzka9939
    @klaudiazmigrodzka9939 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! This is so helpful, somehow resonates with me on a deeper level. ...brings out lots of emotions but also a sense of understanding and a relief. And I'm really high-fiving my heart💕

  • @RenaissanceNic
    @RenaissanceNic4 ай бұрын

    This was a life-giving and life-saving episode. I feel like the first day of the rest of my life begins today. Thanks Mel! ❤

  • @theresasuttle711
    @theresasuttle711 Жыл бұрын

    Oh Mel. I can not tell you how much hope this video is giving me (still listening).

  • @marieli3175
    @marieli3175 Жыл бұрын

    This is remarkable.. For years I have left a door open on my bedroom closet snd recently I took the doors off my closet bedroom doors, I just realized that when I was little, I would get physically abused by my mother and she would then put me in my bedroom closet and close the door, I had to stay in there until she let me out.. I was so scared.. thank you Mel for your insight as now I understand why I don’t like closet doors😢

  • @deniseinpeace1170

    @deniseinpeace1170

    Жыл бұрын

    just use beads or curtains like in dressing rooms

  • @elizabethmcnamee-wallace5358

    @elizabethmcnamee-wallace5358

    10 ай бұрын

    You are brave.Loved.The Lord was crying when she did this to you.

  • @kimmielovesparis1
    @kimmielovesparis1 Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing….my mind has been blown. Bringing me to tears and realization. Thank you for explaining this and for the tools. ❤️

  • @yeslierodriguez3335
    @yeslierodriguez33356 ай бұрын

    Love you Mel! Thank you for all the light you shine on all of us! Xoxo❤

  • @deliachilds2300
    @deliachilds2300 Жыл бұрын

    I was in a second grade ran to my brother-in-law's car and saw a dead person in the car I wasn't shocked couldn't speak I was mute for many years so I know about trauma and I want to get that book you're talking about thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with millions of us Thank you

  • @ritzybits01
    @ritzybits019 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Mel. I’m so thankful I found your podcasts. I had tears rolling down my cheeks as you described your traumas. I had similar experiences and it gives me hope that I can heal as well. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.❤

  • @andreacampbell2804
    @andreacampbell2804 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Mel for being so kind and sharing your knowledge. These tools are going to give myself & so many others our life back. You are so smart and talented. Have a wonderful day, from California.

  • @katherinewheatcroft3617
    @katherinewheatcroft36176 ай бұрын

    Life can be so complicated sometimes and leaves you feeling overwhelmed. This podcast is a gem. Thank you Mel. Thank you for caring enough to produce free material for those of us who simply can't afford much at the moment. Thank you.

  • @carolynbagshaw4686
    @carolynbagshaw4686 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you I have been in Therapy for a very Long time, over 20 years. The talk Therapy is and always has been a positive in my life. I have been listening to you since the start of 2023. This is by far so relatable. I claim this, and I have just started a student coaching educational business and you are making a difference for me and I will put in my practice of coaching. I'm so grateful 🙏.

  • @shilparaheja07
    @shilparaheja07 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you ! I'm a psychologist and iv been thru a personal and professional journey where iv dealt woth trauma in different ways. In 2014 I did a course on Bach flower therapy and it's done wonders. There are some great remedies in it for healing past trauma, anxiety, etc .

  • @Devineinterventionhealthbeauty

    @Devineinterventionhealthbeauty

    Жыл бұрын

    Mel it felt the same you don’t understand at that age x

  • @Devineinterventionhealthbeauty

    @Devineinterventionhealthbeauty

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember everything now’s have a4 year old daughter she is my biggest trigger I had never empathy for m seeing-how helpless she is innocent she is and tiny and no I would set myself as a sacrifice to save her from ever being damming. I worry night and day for her the love and protection no one had for me. 😢

  • @YouAreJoy
    @YouAreJoy Жыл бұрын

    Lots of love to you Mel! You are the best!

  • @suecullen631
    @suecullen631 Жыл бұрын

    As I listened to you from the beginning i slowly got more and more tight chested, numbing tingling, tense from head to toe until I did the breathing with high five heart with breath, i felt exactly like you described, coming back into my body xo You've been helping me since the intent word on your talk show, xo thank you

  • @Sarah-gi6fw
    @Sarah-gi6fw2 ай бұрын

    I just found you and I just want to say thank you so much for taking the time and putting in the effort to make these videos !!! I have been struggling my whole life with trying to be a better person than where I came from. I grew up watching my father physically abuse my brothers and mentally abuse the whole family. I always felt so helpless as a kid and I shut down because I couldn’t do anything. I watched as my father belittled my mother and disrespected her leaving her broken and in tears. I was just a small child and instead of thinking of my own needs and mental health I always tried to be the support for my mother and make her smile. Fast forward I am an adult in my first relationship, we’ve been together 2 years but it’s becoming very difficult. I know we both love each other but I didn’t realize until now that I’ve played a huge part in our difficulties in that, when my boyfriend needs his own time or has to change plans, I get upset and in turn he always feels guilty and we end up in arguments because of my fear, “he must not love me because--“ which isn’t true and I’m opening my eyes to that. I KNOW HE LOVES ME. But my whole life I grew up seeing these things as negatives and my only example of a man was my father who really doesn’t love my mother. So in my adult life I’ve Translated that into my own relationship BUT it’s not the same. I never learned how to healthily handle these things and how to give my partner the healthy space they need. Another thing I know has affected me greatly are the words I was told by my mother before I even started dating my boyfriend “Why would he want you?” I’ve let all these past traumas affect me and it flows out into my relationship with my boyfriend. I didn’t realize until recently that I’ve been pushing him away with my very fear of “what if he leaves me? What if he’s doing this because he doesn’t love me?” And I act out on that. I used to think his actions that scared me were the issue, but the real issue was HOW I PRECEIVED his actions. I want to learn and grow. I never realized that the past I’ve been trying so hard to move away from is actually something I’ve been carrying with me and allowing to ruin my relationship with a very good and loving man. He is nothing like my father and he genuinely cares about me. I don’t want to lose him, I want to become better and show him a healthy love. So thank you for helping me to learn how to “reset” my own switches 🙏🏻

  • @nikhilbohra7339

    @nikhilbohra7339

    2 ай бұрын

    Hey, need to talk. Can we connect?

  • @HH-pj5bl
    @HH-pj5bl Жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad you talk bout couples counseling , it so important for people to understand a healthy secure relationship also has conflicts and rocky roads, it's not just rainbows and unicorns, it both partner willing to put in the work and contribute to the relationship and while working on themselves! Beautiful share and thank you for sharing about trauma , it good educational for many that think trauma has to be a "big" thing. It big to the person experiencing it not matter how other view it!👍🏻 Keep up this AWESOME content Mel🙌

  • @louiseatkinson3044
    @louiseatkinson3044 Жыл бұрын

    Mel this is amazing, I bite my nails until they bleed constant pain, I am looking into therapy to help me unwrap my traumas. You have helped me so much Thank you ❤

  • @rahmasamir909

    @rahmasamir909

    6 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤ sending u love

  • @robinklammer3755
    @robinklammer37553 ай бұрын

    Recently, I made a connection that has been niggling at me for quite a while. Years even. Silence. Being ignored, silent treatment all link back to the beginning of sh*t hitting the fan throughout my life. Silence meant bad things were going to happen. Unanswered phone calls to my mom meant impending chaos. She has bi-polar disorder 1,and as a result, I spent many years in the foster care system. To say there have been many effects of this would be a gross understatement. I'm only understand just how much this has impacted all aspects of my life. Knowledge is power, but it's up to you how you use this knowledge! ❤ Thank you, Mel. 😊

  • @dirtdoll10
    @dirtdoll1011 ай бұрын

    I suffer from full body SEVERE chronic pain. The full onset happened after having a plate put in my neck. I've had a rough life (my own idiotic choices) & made so many poor/bad choices. I had to have both parents put in hospice & pop's passed at my house while I held his hand. I know my body is holding on to so many traumas & it affects all the idiotic things I do to sabotage myself. Thank you for the hope of maybe moving forward & not being so hard on myself. I feel I deserve it so I just deal with it. maybe I can get past some of this.

  • @veronicaherrera4454
    @veronicaherrera4454 Жыл бұрын

    OMG just what I needed!!!! I just wish It had subtiles in spanish, so I can share it with my brother and sisters 😅. Thank you so much. This is pure gold. ❤

  • @dorothyedwards7225

    @dorothyedwards7225

    Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps in the settings is an option for Spanish?👍

  • @cinderella4499
    @cinderella4499 Жыл бұрын

    Omg thank you so much for validating for me the way I feel and that there’s some reason for it! I always felt there was, but I can’t remember anything specific that seems terrible enough, ( a lot of sad things…) but I’ve always felt something was wrong ( or judged as bad) with me and my quirky being. Yes about the verbally abusive person! Everyday. My Dad. Annoyed just because I’m there being me. I often wake up in the morning sad because of memories I never think of when I’m awake. Relaxed? What’s that? The only way I’ve been able to function ( haha kind of) is to isolate. I’ve tried hypnosis, subliminals, etc and it’s helped, but I think understanding this will be key. I hope everyone will soon understand this! It will improve relationships immensely, I believe. I would LOVE to repair my nervous system.

  • @solotumisericordia2975
    @solotumisericordia297510 ай бұрын

    Dearest Mel, you can't imagine how grateful I am for all you have taught us here, or how much it means to me. I was really asking God for help, and this has been His exact answer. May God bless you.❤❤❤❤

  • @antonioayasiglesias3932
    @antonioayasiglesias3932 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mel. So easily and inspiring explained that make sense to me and hopefully everybody listen this podcast. Great teaching

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