In today’s episode I talk to Stephanie Hartwell

Stephanie is trauma-informed Closure Coach, co-host of the podcast Rise Like A Phoenix, and founder of the Heart EQ Academy, where she offers courses and one-to-one sessions designed to equip people with essential Emotional Life Skills. 

Through her work, Stephanie guides others in discovering how to calm the nervous system, walk the path toward lasting closure, and release old patterns that keep them trapped in cycles of pain, anxiety, and unacknowledged loss. Her approach helps people move beyond survival and create lives grounded in authenticity, deeper connection, and a renewed sense of purpose.

The conversation dives deeply  into the often-silent struggle of trauma survival anxiety, the exhausting state of living with a nervous system that feels constantly on high alert. 

Stephanie explains how this survival mode infiltrates daily life, shaping our choices, our relationships, and even our sense of identity. 

We touch on the ways unhealed wounds can disguise themselves as grief, regret, or fear, and how closure is less about erasing the past and more about loosening its hold so that new meaning and possibility can take shape. 

We discuss how true strength is not about being unshakable, but about learning how to return to ourselves after life has tested us. 

Offering practical steps on how we can begin to soothe the body, calm the mind, and step out of old stories that no longer serve us, this episode is an invitation to see healing as a lived experience, a chance to understand how we can move beyond survival and begin to live, feel whole, connected, and realise that we hold the power to change our life.

For more information on Stephanie Hartwell visit:

https://stephaniehartwell.com

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