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Start Thriving | A Podcast on Healing Complex Trauma
Chelsea Bartell
64 episodes
1 week ago
Welcome to the Start Thriving Podcast where every week we will deep dive into all things trauma, nervous system regulation, and transforming your pain into power. Hosted by Emotional Trauma Freedom Coach and complex trauma survivor Chelsea Bartell, you will learn how to begin healing the elaborate symptoms of trauma and create a life that is centered around thriving, not surviving. Chelsea leads a life full of joy, meaning, and power despite the trauma she endured and she'll show you how you can too. Get ready to Start Thriving!
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Welcome to the Start Thriving Podcast where every week we will deep dive into all things trauma, nervous system regulation, and transforming your pain into power. Hosted by Emotional Trauma Freedom Coach and complex trauma survivor Chelsea Bartell, you will learn how to begin healing the elaborate symptoms of trauma and create a life that is centered around thriving, not surviving. Chelsea leads a life full of joy, meaning, and power despite the trauma she endured and she'll show you how you can too. Get ready to Start Thriving!
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56. Stranger in My Own Skin: When You Abandon Yourself for So Long You Forget Who You Are
Start Thriving | A Podcast on Healing Complex Trauma
44 minutes 17 seconds
5 months ago
56. Stranger in My Own Skin: When You Abandon Yourself for So Long You Forget Who You Are

Danielle couldn't tell if she was hungry or having a panic attack. She'd been living like a ghost in her own body for so long that existing felt like wearing someone else's life. This is what happened when she finally came home to herself.

Danielle walked into my Beyond Survival program carrying the kind of numbness that makes you pinch yourself just to remember you're real. She wasn't just disconnected - she was completely missing from her own existence. Going through the motions of living while feeling absolutely nothing.

If you've ever looked in the mirror and thought "who the fuck is that person, and how did I get here?" - you know exactly where Danielle was living.

Inner Child Work That Cuts Through the Bullshit:

  • Not the fluffy "send love to your younger self" garbage
  • Real visualization that made her confront why she'd been treating herself like the enemy
  • Body-level recognition that she'd been performing her entire life instead of living it

Community That Shattered the Isolation:

  • Group calls where she watched other women feel their feelings without apologizing
  • The shocking relief of being seen in her complete messiness
  • Learning that healing doesn't happen in isolation - it happens in witnessed connection

EFT Tapping That Actually Worked:

  • Tools that worked WITH her nervous system instead of trying to override it
  • Processing decades of stored numbness without retraumatizing herself
  • Her body remembering it wasn't broken - just brilliantly protecting her

The Brutal Truth About Boundaries:

  • Learning to set limits without explaining or defending herself
  • Discovering that people who can't handle your authentic self aren't your people
  • The terrifying realization that she'd been giving everyone else permission to abandon her by abandoning herself first

Your numbness isn't weakness. It's your nervous system's most sophisticated survival strategy. When feeling everything would have killed you, your body chose numbness to keep you alive.

But here's what Danielle discovered: The body that saved you as a child might be suffocating you as an adult.

If reading Danielle's story made something crack open in your chest, that's not coincidence. That's your soul recognizing its own prison.

I have limited spots in Beyond Survival: The Resilience Code - but this isn't for everyone. This is nervous system rewiring for women who are done performing their lives and ready to actually inhabit them.

Book a call with me. No scripts. No high-pressure tactics. Just an honest conversation about whether you're ready to stop being a ghost in your own existence.

We'll talk about whether your nervous system is ready to feel again - because coming back to yourself isn't comfortable. It's necessary.

[BOOK YOUR CALL HERE]

Your body is waiting for you to come home. The woman you abandoned to survive is ready to be found.

You can't heal what you won't feel. But you also can't live what you won't inhabit.

Start Thriving | A Podcast on Healing Complex Trauma
Welcome to the Start Thriving Podcast where every week we will deep dive into all things trauma, nervous system regulation, and transforming your pain into power. Hosted by Emotional Trauma Freedom Coach and complex trauma survivor Chelsea Bartell, you will learn how to begin healing the elaborate symptoms of trauma and create a life that is centered around thriving, not surviving. Chelsea leads a life full of joy, meaning, and power despite the trauma she endured and she'll show you how you can too. Get ready to Start Thriving!