The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual Growth
Linda Villines
63 episodes
1 week ago
Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between internal and external harm. In this episode, I break down why chronic self-criticism is a form of self-harm and is traumatic over time. We’re conditioned to believe that being hard on ourselves is how we stay motivated or disciplined, but the body doesn’t distinguish between harm coming from someone else and harm coming from you. We unpack why chronic self-criticism, self-shaming, and self-rejection create the same stress chemistry as exte...
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Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between internal and external harm. In this episode, I break down why chronic self-criticism is a form of self-harm and is traumatic over time. We’re conditioned to believe that being hard on ourselves is how we stay motivated or disciplined, but the body doesn’t distinguish between harm coming from someone else and harm coming from you. We unpack why chronic self-criticism, self-shaming, and self-rejection create the same stress chemistry as exte...
The Inflammation-Trauma Connection: How Diet Affects Your Healing
The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual Growth
46 minutes
2 months ago
The Inflammation-Trauma Connection: How Diet Affects Your Healing
Your brain and body cannot heal properly when inflamed. In this episode, I discuss one of the most powerful but often overlooked keys to healing trauma: lowering inflammation through diet. After a deeply traumatic event where layers of repressed childhood abuse and fears surfaced simultaneously, I experienced intense PTSD symptoms that could have taken months or even years to regulate. Instead, I was able to stabilize my nervous system within weeks, in part because I committed to an anti-infl...
The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual Growth
Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between internal and external harm. In this episode, I break down why chronic self-criticism is a form of self-harm and is traumatic over time. We’re conditioned to believe that being hard on ourselves is how we stay motivated or disciplined, but the body doesn’t distinguish between harm coming from someone else and harm coming from you. We unpack why chronic self-criticism, self-shaming, and self-rejection create the same stress chemistry as exte...