May 31, 2026
You are not overreacting. Your nervous system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it learned to do in environments where threat was the norm.
In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof close out Season Five with one of the most important and least understood concepts in complex trauma: emotional...
May 25, 2026
Social anxiety is often framed as shyness, insecurity, or fear of judgment. But for many people living with complex trauma, social anxiety is a nervous system output shaped by chronic relational stress, sensory overwhelm, hypervigilance, masking, shame, and learned survival patterns.
In this episode of Trauma Rewired,...
May 18, 2026
There is a difference between feeling ashamed and living inside shame. One is a passing signal. The other is the background atmosphere of an entire nervous system.
In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof go deep on toxic shame as the next distinguishing characteristic of complex trauma in their CPT...
May 11, 2026
Everyone has a critical inner voice. But if you grew up in an environment shaped by chronic relational stress, that voice does not just comment. It runs. It loops. It drives your body into a stress state before you have even finished the thought.
In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof explore the inner...
May 4, 2026
The deepest wound in complex trauma is not emotional intensity. It is the learned loss of connection to yourself.
In this episode, Jennifer Wallace and Elisabeth Kristof open the next chapter of the CPT series by starting where the roots go deepest: self-abandonment. This is the pattern they chose to name first—and...