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What does it take to rebuild your life from nothing?

In this inspiring episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green sits down with Michelle Doan, founder of Emani Vegan Cosmetics, to explore an extraordinary journey of resilience, determination and post-traumatic growth.

Born in Vietnam, Michelle was just nine years old when her mother fled the country with six children aboard an overcrowded refugee boat following the fall of Saigon. After surviving a perilous journey, spending almost a year in a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually settling in Canada before moving to California, Michelle's life became a testament to the power of perseverance, curiosity and hope.

Together, Nat and Michelle explore how adversity shaped Michelle's mindset, the lessons she learned through business, motherhood and personal challenges, and why learning to receive became one of the most important shifts in her healing journey.

Michelle also shares practical wisdom around self-awareness, gratitude, mindset and creating a life aligned with your values.

In this episode, we discuss:

✨ Surviving a refugee journey from Vietnam as a child

✨ The resilience lessons learned from her mother's courage

✨ Starting a beauty company after years of struggling with cystic acne

✨ Why curiosity can become one of your greatest strengths

✨ The role of mindset in post-traumatic growth

✨ Learning to recognise and quiet the inner critic

✨ Books that transformed Michelle's perspective on life

✨ The importance of gratitude and daily practices

✨ Boundaries, values and raising resilient children

✨ Why many women struggle to receive support, love and success

✨ How adversity can become the foundation for purpose and impact

Key Quotes

Influential Resources Mentioned

• The Untethered Soul – Michael Singer
• The Art of Living – Thich Nhat Hanh
• Don't Believe Everything You Think – Joseph Nguyen
• Louise Hay's work on gratitude, healing and self-worth

Connect with Michelle

🌐 Emani Cosmetics

Emani Australia

Instagram

Facebook

LinkedIn

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What if the answers you've been searching for aren't outside of you at all?

In this deeply insightful conversation, Dr Nat Green is joined by Jennifer Urezzio, founder of Soul Language®, intuitive strategist, and self-described "soul whisperer and BS incinerator."

Together, they explore the powerful connection between trauma, self-trust, intuition, and authentic expression—and why so many of us become trapped looking for answers externally while ignoring the wisdom already within us.

Jennifer shares her own journey of learning to stop dismissing life's wake-up calls, embrace her authentic nature, and trust the deeper guidance available through conscious connection with the soul.

This episode is a powerful reminder that healing isn't about becoming someone else—it's about remembering who you've always been.

In This Episode We Explore:

✨ Why so many people become trapped in the endless search for "how"

✨ The relationship between trauma, self-trust, and intuition

✨ What it really means to trust yourself

✨ Why ignoring red flags often leads to repeating painful patterns

✨ The subtle forms of trauma that often go unrecognised

✨ How people-pleasing and self-abandonment disconnect us from our authentic selves

✨ The difference between accepting yourself and trying to fix yourself

✨ Jennifer's "Relationship House" model for creating healthy boundaries

✨ Why healing is a marathon, not a one-time breakthrough

✨ How Soul Language® helps people reconnect with their inner truth and purpose

✨ The importance of courage, integrity, self-compassion, and acceptance in post-traumatic growth

Memorable Quotes From This Episode

About Jennifer Urezzio

Jennifer Urezzio is the founder of Soul Language®, an intuitive framework designed to help people reconnect with their inner truth, purpose, and authentic expression. Through her work, she helps individuals understand how they are using their energy, strengthen their connection to their soul, and create lives and businesses that are aligned with who they truly are.

Connect with Jennifer

🌐 Website: Soul Language

🎙️ Podcast: Asked and Answered by Soul

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/soullanguagefounder/

📚 Substack: Jennifer Urezzio Substack

Podcast Episode mentioned :- Your Relationship House : The Key To Clarity And Boundaries

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You've done the therapy. You've read the books. You've attended the workshops, listened to the podcasts, and invested in your personal growth.

So why do you still feel stuck?

Why do the same patterns keep showing up?

Why do you keep hitting the same invisible ceiling despite everything you know?

In this powerful solo episode, Dr Nat Green introduces one of the foundational concepts behind her evolving body of work: Identity Fractures.

An Identity Fracture occurs when life teaches us that being fully ourselves isn't safe. Over time, we adapt in order to belong, survive, avoid criticism, or protect ourselves from pain. Eventually, those adaptations become our identity—and the authentic self becomes buried beneath layers of protection.

In this episode, Dr Nat explores:

✨ What an Identity Fracture is and how it develops

✨ The difference between trauma and Identity Fractures

✨ Why so many intelligent, self-aware people still feel stuck after years of personal development

✨ How Identity Fractures create Invisible Ceilings in business, relationships, health, confidence and visibility

✨ The connection between your nervous system and self-sabotaging patterns

✨ The Three Brains Model: Head, Heart and Gut

✨ Why overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, hyper-independence and busyness are often protection strategies rather than personality traits

✨ How your Archetype of Transformation influences the way your Identity Fracture shows up

✨ Why insight alone isn't enough to create lasting change

✨ How the ABS Method® helps you Reclaim, Release and Reset so you can reconnect with who you truly are

This episode will challenge you to consider a powerful question:

What part of me is still protecting an older version of who I needed to be?

If you've ever felt like there's more available to you but something keeps holding you back, this conversation may help you understand why.

Key Takeaways

✔ Identity Fractures form when we adapt away from our authentic self to feel safe.

✔ Invisible Ceilings are usually internal rather than external.

✔ Overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing and busyness are frequently protection strategies.

✔ Healing isn't about becoming someone new—it's about reconnecting with who you've always been.

✔ Sustainable transformation requires both awareness and nervous system safety.

Resources Mentioned

• ABS Method®
• Archetypes of Transformation™
• TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises)
• Identity Mapping Sessions (to discover your Identity Fracture)

Connect with Dr Nat Green

🌐 Website: Dr Natalie Green

📧 Email: drnat@drnataliegreen.com.au

📱 Instagram: @drnatgreen

📱 Facebook: Dr Natalie Green

Memorable Quote From This Episode

"You are not broken. You adapted too well." - Dr Nat Green

And perhaps it's time to remember who you really are. ✨

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What if the challenges you're facing aren't happening to you... but are inviting you into a deeper conversation with yourself?

In this thought-provoking episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr. Nat Green is joined by transformational leadership expert and co-founder of Evolve Institute, Kerry Borcherding.

After years of struggling with unexplained autoimmune symptoms, Kerry found herself lying on her living room floor in tears after being told by doctors that she would simply have to learn to live with her condition. But a profound inner knowing told her otherwise.

What followed was a journey that completely transformed the way she viewed health, healing, leadership, and personal responsibility.

Together, Nat and Kerry explore:

✨ The hidden relationship between self-judgment and physical symptoms

✨ How high achievers and perfectionists often become trapped in cycles of self-attack

✨ The concept of becoming the CEO of your own inner world

✨ How your inner identities influence your thoughts, emotions, health, and relationships

✨ The Four Zones of Consciousness and how they shape your reality

✨ Why healing isn't always about fixing problems—but creating a new reality where those problems no longer belong

✨ The role of intuition, soul wisdom, and embodied awareness in personal growth

✨ Practical ways to move from reaction and overwhelm into greater peace, alignment, and self-leadership

This episode offers a powerful reminder that healing isn't always about finding the next answer outside yourself. Sometimes the greatest transformation begins when you learn to listen to the parts of yourself you've been trying to silence.

If you've ever struggled with perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-doubt, chronic stress, health challenges, or feeling stuck despite doing all the "right" things, this conversation will give you a fresh perspective on what might be possible.

Memorable Quotes

🌿 Kerry's Bio

Kerry Borcherding is the Co-Founder of Evolve Institute, a speaker, and a pioneer in 5D Leadership. She is passionate about helping people become the CEO of their own inner world so they can create new realities rather than remain trapped in old patterns. Through retreats, immersive programs, and in-person experiences, she guides leaders into profound inner shifts and more aligned ways of living and leading.

Connect with Kerry Borcherding

🌿 Evolve Institute

🌿 Facebook

🌿 Instagram

🌿 LinkedIn

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What happens when the life you’ve built… is the very thing making you sick?

In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Dr. Nat Green is joined by Ramah Leith — a former public health professional turned multidimensional healer — who shares her powerful journey from high-achieving burnout and chronic illness to deep healing, alignment, and purpose.

After years of pushing, proving, and striving, Ramah’s body reached breaking point — with chronic pain, digestive issues, and autoimmune disease forcing her to confront a truth many high-functioning women avoid:

👉 You can’t outwork what your nervous system is trying to protect you from.

This episode explores what happens when you finally stop…
and the identity shifts, emotional release, and deeper healing that follow.

✨ In This Episode, We Explore:

• The hidden link between high-functioning perfectionism and chronic illness
• Why your body forces a stop when you keep pushing through
• The identity patterns behind people-pleasing, overworking, and “proving”
• What a “dark night of the soul” actually is (and why it’s a turning point)
• The moment everything changed: giving yourself permission to stop
• Healing beyond the medical model: body, mind, and emotional integration
• Why gratitude, presence, and slowing down are powerful nervous system resets
• Reconnecting with your body instead of fighting it
• The shift from head → heart → deeper inner knowing
• How adversity becomes the doorway to purpose and post-traumatic growth

🔥 Key Takeaway

If you’re constantly pushing, overthinking, and holding everything together…

This episode is your reminder:

👉 You’re not failing.
👉 You’re not broken.
👉 Your system is asking for something different.

And sometimes… the breakdown is actually the breakthrough.

💫 About Our Guest

Ramah Leith is a multidimensional healer, health and nutrition coach, visibility and business mentor, and ascension guide.

Blending her background in public health with medical intuition, functional nutrition, and energetic healing, Ramah now helps others reconnect with their bodies, release stored stress, and step into aligned, purposeful lives.

🎁 Free Gift from Ramah

Ramah offers a beautiful guided meditation:
“Peace, Connection & Alignment” Chakra Healing Activation— designed to support chakra healing, relaxation, and deeper connection. Here

🔗 Connect with Ramah

• Website: Healing Words with Ramah
• Facebook:
  YouTube:

Upcoming Summit

Ramah is hosting an incredible event from June 22-26, 2026: The Health, Wealth and Quantum Alignment Summit: Moving the 3D Body into the 5D Flow. You do not want to miss this truly inspirational and transformational free online event. Save your seat here!: https://www.3dbody5dflow.com

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In this deeply reflective episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr. Nat Green shares an unexpected insight sparked during a visit to Alcatraz in San Francisco after several weeks travelling through Canada, the Rockies and Alaska.

What began as a sightseeing experience quickly became a powerful metaphor for the invisible emotional prisons so many high-functioning women continue living inside long after trauma, chronic stress, adversity, burnout, betrayal, or emotional survival mode has ended.

Because sometimes the trauma ends…
…but the nervous system never gets told the danger has passed.

In this episode, Dr. Nat explores:

• Why high-functioning women often remain stuck in survival mode
• The hidden nervous system patterns behind over-functioning, perfectionism, hyper-independence, and emotional exhaustion
• How trauma and chronic stress shape identity and create what she calls “identity fractures”
• Why mindset work alone often isn’t enough for deep healing
• Why successful women can still feel emotionally trapped, disconnected, anxious, exhausted, or unable to fully relax
• The difference between surviving and truly living
• How awe, presence, nature, spaciousness, and nervous system safety can begin reshaping healing

Dr. Nat also shares reflections from her recent travels and how slowing down, spaciousness, connection, and awe can profoundly impact nervous system healing and emotional integration.

Because healing is not simply about insight.

It’s about finally feeling safe enough to stop bracing against life.

Resources & Links

✨ Learn more about Dr. Nat Green’s work around trauma, identity fractures, nervous system healing, and post-traumatic growth. Connect on Instagram or Facebook.

🎙 Subscribe to Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma for weekly conversations helping high-functioning women move beyond survival and into true healing, embodiment, and freedom.

📲 Share this episode with someone who has been carrying the invisible weight of always being “the strong one.”

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What happens when you finally stop pushing… and your nervous system gets the space to just be?

After making the decision to travel as part of their "celebrating 30 years together" travelling through San Francisco and the breathtaking Canadian Rockies, Dr Nat shares the powerful and unexpected lessons this journey revealed about nervous system regulation, presence, trust, and post-traumatic growth.

From awe-inspiring glaciers and frozen lakes to the surreal experience of driverless cars, this episode explores why so many high-functioning women struggle to truly switch off — and what’s actually happening beneath that constant need to keep moving, producing, and staying “on.”

If you’ve ever felt like you should be able to relax… but can’t fully get there… this conversation will land deeply.

🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why slowing down can feel uncomfortable (and even unsafe) for high-functioning women
• The hidden nervous system patterns behind constant productivity and urgency
• How awe and nature support nervous system healing and regulation
• Why achievement doesn’t create safety (and what actually does)
• The connection between trust, control, and trauma patterns
• How to begin experiencing presence — without forcing it
• The subtle difference between “resting” and truly being
• Why you don’t need to push harder to feel better

💡 A Powerful Reflection

You don’t have to earn rest.

And you don’t need to keep pushing to prove your worth.

Sometimes healing looks less like doing more work…
and more like finally feeling safe enough to experience
presence, connection, joy, and stillness.

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When trust is broken, your nervous system doesn’t forget — it adapts.

In this episode, Dr Nat Green explores what really happens when trust is disrupted — not just emotionally, but physiologically.

Because trust isn’t just relational.

It’s something your nervous system experiences as safety.

And when that safety is compromised, your system adapts in ways you may not even realise.

You may find yourself more “on,” more controlling, more self-reliant… without understanding why.

🌿 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why trust is not just emotional — it’s neurological and physiological
• How your system registers “this isn’t safe”
• The subtle signs of nervous system activation after broken trust
• Why you may start overthinking, controlling, and holding more
• The difference between:
  👉 “I need to trust more”
  👉 vs “My system doesn’t feel safe yet”
• How to begin restoring safety without forcing change

🔥 Key Insight:

It’s not that you don’t trust.

It’s that your system doesn’t feel safe to.

🧠 Notice this:

• Are you more “on” than usual?
• Are you holding more responsibility?
• Are you finding it harder to switch off?

Your system may be responding to a perceived loss of safety.

🌿 Gentle ways to support your system:

• Slow your breath
• Soften your body
• Let something be unfinished
• Reduce the need to control everything

🔗 Go deeper:

Take the Archetypes of Transformation quiz
👉here

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