This is not a conversation about shame.

It’s a conversation about survival, grief, healing, and the importance of speaking up.

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If you or someone you know suffers from a medical condition or mental health crisis, please call your primary care or the suicide hotline. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

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thanks for joining us for another episode What is love and what isn’t? In this episode, Elise explores trauma, attachment, and how we often confuse intensity with connection. A grounded conversation on redefining love, navigating grief, and healing after loss, separation, or divorce.

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After trauma, many people are drawn to spirituality in search of meaning, peace, and connection. But what happens when spirituality becomes another way to disconnect from yourself?

In this episode of Talks with Friends, Elise explores the difference between grounded spirituality and spiritual bypassing. She breaks down how trauma can impact discernment, why intuition can feel confusing, and how to reconnect with your spiritual practice in a way that supports your nervous system not overrides it.

This conversation is an invitation to come back to yourself.

To trust your body.

And to build a spiritual path that feels safe, embodied, and real.

Welcome back to Talks with Friends.

In the last episode we talked about self-sabotage and how many of the patterns we judge ourselves for are actually trauma responses.

Today, I want to go deeper into something that many of us experience but don’t always understand.

The body remembers what the mind avoids.

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Here, we talk about trauma through the lens of spirituality, nervous system wisdom, leadership, and embodied truth.

We explore what it means to stop surviving and start leading your life, your healing, your voice.

I don’t believe in toxic positivity.

I believe in alchemy.

In turning pain into purpose, wounds into wisdom, and survival into sovereignty.

Trauma doesn’t just hurt us it reorganizes us. In this foundational episode, Elise explores how survival patterns form, how the nervous system adapts, and how healing begins when we stop asking what’s wrong with us and start asking what happened to us.

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