In the Nude: naked truth of healing

Rachel Abi
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Welcome to "In the Nude: Naked Truth of Healing," a raw and honest podcast diving deep into the journey of healing from trauma. Join us as we explore the tough and necessary aspects of healing without sugarcoating. From overcoming adversity to gaining resilience, we cover it all to support your healing journey. Tune in for candid conversations, practical tools, and a community that understands. Let's heal together.

  1. 4d ago

    Time travel, gratitude and actually living a life of your dreams

    What if you could really have a life you loved?  One you woke up excited about. What if you could really take giant strides towards gaining yourself that life. What if I told you it was time travel? What if i told you the gateway to timetravel is gratitude? After 3 years of healing and very little movement forward and loads of anger: i learned a lesson about acceptance, grace and love.  A lesson about belief systems how they impact our lives AND how to shift them without feeling fake. This episode I breakdown a simple shift you can do for yourself. It isn't a how to guide with three easy steps but it is a perspective that you can pull out and see each individual situation in your life and with that you can gain the personal weighted knowledge on what to do within your own power. Let's change the story. Let's gain a life bigger than the dreams of our childhoodself. Let's really live.

  2. 6d ago

    Why You Still Feel Stuck (Even After the Trauma Is Over)2

    In this raw and honest episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, Rachel sits down with Dr. Christopher Cortman: a licensed psychologist with over 40 years of clinical experience and more than 85,000 psychotherapy sessions : to explore forgiveness, resentment, trauma recovery, grief, and emotional healing. For many people living with CPTSD, religious trauma, high-control upbringing wounds, or chronic anxiety, forgiveness can feel impossible. Dr. Cortman explains why bitterness often becomes a form of protection, how resentment can shield us from vulnerability, and why holding onto anger may keep us emotionally stuck long after the original harm occurred. The conversation dives into one of the most misunderstood topics in trauma healing: the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. Forgiveness is about releasing the emotional grip of the past; reconciliation is about rebuilding trust and intimacy = and those are not the same thing. Rachel and Dr. Cortman also discuss grief, unresolved trauma, emotional triggers, nervous system responses, and guided imagery therapy. They explore how unfinished pain can shape relationships, self-worth, and daily life for years, and how intentionally revisiting painful memories in a safe therapeutic context can help people process, reframe, and release what they’ve been carrying. This episode challenges the belief that time heals all wounds. Instead, it offers a compassionate and practical path toward healing through facing the pain, telling the truth, feeling the feelings, and choosing acceptance.If you’re healing from childhood trauma, emotional abuse, religious trauma, toxic relationships, or complex PTSD, this conversation will help you understand how forgiveness can become an act of self-liberation, peace, and coming home to yourself. Want more of Dr. Cortman in your life? https://srqshrink.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drchristophercortman/ https://www.tiktok.com/ ⁨@drchristophercortman⁩  https://www.youtube.com/@drchristophercortman

  3. Jul 23

    Process of healing: Recipe for thriving that ACTUALLY works for ANYONE

    If I hear one more person talk about what to do I might just scream.There is so much noise, so much to do and so many must haves that I feel exhausted just thinking about it. You don't need another list of actions. You don't need another person who doesn't know your life telling you what to do YET you also want help getting to a life you love and feel lost as to who to listen to. I cannot promise you a life of money coming out of your ears, I cannot promise you that you will gain that relationship, or that car you desire but I can promise you that if you listen to this and actually apply these filters to your life you will gain more JOY, CONTENTMENT, and a life filled with more PEACE.If you want to thrive, wake up excited about your life and really be present in enjoying your existence, listen in.  Hundreds of books read, hundreds of hours of therapy in all different modalities: I have taken all of that knowledge and wisdome and boiled it down to the foundation and offered those steps up for you. Walking you through step by step how to go from where you are to where you love the life you are in with joy, contentment and peace as a status you come home to as default.  Giving my own personal life as example and collateral damage to the cause. If you listen to only one podcast I have ever done, this is the one to listen to.

  4. Jul 21

    What If Your Biggest Limitation Is a Story You Never Chose?

    Many of us believe we're seeing reality clearly. But what if the thoughts, beliefs, fears, and patterns shaping your life were built from old wounds instead of truth? In this Naked Conversation, I sit down with Beth Jones to explore the life-changing power of radical self-awareness and how healing begins when we're willing to question the stories we've been carrying for years. Beth shares her deeply personal journey from trauma, survival mode, and unconscious bias into a life rooted in self-love, compassion, and authenticity. Together, we discuss how childhood experiences, relationship trauma, religious conditioning, and old coping mechanisms quietly shape our perspectives, often without us realizing it. In this conversation, we explore: • How unconscious beliefs and biases influence your relationships, choices, and healing journey• Why trauma survivors often struggle to see themselves with compassion• The pivotal shift that helped Beth move from surviving to thriving• Practical tools for healing trauma and rewiring limiting beliefs• How self-awareness helps break generational patterns and cycles of pain• Why self-compassion and boundaries are essential parts of emotional healing• The truth about healing being a lifelong journey rather than a destination This episode is for anyone who feels stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or frustrated by repeating the same patterns despite years of personal growth work. Healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about uncovering who you were before fear, trauma, shame, and survival convinced you otherwise. You are not broken. You are becoming aware. And awareness changes everything. 🎧 Listen now and discover how self-awareness can become the first step toward healing, self-love, emotional freedom, and a life that feels more fully your own. Want more Beth in your life? https://empoweredsurvivors.com/https://www.instagram.com/bethjoneshealingmentor/https://www.youtube.com/@BethJonesHEALingMentor

  5. Jul 16

    Grasping at "Good" and fitting "Normal" breaks your ability to thrive and keeps you trapped in abuse patterns.

    Quantifying value wastes energy and time, yet it is prolific. #1. Winner. All words that don't actually convey full truth."Normal" is another waste of time. We each have "normals" within ourselves or within our families. "Normal" however as a thing isn't real.  It is a box. A way to quantify ineffectively. While definitions and understanding trends can helps us feel understood or less alone holding tightly to boxes of "identity" are more like shoving our body through a cookie cutter we were never met to fit perfectly instead take from the frame work that this is a "generalization" and that all things are in fact a spectrum. Depression can look like a few weeks of being down; it can also mean someone who is close to unaliving themselves= not the same despite being boxed the same. When we let go of the boxes and controls others have given ourselves and instead gain curiosity for our unique personhood we gain MUCH more clarity and actionables to who we are and what to do with that.  How to process our feelings. How to adjust to the situation. How to gain more peace. How to thrive. In this epsidoe I breakdown how "normal" isn't real AND freeing yourself from white knuckled grip on our "identities" actually free us into a beautiful world where we can actually thrive with ease following our own magic.

  6. Jul 14

    Stop Forcing Your Life: Why Surfing the Waves of the Unknown Is the Only Way to Stop Self-Abandoning

    If you are running yourself into the ground trying to manage your life through mental constructs, rigid logic, and pure control: but you still wake up feeling anxious, isolated, and completely defeated... this conversation will shatter the walls of your cage. For those of us raised inside high-control religious structures or under the roof of behavior-focused, emotionally unintelegent parents, certainty was our only protection. You were conditioned to distrust your body, ignore your desires, and treat your intuition like a dangerous sin. You learned to navigate life using a strict, logical formula: obey the rules, hit the milestones, dominate your emotions, and keep everyone else comfortable. You became an expert at reading external scripts, but you are living with a deep, silent emptiness. You are likely fighting the exhausting, chronic freeze response of Complex PTSD (CPTSD) without even realizing it: wondering why the more you try to control your life, the more disconnected and paralyzed you feel. In this profoundly disruptive episode of In The Nude, Rachel Abi sits down with scientist, author, and intuitive pioneer Dr. Sophia Trevenna to completely strip away the western paradigm of hustle, control, and domination. Sophia shares her radical transition from rigid scientific skepticism to an unfiltered life of intuitive adventure and energetic co-creation. This isn’t an aesthetic talk about trendy manifestation; it is a raw, real-time experiment on what happens when you decide to live beyond what you know. Together, Rachel and Sophia reveal how trauma forces us to externalize our solutions, why forcing your life to fit into traditional societal boxes keeps your nervous system in a state of high alarm, and how to physically retrain your body to read the subtle somatic signals of true alignment. This conversation is a practical, non-linear blueprint for the woman who is tired of just surviving the corporate and cultural matrix and is ready to step into her absolute creative sovereignty. What We Deeply Unpack in This Naked Conversation: The Trap of Mental Constructs: Why relying solely on what you "know" keeps you looping in the exact same generational trauma patterns. Somatic Manifestation vs. Domination: Why trying to force your dreams through aggressive control leaves you spiritually bankrupt, and how to "surf" life's energy instead. The Seven Feminine Principles: Shifting out of hyper-masculine survival structures and into collaborative, fluid, and ecosystem-based business and lifestyle models. Interpreting Your Body’s Radar: Practical rituals to clear stuck energy, trust your posture cues, and translate the unconscious wisdom of your physical self. Embracing the Sacred Pause: How to handle hardships, setbacks, and divine timing without spiraling into a freeze response or toxic self-criticism. Be warned: This conversation requires a complete surrender of your need to control the room. It is a raw, naked invitation to step off the cliff of certainty and find community in the unknown. Finding this door could alter the entire trajectory of your life's work and healing. Want more of Dr Sophia? https://www.drsophiatrevenna.com/ https://sofanyawellness.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drsophiatrevenna/ https://www.instagram.com/sofanyawellness/

  7. Jul 9

    Living a peaceful life and leaving anxiety behind: doing the unthinkable; surrender

    Chaos is not fixed by control. The more we try and shove our life into the pretty picture we think it should be the more it explodes out of the bottom  and sides of the box. Leaving us riddled with anxiety. Which not to be dramatic is slowly killing us. What then do we do? Pressure from so many sides telling us what we should do, be, have, own, achieve... Internally the "not good enough" "not enough" "unlovable" drums beat louder and louder till we cave to the pressure and shatter... This might be binge eating, this might be sickness, this might be depression, the list goes on.  Let go. Terrifying as it sounds. Let go. This episode I go into depth on the principles and some practical ways I act on "letting go" in my own life. The noise of this world is never going to stop. Life is too short to keep living on default.  Too short to be living with this stress inside of us making this existence miserable AND shorter than it could be. If you want a different life than you have... one with more peace and contentment and fulfillment: join me on this adventure.

  8. Jul 7

    When Emotional Suppression Backfires: Reframing Pain and Reclaiming Your Internal Focus with Colin Owensby

    Many of us raised by behavior-focused, emotionally unavailable parents or trapped inside strict, high-control religious environments learned a brutal baseline rule for safety: never show weakness. You learned to suppress your anger, freeze your tears, and treat your body like an unfeeling machine to avoid punishment or rejection. You became an expert at surviving, but you are completely empty, exhausted, and feeling entirely alone. You are likely navigating the invisible, crushing weight of Complex PTSD (CPTSD) without even knowing it—wondering why every self-help formula leaves you feeling more broken, disconnected, and stuck in a survival loop. In this raw, nakedly honest episode of In The Nude, Rachel Abi sits down with ultra-endurance athlete and mindset guide Colin Owensby to strip away the pristine lies of the wellness industry. This isn’t a clinical checklist or a toxic positive speech about "no pain, no gain." This is an exposed, vulnerable roadmap for the person who feels entirely isolated in the messy middle of trying to change their life. Together, Rachel and Colin pull back the curtain on how trauma hides in our physical bodies, why traditional definitions of strength keep our nervous systems locked in a permanent fight-or-flight chokehold, and how to use intentional movement and raw vulnerability to step out of victimhood and reclaim your absolute sovereignty. Colin shares his personal journey of navigating deep trauma, transforming physical activity into somatic therapy, and discovering that true resilience isn't a hard rock that breaks under pressure: it is fluid, adaptable water. What We Deeply Unpack in This Naked Conversation: The Hardness Fallacy: Why the rigid perfectionism you used to survive your childhood is now the exact cage starving your soul. Somatic Movement as Therapy: How to use physical challenges to move stuck survival energy out of your nervous system and release trauma-clutter without a rigid formula. The Reality of True Vulnerability: Dismantling the outdated, toxic cultural norms surrounding masculinity and emotional suppression. Shifting the Internal Focus: Moving from an insatiable need for external validation to a deeply anchored, daily practice of somatic gratitude. Building a Joy List: Practical, micro-steps to uncover your authentic desires, connect with a real community, and safely allow your inner light to shine. Be warned: This conversation does not offer a cheap spiritual shortcut. It is an honest, confrontational, and deeply compassionate mirror that will challenge you to drop your armor. Accessing this shift can radically change your entire relationship with your pain and rewrite the trajectory of your health. Want more Colin? https://thecolinowensby.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thecolinowensby

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Welcome to "In the Nude: Naked Truth of Healing," a raw and honest podcast diving deep into the journey of healing from trauma. Join us as we explore the tough and necessary aspects of healing without sugarcoating. From overcoming adversity to gaining resilience, we cover it all to support your healing journey. Tune in for candid conversations, practical tools, and a community that understands. Let's heal together.

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