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. 2D AGO

    “Am I Lazy?” Trauma, Rest, and the Old Voices That Still Try to Protect Us

    Even when we know better, old thoughts can still show up. In this episode, I talk about the fear of being “lazy” that often surfaces during healing; especially when your body no longer functions the way it once did. After trauma, rest may be greater, energy may look different, and life may feel slower. And intellectually, you might understand that this is okay… yet still feel haunted by the old voice that says you’re failing. That voice isn’t trying to hurt you. It’s a part of you that once kept you safe in environments where slowing down wasn’t allowed. I walk through how this part showed up for me, what I did when it resurfaced, and how learning to meet it with understanding instead of shame changed everything. Healing isn’t linear: it’s more like a tangled ball of yarn. And that messiness isn’t a flaw; it’s proof that you’re alive, adapting, and learning how to be with yourself in new ways. This episode is a reminder to stay with yourself where you are, with compassion and patience.

    8 min

  2. 4D AGO

    Naked Conversations: Reclaiming Your Authentic Voice to Heal Trauma & Break Limiting Beliefs (with Deepak Chari)

    Healing from trauma often leaves us feeling disconnected from our voice: both literally and emotionally. Many of us learned early that it wasn’t safe to speak, express, or take up space, and those patterns can quietly shape our lives long after the danger has passed. This episode is a Naked Conversation with Deepak Chari, who works with people to reconnect to their authentic voice as a pathway to trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and breaking long-held limiting beliefs. We explore how opening the voice can open access to deeper self-trust, emotional expression, and aliveness; and how the body often holds the truth long before the mind does. We talk honestly about the process, what voice work actually looks like, and how reclaiming your voice can support healing from childhood trauma, emotional suppression, people-pleasing, and relational wounds. This isn’t about performing or becoming someone new: it’s about returning to what was already there before survival taught you to quiet yourself. Deepak also offers tangible tools you can try and a free consultation call for those curious about whether this work could support their healing journey. If you feel alone in your healing, struggle to express yourself, or sense that your voice is tied to your worth and safety: this conversation is for you. 🎧 Listen for connection, curiosity, and a different doorway into healing: no formulas, just presence. Deepak's free tips: www.fastanxietyhelp.com/tips Deepak's website for the free 15 min consultation: www.fastanxietyhelp.com

    1h 1m

  3. FEB 12

    You Are the Thrive: Healing Trauma Through Play, Presence, and Being

    So many of us were taught--explicitly or quietly--that thriving is something we earn later.After we heal enough.After we become more disciplined, more productive, more “adult.” But what if you are the thrive? In this episode, we talk about how trauma trains us to reach outside ourselves for worth, joy, and safety: and how that keeps us stuck in survival instead of presence. We explore why children are natural examples of thriving: they play, explore, feel deeply, rest fully, and experience joy without needing permission or productivity to justify it. If you’re healing from childhood trauma, complex PTSD, emotional neglect, or relational trauma, this episode offers a compassionate reframe: life doesn’t have to be endured five days a week to be “responsible.” Thriving doesn’t live in some future version of you: it lives in your ability to be, feel, explore, and play now. I share practical, grounded ways to reconnect with your playful, curious self, regulate your nervous system, and gently release the unnecessary “have-tos” that drain life from your days. This isn’t about abandoning responsibility: it’s about finding joy inside it. You don’t need to become someone else to thrive.You don’t need to earn joy.You already are the thing you’re looking for. 🎧 Listen if you’re craving connection, permission to enjoy your life again, and a trauma-informed path back to aliveness...without formulas or shame.

    30 min

  4. FEB 5

    How to Be When the World Is Breaking: Trauma Healing, Grief, and Choosing to Stay Alive (Part 2)

    When the world feels cruel, violent, and unjust—when immigrants are dehumanized, people are harmed, and systems fail: it can feel pointless to focus on healing. Like nothing you do matters. In Part Two of this series, we talk about how personal trauma and collective trauma collide, and why letting defeat take root is exactly what harms us most. Whether it’s the people who traumatized us in the past or the systems dehumanizing people now, when we give up on our own humanity, they win. This episode explores how anger, grief, exhaustion, and helplessness are reasonable responses - and how choosing to care for your mental health is not escapism, but resistance. I talk about why healing yourself is one of the most meaningful ways to impact the world, how nervous system regulation supports ethical action, and how staying emotionally alive matters more than perfection. This is a grounded, trauma-informed conversation for anyone trying to heal while living in a deeply broken world: and wondering how to keep going without going numb.You still have agency.Your healing still matters.And your being here is not insignificant.

    47 min

  5. JAN 29

    How to Be When Healing Trauma: Practices That Helped Me Feel Safe, Present, and Alive (Pt 1)

    If you’re healing from trauma, you’ve probably asked yourself some version of this:How do I actually be?How do I exist without constant fixing, striving, or self-monitoring?This is Part One of a two-part series where I share the practical exercises, daily practices, and mindset shifts that most changed my ability to feel safe in my body, present in my life, and connected to myself again. These are not formulas or step-by-step guarantees—because trauma healing doesn’t work that way. They’re real, lived practices that helped me move out of survival mode and into a life that feels more grounded, content, and human.We talk about nervous system safety, emotional regulation, self-compassion, and what “being” actually looks like after childhood trauma, complex PTSD, and relational wounds. If you feel alone in your healing, tired of advice that skips over reality, and unsure how to live while healing—this episode is for you.You don’t need to become someone else.You’re learning how to be yourself again.

    42 min

  6. JAN 22

    Healing Isn’t a Formula: Self-Compassion, Tiny Wins, and Growing After Trauma

    If you’re healing from trauma and feel alone in how hard it is, this episode is for you.So many trauma survivors are taught—directly or indirectly—that healing should look impressive, linear, or productive. That if you’re still struggling, you’re failing. But healing isn’t a formula, and it isn’t proven by big breakthroughs. It’s built through small adjustments, quiet resilience, and the willingness to care for yourself where you actually are.In this episode, we talk about shifting perspective in trauma recovery:moving from self-criticism to self-compassion, from focusing on what you haven’t done to noticing how far you’ve already come. We explore why celebrating “mediocre wins” matters for nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and long-term growth—and how acceptance and self-love are not complacency, but powerful acts of change.This is an honest and practical conversation about healing from childhood trauma, emotional trauma, and relationship trauma without shame, perfectionism, or comparison. Together, we practice looking back at past versions of ourselves with kindness, and ending each day by naming one small win that proves we are growing—even when it doesn’t feel dramatic.You are not behind.You are not broken.And you don’t have to do healing “right” to be healing.This episode is an invitation to feel seen, to build inner safety, and to reclaim growth by loving yourself exactly where you are.

    24 min

  7. JAN 15

    New Year, True You: Trauma Healing Through Self-Acceptance, Safety, and Worth

    “New year, new you” sounds motivating...but for people healing from trauma, it often feels like another way we’re told we’re not enough yet.In this episode, we slow that narrative way down.Healing isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about reconnecting with your true self—the version of you that existed before coping strategies, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and survival modes took over. The thriving life you want doesn’t come from forcing change; it comes from allowing what’s already there to surface safely.I walk you through a simple but powerful reflective exercise used in trauma healing and nervous system regulation: clearly envisioning the life you desire: not just the outcome, but your average day, how you want to feel, move, and exist. From there, we gently ask “why”: and then ask it again: until we reach the root drivers underneath the dream. For most of us, those roots are safety and worth.We talk about:Why “new year, new you” can be harmful for trauma survivorsLetting go of coping mechanisms without shaming yourself for needing themHow attachment wounds shape our goals and motivationsSitting with discomfort instead of bypassing itReclaiming worth and safety as internal experiences, not external achievementsWhy healing is a journey, not a destination—and why that’s actually freeingThis isn’t a one-time exercise or a quick fix. It’s a practice you can return to as you grow, helping you notice your wounds with compassion, tend to them in real time, and prove to yourself- over and over- that you are already worthy, lovable, and enough.If you’re healing from childhood trauma, emotional neglect, or relationship trauma and feel alone in the process, this episode is here to remind you: you’re not broken, you’re becoming yourself again.

    28 min

  8. JAN 8

    Your Default Isn’t Broken: Healing Habits, Triggers, and Returning to Your True Self

    We often hear that our “default behaviors” are the problem : that we need to break bad habits, fix our coping mechanisms, or override our nervous system.But what if default behavior itself isn’t the enemy?In this episode, we explore a gentler and more truthful idea:Your current defaults may be survival-based, but your original nature : your true self : was never broken.Before trauma, before coping, before behavioral adjustments meant to keep you safe, you had a natural way of being. Curious. Connected. Responsive. That version of you still exists : and the more you reconnect with yourself, the more your system naturally wants to return there.We talk about:How trauma reshapes the Default Mode Network and creates automatic behavioral patternsWhy triggers and coping mechanisms aren’t failures : they’re adaptationsThe difference between survival defaults and your true self’s natural tendenciesWhy breaking bad habits doesn’t work without self-connectionHow replacing old habits with healthier ones happens through integration, not forcePractical ways to reconnect with yourself and gently rewire default behaviorHow nervous system regulation supports real, lasting changeThis episode reframes healing as remembering rather than fixing.When you stop fighting yourself and start listening, your system begins to choose healthier patterns on its own.You don’t need to become someone new.You need to come back to who you were : before you had to survive.If you’re healing from childhood trauma, relationship trauma, or stuck in cycles of triggers and default behaviors, this episode will help you reconnect with your true self and build change that actually lasts.

    41 min
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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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