PTSD and Beyond

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Welcome to the PTSD and Beyond Podcast with Dr. Deb Lindh, where we give you insights into PTSD, trauma, healing, recovery, and beyond! In each episode, we have a conversation with an inspiring guest who will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, connect with your spirit, and give you a greater understanding of yourself and others on this healing and recovery journey. Hopefully, we’ll also provide insights into possibilities, meaning, purpose, and hope. Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast!

  1. JAN 30

    The Life Hack Playbook in Real Life with Anne Karber

    In this episode, Dr. Deb is joined by Anne Karber, author of The Life Hack Playbook, for a practical conversation about simplifying life, reducing overwhelm, and building peace through intentional daily choices. Anne shares grounded insights on clarity, boundaries, habit change, and creating a life that supports wellbeing rather than burnout. This conversation centers on realistic tools, sustainable growth, and how small shifts can create meaningful long term change. This episode is for anyone feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or disconnected from what matters most, and looking for grounded ways to create more peace, purpose, and stability in everyday life. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available 24/7 and free and confidential. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with Anne Karber: Website - AnneKarber Book - The Life Hack Playbook Podcast - Let's Get Naked Podcast Facebook - Let's Get Naked Podcast Instagram - Let's Get Naked Podcast 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    34 min
  2. JAN 29

    Moral Injury

    Moral injury is what happens when our values, beliefs, and sense of right and wrong are fractured by experiences we never chose, systems we did not control, and situations that forced impossible decisions. In this episode, Dr. Deb explores moral injury as a deeply human experience that impacts identity, meaning, trust, and connection. This conversation moves beyond fear based trauma and into the space of shame, guilt, grief, anger, betrayal, and disillusionment, offering a grounded, trauma informed understanding of how moral injury forms and how healing becomes possible. In this episode: • What moral injury is and how it differs from fear based trauma • How values conflicts impact identity and meaning • Why shame, guilt, grief, and betrayal are common • How moral injury shows up in the nervous system • The role of connection, agency, and meaning in healing Reflection: Where have your values and experiences felt misaligned? What parts of you adapted to survive morally challenging environments? What does integrity feel like in your body? If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available 24/7 and free and confidential. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    27 min
  3. JAN 19

    Finding Hope in Turbulent Times

    In times of uncertainty, stress, and ongoing change, hope can feel fragile, distant, or even unavailable. This episode of PTSD and Beyond explores how hope functions during turbulent times, how hope can become hopeless, how hope can return, and how mindfulness and connection support that process. This conversation is grounded in trauma informed psychology, lived experience, and nervous system awareness. Rather than forcing positivity or offering quick fixes, this episode invites a compassionate, human exploration of hope as a capacity that ebbs and flows depending on safety, connection, and meaning. In this episode, we explore • What hope really means and what it is not • How hope shifts into hopelessness and why that happens • How hopelessness can be a protective response rather than a failure • Where we go and what we do when hope feels distant • How hope returns through safety, connection, and agency • The role of community in sustaining hope • How mindfulness supports nervous system regulation and restores possibility • Why self compassion matters when navigating uncertainty This episode includes a brief, optional mindfulness practice and reflective questions designed to support awareness, integration, and self trust. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available 24/7 and free and confidential. If this episode resonates, consider sharing it with someone who may need permission to slow down and offer themselves grace. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    26 min
  4. JAN 10

    Words to Uplift and Inspire Others with Coach Jerel Seamon

    This milestone 550th episode of PTSD and Beyond features a meaningful conversation between Dr. Deb and basketball coach and mentor Jerel Seamon, marking ten years since they first met. This episode centers the power of vulnerability, lived experience, and storytelling. Jerel reflects on how sharing his story, giving himself grace, and staying connected to purpose have shaped his life and leadership. Together, the conversation explores how openness and honesty create connection, hope, and the ability to support others in meaningful ways. Basketball has been a consistent source of hope in Jerel’s life. The episode includes a shout out to Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves, highlighting how the game continues to represent resilience, belief, and possibility. Rather than focusing on performance or perfection, this conversation reflects on what it means to live with intention, to honor lived experience, and to use what we have been through to help others move forward. In this episode, we explore • Vulnerability as strength • The role of lived experience and storytelling • Giving ourselves grace while continuing to grow • Living with purpose and helping others • Basketball as a source of hope and consistency • The impact of shared moments and long standing connections This episode reflects the heart of PTSD and Beyond where lived experience is honored, stories matter, and healing and growth are possible through connection. If this episode resonates, consider sharing it with someone who may need permission to slow down and offer themselves grace. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with Coach Jerel Seamon: Instagram - @JSeamon24 LinkedIn - Jerel Seamon Email - JerelSeamon@hotmail.com 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    27 min
  5. JAN 3

    Starting Strong or Stalled. Either Way, Give Yourself G.R.A.C.E.

    As a new year begins, there is often an unspoken pressure to feel motivated, clear, and already moving forward. But not everyone starts the year feeling strong. Some start stalled. Some start somewhere in between. In this episode of PTSD and Beyond, we explore why either way is okay and why what matters most is practicing the space of G.R.A.C.E. Grace is not a process. Grace is a practice. When we feel stalled, old patterns often rush in. Shame. Stigma. Rumination. Past criticisms. Stories that were never ours to carry. None of these support healing or growth. This episode introduces the G.R.A.C.E. practice as a way to move beyond coping and into grounded, compassionate self leadership. In this episode, we explore: • Why starting strong does not eliminate the need for grace • Why starting stalled is not a failure • How shame and past conditioning hijack the nervous system • Why grace is a daily practice, not a checklist The G.R.A.C.E. Practice G Ground Returning to the body and the present moment through sensation and breath. R Recognize Naming what is activated while staying anchored in now. A Allow Giving yourself permission to assess and adjust rather than suppress or react. C Choose Remembering that you have choice and practicing responses ahead of time. E Exit and Emerge Stepping into safety and returning when ready, without rushing or escaping. Whether this year has started strong or stalled, this practice offers a way forward that honors healing, agency, and humanity. If this episode resonates, consider sharing it with someone who may need permission to slow down and offer themselves grace. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    11 min
  6. 12/31/2025

    Ending the Year 2025 Well

    As 2025 comes to a close, this episode of PTSD and Beyond offers a slower, more intentional way to pause. December 31 is often treated like a countdown or a party night. But it is also a bridge. A bridge between who we were, who we lived as this year, and who we are becoming next. In this Self Care Sunday episode, Dr. Deb shares a trauma-informed reflection practice that supports the nervous system through transition. Rather than rushing into goals or avoiding the moment, this episode focuses on reflection, closure, and care as essential forms of self care. This episode explores • Why endings and transitions matter • The difference between reflection and rumination • How unfinished projects and decisions affect mental and emotional health • The role of energy awareness, boundaries, and environment • A simple planning approach that supports clarity without overwhelm This episode is for listeners who want to end the year with intention, steadiness, and care. Listen at your own pace. Pause or return as needed. Take what resonates. If this episode resonates, share it with someone who may need a reminder that healing does not always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it arrives as a breath, a softness, or a quiet moment the body whispers you are safe right now. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    24 min
  7. 12/13/2025

    The Body Leads: A Somatic Breakthrough in Trauma Healing

    In today’s episode Dr. Deb shares a rare and deeply personal moment in trauma healing. A moment that did not begin with a thought or an insight, but with a simple sensation in the body that arrived without fear, without story, and without the usual pull of survival mode. This episode explores what happens when the nervous system shifts into safety after years of vigilance. Listeners will hear how lightness, breath, softening, and clarity can emerge before the mind recognizes what is changing and how these somatic signals mark real progress in trauma recovery. Through lived experience and grounded psychology, Dr. Deb walks through the connection between sensation and regulation, the difference between fear based intuition and regulated intuition, and why the body often knows we have healed long before the mind has language for it. You will hear how an unexpected moment of inner child connection reflected years of work in a single gesture and why this kind of integration becomes a powerful sign of identity level healing. This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered how to recognize genuine nervous system regulation, how intuition becomes clearer when the body is safe, and how healing often announces itself quietly rather than dramatically. In this episode you will learn • How a sensation without story signals nervous system regulation • Why the body often leads healing before the mind understands it • The difference between hypervigilance and regulated intuition • How somatic softening creates space for clarity and grounded insight • What it means when the inner child appears with trust and joy • How identity shifts become visible through somatic cues • Why small moments of ease are often the first signs of real recovery Reflection questions for listeners • What sensations tell me I am safe • Where do I feel softening in my body today • How does intuition feel when it is grounded instead of urgent • What has my inner child been waiting for • What identity shifts might already be happening in me If this episode resonates, share it with someone who may need a reminder that healing does not always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it arrives as a breath, a softness, or a quiet moment the body whispers you are safe right now. Follow, subscribe, and leave a review to support PTSD and Beyond. Join us on Ko-Fi to help keep these conversations going. 💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Ko-Fi Store - Buy a Cuppa Coffee Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    55 min
  8. 11/21/2025

    Be the Good: A Season of Humanity, Healing, and Hope

    In this extended PTSDandBeyond podcast episode, Dr. Deb explores what it truly means to be the good in a world that feels overwhelming, stressful, and emotionally heavy for many people during this season. This is more than kindness. This is humanity in action. This is care. This is compassion with depth and intention.   Together we unpack how the holidays activate our nervous systems, old memories, grief, pressures, and expectations. Dr. Deb shares global stories of people choosing goodness in ways that transform moments and remind us that humanity still exists. We talk about supporting someone who is hurting, supporting ourselves when we are hurting, and finding meaning through small acts of presence.   Inside this #PTSDandBeyond episode we will find • An exploration of being the good for yourself and for others • Research on stress, trauma responses, and collective care • Global stories of kindness, courage, and quiet human goodness • A trauma informed reflection on fierce compassion • A simple but powerful game you can play with family, friends, or coworkers to reconnect • Deep reflective questions to carry into the season   This episode invites listeners to rediscover hope through action, intention, and connection. It is a reminder that we heal together and that every act of care creates ripples that reach farther than we may ever know.    💖 If This Episode Resonated Listen, subscribe, and share PTSD and Beyond® with someone who might need this message today. Join our community where we remind one another: We’re better together. We’re stronger together. Take what resonates and go beyond. In Love and Healing, Dr. Deb Listen, Subscribe, & Share: ✨ Remember to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode! 💬 Loved this episode? Share it with someone who needs to hear this message today. 🌟 Leave a review! It helps us reach more people on their healing journey. 💌 Connect with us: Website - Dr. Deb Lindh Website - PTSDandBeyond Etsy Store - MindfulEffectDesigns Insta - @DrDebraLindh Insta - @PTSDandBeyond X (formerly known as Twitter) - @DebraLindh

    26 min
5
out of 5
8 Ratings

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Welcome to the PTSD and Beyond Podcast with Dr. Deb Lindh, where we give you insights into PTSD, trauma, healing, recovery, and beyond! In each episode, we have a conversation with an inspiring guest who will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, connect with your spirit, and give you a greater understanding of yourself and others on this healing and recovery journey. Hopefully, we’ll also provide insights into possibilities, meaning, purpose, and hope. Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast!