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Growing Tall Poppies : Thrive After Trauma

Growing Tall Poppies : Thrive After Trauma

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Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma is the podcast for anyone ready to heal from trauma, reclaim their power, and step into post-traumatic growth. Hosted by Identity, Trauma and Post Traumatic Growth Practitioner and coach, and author Dr. Natalie (Nat) Green, this empowering podcast blends real-life survivor stories, expert insights, and practical strategies to help you move beyond pain and create a life filled with purpose, resilience, and joy.


Each episode dives deep into the psychological and emotional journey of thriving after trauma—exploring identity, values, nervous system healing, resilience, and renewed purpose. You’ll hear how others overcame adversity, plus learn tools you can use to regulate your nervous system, rewire your mindset, and accelerate your growth journey.


What You’ll Gain from Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma

- Real Stories of Resilience – Inspiring conversations with survivors who turned trauma into strength and transformation.
- Expert Guidance & Healing Tools – Proven strategies from leading professionals on trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, and mental health.
- Empowering Insights – Explore the mindsets, practices, and Trauma Archetypes that unlock post-traumatic growth and freedom.
- Psychology Meets Coaching – Innovative approaches that bridge science, 35 years of experience in the psychology field and coaching to fast-track healing and thriving.


With over 35 years’ experience and her own lived journey of trauma and growth, Dr. Nat Green—creator of the ABS Method® and Archetypes of Transformation—is dedicated to ending trauma-associated suffering. Through her podcast, bestselling books, and transformative programs, she guides survivors and professionals alike to rediscover their identity, align with their values, and shine brightly beyond adversity.


If you’re ready to not just survive trauma but truly thrive after it, this podcast is your roadmap to resilience, healing, and post-traumatic growth.

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  • Integrity Wounds: When Your Truth or Character is Questioned

    Integrity Wounds: When Your Truth or Character is Questioned
    Oct 19 2026
    Send us a Message to connect Have you ever been accused or dismissed in a way that made you question whether others truly see your honesty and character? How do you hold the pain of being misunderstood or unfairly judged while still wanting to move forward and be visible in the world? In this deeply personal episode, Dr. Nat Green reflects on what she calls “Integrity Wounds”—the deep hurt that happens when your values, truth, or character are questioned, dismissed, or misrepresented. Drawing on her 35 years of work as a former psychologist, her experience from working with thousands of trauma clients, she provides contexts using examples of a client’s childhood experience and opens up about her own experience of reporting an alleged sexual assault where accountability was never achieved. She also explores how they can appear in leadership and business, where public criticism can become a judgement about someone’s character.Dr. Nat invites us to consider how these wounds shape our patterns, the protective habits they create, and how, even without closure, we can begin to live more fully. How can you make room for your life and light—even when the story feels unfinished? This episode explores Integrity Wounds and their different forms, the protective responses we develop to keep ourselves safe, and the challenge of holding pain while still moving forward. It shines a light on why unresolved experiences of unfairness or misrepresentation can quietly shape how we show up in life—and what it means for your own experience of post-traumatic growth. If you’ve been feeling stuck despite doing inner work, or struggling with the feeling that your real self isn’t fully believed or seen, this conversation is an invitation to pause and reflect. In this episode we explore: - What it means to carry “integrity wounds” and the different types that affect how we relate to ourselves and others - How early experiences of being wrongly judged or disbelieved influence patterns around visibility, explanation, and self-protection today - Four key types of Integrity Wounds and their protective response: credibility wounds, character wounds, silencing wounds, and unresolved justice wounds - The difference between taking responsibility and carrying unfair judgments about your character or intentions - How to begin naming and understanding the impact of these wounds without rushing to “fix” or ignore the hurt - Ways to hold grief and pain about injustice while still making room for the life you want to live now Key Takeaways - Integrity Wounds happen when your honesty or character is questioned, dismissed, or misrepresented, and they can deeply shape your behavior and identity - Protective responses—like over-explaining, people-pleasing, silencing yourself, or replaying unresolved hurts—serve a purpose but can also keep you stuck - Holding the pain of integrity wounds while moving forward doesn’t mean pretending the unfairness didn’t happen or settling for it - Naming the specific hurt and the patterns that followed can help you make more conscious choices about what you carry with you now - You can allow yourself to live more fully even when closure, apology, or justice feels impossible or unresolved A Question To Reflect On When your integrity feels questioned or misunderstood, what would it mean to let yourself live more fully while that remains unfinished? You may have been defending, explaining, or shrinking to avoid more hurt—this episode invites you to gently pause, feel your support underneath, and consider what you really need right now. If this episode resonated with you….If you've been doing the inner work but still feel like something is quietly holding you back, it may not be a lack of motivation, confidence or willpower. It may be that your identity is still organised around survival. At the heart of this conversation is a question Dr Nat is continuing to explore herself:“Can I allow myself to live more fully whilst this remains unfinished?”Moving forward doesn’t require you to change your account of what happened or call an unfair outcome acceptable. You can still care about justice and want more of your life available for connection, enjoyment and growth.If this episode puts words around something you or someone close to you has experienced, please share it with them. There’s no need to tell your story publicly for it to matter.That's exactly why Dr Nat created her Archetypes of Transformation(tm) and the Invisible Ceiling Masterclass - to help you begin recognising the unconscious patterns, identity fractures and protective strategies that may be keeping you from fully stepping into the life that's waiting for you. Check out the Masterclass Here Take the free Archetypes quiz here: “Integrity wounds” is descriptive language Nat is developing, rather than a clinical diagnosis.If this episode resonates with you then...
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  • Why You Keep Repeating Old Patterns (Even When You Know Better) | Dr. Alena Čandová

    Why You Keep Repeating Old Patterns (Even When You Know Better) | Dr. Alena Čandová
    Oct 12 2026
    Send us a Message to connect Why do we keep repeating patterns we know aren't serving us, even after years of self-awareness, therapy or personal development?You understand why you people-please. You recognise your need to stay in control. You know that always being the strong, capable one is exhausting.And yet, when something triggers you, there you are again, responding in the same familiar ways.In this episode, host, Dr Nat Green is joined by Dr Alena Čandová, author of Grace Over Grit: The Neuroscience of Claiming Your Inner Authority and creator of the Grace Over Grit method, a neuroscience-based framework for sustainable, embodied transformation. With a background in chiropractic, neuroscience and nervous system work, Alena helps high-achieving people move beyond simply understanding their patterns to changing the deeper wiring underneath them.Alena shares her own story: being a strong, capable, positive woman who thought she'd had the best childhood ever, until a pattern of difficult relationships, years of yoga and a silent retreat in Bali showed her how disconnected she had become from herself. She describes the moment the retreat asked her to send love and compassion to herself, why she couldn't do it, and what she learned about the false, protective identity she had been living from.Together, Nat and Alena unpack why the thinking part of the brain can't solve patterns the nervous system created in childhood, why trying to reason or discipline a pattern away can reinforce it, and why so much nervous system advice treats regulation as an emergency fix rather than a daily practice that builds capacity. Alena walks through the four stages of her method, from understanding your nervous system through to resolving the patterns underneath, and shares simple, doable starting points for busy high achievers.This is a warm, practical conversation about safety, self-trust and fulfilment, and about learning to be a human being rather than a human doing.In this conversation, we explore:• Why we can understand our patterns, do the mindset work and still repeat them• How childhood stress shapes the nervous system, and how children often make an overwhelming situation about themselves• The “coping identity”: the strong, capable persona that kept us safe, and what it can cost us• Alena's silent retreat in Bali, and what happened when she was asked to send compassion to herself• Why the prefrontal cortex can't think its way out of patterns the nervous system created• Why fighting or disciplining a protective pattern can reinforce it, and how to get curious about it instead• The four stages of the Grace Over Grit method: understanding the nervous system, regulation, body awareness and emotional resolution• Why a few minutes of regulation every day beats a long practice you can't keep up• The difference between using regulation as an emergency band-aid and using it to build capacity• What the nervous system has to do with fulfilment, rest and the never-ending “I need one more course” loopOne of the most powerful ideas from this conversation is that the version of you who learned to be strong, independent and capable may have helped you survive, but she doesn't have to determine who you become next.You don't necessarily need more willpower, another qualification or another round of mindset work.Sometimes the next step is learning to feel safe enough to respond differently.If you've ever wondered why you can understand yourself so well and still feel stuck in familiar patterns, this conversation is for you.If this conversation resonates, follow the podcast and share this episode with someone who has done the inner work but still wonders why old patterns keep showing up.Remember, you don't have to return to who you were before. You get to discover who you're becoming.A thought from Alena: “Your protectors don't want to be judged because they're doing their best job. They're trying to keep you alive.”About Dr Alena ČandováDr Alena Čandová is the author of Grace Over Grit: The Neuroscience of Claiming Your Inner Authority and the creator of the Grace Over Grit method, a neuroscience-based framework for sustainable, embodied transformation. With a background in chiropractic, neuroscience and nervous system work, she helps high-achieving people move beyond understanding their patterns to changing the deeper wiring beneath them, so they can live with greater inner authority, freedom and self-trust.Links & Resources Alena's website: https://sattvaintegralhealth.comLinkedIn: Book: Grace Over Grit: The Neuroscience of Claiming Your Inner Authority — [here]Alena's website also has an AI concierge listeners can chat with to explore her work privately.Mentioned in the episode: Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroscientist and author of My Stroke of Insight, whose research Alena references on the short life cycle of an emotion.If this episode resonates with you then I'd love for you to hit ...
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    47 min
  • Death Is No Reason to Stop Living: Eva Levina on Surviving Covert Emotional Abuse and Finding Self-Respect

    Death Is No Reason to Stop Living: Eva Levina on Surviving Covert Emotional Abuse and Finding Self-Respect
    Oct 5 2026
    Send us a Message to connect Content note: this episode includes discussion of emotional abuse, gaslighting and a medical emergency. If you or someone you know needs support, see the resources at the end of these show notes. What if the abuse in your relationship never left a single bruise? Eva Levina spent 25 years in a marriage she believed was loving. There were no visible scars and nothing that fit the conventional picture of abuse. Instead, the control was hidden — criticism disguised as concern, control disguised as love, and gaslighting that slowly convinced her she was the problem. In this powerful conversation, Eva takes us back to the beginning: a successful businesswoman in Ukraine who met a man who made her feel truly seen for the first time. She shares the early red flags she didn't have the language for, the promises that never matured, and the final night that ended with a cardiac arrest, a coma and a marriage that was over before she woke up. Eva then shares what came next — being cut off from everything, learning what was actually done to her, and rebuilding her sense of self from the ground up through therapy, salsa dancing, a surprise modelling career at 63, and eventually the memoir series Death Is No Reason to Stop Living. This is an honest, unpolished and deeply human conversation about how covert emotional abuse really works, why leaving is rarely as simple as it looks from the outside, and what it means to finally respect yourself. In this episode, Dr Nat and Eva explore: What covert emotional abuse actually looks like — and how it differs from the picture most of us carry in our headsWhy the early red flags can be so easy to miss when you've never been taught what to look forHow messages like “you're so strong” and “you're so resilient” can keep someone in a harmful relationshipEva's story of the night everything changed, and what followed in the hospital The first steps of rebuilding: understanding what happened, building a team of professionals, and reconnecting with joy through danceWhat it felt like to look at a photo of herself and not recognise the confident woman looking backWhy Eva wrote her memoir series, and the message she hopes readers take from itWhat friends and family can do for someone in an abusive relationship: listen, hold their hand and resist giving adviceEva's biggest achievement — self-respect — and why she believes it's the foundation for everything else A closing thought from Eva: “Nothing is worth stopping living. Educate yourself, learn, respect yourself and never stop living.” A Question To Reflect OnWhen you look back, what messages about being "strong" or "keeping the peace" did you absorb long before you could question them? And are they still quietly deciding what you put up with today?If you've ever explained away something that didn't feel right, or doubted your own instincts, this episode is a reminder that self-respect can be rebuilt. It happens slowly, in your own time, and without having to prove anything to anyone.If this episode resonated with you...If you've done a lot of healing and learning but still catch yourself over-explaining, second-guessing your own judgement, or settling for less than you deserve, it may not be a lack of strength or insight.It may be that identity patterns formed around staying safe, being the strong one, and keeping everyone else okay are still running in the background. Those patterns can create an Invisible Ceiling that's hard to see, let alone move beyond.That's exactly why Dr Nat runs her Invisible Ceiling Masterclass. It helps you begin recognising the protective patterns and identity fractures that may be keeping you small, and reconnecting with the part of you that already knows what you deserve.Reserve your place in the Invisible Ceiling Masterclass HereLinks & ResourcesEva Levina Books — evalevinabooks.com (books, Amazon links and coaching)Connect with Dr Nat:Website: https://drnataliegreen.com.au/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnatgreen/ Free Archetypes of Transformation™ Quiz Here:And remember: you were never meant to cut yourself down to make other people comfortable.There is always room to grow tall and shine brightly.If this episode resonates with you then I'd love for you to hit SUBSCRIBE so you can keep updated with each new episode as soon as it's released and we'd be most grateful if you would give us a RATING as well. You can also find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drnatgreen/ or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrNatalieGreenIntro and Outro music: Inspired Ambient by Playsound.Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended to be deemed or treated as psychological treatment or to replace the need for psychological treatment.
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