In this episode, I’m reflecting on the idea that healing from childhood trauma has far more in common with farming than with quick-fix self-help. We look at what happens when your inner world feels more like a cracked car park than a field – all hard ground, stubborn weeds and not much hope – and why that isn’t a personal failure, it’s just what happens to soil that’s had a hard life.

I’ll walk you through the quiet, unglamorous stages of real change: mapping your inner landscape, breaking up the compacted ground, meeting the “rocks” of old core beliefs, and slowly adding what was missing – nourishment, boundaries, rest, genuine connection. We’ll talk about why nothing seems to be happening just before everything starts to grow, and how to recognise the first small shoots of change without demanding a perfect harvest overnight.

If your nervous system is tired of being yanked at like a seed that’s supposed to sprout on command, this one’s for you. It’s an invitation to bring a farmer’s patience to your own healing: less self-blame, more honest noticing, and a slow trust that even the most neglected inner field can become fertile again.

Content note: this episode includes non-graphic references to childhood trauma and emotional neglect.
This podcast is educational, not a substitute for therapy. If anything here stirs more than you can hold alone, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional or a trusted support service in your area.

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

We begin where every story starts — in the silence after survival. In this opening episode, psychotherapist Jimi Katsis explores how childhood trauma shapes the adult self: the watcher, the performer, and the echoes that never quite fade. A quiet reflection on what remains when the past still speaks through the body.

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

Some storms never make the news. In this conversation, Jimi explores what it means to live inside an emotional climate shaped by childhood trauma — the fog, the pressure, the sudden change in air when safety disappears.

It isn’t just depression or anxiety; it’s the body’s memory of survival.

This episode invites you to notice your own internal weather, to recognise when the sky darkens, and to consider the possibility of light breaking through again.

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

Some voices in our heads don’t belong to us.

In this episode, Jimi explores the echoes that repeat long after trauma ends — the internal whispers that say you’re too much, you’re not enough, you’ll never be safe. These messages feel like truth, but they aren’t. They’re distortions, old recordings from a time when survival meant believing anything that kept you small.

Together, we start to name these echoes for what they are — not truth, but residue. And in that naming, something begins to shift.

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

Long before we learned the language of safety, we learned to watch ourselves survive.

In this episode, Jimi unpacks the two internal roles many trauma survivors come to know well — the watcher, always scanning the room for danger, and the performer, stepping forward to make everything look fine. These parts once kept us alive, but they also kept us distant.

What happens when we begin to notice them working in real time? When we stop confusing performance for connection — and start asking what it would mean to simply be seen?

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

There are times when reflection isn’t metaphor — it’s confrontation.

In this episode, Jimi talks about the moment you catch sight of yourself — not as healed or finished, but changed. When you realise the roles you built to survive no longer fit, and that continuing to wear them costs too much.

Through personal story and quiet analysis, this episode explores what happens when the mirror finally shows you what you’ve become — and how to begin again, without losing what mattered most.

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma

Learning to connect after trauma isn’t about finding new people — it’s about finding a new nervous system.

In this episode, Jimi explores what it means to stay in connection instead of performing it. The moment someone reaches toward you with genuine care and, for once, you don’t retreat. How authenticity — yours and theirs — becomes the bridge where healing happens.

This is a conversation about proximity tolerance, about learning to stay close without losing yourself. Because real safety isn’t the absence of danger — it’s the presence of truth.

Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:

Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline

These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com

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© Jimi Katsis | The Echoes of Childhood Trauma