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by Sarah Herstich
A podcast for anyone healing from complex PTSD, childhood emotional neglect, and the patterns you've been carrying without knowing what to call them.Hosted by EMDR and somatic trauma therapist Sarah Herstich, each episode gets into nervous system healing, trauma responses, and what it actually takes to stop living in survival mode.If you've spent years people-pleasing, apologizing for existing, or holding it together on the outside while unraveling on the inside, this is for you.We talk about the fawn response, toxic shame, hypervigilance, and why your body still doesn't feel safe even when nothing bad is happening. No bypassing, no Band-Aids, just honest conversation about healing from complex trauma and getting your life back.Whether you're just figuring out what CPTSD is or you've been in therapy for years, you'll find nervous system education, somatic practices, and someone who actually understands what you'
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- 2 days ago26 min
Bonus Episode! AI, Mental Health, and Finding Your Crew with Super Cr3w
I recorded this one live from the Not Alone Awards, powered by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and presented by NAMI and the Inspiring Children Foundation. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Super Cr3w, the b-boy crew that won season two of America's Best Dance Crew. They've been dancing together since 2000, and now they're producing their own family show on the Strip, Robots vs. Ninjas. What started as a fun backstage chat turned into something much deeper. We talked a...
- 4 days ago42 min
Healing Developmental Trauma and the BITES Framework With Zipa Leah Scheinberg
You can tell your therapist exactly why you people please... and you still find yourself apologizing for things that aren't yours before your brain even catches up. If that sounds familiar, this conversation is for you. This week I'm talking with Zipa Leah Scheinberg, LCSW, an EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant who has spent more than fifteen years working with trauma and dissociation. Zipa grew up as the youngest of ten, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and sh...
- 1 weeks ago34 min
Why Do I Keep Replaying Conversations? Rumination and CPTSD
Do you lie awake replaying a conversation from three days ago, rewriting what you said and wondering if they're mad at you? In this solo episode, I'm talking about rumination and complex trauma: why so many of us replay, rewrite, and overthink, and why it started as a way to stay safe. We get into the difference between rumination, worry, and intrusive memories, why the loop gets stickier over time, what it does in your body, and why "are they mad at me" hits so hard when you grew...
- 2 weeks ago40 min
Why Do I Feel Worse After Therapy? EMDR and Complex Trauma
Ever leave a therapy session looking totally fine, then spend the next three days clenching your jaw, snapping at everyone, and wondering if you’re just bad at therapy? Or find yourself completely checked out mid-session with no idea how long you’ve been gone? In this episode, I answer two listener questions about feeling worse after EMDR and dissociating in therapy sessions. We talk about why therapy can stir so much up when you have complex trauma (CPTSD), the difference between being stirr...
- 3 weeks ago46 min
What Greek Myths Reveal About Complex Trauma with Dr. Gillian O’Shea Brown
Why do we keep reliving the same painful patterns, even when we can see them coming? In this episode, psychotherapist and complex trauma expert Dr. Gillian O’Shea Brown joins me to explore how Greek myths can help us make sense of complex trauma, CPTSD, and the relational wounds we carry from childhood. Gillian is SUCH a good storyteller, and she walks us through four myths that might feel a little too familiar. In this episode, we talk about Why stories can reach us in ways facts and diagnos...
- Oct 7, 202632 min
Is It a Part or Is It Dissociation? OSDD, DID, and CPTSD
Everyone has parts. So how do you know when a part is just a part of you, and when it's crossed into a dissociative disorder like OSDD or DID? This episode came from a listener healing from CPTSD who just found out she has a dissociative disorder. She asked two questions a lot of trauma survivors are carrying. How common are dissociative disorders in trauma survivors? And with parts work like IFS so popular right now, where's the line between ordinary parts and dissociation? So we're walking ...
- Sep 30, 202625 min
Why Do I Want Two Opposite Things? Conflicting Parts in Complex Trauma
Why can you feel lonely and then want everyone to leave you alone, or set a boundary and immediately want to take it back? Today, I explore why conflicting parts and contradictory responses can feel especially intense after complex trauma, drawing from parts work, attachment research, fear learning, and Somatic Experiencing. You’ll hear why missing someone doesn’t mean the relationship was safe, why guilt doesn’t prove a boundary was wrong, and how the body can move toward something while als...
- Sep 23, 202642 min
Grieving What You Never Had After Emotional Neglect
How do you grieve a childhood you never had? If you grew up with childhood emotional neglect, you may have heard that grief is part of complex trauma recovery and still have no idea what you're supposed to be grieving, or what that grief is supposed to feel like. This episode is built around a listener's question. She grew up without much affection, remembers wanting it, and came to believe that needing it meant she wasn't growing up properly. Decades later, she's wondering whether she has an...
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About The Complex Trauma Podcast
A podcast for anyone healing from complex PTSD, childhood emotional neglect, and the patterns you've been carrying without knowing what to call them.Hosted by EMDR and somatic trauma therapist Sarah Herstich, each episode gets into nervous system healing, trauma responses, and what it actually takes to stop living in survival mode.If you've spent years people-pleasing, apologizing for existing, or holding it together on the outside while unraveling on the inside, this is for you.We talk about the fawn response, toxic shame, hypervigilance, and why your body still doesn't feel safe even when nothing bad is happening. No bypassing, no Band-Aids, just honest conversation about healing from complex trauma and getting your life back.Whether you're just figuring out what CPTSD is or you've been in therapy for years, you'll find nervous system education, somatic practices, and someone who actually understands what you'
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