Send us a text Episode Overview In this powerful episode, Coach Liz invites you to explore one of the most transformative questions survivors can ask: “Who are you when you remove the pain?” Abuse often strips away self-worth, replacing truth with lies that silence the voice within. This conversation is a reminder that your true identity has never been lost; it’s waiting to be reclaimed. Key Topics 1. Reclaiming Your Identity After Abuse Learn how trauma distorts your self-perc...

Send us a text Overview: In this deeply emotional and educational episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz Blanding unpacks the painful reality of trauma bonding. This psychological and chemical attachment keeps survivors tied to abusive relationships even when they want to leave. Through compassion, truth, and faith-based insights, Liz helps listeners understand how to recognize the difference between real love and trauma-induced attachment. Key Discussion Points: 💔 Understa...

Send us a text In this powerful episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz Blanding explores two of the most insidious forms of abuse—emotional and spiritual abuse. These forms of control often hide behind the appearance of care, faith, or love, leaving survivors questioning their worth, intuition, and even their connection to God. Key Discussion Points: 🕊️ Defining Emotional and Spiritual Abuse (0:13) Emotional abuse is a pattern of behaviors like gaslighting, name-callin...

Send us a text Episode Summary In this powerful opening to the Mini Trauma Recovery Talks: Domestic Violence & Trauma Recovery Series, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding helps survivors and supporters understand why leaving an abusive situation doesn’t automatically mean the trauma is gone. Trauma is not just about what happened — it’s about how those experiences reshaped your body, brain, and spirit. Liz explains how the “trauma loop” keeps survivors stuck in cycles of triggers, fear, and sha...

Send us a text Summary: In this powerful conversation, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding of Oasis Wellness Centers sits down with real estate innovator Diego Giraldo of RTO Enterprises to explore the connection between trauma, foreclosure, and housing. Together, they discuss how foreclosure compounds financial and emotional trauma and how dignity can be restored through creative rent-to-own housing solutions. Listeners will learn: How RTO Enterprises helps distressed property owners avoid foreclosu...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In this heartfelt episode, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding shares a powerful story about a friend’s daughter who was brutally harmed in a domestic violence incident. Drawing from her own journey as a survivor of domestic violence, Liz unpacks how unresolved trauma fuels the cycle of violence—and how it can escalate from “one hit” to life-threatening situations if not addressed. She highlights the ripple effect of domestic violence on families and loved ones who o...

Send us a text Description In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Peer-to-Peer Wellness Coach Liz Blanding explores why trauma-informed leadership is essential in every environment — the workplace, church, schools, and community. Liz shares a personal story of returning to work too soon after her first car accident and being re-traumatized by a supervisor’s angry response. This experience highlights how unresolved trauma and non-trauma-informed leadership can cause lasting...

Send us a text Description In this episode of the Get Trauma Informed Podcast, Coach Liz dives deep into the question: What is trauma? Trauma is not just about the events we’ve lived through — it’s about how our mind, body, and spirit respond when life feels overwhelming, unsafe, or unbearable. We’ll also explore what trauma looks like in relationships, why timing matters when sharing your past, and how to protect your energy in those conversations. Timestamps 1:07 – What tr...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In this powerful episode, host Liz Blanding sits down with trauma survivor and sound healer Matthew DeWard. After surviving a near-death stabbing and enduring extensive facial reconstructive surgery, Matthew found healing through music and peer-to-peer trauma recovery. Today, he channels his journey into helping others heal at Stillwater Temple, his sound-focused recording studio. Together, Liz and Matthew explore: How trauma shaped Matthew’s life and hi...

Send us a text Episode Overview: This episode of the "Get Trauma Informed" podcast addresses the significant challenges transit workers face, including high levels of stress, frequent traumatic events, and long-term impacts on their mental health. Featuring insights from Coach Michael, a retired Chicago Transit Authority worker, the discussion also highlights the "Pathway to Trauma Recovery" book, offering readers strategies and resources to foster trauma recovery. Key Takeaways: Transit Wor...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In this episode of Get Trauma Informed, pre-recorded July 2024. We sat down with Justin Moore, a former Air Force jet engine mechanic turned entrepreneur. Justin shares his inspiring journey from military life to business success, and how a trauma-informed approach has helped him navigate life’s challenges. He discusses the impact of mental health awareness and the importance of shifting away from unhealthy coping mechanisms. Justin also introduces his sustain...

Send us a text Episode Summary In this closing episode of the Warrior Within 12-week series, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding celebrates the journey we’ve taken together from understanding trauma to building emotional safety, recovering from financial trauma, reclaiming identity, and experiencing the power of peer support. This week, the focus shifts to your new mission: moving forward with meaning after trauma. Trauma may always be part of your story, but it doesn’t define your future. You’ll ...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In this episode of Get Trauma Informed, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding explores the transformative role of peer support in long-term trauma recovery. Trauma can make us feel isolated, unseen, and unsafe, but connection changes everything. You’ll discover: How peer support rewires your beliefs about safety, belonging, and worth. The neuroscience of co-regulation and why your nervous system needs safe people to fully recover. A biblical reflection from Ecclesias...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In Week 10 of The Warrior Within, Liz Blanding addresses a critical — and often misunderstood — part of the trauma recovery process: relapse. Whether it's returning to old habits, toxic relationships, or emotional shutdown, relapse is not the end of your healing. It’s a signal from your nervous system that you need support, not shame. Key Topics Covered: What relapse looks like in trauma recovery (isolation, shutdown, avoidance)Why relapse happens: trigger stac...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In Week 9 of The Warrior Within, Liz Blanding tackles one of the most transformational skills in trauma recovery: boundaries. For many survivors, especially those from chaotic homes, military environments, or abusive relationships, boundaries were broken before they were ever built. In this episode, Liz breaks down what boundaries are, how trauma disrupts them, and how rebuilding them can lead to self-worth, peace, and emotional wholeness. Key Topics Covered: U...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In Week 8 of The Warrior Within, Liz Blanding leads us into one of the most transformative aspects of trauma recovery: telling your story. Trauma teaches us to stay silent, shrink, or hide. But healing begins when we reclaim our voice and shift from surviving to storytelling. This episode explores how testimony transforms, why telling your story in your own words matters, and how it aligns with both neuroscience and scripture. Key Topics Covered: Why storytelli...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In Week 7 of The Warrior Within, Liz Blanding opens up a vital yet often overlooked topic: financial trauma. Many trauma survivors — veterans and civilians alike — carry deep emotional wounds around money. From poverty and job loss to financial abuse and instability, money becomes more than a resource — it becomes a trigger. This episode explores how to recognize financial trauma, understand its symptoms, and start healing your relationship with money through s...

Send us a text Episode Summary: In this powerful episode of The Warrior Within, Liz Blanding explores the essential trauma recovery theme of emotional safety. From nervous system dysregulation to broken trust and relational isolation, Liz breaks down how trauma impacts our emotional world—and how we can begin to heal. Whether you're a veteran or a civilian CPTSD survivor, this episode guides you toward regulation, rebuilding trust, and reconnecting with yourself and others. Key Topics Covere...

Send us a text Episode Summary: This week on The Warrior Within, Liz Blanding dives into the complicated and often misunderstood world of trauma triggers and flashbacks. With honesty and compassion, she explains how the body remembers what the mind tries to forget. Whether you're a military veteran or civilian survivor of CPTSD, this episode provides insight, validation, and practical strategies to navigate flashbacks and build a sense of safety. Key Topics Covered: What is a trigger? Unders...

Send us a text Episode Description: In Week 4 of The Warrior Within, we’re addressing two of the most hidden—and spiritually painful—wounds many trauma survivors carry: moral injury and survivor’s guilt. Whether you're a veteran grappling with what happened in combat, or a civilian struggling with shame after escaping abuse or outliving others, these wounds go beyond the emotional—they cut into the soul. In this episode, Coach Liz shares the truth: you are not defined by what you saw, ...