This is my first episode inspired by a few listeners who have been in touch with me to share how sex addiction has disrupted, or is disrupting their lives. I went looking for answers only to find two world-class experts in the area of Sex Addiction: Dr. Kirsty Loudon and Rob Watt. Dr. Kirsty, Rob and myself have connected a few times over a couple of months to organise the content for this episode. We have distilled the information into two key questions: "How do I know I have a Sex Addiction vs...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Her name is Roseanne Reilly, an Irish woman in NYC, who is a masterful facilitator of individuals with C-PTSD. Her career path moved her through being a nurse, a health & safety educator and trainer, an advanced practitioner of Craniosacral Therapy, and today, a Trauma Informed Practitioner with dozens of qualifications and certifications to her name after more than 10 years study in the areas of stress and its affects on the brain-body. Roseanne herself has risen from the provebial ashes th...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This episode is a more candid look at the uglier sides of recovery as I reflect on the last 10 days or so where I have been all sorts of dysregulated, and then irritated that I am still 'falling down', and the honest look I had to take at what I am 'really' doing about my recovery. As it goes, what I am doing pales in comparison to what I let myself BELIEVE I am doing. I share what I am doing now, in case it should inspire your own version. I also talk briefly about the 3 distinctions I have bee...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 21
I share the clarity I have gained, some distinctions I've made, and some suggestions on how and where to start. Starting is what matters most here. This is the episode where I unpack two areas that matter a lot when it comes to: healing, recovery and shifting out of the chaos of emotional overwhelm, emotional numbing, and emotional exhaustion, and into a space that feels really good to be in, even when stressful spaces, places and faces pop up. That means understanding; the body's role in your h...
Mar 03, 2024•53 min•Season 2Ep. 20
An episode that looks at one of the most important tools that I've used to transform my life from chaos and trainwrecks, to calm and having all sorts of fun thriving. 2 years ago I didn't quite get the value of this practice; I read a few books, watched a few videos and gave it a go. Today? I realise if I had it to do all over again - this journey out of the proverbial void - I would do it quite differently. In this episode I share what, why, where, how of Self Regulation and compare and contras...
Mar 01, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Elizabeth Walker, Addiction Recovery Coach joins this episode where we bring out a few distinctions around: what is Supporting the Body, Coming into the Body, and Body Work, along with a look at the consistent stages one moves through to exit the proverbial void, while covering how unique each journey on the path is. Elizabeth shares her journey form science into Body Work, and how we can use the sensations and feelings in the body to bring into our awareness the past experiences, buried alive, ...
Mar 01, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 18
#CPTSD #MyStory - This is my first episode from the "My C-PTSD Story" theme. Zara joins me to share her experience of life before she was diagnosed with C-PTSD, what it was like in the early days of the diagnosis, and what life in recovery can feel like. A powerful story from the 'highly successful, fabulous at life, secretly in despair' lens that finally brought Zara to a grinding halt. This story is shared to inspire you, remind you that you are not alone in this, and reassert that there is a ...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 17
I cover a lot of ground in this episode including some real life examples from the past few weeks to set up some new insights on: co-regulation, self-regulation, emotional regulation (or the absence there of - dysregulation) before sharing the practice I am inside of to find my way out, along with a wee stopover to Carl Jung's two cents where he says: "Unless you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate." So in a nutshell, this episode is really about tho...
Feb 26, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 16
I’ve had an emotionally dysregulated morning. I use this episode to share my current observations of what is happening, the 3 Year old Ninja that brought this on, what I’m doing to self regulate and how I am connecting some dots. This morning's experience has also expanded my 4 part framework of c-PTSD recovery to include a 5th stage. I sense there will be 6th stage in the coming weeks. So consider this episode as simply an opportunity for us both to learn together using a very recent (earlier t...
Feb 19, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 15
I share why I firmly believe that the future will have us all trauma-informed. This episode is more business flavoured, and introduces my Brain-Body-Business-Mind (aka Trauma Informed) Approach to Business Growth. I talk about where this language is coming from, why this is moving deeper into the mainsteam, the stats, and give some examples along with a few more brain-body resources I am excited about. I mention two practitioners I have worked with - their contact details are below. Finally I to...
Feb 18, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 14
I use this episode to dissect two things; my spectacular overreaction to a seemingly normal situation that took place yesterday, before dissecting a framework I've been designing for a few months now, to better help me understand what c-PTSD Recovery looks like, sounds like and feels like as I move through it. I'm sharing what I learned about me, my overreaction, my recovery, those 4-stages to recovery, and a wee look at the cost involved with the lingering effects of stress, that we continue to...
Feb 15, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 13
An interesting episode for me as I explore the impact a Toxic Boss can have on their team and the business along with why, how and when my own Toxic Boss style would have been amped up, with a quick look at the role C-PTSD plays on all sides of this table. Of course, I offer only one lens on a subject that deserves a far deeper review of it. I'd like to throw my hat in that ring and suggest.... undiagnosed C-PTSD be considered. _______________________________________ The Trauma Informed Growth P...
Feb 12, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 12
This episode briefly looks at 8 benefits of C-PTSD that lend themselves well to the workplace and generating income, before a quick definition of what contributes to Financial Wellbeing, before I share my thoughts on why C-PTSD can wreak so much havoc with one's financial situation that Financial Insecurity is the space most people with past unresolved stress, continue to operate in. I am sharing my insights on where I am at today in the area of C-PTSD and: money, earning, pricing, investing tha...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 11
I'm shooting from the hip here as I explore my thoughts, insights, and learnings in tandem with a dozen conversations these last few weeks on my challenges with the Growth Mindset industry. The 'Cognitive Reframing' that yields very little long lasting change when... (there's the key for my current assessment) 'when'. But what about Tony Robbins lot who walk on fire? What about focus as a portal? What...? I know! I agree, AND, I'd like to add my two cents on when this is an incomplete truth, *wh...
Feb 07, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this episode I share the story of where this term, Highly Functioning, Secretly-in-Despair came from, what it feels like to be inside it and some tools and resources to use to get out from under it. _______________________________________ The Trauma Informed Growth Podcast explores Complex Trauma, C-PTSD and Post-Traumatic Growth through a business lens. You can get a free PDF copy of Shannon's latest book "C-PTSD at Work: Highly Functioning, Secretly in Despair" on shannoneastman.com/cptsd-a...
Feb 01, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This episode was inspired by Carl Jung. Two quotes in particular. "You meet your destiny on the road you took to avoid it" and "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid meeting their own soul". This episode takes a look at what it looks like when one is lost in the void, the likely destinations your route through the void will drop you off in ,and what you can do to get out of the proverbial Void, or if you've travelled long enough, how to get out of that destination you may have ...
Jan 29, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This episode looks at 3 stats about: Highly Functioning, High Achievers, and Founders, Entrepreneurs before exploring 13 ways C-PTSD leaks in the workplace, along with some context for why that happens. You may see yourself, or someone you know in this list. And that person may be completely unaware that they have C-PTSD, nevermind leaking it at work. _______________________________________ The Trauma Informed Growth Podcast explores Complex Trauma, C-PTSD and Post-Traumatic Growth through a bus...
Jan 27, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this episode, I want to explore this subject, as I have done several times in the past. Only this time, through the brain-body-mind lens. Up until a few years ago, my examination of this subject was largely mind-over-matter, a truly futile endeavour. “I know what I am supposed to do, but I just can’t do it!” The reality is we do know. The challenge is we just can’t act, not in an authentic, inspired, fun-to-do-it kind of way. We will look at Brain-Body Dysregulation, Bottom Up resources, Alig...
Jan 24, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode I reflect on my own journey these last few years, and share how I have organised 5 areas of my life into 3 stages. What they look like, my experience with living in all 3 stages, and how I can it all ebbs and flows between the stages. __________________________ The Trauma Informed Growth Podcast explores Complex Trauma, C-PTSD and Post-Traumatic Growth through a business lens. You can get a free PDF copy of Shannon's latest book "C-PTSD at Work: Highly Functioning, Secretly in De...
Jan 22, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Way too many professionals with unresolved trauma in their past have a tumultuous relationship with money. Simply put, there is typically an ongoing shortage with a whole lot of chaos. Spikes in earnings are often met with periods of famine. They can earn, and earn well, but not necessarily consistently. They can move mountains for you, negotiate like a beast… for you, but when it comes to themselves, those skills to move mountains and fiercely negotiate, might flutter for a moment, only to evap...
Jan 21, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode, I look at Trauma-Informed and separately Growth exploring both, and sharing what it's like to pursue one without the other. Particularly for indvididuals with C-PTSD in business. ___________________________________________________________ The Trauma Informed Growth Podcast explores Complex Trauma, C-PTSD and Post-Traumatic Growth through a business lens. You can get a free PDF copy of Shannon's latest book "C-PTSD at Work: Highly Functioning, Secretly in Despair" on shannoneastm...
Jan 21, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 3
I'm taking a closer look at Complex Trauma noting the 5 or 6 things I wish I knew about Complex Trauma, 15 years ago. What is it? Where does it come from? How it interrups my day-to-day despite how much effort went into concealing it. How it impedes my ability to earn, grow my business, and keep my profit. How it is a body-brain-mind situation, that is not resolved by a growth mindset. How to get out from under it. _____________________________________________________ The Post Traumatic Growth P...
Jan 21, 2024•26 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This episode kicks off our C-PTSD series with a look at the 4 stops along the "Path from Surviving Life, to Having Fun Thriving" before introducing the upcoming episodes. You can find a visual of that Path I talk about over here: ___________________________________________ The Trauma Informed Growth Podcast explores Complex Trauma, C-PTSD and Post-Traumatic Growth through a business lens. You can get a free PDF copy of Shannon's latest book "C-PTSD at Work: Highly Functioning, Secretly in Despai...
Jan 20, 2024•26 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Child hood trauma & the brick walls in business. A conversation whose time has come as we unpack the relationship between early trauma and how it expresses in our business as adults - that we're almost certainly unaware of. Dr. Steve joins us to share his experience of seeing his 6 yr old self, losing his father to divorce, and how that void in his young life expressed in his business - until it healed - the effects in his business, family, leadership and world post healing gave him pause as...
May 20, 2021•16 min
The journey from #head2heart is 3-extraordinary feet. For some of us, we're dragged kicking and screaming. For others it's a spontaneous awakening on the top of a mountain, in Denver Colorado, where you get to experience the magic of spine, breath, body that sends you into an tear filled awakening, as you marvel at the body and what else it has to offer. Dr. Steve came off that mountain one evening, only to return to Canada the next morning to open his own practice, and introduce the world to ho...
May 20, 2021•26 min
Technology is driving us into the most creative space in mankind since the pyramids. We have about 5 years before you start experiencing technology being able to do everything you don't want to do (including your job) - so you can step more deeply into the role you are innately born to be and do - Creative. Earle Hall joins us to discuss Technology as a catalyst for Freedom. Freedom to be yourself, freedom to express your true self, and probably even help resolve how to get over our fear of judg...
May 18, 2021•35 min
#MeaningfulWork - dubbed a mega trend by Foresight Group in the 2020 publication The Meaningful Economy. Gary joins us for a candid conversation about the role of technology in squeezing us out of jobs we've been doing for 20+ years through automation and robotics, and inviting us to reconsider what we do now. We cover: the P2P economy, the future of work, the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the trends Gary is seeing in business that we want to be thinking about now. Meet Gary: Gary Nuttall has a...
May 17, 2021•22 min
Breda McCague is a Senior Banking Professional, Lean In Ireland co-founder, Coach, Speaker and someone invested in normalising the conversations around emotion, struggle in the workplace, and a promoter of making the #3FootJourney from head to heart. Connect with Breda McCague: Website LinkedIn Facebook Youtube...
May 11, 2021•25 min
Dr. Loretta Ferrucci brings her passion, mastery and years of experience to the conversation as we explore why so many of us are still numb from the neck down, how easy it is to decide the heart is wrong and override it with logic and reason, and the peril that shows up in the end that compels us into some form of communication with the body. We asked Dr. Ferrucci to share a - Part 2 to this conversation that we could include with this podcast for a practical application of her insights and meth...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 32 min
Alison Butters talks about her experience in transitioning from hiding from her own “professional cloak” to being seen. There are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with the idea of being seen and showing personal vulnerabilities because of the three things: Lack of self-worth, Issue in credibility, And, other people’s opinions The facilitators also have their own “wounds” which makes credibility and authenticity in performing the work questionable. There is this struggle in resolving own str...
Mar 11, 2021•29 min
