Naked Insights Podcast - musing all things health, relationships and trauma
The Naked Insights Podcast explores the powerful connection between mind and body in navigating trauma, health, and relationships. Each episode examines how our perceptions and behaviours shape mental health, our relationships with others, and the delicate balance with physical well-being.
From managing trauma, workplace stress, and major life transitions to cultivating healthy, nourishing relationships, Naked Insights offers tools, tips, and real stories to help you and your loved ones become more resilient and adaptable to change. Through an integrative and evidence-based lens, you’ll learn how to maintain balance and well-being in today’s increasingly chaotic world.
Hosted by Adele Theron, each season features a different expert as she deep-dives into the intersections between trauma, health, and relationships.
Season 1 features Sam McSorley, a functional medicine specialist and together Adele and Sam bridge the gap between holistic health and psychological resilience, guiding you towards a more balanced, empowered, and successful life.
Season 2 features Dr Lindsay Aikman, a consultant clinical psychologist and together they bring a clinically grounded lens to mental health, trauma, and relationships, cutting through myths, challenging oversimplified narratives, and exploring what truly supports lasting change.
About the Host:
Adele Theron (CCTP, CFTP, CFFTP, PGDipTraumaticStudies, MPsych) is a trauma therapist and specialist in trauma and transition recovery. She is the founder of Naked Recovery, which offers structured programmes to help clients transform trauma related to bereavement, redundancy, birth trauma, separation, divorce, infidelity, midlife crises, family estrangement, and health-related challenges. Her evidence-based recovery programmes have supported thousands of clients across more than 90 countries. Adele is currently completing her doctorate in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland, where her research focuses on developing clinically applicable treatments for clinician-delivered trauma-informed care for patients with chronic illness. Her integrative, science-based methods draw from somatic psychology, coaching psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice.
About the Season 1 Expert:
Sam McSorley (MHealSc, PGHlthSci, DipClinHerbMed, BHSc (Complementary Medicine)) is a naturopath and functional medicine practitioner passionate about empowering people with choice in healthcare. As the founder of Sam McSorley Connecting Wellness, she helps clients recover from complex health conditions through holistic programmes that unite body and mind. Sam’s approach integrates nutrition, herbal medicine, genetic testing, nutritional psychiatry, and somatic psychotherapy, guided by the emerging science of psychoneuroimmunology - the study of how psychological processes influence immune and nervous system function.
About the Season 2 Expert:
Dr Lindsay Aikman is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology in the UK (BA BSc PGCert DClinPsy AFHEA) registered with The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Lindsay brings a rich blend of clinical, academic, and leadership experience to conversations about how trauma, relationships, and physical health are intricately connected. Her work is rooted in the understanding that psychological distress is embodied, relational, and shaped by lived experience across the lifespan. Lindsay supports people with complex presentations where physical health, identity, attachment, and trauma are deeply intertwined. Alongside clinical practice, Lindsay is an Associate Professor at a UK university, where she trains future generations of psychologists.
Naked Insights Podcast - musing all things health, relationships and trauma
Season 1 - Episode 14 - The Healing Block: How My Body Predicted My Diagnosis Before the Doctors Did
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This episode pulls back the curtain on something rarely shared: a real therapy session where Adele’s body diagnosed an injury before doctors did.
Featuring our guest Dr. Karen Baikie on this episode, she talks about using Hakomi, a powerful somatic therapy, where Adele’s child state of consciousness revealed exactly what was happening in her foot, long before medical tests confirmed it.
Dr Karen Baikie (PhD, MClinPsych, MAPS, FCCLP, CHT, SEP) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 25 years experience working with individuals and couples, and providing supervision, in private practice in Sydney, Australia. Karen is the Director and Founder of Grow Mindfully: Centre for Psychology, Psychotherapy and Health, a group practice of like-minded therapists working with mindful, somatic, compassion-based and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. Karen is a Certified Hakomi Trainer with the Hakomi Institute Pacifica Team, Lead Trainer on the Sydney Comprehensive Training, Organiser for Hakomi trainings in Sydney, and co-facilitator in the Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationships Training (H.E.A.R.T.). She runs workshops on aspects of Hakomi and H.E.A.R.T. throughout Australia. Karen holds a PhD in psychology on the use of expressive writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of trauma. She has worked extensively with adult survivors of child abuse and is also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and Somatic Experiencing. Karen supports people with difficulties in the areas of attachment, trauma, childhood abuse, emotional health, relationships, parenting, fertility, eating, and gut health. She is passionate about assisting individuals, couples and other therapists in using mindfulness-based approaches to support healing as well as deepening awareness and connection with themselves and others.
We dive into:
🧠 How child states hold unspoken truths about trauma and the body
⚡ What really happens inside a somatic therapy session (the “black box” revealed)
👣 How the body’s wisdom can outpace even medical professionals
💡 Why Hakomi changes the way we understand healing and diagnosis
This one is raw, controversial, and eye-opening and a rare look at the intersection of psychology, somatics, and the body’s intelligence.
Listen now to hear how therapy can uncover truths hidden deep in the body.
