
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, exploring the biology of stress, the role of the nervous system in healing, and how emotional regulation impacts the body.
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 trauma recovery interventions for 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.
In season 1, Adele and Sam bridge the gap between holistic health and psychological resilience, guiding you towards a more balanced, empowered, and successful life.
Episodes
Episode 17 - Stay or Go: How to Know If Your Relationship is Worth Saving

Episode 16 - From Young Mum to Medicine Maven: Sam’s Origin Story

Episode 15 - Why You’re Not Healing: The Missing Link Between Trauma, Metabolomics, Cell Danger Response & Chronic Illness

Episode 14 - The Healing Block: How My Body Predicted My Diagnosis Before the Doctors Did

Episode 13 - From Trauma to Treatment - Adele’s Path to Becoming a Trauma Therapist

Episode 12 - Your Second Brain - How the Microbiome Shapes Mood, Trauma & Stress

Episode 11 - Gut Feelings - The IBS-Anxiety Connection

Episode 10 - Sleep, Insomnia & the Truth About Rest

Episode 9 - How we Resource ourselves during Trauma Part 2: Growth Resources - Your Toolkit for Long-Term Resilience

Episode 8 - How we Resource ourselves during Trauma Part 1: Survival Mode vs. Real Healing

Episode 7 - Core Beliefs - The Hidden Rules Running Your Life

Episode 6 - Why Compassion is the Game-Changer in Trauma Therapy

Episode 5 - PTSD Isn’t What You Think

Episode 4 - Triaging Stress & Reclaiming Your Health

Episode 3 - Perfectionism, Shame & Stress — The Toxic Trio
