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Trauma Rock Stars® | Trauma Recovery & Healing Podcast
Trauma Rock Stars® is a trauma recovery and healing podcast for survivors ready to move from surviving to thriving.
Hosted by Tracy Smaldino — a survivor, advocate, and speaker — this is a safe, real, and empowering space for anyone navigating trauma recovery, emotional healing, and post-traumatic growth.
Each week we dive into the real, emotional truth of healing — with honest conversations, practical tools, and inspiring survivor stories that break the silence, remove the shame, and celebrate the courage it takes to grow through what you've been through. Whether you're navigating childhood trauma, PTSD, grief, anxiety, or nervous system healing — just beginning or deep in it — you'll find support, inspiration, and community here.
From personal stories to expert interviews and therapeutic tools, this is where trauma survivors become the rock stars of their own lives. Because your trauma doesn't define you — it refines you.
🎸 New episodes every Tuesday. Hit subscribe and join the movement.
You are not a groupie in someone else's story — you are the headliner of your own. That's Rock Star Resilience™.
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Episodes
65 episodes
Can You Really Heal From Childhood Trauma and Break the Cycle? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Healing from childhood trauma and breaking generational cycles of abuse, addiction, and people pleasing is possible — and Hilary Maumberger Powers is living proof. In this trauma recovery podcast episode, Tracy Smaldino sits down with ...
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Are You Stuck in the Messy Middle of Your Healing Journey? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Feeling stuck in the middle of your trauma healing journey is one of the most common — and least talked about — experiences in trauma recovery. In this trauma healing podcast episode, Tracy Smaldino breaks down the bridge — the uncomfortable in...
Can Your Worst Breakdown Lead to Your Biggest Breakthrough? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Trauma recovery breakthroughs almost always follow a breakdown — and understanding why your worst moments are actually clearing space for healing can change everything. In this trauma healing podcast episode, Tracy Smaldino ...
Is Fear of Being Seen Stopping Your Trauma Recovery? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Fear of being seen and fear of showing up are two of the most common blocks in trauma recovery and healing. In this trauma healing podcast episode, Tracy Smaldino breaks down stage fright — what it really means, why trauma s...
How Do You Heal From Trauma You've Buried for Decades? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Learn how to heal from trauma you've buried for decades and recognize the signs of unhealed childhood trauma that keep survivors stuck. In this trauma recovery podcast episode, trauma survivor Tracy Smaldino shares her full ...
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Are You Avoiding the Healing Work You Know You Need to Do? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Avoiding trauma healing and demanding results without doing the work are the biggest blocks in trauma recovery. In this trauma healing podcast episode, Tracy Smaldino breaks down the groupie mentality — the external people d...
Are You Codependent? A Pastor's Raw Story of Loving an Addict, Loss & Self-Forgiveness.
This is a raw conversation about codependency, addiction, and healing. What does codependency really look like — and how do you heal from loving an addict? In this episode of Trauma Rock Stars®, Rock Star Tracy talks with Pastor Steve about cod...
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Is Your Inner Critic Running Your Healing Journey? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Healing from trauma becomes impossible when your inner critic is running the show of your life. In this trauma recovery podcast episode, Tracy Smaldino introduces the Tour Manager framework — and shows you how to identify which voice is actuall...
Are Toxic Relationships Blocking Your Trauma Recovery? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Toxic relationships and unhealthy boundaries are one of the biggest blocks to trauma recovery and healing. In this episode of Trauma Rock Stars™ — the trauma healing podcast hosted by Tracy Smaldino — learn how to build ...
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Does Your Support System Actually Support You? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Discover how to build a support system that truly supports your healing journey and identify the energy drains and toxic relationships blocking your recovery. Trauma healing advocate Tracy Smaldino breaks down the&nbs...
How to Turn Your Worst Day Into Your Greatest Purpose | Trauma Rock Stars™
Discover how to heal from trauma and turn your pain into purpose with trauma recovery tools, real survivor stories, and an intentional healing roadmap. In this trauma healing podcast anniversary special, host Tracy Smaldino s...
Is Trauma Keeping You Hidden From the Life You Want? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Learn how to heal from trauma, stop hiding your pain, and start living the life you actually want. In this raw and personal episode, trauma survivor Tracy Smaldino shares how carrying unhealed trauma in silence kept her hidde...
The Green Room: Build Your Safe Space Before the Show Starts | Trauma Rock Stars™
You've been going straight from bed to the show, from the show back to bed — with no preparation and no recovery.In this solo episode, Tracy Smaldino introduces The Green Room — the protected backstage space every arti...
She Died and Came Back "Knowing Everything" — Inside a Near-Death Experience | Brheanna
What happens in the moments after we die? In this extraordinary episode of Trauma Rock Stars™, host Tracy talks with Brheanna, who survived a near-death experience in 2020 and came back profoundly changed. Brheanna describes standing outside he...
The Rider: Your Non-Negotiables Are Not Optional | Trauma Rock Stars™
Did you know Van Halen's famous "no brown M&Ms" demand had nothing to do with being a diva? It was a test. And it changes everything about how we think about our own non-negotiables.In this solo episode, Tracy Smal...
Feeling Lost? Coming Home to Your True Self After Grief & Trauma | Tara Wiskow
Have you ever felt completely lost — like you have no idea who you really are anymore? In this deeply moving episode of Trauma Rock Stars™, host Tracy sits down with Tara Wiskow, an intuitive energy healer and life-reinvention expert, who spent...
The Venue: Your Body Is Your Home — How to Come Back to Yourself | Trauma Rock Stars™
No matter how talented the artist — if the venue isn't maintained, the show suffers.In this solo episode, Tracy Smaldino — former Production Manager at House of Blues Las Vegas — uses the concert venue as a po...
Live Energy Healing Session: Finding Your Blocks & Superpowers with Cheryl | Trauma Rock Stars™
What if someone could look at your energy and tell you exactly what's blocking your healing — and clear it in real time?In this unscripted, deeply vulnerable episode of Trauma Rock Stars™, host Tracy Smaldino invites spiritual c...
Sound Check: How to Check In With Yourself Before the World Gets to You | Trauma Rock Stars™
When is the last time you checked in with yourself before the world got to you?In this solo episode, Tracy Smaldino introduces the Sound Check — the daily non-negotiable practice that separates reactive people
70 Days Between Life and Death — Her Near-Death Experience | Holly Porter
What do you see when you're at the very edge of life? In this unforgettable episode of Trauma Rock Stars™, host Tracy talks with Holly Porter, who spent 70 days in two hospitals fighting COVID in 2021 — intubated, in and out of a coma, with her...
The Set List: Build Your Intentional Healing Roadmap | Trauma Rock Stars™
Are you healing in chaos — reacting to whatever is loudest and never actually choosing what you're working on?In this solo episode, Tracy introduces The Set List: a 5-step method for building an intentional trauma healing roadmap acros...
"You're On Your Own" — Firefighter Survives 18 Years of Betrayal, Bullying & Trauma | Trauma Rock Stars™
Female firefighter bullying, workplace trauma, and PTSD recovery — this episode covers it all. Lynette was the first and only woman ever hired at her fire department, and on her very first day as a career firefighter, a captain pulled her into ...
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Load-In & Load-Out: Are You Carrying Too Much? | Trauma Rock Stars™
Are you carrying too much? In this solo episode, Tracy introduces the Load-In & Load-Out framework — a life audit for your energy, boundaries, and everything you're carrying.Just like a concert crew loads in and loads out, we need t...
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Body-Shamed for One Photo — A Trauma Nurse Fights Back!
What do you do when you're body-shamed online by the very people who should have your back? When trauma nurse Heidi posted a confident photo in a women's Buffalo Bills (Bills Mafia) group, she was met with anonymous body shaming and adult bully...
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How to Release Trauma Stored in the Body — A Raw Journey Through Complex PTSD | Nikki Everett
Can trauma actually live in your body? In this powerful episode of Trauma Rock Stars™, host Tracy talks with Nikki Everett — author, mental health advocate, and former mental-health and prison-system professional — about how a series of violent...
