Nothing is Required: Trauma-Informed Gong Listening

Boundary and Self Protection

Julie Jules Smoot Season 1 Episode 30

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Boundary and Self Protection is a trauma-informed listening podcast rooted in lived experience and the ongoing practice of choosing safety, dignity, and self-respect. This space explores boundaries not as punishment or withdrawal, but as necessary acts of care—especially for nervous systems shaped by harm, overwhelm, or repeated violation.

Each episode offers sound and reflection that supports disengagement from what is damaging and a return to what preserves energy, agency, and choice. There is no pressure to confront, explain, or resolve. Listening itself is the boundary.

This podcast includes the following pieces:

  • I Don’t Stay Where I’m Harmed
  • Distance Is Care
  • Access Is Not Assumed
  • This Is Where I Stop
  • I Choose Quiet Over Damage
  • You Don’t Get to Decide
  • I Leave Without Explaining

Together, these works form a listening arc about recognizing limits, honoring withdrawal, and allowing separation to be protective rather than shameful. You are welcome to listen fully, partially, or step away at any time. Nothing here requires endurance.

Boundary and Self Protection exists for those learning that leaving, pausing, and choosing quiet can be forms of strength—and that self-protection is not something to apologize for.

Individual tracks featured in this podcast are available at
 www.juliejulessmootsoundalchemist.com

The opening moments of this episode include a short excerpt from Regulation Before Release.

This excerpt is offered as orientation and stabilization before the main content begins. It is not an exercise and does not ask the listener to relax, process, or change anything. The sound is shared as structure—something steady that can be present while the nervous system settles at its own pace.

Regulation Before Release was created for moments when grounding and co

The opening minutes of this episode feature an excerpt from Nothing Is Required of You, a listening piece that anchors the tone and ethics of this podcast.

This excerpt is offered as orientation—not instruction. There is no exercise to follow, no breath to control, and no expectation to relax, heal, or change. The sound is shared as presence—something that can be nearby without asking anything of the listener.

Nothing Is Required of You was created for nervou

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