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The Truth About Healing Podcast
The Truth About Healing is a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based podcast designed to cut through the overwhelming noise of modern wellness culture and explain what healing actually is and what it isn’t.
In an era flooded with mental health misinformation, toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, and oversimplified “coping strategies,” this podcast offers clarity, accuracy, and grounded nervous system education.
Hosted by EMDR therapist and consultant Dana Carretta-Stein, the show reframes symptoms as intelligent survival responses and helps listeners understand why they feel stuck, burned out, anxious, or disconnected without shame or pathology.
This podcast bridges the gap between clinical knowledge and real life, translating complex concepts like EMDR, polyvagal theory, attachment trauma, and nervous system regulation into language that makes sense and actually helps.
The Truth About Healing Podcast
💣 Truth Bomb #2: They Didn't Trigger You
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Let me say something that might annoy a few people:
Nobody "triggered" you.
You got triggered by something.
That may sound like semantics, but it's actually one of the most important shifts you can make in your healing journey.
In this Truth Bomb, Dana explores why the language we use matters—and how saying "they triggered me" subtly gives away our power by making other people responsible for our internal experience.
Through a nervous system lens, you'll learn how your brain is constantly scanning for cues of safety and danger based on past experiences, often without your conscious awareness. The trigger isn't the problem. The stored pattern behind it is.
This isn't about blaming yourself.
It's about recognizing what's yours to heal.
Because while you weren't responsible for what happened to you, you are responsible for what happens next.
💣 Truth Bomb: Healing starts when you stop managing everyone else's behavior and start understanding your own nervous system.
If you're looking for additional support on your healing journey, Peaceful Living Mental Health Counseling offers trauma-informed therapy and EMDR for adults navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, and relationship challenges.
📍 In-Person Therapy: Scarsdale, NY
💻 Virtual Therapy: NY, NJ, CT, FL & CO
Additional Resources
🧠 EMDR Resources for Clinicians & Clients
www.danacarretta.com/shop
🛠️ Recommended Therapy Tools, Nervous System Resources & EMDR Systems
www.danacarretta.com/therapytools
🎁 Free Nervous System Resources
www.danacarretta.com/free
🎥 Watch full episodes and subscribe on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEMDRCoach
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