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Welcome to the PTSD and Beyond Podcast with Dr. Deb Lindh, where we give you insights into PTSD, trauma, healing, recovery, and beyond!
In each episode, we have a conversation with an inspiring guest who will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, connect with your spirit, and give you a greater understanding of yourself and others on this healing and recovery journey.
Hopefully, we’ll also provide insights into possibilities, meaning, purpose, and hope. Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast!
Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
This conversation explores workplace bullying through a lens that goes far deeper than behavior. We examine the physiology of harm, the nervous system impact of chronic workplace stress, and how leadership either contributes to trauma or actively prevents it.
Liza Collins is a trauma preventative leadership coach, consultant, and number one best selling author of The Physiology of Bullying. With more than three decades of experience across healthcare systems in the UK and internationally, her work bridges lived experience, neuroscience, and relational leadership practice.
In this episode, we explore:
• What chronic workplace harm does to the nervous system
• How bullying reshapes identity, health, and self trust
• The difference between surviving a toxic system and restoring agency
• Why leadership responsibility extends beyond performance metrics
• What trauma preventative leadership actually looks like in practice
This conversation moves beyond surface level discussions about difficult personalities. It addresses power, safety, and the biological cost of sustained psychological threat.
For anyone navigating workplace harm, leading teams, or building cultures of psychological safety, this episode offers insight, clarity, and grounded perspective.
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Thursday Feb 12, 2026
Thursday Feb 12, 2026
In this episode, Dr. Deb talks with Amanda Anderson, speaker and resilience strategist, about what it really means to rebuild after trauma, burnout, and major life disruption. This conversation moves beyond surface motivation and explores practical mindset shifts, personal truth, and intentional growth after hardship.
Together, we explore surviving versus living with purpose, how adversity reshapes identity, and tools that support lasting inner change.
Listeners will walk away with grounded insight, real talk on resilience, and practical ways to move forward with clarity and strength.
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Saturday Feb 07, 2026
Saturday Feb 07, 2026
Understanding Trauma Across the Lifespan with Dr. Frank Putnam
Content Note: This episode includes discussion of trauma, child maltreatment, and dissociation; please listen at your own pace and care for your wellbeing while engaging.
In this episode, Dr. Deb Lindh sits down with Dr. Frank Putnam, a renowned psychiatrist, researcher, and national leader in the study of trauma, child maltreatment, and its lifelong effects. With a career spanning decades of clinical work and groundbreaking research, Dr. Putnam has been instrumental in advancing the field of traumatic stress studies and mentoring generations of trauma scientists.
Dr. Putnam’s work began early in his career at the National Institute of Mental Health, where he first encountered the profound effects of child abuse on psychological and biological development. This experience shaped his lifelong focus on understanding trauma’s impact from childhood into adulthood and highlighted the importance of early research to inform healing-informed practice.
His pioneering research on dissociation and dissociative disorders helped transform the field from case-based observations into evidence-based science, including influential publications and the co-authorship of tools widely used in trauma research.
Today, Dr. Putnam continues to research and advocate for trauma-informed approaches that acknowledge the complex ways early adversity shapes health outcomes across the lifespan. He is also recognized for his decades of mentorship and service, including the establishment of the Frank W. Putnam Trauma Research Scholars Program, which supports emerging trauma researchers whose work has great potential to contribute meaningfully to the field.
In this conversation we explore:
• What we currently understand about how trauma affects development from childhood through adulthood
• How early research in child maltreatment and dissociation reshaped scientific thinking about trauma
• The importance of rigorous trauma research and mentorship in broadening the field
• What trauma professionals and survivors alike can take from decades of evidence-based work
Whether you’re new to the trauma conversation or deeply embedded in healing work, this episode offers clarity, context, and hope grounded in decades of research and human experience.
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Thursday Jan 29, 2026
Thursday Jan 29, 2026
In this episode, Dr. Deb is joined by Anne Karber, author of The Life Hack Playbook, for a practical conversation about simplifying life, reducing overwhelm, and building peace through intentional daily choices.
Anne shares grounded insights on clarity, boundaries, habit change, and creating a life that supports wellbeing rather than burnout. This conversation centers on realistic tools, sustainable growth, and how small shifts can create meaningful long term change.
This episode is for anyone feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or disconnected from what matters most, and looking for grounded ways to create more peace, purpose, and stability in everyday life.
If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available 24/7 and free and confidential.
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Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Moral injury is what happens when our values, beliefs, and sense of right and wrong are fractured by experiences we never chose, systems we did not control, and situations that forced impossible decisions.
In this episode, Dr. Deb explores moral injury as a deeply human experience that impacts identity, meaning, trust, and connection. This conversation moves beyond fear based trauma and into the space of shame, guilt, grief, anger, betrayal, and disillusionment, offering a grounded, trauma informed understanding of how moral injury forms and how healing becomes possible.
In this episode:
• What moral injury is and how it differs from fear based trauma
• How values conflicts impact identity and meaning
• Why shame, guilt, grief, and betrayal are common
• How moral injury shows up in the nervous system
• The role of connection, agency, and meaning in healing
Reflection:
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Where have your values and experiences felt misaligned?
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What parts of you adapted to survive morally challenging environments?
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What does integrity feel like in your body?
If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available 24/7 and free and confidential.
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Sunday Jan 18, 2026
Sunday Jan 18, 2026
In times of uncertainty, stress, and ongoing change, hope can feel fragile, distant, or even unavailable. This episode of PTSD and Beyond explores how hope functions during turbulent times, how hope can become hopeless, how hope can return, and how mindfulness and connection support that process.
This conversation is grounded in trauma informed psychology, lived experience, and nervous system awareness. Rather than forcing positivity or offering quick fixes, this episode invites a compassionate, human exploration of hope as a capacity that ebbs and flows depending on safety, connection, and meaning.
In this episode, we explore
• What hope really means and what it is not
• How hope shifts into hopelessness and why that happens
• How hopelessness can be a protective response rather than a failure
• Where we go and what we do when hope feels distant
• How hope returns through safety, connection, and agency
• The role of community in sustaining hope
• How mindfulness supports nervous system regulation and restores possibility
• Why self compassion matters when navigating uncertainty
This episode includes a brief, optional mindfulness practice and reflective questions designed to support awareness, integration, and self trust.
If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available 24/7 and free and confidential.
If this episode resonates, consider sharing it with someone who may need permission to slow down and offer themselves grace.
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Saturday Jan 10, 2026
Saturday Jan 10, 2026
This milestone 550th episode of PTSD and Beyond features a meaningful conversation between Dr. Deb and basketball coach and mentor Jerel Seamon, marking ten years since they first met.
This episode centers the power of vulnerability, lived experience, and storytelling. Jerel reflects on how sharing his story, giving himself grace, and staying connected to purpose have shaped his life and leadership. Together, the conversation explores how openness and honesty create connection, hope, and the ability to support others in meaningful ways.
Basketball has been a consistent source of hope in Jerel’s life. The episode includes a shout out to Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves, highlighting how the game continues to represent resilience, belief, and possibility.
Rather than focusing on performance or perfection, this conversation reflects on what it means to live with intention, to honor lived experience, and to use what we have been through to help others move forward.
In this episode, we explore
• Vulnerability as strength
• The role of lived experience and storytelling
• Giving ourselves grace while continuing to grow
• Living with purpose and helping others
• Basketball as a source of hope and consistency
• The impact of shared moments and long standing connections
This episode reflects the heart of PTSD and Beyond where lived experience is honored, stories matter, and healing and growth are possible through connection.
If this episode resonates, consider sharing it with someone who may need permission to slow down and offer themselves grace.
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Friday Jan 02, 2026
Friday Jan 02, 2026
As a new year begins, there is often an unspoken pressure to feel motivated, clear, and already moving forward. But not everyone starts the year feeling strong. Some start stalled. Some start somewhere in between.
In this episode of PTSD and Beyond, we explore why either way is okay and why what matters most is practicing the space of G.R.A.C.E.
Grace is not a process.
Grace is a practice.
When we feel stalled, old patterns often rush in. Shame. Stigma. Rumination. Past criticisms. Stories that were never ours to carry. None of these support healing or growth.
This episode introduces the G.R.A.C.E. practice as a way to move beyond coping and into grounded, compassionate self leadership.
In this episode, we explore:
• Why starting strong does not eliminate the need for grace
• Why starting stalled is not a failure
• How shame and past conditioning hijack the nervous system
• Why grace is a daily practice, not a checklist
The G.R.A.C.E. Practice
G Ground
Returning to the body and the present moment through sensation and breath.
R Recognize
Naming what is activated while staying anchored in now.
A Allow
Giving yourself permission to assess and adjust rather than suppress or react.
C Choose
Remembering that you have choice and practicing responses ahead of time.
E Exit and Emerge
Stepping into safety and returning when ready, without rushing or escaping.
Whether this year has started strong or stalled, this practice offers a way forward that honors healing, agency, and humanity.
If this episode resonates, consider sharing it with someone who may need permission to slow down and offer themselves grace.
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Tuesday Dec 30, 2025
Tuesday Dec 30, 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, this episode of PTSD and Beyond offers a slower, more intentional way to pause.
December 31 is often treated like a countdown or a party night.
But it is also a bridge.
A bridge between who we were, who we lived as this year, and who we are becoming next.
In this Self Care Sunday episode, Dr. Deb shares a trauma-informed reflection practice that supports the nervous system through transition. Rather than rushing into goals or avoiding the moment, this episode focuses on reflection, closure, and care as essential forms of self care.
This episode explores
• Why endings and transitions matter
• The difference between reflection and rumination
• How unfinished projects and decisions affect mental and emotional health
• The role of energy awareness, boundaries, and environment
• A simple planning approach that supports clarity without overwhelm
This episode is for listeners who want to end the year with intention, steadiness, and care.
Listen at your own pace. Pause or return as needed. Take what resonates.
If this episode resonates, share it with someone who may need a reminder that healing does not always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it arrives as a breath, a softness, or a quiet moment the body whispers you are safe right now.
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Friday Dec 12, 2025
Friday Dec 12, 2025
In today’s episode Dr. Deb shares a rare and deeply personal moment in trauma healing. A moment that did not begin with a thought or an insight, but with a simple sensation in the body that arrived without fear, without story, and without the usual pull of survival mode.
This episode explores what happens when the nervous system shifts into safety after years of vigilance. Listeners will hear how lightness, breath, softening, and clarity can emerge before the mind recognizes what is changing and how these somatic signals mark real progress in trauma recovery.
Through lived experience and grounded psychology, Dr. Deb walks through the connection between sensation and regulation, the difference between fear based intuition and regulated intuition, and why the body often knows we have healed long before the mind has language for it.
You will hear how an unexpected moment of inner child connection reflected years of work in a single gesture and why this kind of integration becomes a powerful sign of identity level healing.
This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered how to recognize genuine nervous system regulation, how intuition becomes clearer when the body is safe, and how healing often announces itself quietly rather than dramatically.
In this episode you will learn
• How a sensation without story signals nervous system regulation
• Why the body often leads healing before the mind understands it
• The difference between hypervigilance and regulated intuition
• How somatic softening creates space for clarity and grounded insight
• What it means when the inner child appears with trust and joy
• How identity shifts become visible through somatic cues
• Why small moments of ease are often the first signs of real recovery
Reflection questions for listeners
• What sensations tell me I am safe
• Where do I feel softening in my body today
• How does intuition feel when it is grounded instead of urgent
• What has my inner child been waiting for
• What identity shifts might already be happening in me
If this episode resonates, share it with someone who may need a reminder that healing does not always announce itself loudly. Sometimes it arrives as a breath, a softness, or a quiet moment the body whispers you are safe right now.
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