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I’m Paula Walters — a woman who spent most of her life in survival mode after enduring child abuse, domestic violence, and a near-fatal strangulation that left me with a traumatic brain injury.
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What Is Going On Inside of Me Because of What Happened to Me? (opens the original)
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What if the behavior we see on the outside is only part of the story? Last week on The Courageous Journey , I talked about changing the question from "What's wrong with me?" to "What happened to me?" and eventually, "What happened inside of me because of what happened to me?" This week, we start answering that question. Trauma isn't only something that happened in the past. Our experiences can influence how our brains and bodies respond in the present—including our nervous system, perception of
Reframing the Question: Why I Stopped Asking What's Wrong With Me? (opens the original)
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Reframing the Question: I Stopped Asking "What's Wrong With Me?" For years, I asked questions that already assumed something was wrong with me. Why was this so hard? Why couldn't I remember? Why did my brain and body respond the way they did? Why couldn't I just make myself do things that seemed so simple for everyone else? Over time, I began learning to ask different questions. Instead of only asking, "What's wrong with me?" I began asking, "What happened to me?" Eventually, that became an even
I Don't Want to Be an Influencer. I Want to Leave Breadcrumbs (opens the original)
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I Don't Want to Be an Influencer. I Want to Leave Breadcrumbs. For a long time, I thought I needed to figure out my "lane." Was I supposed to talk about childhood trauma? Domestic violence? Brain injury? Strangulation? The nervous system? Healing? The problem was that none of those things felt separate to me. Then I realized something even bigger: I don't want to be an influencer. When I first became more intentional about social media, I found myself thinking about followers, reach, monetizatio
Maybe I Was Never Broken: What Healing Is Teaching Me About Shame, Survival & Who I Really Am (opens the original)
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Maybe I Was Never Broken: What Healing Is Teaching Me About Shame, Survival & Who I Really Am What if some of the things you've spent years believing were wrong with you weren't evidence that you were broken at all? What if they were adaptations? In this episode of The Courageous Journey , I reflect on something that happened while speaking at the National Domestic Violence Hotline Conference in Texas. I walked into a room I had been invited into—and still found myself wondering whether I belong
Paula Interviews Dr. Mike Hennes of The Neural Connection (opens the original)
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Paula Hello Everyone and welcome to The Courageous Journey. I have an exciting episode with for you today. I am actually going to be talking with doctor Mike Hennes from The Neural Connection. He is the doctor that if you've been seeing any of my social media, or you've listened to me talk about in any of my speaking engagements, I often refer to him as doctor Mike. And the person that I have worked with, I had get a lot of questions about my care with him, so I brought him on, especially since
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