When Trauma Steals Your Identity: Returning to Your True Self with Melanie Taylor
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EPISODE #186: WHEN TRAUMA STEALS YOUR IDENTITY: RETURNING TO YOUR TRUE SELF WITH MELANIE TAYLOR
What happens when childhood trauma leaves you feeling like a “nobody,” lost in survival mode and repeating painful patterns?
How do you repair your sense of self and finally return to the worthy, whole person you were always created to be?
In this heartfelt conversation, Lindsay sits down with licensed counselor, certified hypnotherapist, trauma specialist, and founder of True Work, Melanie Taylor.
Melanie shares her powerful personal journey through complex childhood trauma and the insights from her tender book You Are for True.
Melanie Taylor is a licensed counselor, certified hypnotherapist, trauma specialist, and founder of True Work. She specializes in therapy intensives, EMDR, hypnotherapy, and sand tray work, guiding clients through deep healing from complex trauma. Her book You Are for True offers a compassionate, memoir-style path to reparenting, self-trust, and remembering your inherent worth.
Today’s Topics Include:
Healing complex childhood trauma and reparenting wounded inner parts through story, reflection, and embodied insight.
Nervous system regulation, breaking trauma patterns (people-pleasing, perfectionism, hypervigilance), and building safety in the body.
Discovering and embodying your “True Self” — the bridge between spirit and soul — using practical frameworks like True Work (Tend, Reflect, Uncover, Embody), sand tray therapy, and identity repair.
Melanie’s honest, grounded wisdom reminds us that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about remembering what was always worthy of love.
If you’re on an awakening journey, navigating trauma, or seeking real tools for transformation, this episode will meet you right where you are.
Listen now for compassionate insight, laughter and real talk that make healing feel possible.
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