The Mindform Podcast
The Mindform Podcast
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The Mindform Podcast is a unique conversation space in which we get inside the minds of Mindform community members. These conversations center around exploring and altering our psychological landscapes together, focusing on psychological growth, deep human connection, and philosophical inquiry. Our host, Frank Lawton, helps facilitate members in dismantling self-limiting beliefs, challenging perspectives, and practicing psychitecture - self-directed psychological evolution. If you’d like to join the community, connect with the people you get to know here, and maybe even be a guest yourself, apply at mindform.io.
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The podcast explores themes like psychological growth, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and personal transformation. Episodes tackle specific topics such as the impact of meditation on awareness, the role of emotional intelligence in personal history, and the psychological dimensions of climate resilience, offering listeners practical techniques and theoretical insights to alter their psychological landscapes.
The Mindform Podcast is a unique conversation space in which we get inside the minds of Mindform community members. These conversations center around exploring and altering our psychological landscapes together, focusing on psychological growth, deep human connection, and philosophical inquiry. Our host, Frank Lawton, helps facilitate members in dismantling self-limiting beliefs, challenging perspectives, and practicing psychitecture – self-directed psychological evolution. If you’d like to join the community, connect with the people you get to know here, and maybe even be a guest yourself, apply at mindform.io.
What if the person you were supposed to trust the most was actually the source of the threat? And why does healing from trauma take years when the damage happened in seconds?
In Episode 58 of the Mindform Podcast, Frank sits down with Dr. Arielle Schwartz — licensed clinical psychologist, longtime yoga teacher, and author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook and The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma. Arielle makes the case that trauma isn’t just a mental wound — it’s stored in the nervous system, and healing means slowly teaching the body a new, disconfirming reality of safety.
In this conversation:
- What actually separates complex PTSD from single-incident trauma
- Why the vagus nerve — not just “calming down” — is the real key to nervous system health
- The danger of jumping straight into painful memories before building safety first
- How to “catch yourself being good” and interrupt the mind’s threat bias
- Why healing isn’t linear — and how the changing seasons explain slow progress
- What to say to your own inner child when no one else did
Dr. Schwartz’s books and free resources: https://drarielleschwartz.com
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