Naked Insights
Naked Insights
Podcast Description
The Naked Insights podcast delves deeper into how intertwined our brain and body are when navigating trauma, health and relationships. Each episode studies our perceptions and behaviours, focused on how our mental health interconnects with our relationships with others as well as the delicate balance with our health. From managing trauma, health, workplace stress, life transitions and lifestyle habits through to building healthy and nourishing relationships, we are all about providing tools, tips and personal stories to support you and your loved ones to be become more resilient and adaptable to change and transformation. Through a holistic and medical lens of education and interventions you are sure to learn how to maintain balance and well-being in today’s increasingly chaotic environment. Adele Theron (Certified clinical trauma practitioner, CCTP, CFTP, CFFTP, PGDipTraumaticStudies and MPsych) is a trauma therapist and specialist in trauma and transition recovery. She is the founder of Naked Recovery, which offers structured programmes for transforming trauma and together with her team, they support clients through bereavement, redundancy, birth trauma, separation, divorce, marriage crises, infidelity, midlife crisis, family estrangement, and health-related crises. Her recovery programmes have been completed by thousands of clients across 90 countries. Adele is currently completing her doctorate in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland, where her research focuses on developing trauma recovery interventions for chronic illness. Her integrative, science-based methods draw from somatic psychology, coaching psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice. Her clinical work is responsible for supporting thousands of professionals and couples transition out of trauma through her global programs. Sam McSorley (MHealSc, PGHlthSci, DipClinHerbMed, BHSc (Complementary Medicine) is a naturopath and functional medicine practitioner with a passion for choice in healthcare. She is the founder of Sam McSorley Connecting Wellness, a holistic clinic that concentrates on the recovery from complex health conditions best supported through holistic programmes which address both a healthy mind and body. Sam provides a raft of tools to provision her clinical work, including lifestyle hacks, nutritional and herbal medicine, DNA, genetic and functional testing, nutritional psychiatry and somatic psychotherapy. With a special interest in psychoneuroimmunology which studies the intricate interactions between psychological processes, the nervous system, and the immune system, she is focused on uncovering the root cause of mental and emotional conflict that impacts health. Underpinned by scientific research, Sam’s combined approach using lifestyle, diet, herbal & nutritional medicine, stress management and somatic p...
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast centers on trauma, mental health, and the body-mind connection, with specific episodes exploring topics like the impact of chronic stress on health, understanding good versus bad stress, and the interplay of perfectionism and shame. Episodes such as 'Triaging Stress & Reclaiming Your Health' offer practical tools for stress management while highlighting the importance of emotional health and resilience.
The Naked Insights Podcast explores the powerful connection between mind and body in navigating trauma, health, and relationships and focuses on making sense of human behaviour through trauma, attachment and neuroscience.
Each episode examines how our perceptions and behaviours shape mental health, our relationships with others, and the delicate balance with physical well-being.
From managing trauma, workplace stress, and major life transitions to cultivating healthy, nourishing relationships, Naked Insights offers tools, tips, and real stories to help you and your loved ones become more resilient and adaptable to change. Through an integrative and evidence-based lens, you’ll learn how to maintain balance and well-being in today’s increasingly chaotic world.
Hosted by Adele Theron, each season features a different expert as she deep-dives into the intersections between trauma, health, and relationships.
Season 1 features Sam McSorley, a functional medicine specialist and together Adele and Sam bridge the gap between holistic health and psychological resilience, guiding you towards a more balanced, empowered, and successful life.
Season 2 features Dr Lindsay Aikman, a consultant clinical psychologist and together they bring a clinically grounded lens to mental health, trauma, and relationships, cutting through myths, challenging oversimplified narratives, and exploring what truly supports lasting change.
About the Host:
Adele Theron (CCTP, CFTP, CFFTP, PGDipTraumaticStudies, MPsych) is a trauma therapist and specialist in trauma and transition recovery. She is the founder of Naked Recovery, which offers structured programmes to help clients transform trauma related to bereavement, redundancy, birth trauma, separation, divorce, infidelity, midlife crises, family estrangement, and health-related challenges. Her evidence-based recovery programmes have supported thousands of clients across more than 90 countries. Adele is currently completing her doctorate in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland, where her research focuses on developing clinically applicable treatments for clinician-delivered trauma-informed care for patients with chronic illness. Her integrative, science-based methods draw from somatic psychology, coaching psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice.
About the Season 1 Expert:
Sam McSorley (MHealSc, PGHlthSci, DipClinHerbMed, BHSc (Complementary Medicine)) is a naturopath and functional medicine practitioner passionate about empowering people with choice in healthcare. As the founder of Sam McSorley Connecting Wellness, she helps clients recover from complex health conditions through holistic programmes that unite body and mind. Sam’s approach integrates nutrition, herbal medicine, genetic testing, nutritional psychiatry, and somatic psychotherapy.
About the Season 2 Expert:
Dr Lindsay Aikman is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology in the UK (BA BSc PGCert DClinPsy AFHEA) registered with The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Lindsay brings a rich blend of clinical, academic, and leadership experience to conversations about how trauma, relationships, and physical health are intricately connected. Her work is rooted in the understanding that psychological distress is embodied, relational, and shaped by lived experience across the lifespan. Lindsay supports people with complex presentations where physical health, identity, attachment, and trauma are deeply intertwined. Alongside clinical practice, Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK.
🎙️ Perimenopause Explained: What on Earth Is Happening to My Body?
Hormones, brain fog, rage, anxiety, hot flushes, weight, sleep and why it all happens
One day you feel relatively normal. The next you're forgetting words, waking at 3am, sweating through the night, gaining weight differently, experiencing bizarre anxiety, losing your patience with everyone and wondering whether you've somehow stopped being yourself.
Welcome to perimenopause.
In Part One of our perimenopause deep dive, Adele and Dr Lindsay Aikman unpack what is actually happening inside the female body and brain during the menopause transition and why the symptoms extend far beyond periods and hot flushes.
We explore:
🧬 What perimenopause actually is – when it starts, how long it can last, and why symptoms can appear years before your periods stop
📈 The hormonal rollercoaster – what happens to estrogen, progesterone and other reproductive hormones as ovarian function becomes increasingly unpredictable
🧠 Your brain on perimenopause – why changing estrogen signalling can affect memory, concentration, motivation, mood and emotional regulation
😡 Anxiety, irritability and rage – why women can suddenly feel less emotionally resilient or simply not quite like themselves
🔥 Hot flushes and night sweats – what happens to the brain's temperature-control system and why tiny changes in body temperature can suddenly trigger an enormous physiological response
😴 Sleep disruption – why perimenopause can completely dismantle sleep and how poor sleep can then amplify mood, cognition, appetite, pain and stress
⚖️ Weight and metabolic changes – why body composition and fat distribution can begin changing even when you're doing many of the same things you've always done
🥗 Gut and food changes – why some women notice digestive symptoms or find that foods, caffeine or alcohol they previously tolerated suddenly seem to affect them differently
🦴 Aching joints, muscles and bones – the emerging concept of the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause and why estrogen matters far beyond reproduction
💔 Trauma and the nervous system – why this transition can feel particularly destabilising when your nervous system is already carrying a significant stress or trauma load
And perhaps most importantly, we talk about something women desperately need to hear:
These symptoms aren't random.
Perimenopause is not simply your periods becoming irregular. It's a major biological transition involving hormone-sensitive systems throughout the brain and body.
Understanding that changes the conversation from:
“What on earth is wrong with me?”
to:
“Okay. Now I understand what's happening. What can I do about it?”
And that's exactly where Part Two: The Perimenopause Survival Guide Nobody Gave Us begins (stay tuned for Episode 17 for that).
🎧 If you're somewhere in your late 30s, 40s or 50s and wondering why your body or brain suddenly seems to be operating by a completely different set of rules, start here.
Topics Covered: Perimenopause, Menopause, Estrogen, Progesterone, Brain Fog, Anxiety, Rage, Hot Flushes, Night Sweats, Sleep, Weight Gain, Metabolism, Gut Health, Joint Pain, Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause, Trauma, Nervous System, Women's Health.
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