Looking back on our healing journey, we recognize how many of our decisions were made in survival mode. As we rebuild our lives on stable ground and embody our true selves, we may be surprised by the things we choose to let go of and what we carry forward with us in unexpected ways. CPTSD recovery is not merely a developmental process but a profound learning experience that requires movement and progress toward mastery rather than a finite accomplishment. In today’s episode, we continue our exploration of the big ideas of CPSTD Recovery with idea number eight: full permission. Tuning in, you’ll discover why granting full permission is essential for navigating the unburdening sequence, how embodying truth resonance can enhance your recovery, and the critical role of breathwork and vocalization in this journey. I also pose reflective questions to help you explore the importance of full permission in your recovery and everyday life while identifying blocks and barriers to expressing your truths, Parts, Energies, and Entities. Don't miss this opportunity to strengthen your healing containers, identify and clear blocks to full permission, and embrace new perspectives to advance your CPTSD recovery and live a more embodied and truthful life.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Teachings I have carried forward from my training as an educator and researcher.

• Why the big ideas of CPTSD Recovery are important for building a shared fount of knowledge.

• Reviewing the big ideas of CPTSD Recovery that we’ve covered in the podcast so far.

• Why today’s idea, full permission, is such an important part of the unburdening sequence.

• What it means to embody truth resonance as a goal of CPTSD Recovery.

• Distinguishing between protected, sacred, and safe realms and those that are wounded.

• The important role of breathwork and permission for amplifying SelfEnergy and unburdening.

• Insight into the significance of full permission in CPTSD recovery and day-to-day life.

• How to know if you need to “clean up” full permission in your life and recovery.

• Determining the strength, potency, and trustworthiness of your healing containers.

• Ways to identify the blocks to full permission in your healing containers.

• A powerful closing blessing to take you through the upcoming week.

Quotes:

“You cannot make it through unburdening every Part, Energy, and Entity without mastering the milestone of full permission.” — Tanner Wallace [09:41]

“In the CycleBreaking frequency, we want to show up grounded, radiating Self Energy. In our healing containers, we want to understand what the blocks and barriers are to full expression of the truths, Parts, Energies, and Entities.” — Tanner Wallace [15:50]

“Once things can be vocalized, Parts, Energies, or Entities can be expressed, there’s permission to channel Parts in safe, structured – healing containers, you [start] to move and soften blocks. What needs to be spoken out loud can be witnessed.” — Tanner Wallace [19:05]

“What are the emotions and energies that constrict or constrain full permission in healing containers? Can I get curious about this? What does this show me and all me about [the next things I need to] to explore in my CPTSD recovery?” — Tanner Wallace [27:19]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

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If you’re listening to this podcast, I believe you are here to contribute something very important to this transitional period of human evolution. This episode focuses on training grounds, initiations, and the frequency of CycleBreaking. We consider how our ingrained way of relating to hardship pairs with collective pessimism to create negative bias, and how this can impact the healing process. Differentiating between unresolved and untreated CPTSD, we delve into what it might look like to unwind the shame spiral that training grounds and initiations can trigger in us. What would change if we approached a training ground as an opportunity to deepen into our identity and how we want to show up? This episode explores interdependence and how we can take ownership of our own healing, eradicate shame, and reframe the stories that Protective Parts have told about the difficult experiences in our past. Don’t miss this important piece of the puzzle. Tune in today.

Key Points From This Episode:

• The important work we are called to do as we recover from CPTSD.

• A reminder of Season 11 which focuses on partnership.

• How Season 12 is addressing the big concepts of CPTSD recovery.

• An invitation to join the Students of the Medicine peer support group.

• This episode’s big idea: training grounds and initiations.

• How our ingrained way of relating to hardship integrates with collective pessimism.

• Differentiating between unresolved and untreated CPTSD.

• Unwinding the shame spiral during training grounds and initiations.

• Deepening into the idea of identity when the training grounds come.

• What truly heals all wounds.

• Interdependence in the relational field.

• Eradicating the shame in mistakes in the frequency of CycleBreaking.

• Reviewing touchpoints from the past and unpacking the stories that relate to these experiences.

• Considering how you would show up differently after these challenging events in the relational field.

• Understanding the importance of your self-leadership.

• Weekly challenge: share your story.

• An exercise to remind yourself why you are here.

Quotes:

“One of the key hallmarks of complex trauma is this inheritance of not only hurt, but fear.” — Tanner Wallace [12:48]

“I heal all wounds. I don’t give my power over to time and wait. I have reclaimed my sovereignty, my leadership, my value.” — Tanner Wallace [23:11]

“All of us are exquisite, important, and matter. We are not the same without each other.” — Tanner Wallace [24:07]

“Everything happens in a relational context.” — Tanner Wallace [32:18]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

First episode of Season 11 on partnership

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We are now fully immersed in the CPTSD Medicine Protocol since beginning our exploration of it in episode one of season 12. Today, in the seventh episode of the season, I bring you big idea number six: old evidence is likely bad evidence. Now, CPTSD recovery, in essence, is equivalent to personal development, and a major hindrance to personal growth is the shame we attach to ourselves. The Conviction of the CycleBreaker is the first step to ridding ourselves of shame as it opens the gateway to Eternal Directional Calling. From there, we learn perspective in Present Directional Calling, understand how old evidence manifests in Past Directional Calling, how we keep stories alive in Liminal Directional Calling, and the peace of Future Directional Calling. I believe that full completion can only be achieved with a combination of both spirituality and science, but I’d love to hear your thoughts as well, so please, reach out whenever you’re ready. I love you.

Key Points From This Episode:

• How CPTSD recovery is akin to personal development.

• Introducing the sixth big idea: old evidence is likely bad evidence.

• The role of shame in hindering recovery.

• How the Conviction of the CycleBreaker leads to the gateway of Eternal Directional Calling.

• Gaining the perspective of Present Directional Calling.

• What I learned from REVEAL, my very first healing container.

• How old evidence manifests in the present as revealed by Past Directional Calling.

• Understanding completion; where the spiritual meets the scientific.

• Liminal Directional Calling: the in-between spaces and the ways that we keep stories alive.

• Future Directional Calling; the new evidence – the other side of CPTSD.

Quotes:

“CPTSD recovery is simply personal development.” — Dr. Tanner Wallace [05:01]

“Post-CPTSD recovery, it is a whole other world of what you can accomplish and what is possible and what you feel in your body. I’m saying these things from the other side, and it’s beyond what I could’ve imagined.” — Dr. Tanner Wallace [06:38]

“Shame is the same substance for all humans, but how it codes, and corrupts, influences, replicates, disrupts – it’s so unique to the human.” — Dr. Tanner Wallace [13:20]

“It’s not that no one got any sense of who you might be underneath all the trauma and conditioning; it’s just, it was so distorted and off in some way. That’s the old stuff.” — Dr. Tanner Wallace [22:31]

“We have to be better readers and interpreters of the evidence as it is in this moment.” — Dr. Tanner Wallace [25:47]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

CPTSD Medicine Website

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