In this episode Beth shares Vera Hart's essay on healing (What Real Healing Looks Like: Rewiring the Body After Psychological Abuse), exploring how trauma rewires the body and the steps toward real recovery: naming harm, rebuilding safety, recognizing trauma bonds, and resisting societal shame.
Through personal reflection and simple practices—setting boundaries, creating calm spaces, and allowing grief—listeners are invited to shift from survival to peace and to claim permission to heal.
About this week’s contributing creator:
Vera Hart MD PhD is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in trauma recovery, narcissistic abuse, and the neurobiology of power. She writes under a pseudonym to maintain separation from her clinical work while sharing unfiltered insights to empower survivors. Her writing blends neuroscience, psychology, and lived truth to illuminate hidden patterns of harm, and pathways to freedom.
You can find Dr. Hart’s work on Substack: substack.com/@verahartmdphd
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