Growing Tall Poppies : Thrive After Trauma
Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma is the podcast for anyone ready to heal from trauma, reclaim their power, and step into post-traumatic growth. Hosted by trauma therapist, coach, and author Dr. Natalie (Nat) Green, this empowering podcast blends real-life survivor stories, expert insights, and practical strategies to help you move beyond pain and create a life filled with purpose, resilience, and joy. Each episode dives deep into the psychological and emotional journey of thriving after trauma—exploring identity, values, nervous system healing, resilience, and renewed purpose. You’ll hear how others overcame adversity, plus learn tools you can use to regulate your nervous system, rewire your mindset, and accelerate your growth journey. What You’ll Gain from Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma 🌱 Real Stories of Resilience – Inspiring conversations with survivors who turned trauma into strength and transformation. 🧠 Expert Guidance & Healing Tools – Proven strategies from leading professionals on trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, and mental health. ✨ Empowering Insights – Explore the mindsets, practices, and Trauma Archetypes that unlock post-traumatic growth and freedom. 💡 Psychology Meets Coaching – Innovative approaches that bridge science, therapy, and coaching to fast-track healing and thriving. With over 35 years’ experience and her own lived journey of trauma and growth, Dr. Nat Green—creator of the ABS Method® and Archetypes of Transformation—is dedicated to ending trauma-associated suffering. Through her podcast, bestselling books, and transformative programs, she guides survivors and professionals alike to rediscover their identity, align with their values, and shine brightly beyond adversity. If you’re ready to not just survive trauma but truly thrive after it, this podcast is your roadmap to resilience, healing, and post-traumatic growth.
Episodes
What if the animals in our lives are more than companions?
What if they are part of our healing?
In this deeply moving and thought-provoking episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green is joined by animal communicator and psychosomatic practitioner Katherine Luna Sol, whose life journey bridges trauma, intuition, science, and the profound connection between humans and animals.
Katherine shares how ...
Have you ever found yourself thinking:
“I’ve done so much work on myself…
So why do I still feel stuck sometimes?”
You’ve been to therapy.
You’ve read the books.
You understand your patterns.
You’ve grown.
And yet…
There can still be moments where something inside you feels slightly braced and on edge. Like you’re doing well in life… but not fully relaxed inside it.
In this deeply honest ...
Have you ever thought…
“I understand the pattern… so why does it still feel so hard to change?”
In this second episode of The Invisible Ceiling mini-series, Dr. Nat Green explores the missing link that so many high-functioning, self-aware people overlook:
Insight alone doesn’t create transformation — your nervous system must feel safe enough to come with you.
Because survival patterns aren’t stored on...
Have you ever wondered why… even after therapy, self-awareness, and years of inner work… you still feel stuck?
Why you keep hitting an invisible ceiling?
Why growth sometimes feels like it should be easier by now — but something inside you quietly holds back?
In this powerful opening episode of the mini-series The Invisible Ceiling, Dr Nat Green introduces a deeply transformative concept:
Identity Fractures
...
Have you ever felt like you’re “doing all the right things” for your health, yet your body still won’t cooperate? In this deeply powerful episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green is joined by Jodi Geline, a health expert known for helping people age healthier, banish bloat, IBS, and chronic health issues, and reclaim lasting wellbeing.
Jodi shares her lived experience of years of debilitating gut s...
In this opening episode, for 2026 Dr Nat Green invites you to pause — before pushing forward — and reflect on who you are now, after everything you’ve lived through.
As we close the Year of the Snake and step into the momentum of the Year of the Fire Horse, this episode explores what it really means to stand tall after trauma, adversity, or major life disruption — without shrinking, forcing, or abandonin...
As we close out 2025, Dr Nat Green reflects on a powerful year of growth, integration, and becoming — both personally and collectively within the Growing Tall Poppies community.
This episode is a gentle yet honest Year in Review, exploring the arc many of us travelled this year: from burnout and emotional exhaustion, through meaning-making and identity grief, and into deeper integration and wholeness.
Tog...
When violence occurs in a shared public space, it doesn’t only impact those directly involved — it ripples through communities, values, and our collective sense of safety.
In this short, reflective episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green explores community trauma, collective memory, and why events like the recent violent attack at Bondi during a Jewish Hanukkah gathering can fe...
Today’s episode marks a deeply meaningful transition.
In this personal and reflective solo episode, Dr Nat Green shares why she has chosen not to re-register as a Clinical Psychologist after 35 years in the profession — and why, instead of feeling heavy or sorrowful, this decision feels grounded, aligned, and freeing.
This is not a rejection of psychology.
It’s the completion of an identity — and the...
In this powerful and deeply personal solo episode, Dr. Nat Green shares the truth that so many eventually discover: healing isn’t the destination — it’s the doorway. After 35 years as a psychologist and trauma specialist, Dr Nat opens up about her own evolution from therapist to integrated leader and the moment she realised her next chapter required not more “doing the work,” but living it.
She recounts ...
Content Warning ⚠️ - This episode discusses child loss, hospitalisation, grief and end-of-life decisions. Please listen with care and have support available and take breaks as needed.
In this deeply moving conversation, Dr Nat Green speaks with psychologist and grieving mum Kimberly Stevens, who lost her 13-year-old son Ethan to T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in 2021. Six months later, back at work...
In this deeply validating episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr. Nat Green welcomes back Dr. Hayley D Quinn—mindset & wellbeing coach, speaker, author, host of Welcome to Self, and former clinical psychologist/past president of Compassionate Mind Australia.
Hayley opens up about:
- Her decision to leave psychology registration and go all-in on coaching, speaking, and writing
- How a ...
In this deeply honest, heart-opening and hope-filled conversation, Dr Nat welcomes Denice Buryn—Wholistic Practitioner, Massage Therapist, and Energy Healer—to explore what it really takes to move from trauma to post-traumatic growth. Denice shares her raw, unfiltered, courageous journey from early heartbreak, abuse, addiction, single motherhood without support, anxiety and health collapse and the coura...
Even after healing, many of us still feel the pull to hide — to stay small, quiet, or polished. In this episode, Dr Nat Green explores the fear behind visibility and how Tall Poppy Syndrome keeps so many purpose-driven professionals from standing in their true power.
Full Show Notes:
In this heartfelt solo episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green opens up about the moment s...
If you’ve done the trauma-work, healed the wounds, yet still feel there’s a next layer — this episode is for you. Host Dr Nat Green shares why healing alone isn’t enough.
Healing isn’t the finish line — it’s the doorway.
In this heartfelt solo episode, Dr Nat Green — Trauma Breakthrough Coach, bestselling author, and creator of the ABS Method® and Archetypes of Transformation — shares her own turning poi...
In this powerful and heart-opening episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green sits down with Marta Sauret Greca — entrepreneur, mother of seven, and founder of Whole Truth Communication — to talk about what it really means to rise again after life and business collapse.
Marta shares her remarkable journey from running a high-end marketing agency to losing everything, walking throu...
In this powerful episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, host Dr Nat Green is joined by Alexandra Reid, a creative wellness coach who specializes in helping high-achieving women recover from burnout and reconnect with themselves and their inner calm.
Burnout can feel isolating, overwhelming, and relentless — especially for women in high-pressure, data-driven environments such as STEM. Alexa...
What does it really take to move from trauma, stress, and burnout into a life of vitality, purpose, and post-traumatic growth?
In this powerful episode of Growing Tall Poppies, I sit down with Dr. Deborah Zucker — naturopathic physician, mental health counselor, health coach, and award winning author of The Vitality Map and The Vitality Journal. Deborah shares her groundbreaking 9 Keys to Vital Living, w...
Following on from Dementia Action Week - In this deeply personal episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green opens up about her family’s raw and emotional journey through dementia and aged care. With both her Dad and StepMum living with Alzheimer’s and dementia, Nat shares the heartbreaking reality of navigating decline, hospital stays, and the difficult transition into aged care.
She speaks honestly ...
In this episode of the Growing Tall Poppies Podcast, host Dr. Nat Green engages with Hope Pedraza, a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner and host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast.
Hope discusses her multifaceted approach to healing from trauma, integrating functional labs, human design, clinical hypnotherapy, and NLP. She shares her personal journey through divorce, religious trauma, and ma...
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