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 happens when the life you’ve built… is the very thing making you sick?
In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Dr. Nat Green is joined by Ramah Leith — a former public health professional turned multidimensional healer — who shares her powerful journey from high-achieving burnout and chronic illness to deep healing, alignment, and purpose.
After years of pushing, proving, and striving, Rama...
In this deeply reflective episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr. Nat Green shares an unexpected insight sparked during a visit to Alcatraz in San Francisco after several weeks travelling through Canada, the Rockies and Alaska.
What began as a sightseeing experience quickly became a powerful metaphor for the invisible emotional prisons so many high-functioning women continue living insi...
What happens when you finally stop pushing… and your nervous system gets the space to just be?
After making the decision to travel as part of their "celebrating 30 years together" travelling through San Francisco and the breathtaking Canadian Rockies, Dr Nat shares the powerful and unexpected lessons this journey revealed about nervous system regulation, presence, trust, and post-traumatic grow...
When trust is broken, your nervous system doesn’t forget — it adapts.
In this episode, Dr Nat Green explores what really happens when trust is disrupted — not just emotionally, but physiologically.
Because trust isn’t just relational.
It’s something your nervous system experiences as safety.
And when that safety is compromised, your system adapts in ways you may not even realise.
You may find yourself more “...
What if it’s not a strategy problem… but a safety pattern?
In this episode, Dr Nat Green shares a powerful insight from a recent mastermind retreat — a moment that completely reframed what she thought was holding her back.
Going in, Nat believed she needed better systems, structure, and processes.
What she uncovered instead?
A deeper trust pattern rooted in nervous system safety.
🌿 In this episode, we explo...
You’re getting everything done… but it’s costing you more than anyone can see.
From the outside, it looks like you’re handling life.
You’re showing up.
You’re achieving.
You’re the one people rely on.
But internally?
There’s tension.
Exhaustion.
A nervous system that never fully switches off.
In this week's episode, Dr Nat Green explores the hidden cost of “holding it together” — and...
There are moments in life that change everything.
Not gradually.
Not gently.
But in an instant.
In this deeply personal and powerful 100th episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green marks a significant milestone — reflecting on the journey of the podcast, expressing heartfelt gratitude to listeners and guests, and celebrating its nomination in the Women Podcasters Awards.
Bu...
There are moments in life that change everything.
Not gradually. Not gently. But in an instant.
This week on Growing Tall Poppies, I’m joined by someone incredibly special to me — my dear friend Bron Watson — and this is a conversation that will stay with you.
Bron is a nurse educator, entrepreneur, mother of five boys… and someone who has faced not one, but two life-altering cancer diagnoses.
But this conv...
In this week's episode I’m joined by Ramona Kossowan — Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, fitness professional, and food relationship coach — who shares her deeply personal journey from self-hatred to self-worth.
Together, we unpack how trauma, life experiences, and long-held survival patterns shape the way we feel about ourselves….often without us even realising it.
✨ What We Explore
In this powerfu...
What if the very parts of your story you’ve hidden… are the exact parts that hold your power?
In this deeply moving and honest conversation, I’m joined by Dr Louise Hayes — clinical psychologist, author, educator, and meditation teacher — as she shares her extraordinary journey from childhood trauma, poverty, and shame… to becoming a global leader in psychology and human connection.
This episode is a powe...
Have you ever done years of personal development or therapy… and still found old patterns resurfacing when life becomes challenging again?
In this episode of the Growing Tall Poppies podcast, Dr Nat Green explores why past experiences can suddenly reactivate — even when you’ve already done significant healing work.
Through a deeply personal story about her own health crisis and her children’s recent ankle...
Many high-functioning and high-achieving women are known as “the strong one.”
The capable one.
The reliable one.
The person everyone else depends on.
From the outside, it can look like strength, success, and resilience.
But underneath that identity, many people quietly experience something else.
A constant sense of effort.
A feeling that different parts of them don’t quite line up.
The s...
What if you’re not “unmotivated”… you’re depleted?
In this week’s episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green sits down with Dr. Heather Clark—existential coach and creator of Divinely Structured Success—to unpack what burnout actually looks like on the inside, why it can feel terrifyingly physical, and how recovery begins when you close the identity gap between who you really are and how you’ve...
In this latest powerful and moving episode Kellie Burns is back — and this conversation goes deeper than ever. In Episode 12, Kellie shared her powerful trauma story and the loss of her beloved brother, Sean. Today, we pick up from the next moment that changed everything: a major back injury, the fear of a three-level spinal fusion, and the wake-up call that became a turning point.
Together, Dr Nat and K...
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...
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