Why Everything Feels Harder Alone

TraumaTies — Season Premiere:

Welcome back to TraumaTies and the beginning of a new season. This chapter of the podcast expands beyond trauma awareness into deeper conversations about neuroscience, resilience, relationships, nervous system regulation, and the ways healing shows up in everyday life.

In this season premiere, Bridgette Stumpf and Lindsey Silverberg explore a powerful question: Why do hard things feel even harder when we carry them alone? Inspired by research showing that people literally perceive a hill as less steep when standing beside a trusted friend, they unpack how support changes not only our emotional experience, but our brain’s perception of stress and difficulty.

Through personal stories, reflections on grief and trust, and insights from trauma-responsive work, Bridgette and Lindsey examine the difference between simply having people around and truly feeling supported. They also discuss how trauma can disrupt a person’s sense of safety, making even manageable challenges feel overwhelming without connection and regulation.

This episode sets the tone for a season focused on untangling the science and lived experience of trauma while exploring practical ways we can build resilience, safety, and support in our lives.

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Brought to you by Volare, TraumaTies: Untangling Societal Harm & Healing After Crime is a podcast that creates space and conversations to dissect the structural and systemic knots that keep us from addressing trauma.

Rooted in a belief that survivors of crime deserve respect for their dignity in the aftermath of victimization, Volare seeks to empower survivors by informing them of all of the options available and working to transform existing response systems to be more inclusive of the diverse needs that survivors often have after crime.

Volare also provides free, holistic, and comprehensive advocacy, therapeutic, and legal services to survivors of all crime types. Visit our website to learn more about how to access our trauma-informed education training and how to partner with us to expand survivor-defined justice.

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Episoder(45)

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21 Jul 20min

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7 Jul 35min

What Zootopia Gets Right About Trauma

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30 Jun 23min

If you were a lab rat, you’d do the same thing

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23 Jun 24min