In this episode, I share a grounded and revealing conversation about how trauma can quietly shape our professional success. You will learn how fear, shame, and survival patterns can drive even the most impressive achievements, and what it takes to reclaim your work as a reflection of your True Self instead of your trauma. I offer my own story of leaving academia after two decades and the realizations that followed about what real purpose feels like when it is no longer fueled by protection or performance. Together, we explore how shame hides inside accomplishment, how to distinguish a career from a calling, and how healing transforms the way you lead, create, and live. In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ How trauma energies like fear, isolation, and overwhelm can shape your professional identity ✦ The difference between a trauma-driven career and a Self-led calling ✦ Why shame is one of the deepest distortions to resolve in CPTSD healing ✦ How to discern which aspects of your work are genuine expressions of your True Self ✦ What it means to train as an “elite” CPTSD Resolution CycleBreaker CPTSD Medicine Self Study In a relationship, but wondering if you should leave? → Begin the Red Flag Learning Path to recognize trauma-driven patterns and rebuild your inner compass toward love that doesn’t hurt. Just been broken up with and need answers to feel sane again? → Explore the “Why Is This Happening to Me?” Study for clarity, validation, and grounded relief after heartbreak. Thinking your career is hurting your love life? → Start the Overachiever’s Audit Study — a 10-minute self-reflection to see where achievement has become protection and how it may be blocking intimacy. Can’t stop fighting in your relationship? → Follow the Fight Smarter Field Guide — a self-guided learning experience to understand your conflict patterns and practice responses that lead to repair, not regret. Continue your Self Study at cptsdmedicine.com/selfstudy Each Learning Path begins with the questions that keep you up at night and reveals the truths most therapies never name. Move from possession by trauma energies to life led by Self Energy. Work With Tanner Enrollment is open for Happily Ever After, the six-month CPTSD Resolution and trauma recovery experience for high-functioning professionals. If this episode resonates and you’re ready to heal your CPTSD at the root, learn more about Happily Ever After. About Dr. Tanner Wallace Dr. Tanner Wallace, PhD and IFS Level 3 Practitioner, is the creator of CPTSD Medicine, a research-grounded and spiritually integrated framework that helps high-achieving professionals resolve CPTSD at the root. Her non-pharmaceutical method unburdens trauma energies, amplifies Self Energy, and teaches Self Leadership so humans can move from survival to sovereignty. About the CPTSD Medicine Podcast Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, the CPTSD Medicine Podcast explores CPTSD healing and trauma recovery without medication. Learn why unresolved CPTSD impacts love, work, and self-trust, and study a structured path toward secure attachment, emotional safety, and lasting love. Designed for successful professionals ready for real CPTSD resolution at the root.
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019. Being More Confident
In this episode, I share a grounded and practical tutorial on what real confidence actually is and how to begin cultivating it today. You will learn what confidence feels like in the body, how to recognize the trauma patterns that disguise themselves as humility or caution, and how to rebuild trust in your own strength and perspective. In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ The difference between trauma-driven confidence and authentic confidence ✦ How to identify the parts of you that still believe being on your own danger ✦ What embodied confidence looks and feels like ✦ Practical steps to rebuild a sense of worthiness CPTSD Medicine Self Study In a relationship, but wondering if you should leave? → Begin the Red Flag Learning Path to recognize trauma-driven patterns and rebuild your inner compass toward love that doesn’t hurt. Just been broken up with and need answers to feel sane again? → Explore the “Why Is This Happening to Me?” Study for clarity, validation, and grounded relief after heartbreak. Thinking your career is hurting your love life? → Start the Overachiever’s Audit Study — a 10-minute self-reflection to see where achievement has become protection and how it may be blocking intimacy. Can’t stop fighting in your relationship? → Follow the Fight Smarter Field Guide — a self-guided learning experience to understand your conflict patterns and practice responses that lead to repair, not regret. Continue your Self Study at cptsdmedicine.com/selfstudy Each Learning Path begins with the questions that keep you up at night and reveals the truths most therapies never name. Move from possession by trauma energies to life led by Self Energy. Work With Tanner Confidence Self Energy MasterClass In this class you will study and practice: Hold intense emotion without losing yourself Identify the ways you abandon yourself when you feel like you are too much Notice who in your life undermines your access to Confidence Self Energy This is for you if: You want to come off medication with your prescriber’s guidance, and you want training first in holding intensity You know you need to leave a relationship, and fear is stopping you You accept poor treatment at home or work, and you are ready to change that pattern You are not setting adequate boundaries with your children, and that scares you You want to be more visible online, and you are afraid to be seen Join the 3-Day Confidence MasterClass ($100) → Enrollment is open for Happily Ever After, the six-month CPTSD Resolution and trauma recovery experience for high-functioning professionals. If this episode resonates and you’re ready to heal your CPTSD at the root, learn more about Happily Ever After. About Dr. Tanner Wallace Dr. Tanner Wallace, PhD and IFS Level 3 Practitioner, is the creator of CPTSD Medicine, a research-grounded and spiritually integrated framework that helps high-achieving professionals resolve CPTSD at the root. Her non-pharmaceutical method unburdens trauma energies, amplifies Self Energy, and teaches Self Leadership so humans can move from survival to sovereignty. About the CPTSD Medicine Podcast Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, the CPTSD Medicine Podcast explores CPTSD healing and trauma recovery without medication. Learn why unresolved CPTSD impacts love, work, and self-trust, and study a structured path toward secure attachment, emotional safety, and lasting love. Designed for successful professionals ready for real CPTSD resolution at the root.
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018. Trusting Yourself
In this episode, I share three ways to begin rebuilding that trust today. These practices will help you move from confusion and self-doubt into clarity, forgiveness, and grounded openness. In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ How to notice “give-to-get” patterns and identify what is truly available for you — what works, what doesn’t, and why your expectations matter ✦ How to name lessons without shame, distill the wisdom, and extend forgiveness so you can move forward cleanly ✦ How to practice vulnerability that is not exposure but a grounded softness that lets real intimacy grow CPTSD Medicine Self Study In a relationship, but wondering if you should leave? → Begin the Red Flag Learning Path to recognize trauma-driven patterns and rebuild your inner compass toward love that doesn’t hurt. Just been broken up with and need answers to feel sane again? → Explore the “Why Is This Happening to Me?” Study for clarity, validation, and grounded relief after heartbreak. Thinking your career is hurting your love life? → Start the Overachiever’s Audit Study — a 10-minute self-reflection to see where achievement has become protection and how it may be blocking intimacy. Can’t stop fighting in your relationship? → Follow the Fight Smarter Field Guide — a self-guided learning experience to understand your conflict patterns and practice responses that lead to repair, not regret. Continue your Self Study at cptsdmedicine.com/selfstudy Each Learning Path begins with the questions that keep you up at night and reveals the truths most therapies never name. Move from possession by trauma energies to life led by Self Energy. Work With Tanner Enrollment is open for Happily Ever After, the six-month CPTSD Resolution and trauma recovery experience for high-functioning professionals. If this episode resonates and you’re ready to heal your CPTSD at the root, learn more about Happily Ever After. About Dr. Tanner Wallace Dr. Tanner Wallace, PhD and IFS Level 3 Practitioner, is the creator of CPTSD Medicine, a research-grounded and spiritually integrated framework that helps high-achieving professionals resolve CPTSD at the root. Her non-pharmaceutical method unburdens trauma energies, amplifies Self Energy, and teaches Self Leadership so humans can move from survival to sovereignty. About the CPTSD Medicine Podcast Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, the CPTSD Medicine Podcast explores CPTSD healing and trauma recovery without medication. Learn why unresolved CPTSD impacts love, work, and self-trust, and study a structured path toward secure attachment, emotional safety, and lasting love. Designed for successful professionals ready for real CPTSD resolution at the root.
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017. Deciding To Stay or Go
In this episode, I share five powerful inquiries to explore before you make the choice to stay or go. These practices will help you pause, contain the intensity of your emotions, and bring discernment into a decision that could shape the rest of your life. In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ How to master emotional containment so you are not forcing needs, lashing out, or slipping into victimhood to get attention ✦ How to evaluate the balance of responsibility in your relationship or environment ✦ How to notice “reaches” — the ways you may avoid discomfort or grasp for relief that doesn’t serve you ✦ How to recognize and eliminate negative influences that destabilize your healing ✦ How to conduct a values assessment so your decision is anchored in your True Self, not survival mode A protocol for tapering long-term antidepressant use https://www.releasetoolkit.com.au/release-toolkit-for-consumers#antidepressant-tapering-plans NOTE: I recommend that you share and discuss the RELEASE resources with your doctor. The information in the RELEASE resources is not medical advice. The RELEASE resources have been designed to help your doctor to help you. CPTSD Medicine Self Study In a relationship, but wondering if you should leave? → Begin the Red Flag Learning Path to recognize trauma-driven patterns and rebuild your inner compass toward love that doesn’t hurt. Just been broken up with and need answers to feel sane again? → Explore the “Why Is This Happening to Me?” Study for clarity, validation, and grounded relief after heartbreak. Thinking your career is hurting your love life? → Start the Overachiever’s Audit Study — a 10-minute self-reflection to see where achievement has become protection and how it may be blocking intimacy. Can’t stop fighting in your relationship? → Follow the Fight Smarter Field Guide — a self-guided learning experience to understand your conflict patterns and practice responses that lead to repair, not regret. Continue your Self Study at cptsdmedicine.com/selfstudy Each Learning Path begins with the questions that keep you up at night and reveals the truths most therapies never name. Move from possession by trauma energies to life led by Self Energy. Work With Tanner Enrollment is open for Happily Ever After, the six-month CPTSD Resolution and trauma recovery experience for high-functioning professionals. If this episode resonates and you’re ready to heal your CPTSD at the root, learn more about Happily Ever After. About Dr. Tanner Wallace Dr. Tanner Wallace, PhD and IFS Level 3 Practitioner, is the creator of CPTSD Medicine, a research-grounded and spiritually integrated framework that helps high-achieving professionals resolve CPTSD at the root. Her non-pharmaceutical method unburdens trauma energies, amplifies Self Energy, and teaches Self Leadership so humans can move from survival to sovereignty. About the CPTSD Medicine Podcast Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, the CPTSD Medicine Podcast explores CPTSD healing and trauma recovery without medication. Learn why unresolved CPTSD impacts love, work, and self-trust, and study a structured path toward secure attachment, emotional safety, and lasting love. Designed for successful professionals ready for real CPTSD resolution at the root.
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016. Resolving Relationship Problems
In this episode, I share three of the most common missteps people make when trying to make a relationship work. From over-functioning and people-pleasing, to ignoring your own body signals, to staying stuck in survival mode dynamics, these missteps can keep you locked in patterns of pain instead of moving toward connection that lasts. In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ Why taking time yourself is SO important before deciding anything, or even communicating about the problem ✦ How to think about accountability and who is responsible for what ✦ Why couples therapy without releasing trauma energies is a big trap for enduring suffering CPTSD Medicine Self Study In a relationship, but wondering if you should leave? → Begin the Red Flag Learning Path to recognize trauma-driven patterns and rebuild your inner compass toward love that doesn’t hurt. Just been broken up with and need answers to feel sane again? → Explore the “Why Is This Happening to Me?” Study for clarity, validation, and grounded relief after heartbreak. Thinking your career is hurting your love life? → Start the Overachiever’s Audit Study — a 10-minute self-reflection to see where achievement has become protection and how it may be blocking intimacy. Can’t stop fighting in your relationship? → Follow the Fight Smarter Field Guide — a self-guided learning experience to understand your conflict patterns and practice responses that lead to repair, not regret. Continue your Self Study at cptsdmedicine.com/selfstudy Each Learning Path begins with the questions that keep you up at night and reveals the truths most therapies never name. Move from possession by trauma energies to life led by Self Energy. Work With Tanner Enrollment is open for Happily Ever After, the six-month CPTSD Resolution and trauma recovery experience for high-functioning professionals. If this episode resonates and you’re ready to heal your CPTSD at the root, learn more about Happily Ever After. About Dr. Tanner Wallace Dr. Tanner Wallace, PhD and IFS Level 3 Practitioner, is the creator of CPTSD Medicine, a research-grounded and spiritually integrated framework that helps high-achieving professionals resolve CPTSD at the root. Her non-pharmaceutical method unburdens trauma energies, amplifies Self Energy, and teaches Self Leadership so humans can move from survival to sovereignty. About the CPTSD Medicine Podcast Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, the CPTSD Medicine Podcast explores CPTSD healing and trauma recovery without medication. Learn why unresolved CPTSD impacts love, work, and self-trust, and study a structured path toward secure attachment, emotional safety, and lasting love. Designed for successful professionals ready for real CPTSD resolution at the root.
Heal First. Then Pick Your Life Partner.
You can look perfect on paper and still be breaking underneath.
The CPTSD Medicine Podcast helps high-functioning professionals heal Complex PTSD (CPTSD) at the root so they can create secure, lasting love and leadership from emotional safety.
Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, former tenured associate professor of Applied Developmental Psychology and IFS Level 3 practitioner, this show reveals how unhealed trauma drives repeating relationship patterns, emotional dysregulation, and self-abandonment—and how to resolve them.
If you have spent years in therapy, achieved success in your career, yet still collapse in love, this is your space.
Here, you will learn how to regulate your nervous system, strengthen internal attachment, and lead your life from Self Energy rather than trauma energy.
Each episode blends trauma education, Internal Family Systems insights, and lived experience to guide you toward real trauma healing and resolution—not just coping.
CPTSD Medicine is for those ready to move beyond codependence, people addiction, and anxious attachment.
It is for those who want to understand themselves clearly and live from sovereignty instead of survival.
When you heal first, everything else—love, partnership, parenting, and purpose—flows from truth, wholeness, and freedom.
New episodes every Friday.
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