Ever feel like you know better… but you still react the same way, choose the same people, or replay the same painful story in your head?
In this episode of Unraveled & Rising, Terry (trauma recovery coach) shares a powerful tool she teaches every week to women inside a correctional facility: how to recognize the trauma thought loop—the cycle where a thought becomes a feeling, a feeling becomes actions, and those actions create results that “prove” the original belief.
You’ll hear real, raw moments as Michelle realizes—in real time—how old fear and protective patterns were formed, why the body remembers what the mind forgets, and how healing begins with curiosity rather than self-judgment.
In this conversation, we cover:
Why we run on “autopilot” more than we think
How trauma creates repeating beliefs
The thought loop (and how to interrupt it)
Why your body reacts to things you can’t always explain
How affirmations and small daily choices can help reprogram old patterns
Why boundaries are an act of self-love (not selfishness)
How to stop living in survival mode and return to yourself
If you’ve been stuck in the same emotional cycle—people-pleasing, hypervigilance, anger, shame, or self-doubt—this episode gives you a gentle starting point and language for what’s really happening.
👇 If this helped you, share it with someone who needs it.
💬 We respond to every comment—tell us what thought loop you’re ready to break.
To reserve a seat in Terry's workshop, visit: https://awakenyourlifecoaching.com/freewellnessworkshop
