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Host: Brad Schipke • Overcoming PTSD Podcast • Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching
In today’s Mindset Bootcamp Session 3, Brad and Kayleen teach one of the most overlooked yet foundational pillars of PTSD recovery — awareness. Without awareness, change is impossible. With it, every transformation becomes achievable.
You’ll learn how to separate yourself from your thoughts, emotions, and actions — to become the observer rather than the one consumed by them. Through this lens, awareness becomes power: power to understand, to influence, and to change.
They’ll walk you through the four areas of awareness — mind, body, actions, and triggers — showing you how to identify unconscious patterns and reactions that keep trauma survivors stuck. By the end, you’ll know how to recognize what’s controlling you and reclaim that control through simple, daily mindfulness practices.
Whether you’re new to trauma work or rebuilding deeper layers of self-understanding, this session gives you tools to become conscious, calm, and in charge of your healing.
💡 What You’ll Learn
Understand why awareness is the foundation of PTSD recovery
Learn to separate yourself from your thoughts, emotions, and actions
Identify the four key areas of awareness: mind, body, actions, and triggers
Use mindfulness to observe and calm your nervous system
Discover how physical tension mirrors mental and emotional stress
Recognize unconscious behaviors and build self-control
Map your internal and external triggers — and create a plan for them
Replace automatic reactions with intentional responses
Build awareness routines that strengthen your self-regulation daily
🧠 Key Takeaway
You can’t change what you’re not aware of — awareness is the moment you take back control.
🔗 Next Steps
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome and Mindset Bootcamp Day 3
03:22 Why Awareness Is the Foundation of Change
08:45 You Are Not Your Thoughts, Emotions, or Actions
16:10 The Role of the Observer in Healing
21:35 Four Areas of Awareness Explained
27:40 Awareness of Mind: Watching Your Thoughts
35:18 Meditation and Journaling for Self-Observation
41:55 Awareness of Body: The Doorway to Emotion
50:02 Releasing Physical Tension and Building Mind-Body Connection
58:40 Awareness of Actions: Choosing Growth Over Avoidance
1:08:30 Awareness of Triggers and How to Respond, Not React
1:18:10 Building General Awareness Through Daily Mindfulness
1:25:40 The “What Am I Thinking, Feeling, Doing?” Practice
1:34:00 Q&A: Triggers, Guilt, and Short-Term Discomfort
1:45:20 Tomorrow’s Topic: Positive vs Negative Thinking
Topics Covered:
PTSD recovery • trauma healing • awareness training • mindfulness for PTSD • trauma coping tools • emotional regulation • nervous system regulation • trauma triggers • conscious living • behavioral awareness • self-observation • body awareness • mind-body connection • recovery mindset • overcoming trauma responses • self-regulation skills • trauma-informed self-growth
