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Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights29. You're Not Failing - Your Body's Been Protecting YouFeeling stuck in your trauma healing journey? In this episode, I share a personal story of how freeze responses, hypervigilance, and dissociation show up — even after doing "all the right work." You'll learn how body-based trauma tools like pendulation, bilateral stimulation, and somatic orienting can help release stored trauma energy, regulate the nervous system, and create real, lasting healing. If you’re frustrated with slow progress, this episode offers trauma-informed insights and simple somatic practices to move forward with compassion. Learn more and sign up for Basic Foundations here: https://camibirdno.com...2025-06-2312 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights28. The Freeze Response - Thawing From Sexual NumbnessSometimes, the body - and our younger selves - remember before we do. In this tender episode, I share what it was like to meet my inner child in a moment of shutdown—and to hear her say, “This is really hard for me.” Join me as I share a personal *story about navigating the freeze response—especially when it shows up as **sexual numbness. I explore how past trauma shaped my body’s protective shutdowns and how gentle tools like breathwork, inner child dialogue, somatic awareness, and bilateral tapping helped me begin the slow, sacred work of thawing. If...2025-06-0123 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights27. When I Caught Myself FawningEver caught yourself saying something just to smooth things over—then walked away feeling small, tight, or ashamed? In this episode, I share how I recognized a fawn response in real time, how my breath helped me reconnect, and what it means to reclaim our truth after self-abandoning. Healing from trauma doesn’t mean we never fawn again. It means we learn to notice when we do, breathe into the fear, and slowly find our way back to ourselves. This episode is a soft landing for anyone who’s been there. If you're healing from people...2025-05-1429 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights26. "Not This Again" and The Flee ResponseUnderstanding and Healing the Flee Response: Personal Insights, Grounding & Releasing Tools Did you know that you can let go of past trauma and that your body already knows how? In this episode, I discuss the trauma response of fleeing, both physically and energetically. Through my own experiences, I share practical tips for recognizing and addressing the 'flee' response, providing grounding techniques and emotional processing tools that can help us reconnect with our body and find safety in the present moment. This episode emphasizes honoring our healing journey and understanding that feeling stuck in a loop can be a natural part o...2025-04-2631 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights25. The Fight Response and My HairReclaiming Power: Understanding Trauma and the Fight Response In this episode, I dive into a personal story and insights about trauma and the fight response in my situation. I explore how past trauma can resurface and how it manifests as anger, control, or defensiveness. I share a personal year long journey with my hair, examining a visceral reaction tied to a memory of my father's criticism. Through somatic tools, mindfulness, and compassionate self-dialogue, I share how I was able to release the fight for control that came as a visceral response and transform these reactions into empowerment and choice. I in...2025-04-1815 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights24. I thought I was over this...I can't tell you how many times I used to think this thought when I would get triggered, or when a visceral response would come up in my body that made zero sense to my present self. I want to honor that it's ok. In this episode I share many different aspects of why and how this might come up. I offer ways we can be more kind to ourselves and some possible new reframes. Throughout the episode I invite you to check in and honor what your experience has been. Please reach...2024-11-2233 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights23. Safety 1st - Before, the River of MiseryThings are seeming to get worse.... Is this a thought you've had during your healing journey? The River of Misery is a tool we offer to our mind when this comes up. It makes sense that as we start to change, rewire our brain and offer ourselves new reframes that the parts of us that are used to the way we do things will freak out a little or maybe a lot. And this is what the river of misery refers too. However, when we add trauma to the mix, sometimes it's not...2024-09-3028 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights22. Resiliency Means What Again?Resiliency is a common word we hear when we start to heal our trauma. And it's one that I always forgot the meaning of. Does that happen to you? You hear a word, it makes sense and then when you hear it again, you don't understand how it applies to you or your trauma healing? Today, I share a little about my journey with this word and the different phases I see myself and my clients going through in the space of resiliency during our trauma healing. A basic definition of resiliency means...2024-07-0926 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights21. Somatic EMDR GoodnessIf you are wondering how Somatics and EMDR could work together, I break it down on this episode. I invite you to listen as I offer ways my clients and I find somatic work helpful, EMDR helpful and then how the combination of the two can be a powerhouse tool for healing. Again, your body knows what you need, so pay attention to how it feels as I share. You can take the nuggets that resonate and leave the rest. If you want to learn more, or learn how we can work together...2024-03-3042 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights20. Day 2 of My 3 Day Challenge for Get Into Your BodyThe first week in March I did a 3 day challenge and invited people to join me for a Get Into Your Body for 30 minutes each day series. It was so much fun! And so I wanted to share some of it here on the podcast. Today I share what we did for Day 2. We focused on releasing stress or tension in our chests. The practices I shared are some of my favorites. They are ways to offer ourselves acceptance of where we are, not seeking to change it, but acceptance of what our present moment expereince it...2024-03-1034 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights19. Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery - BonusYoga is often talked about as a way to heal trauma. Dr Arielle Schwartz brings polyvagal theory into her therapeutic yoga for trauma recovery and I LOVE her approach. In today's epidose, I discuss some things Dr Schwartz shares about the power of healing trauma through yoga. I also share why I was drawn to this specific tool and how I think it helps by offering a few practical examples of yoga poses that offer this healing. I invite you to listen and see how your body responds. Perhaps Yoga is a tool you'd like...2024-03-0115 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights18. When the Idea of Healing is too MuchHave you ever thought I can’t do trauma healing, trauma healing isn’t for me, that seems like too much or another version of this idea? If so, I invite you to listen as I offer that you have good reasons and I honor how valid those are. I also share the challenge of awareness when this fear of trauma healing is present. As you listen further I invite you to see if your body resonates with any of the 3 ways we can safely start to look at our trauma. Ways to safel...2024-02-2429 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWe Don't Change From Shame & GuiltSo how do we change then? If you don’t like shame and guilt as a motivator but know it’s often been the only way you change…. I invite you to listen and see how else we can change. I offer some ideas and also address how the fear of shame and guilt is connected to the idea of hitting rock bottom or not hitting it… I promise there is a better way to change and your body has known it all along. Free Internal Power Chat w/Cami 2024-02-1132 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights5 Things to Do Before You See That Hard Family MemberWhat if this time, you want to be more intentional? Can you really show up as the real you, and say goodbye to the stress, anxiety, worry or fear when that “hard” person will be there? You can Download the FREE Ebook to learn how. I offer 5 tools and this podcast gives the embodiment practices to go along with each topic in the Ebook. The free Ebook is HERE The video of the Embodiment Practices is HERE The full LDS Coach Directory collaborative Ebook is HERE My...2023-12-3043 min
Healing With Grace - Trauma healing through mind, body, spirit, and faith67. The Forgiveness Series with Cami Birdno - Forgiveness in Trauma HealingThe Forgiveness Series with Cami Birdno, a Trauma Informed Embodiment Coach.
In this episode, we talk about:
Background of how you got here.
What was the catalyst of starting your healing journey - your "why".
What does forgiveness mean to you?
How would you define it?
Does this principle even matter?
Is there a place for this in the healing process of trauma?
How has it shown up in your life?
What isn't forgiveness?...ex: boundaries.
What's next in your...2023-11-1651 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsEmbodimentIf you have heard the word Embodiment but don’t really know what it means or want to learn more about it, I got you. I invite you to listen in while I share what Embodiment is, why I like to use it to heal trauma and how I integrate embodied healing into mine and my clients healing work. It’s powerful stuff and I can’t wait to share it with you! And here are the links I talked about in this episode: Free Embodiment Practices Groundin...2023-11-0927 min
Latter-day Life Coaches148. How to Identify Trauma in Your Black and White Thinking with Cami BirdnoIt is natural for the brain to think in black and white. There is good and there is bad. On the surface it makes situations seem easy to navigate but when our thinking and reality don’t line up, it can create a trauma response within our nervous systems. Coach Cami Birdo is on the podcast today talking about how to identify trauma induced by black and white thinking and where we see it in our religion, parenting, and dealings within society. The good news is that healing can take place and black and white thin...2023-10-2434 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsConnection. It's Not Just in Your MindConnection is not only what we think, our belief systems, our narratives, our stories and all that mindset work. It is those things and I talk about all of that in this episode PLUS…. Connection is also the state of our nervous system and what our nervous system will allow in order for us to connect with other people. I talk about all that on this episode as well. wacky, wonderful Wednesday newsletter Harnessing Group Support to Empower Your Voice Free Intern...2023-08-1236 min
Latter-day Life Coaches132. Tools for Healing From Trauma with Cami BirdnoWhen trauma is introduced to the body it often gets stored there because one doesn’t know how to release it. But it can be released and is necessary for a healthy mind-body connection. Cami Birdno is back again this week talking specifically about four main tools or practices that one can use to identify and release the trauma we have within us. As Cami will state, this is just an introductory overview of four main tools, so if you want to learn more please reach out to Cami so she can help you learn the...2023-07-0426 min
Latter-day Life Coaches131. Recognizing Trauma in Your Body with Cami BirdnoWhen we come to earth we begin our journey of mortality by getting a body. Our body and spirit start to experience all the joys and pains of living life as a human being. All of us in one way or the other will experience situations that can be classified as trauma. The body's response to these situations is the way God designed it to be so that the body can protect us as needed. However, as you will hear coach Cami Birdo speak about today, trauma is never meant to stay in the body yet so many hold...2023-06-2746 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhy Add Inner Child WorkInner Child Work has been really powerful for me. It has been yet another tool in learning what I am functioning from in my every day life that I might not be aware of. It is also another tool to help me dissolve and release painful trauma narratives. This episode gives a brief explanation of what Inner Child Work is and how it's been helpful for me as I heal from trauma. There are many benefits I find to adding Inner Child Work to the healing journey. I expound o...2023-06-2724 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhy Add Somatic ExperiencingThe ability to slow down, take one piece of trauma response or narrative at a time and gain tools that help us learn things about our trauma responses, while learning what safety and regulation feels like in our body benefits us so much in our healing. And along the way, we learn how to complete the trauma stress energy cycles in our body safely, so they are released and not a part of our current lives…. This is what somatic experiencing has done for me and my clients. I invite you to listen to today’s ep...2023-06-1343 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhy Add Chakra WorkChakra work is one of the tools, with many tools incorporated in it, that I use because it helps us learn so much about our body and, often from a bottom up first - meaning, we pay attention to what the cues are from our body and then incorporate the other steps. Top Down or mindset and Sideways which includes noticing whether we are being kind or judgy with how we are healing. In today’s episode, I will explain how some of how this works by sharing 5 ways chakra work is helpful in healing and how I...2023-05-3026 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhat About "IF"In this Episode, I talk about IF’s. Trauma IF’s and Tool IF’s. I share how assuming can be an “if” and how it can be a trauma response or a way we cope when we are in a trauma response. I offer lots of examples of what it might look like as a trauma response and then use an “IF” tool as a way to get out of trauma so you can regulate and get back to doing and being the person you want to be in your life. The What If t...2023-05-1336 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsSexual Assault AwarenessToday I talk about aspects of sexual assault and mental health that might be triggering and if that is the case, I invite you to please take care of yourself and stop listening as needed. You can always come back to this later if you aren’t able to listen right now. I think it’s so important to talk openly so we offer a space to support survivors as we increase knowledge and awareness. I also offer strategies and resources for survivors. And most importantly invite survivors to seek to find what healing speaks to them. This...2023-05-0430 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsTaking Up SpaceThe phrase Taking up Space….Is it familiar or new to you? When you hear the words, “taking up space”, what comes up for you? I take up too much and want to work on that… I don’t take up enough space and want to work on that.. I don’t even know what that means… The concept of taking up space and my right to take up my own space, has been huge in my healing journey. So, in this episode, I share 4 points o...2023-04-1332 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhy Add Polyvagal WorkToday’s episode gives a basic overview of what Polyvagal theory is. I offer 4 ways it’s been helpful for me & my clients…. 1- Awarenes of what state our body is in 2- Once we have awareness, we can start implementing tools to move between states (which is referred to as moving up the polyvagal ladder) 3- Tools to get into ventral more often 4- Tools that rewire and heal ventral first and then dorsal and sympathetic Then I cover how and why polyvagal work tools an...2023-03-1338 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsFinding Fun While HealingHealing work can be hard. It can be exhausting and sometimes we forget that we are humans who need fun too. Learn today how adding fun to your life can actually help in your healing journey. I share how fun is a vital part of my healing, why it’s valuable and what it looks like for me. I invite you to listen for ideas that might also apply to you. You have a right to have fun, to laugh and to enjoy your life. Listen in and see if your bo...2023-02-2637 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsVictim And Martyr MentalityIn this episode I talk about what victim and martyr mentalities are. What they might look like in trauma and why learning to understand how our body and our nervous system responds when we go into a victim and martyr mentality can help us heal. I use polyvagal concepts to explain the state of our nervous system while in victim and martyr and how we can move between polyvagal states. I also share how our body, while in victim and martyr mentalities, might be giving us the information we need to heal. 2023-02-1230 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights3 Step Process to Heal TraumaIn this Episode I discuss how I discovered the 3 Steps to Heal trauma and why they are so powerful in healing. The 3 Steps are Top Down, Bottom Up and Sideways. The Sideways Step involves how we view our Top Down & Bottom Up work. The Bottom Up Step has 3 parts - Grounding to get present, Processing & Releasing trauma energy & Awareness around beliefs that come from our nervous system due to trauma. The Top Down Step includes Mindset and Trauma education. Links mentioned in this episode: 3 Step Process to H...2023-01-2929 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsMovement In HealingIf you have ever had the thought “My body is not my own,” then tune in to this episode. I discuss how powerful adding movement can be to our healing. And it doesn’t matter whether it be big, small or medium movement, what is powerful is the intentionality we have when moving. When we have trauma, we lose control over our movements. We lose our choice and we are often acted upon or forced by others. This is why our experience is traumatic. Join me as I discuss ways we can relcaim our bo...2023-01-1426 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhat Your Face Is SayingAs humans, we are wired to use our eyes, facial expressions and tones of voice to communicate what we are feeling inside. But what if our face or the faces of those we are in relationship with do not actually describe what is happening inside? Our faces might not match what we are feeling and/or believing. Do you ever feel this way? In this episode, I share 3 ways we can understand what our face has to tell us about how we are in relationship with ourselves and others. I also discuss how trauma may...2022-12-3023 min
Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing InsightsWhy Go all in to Let goLearn how the phrase "Go all in to Let go" applies to trauma healing. When we are in pain, we often want to do anything we can to make it go away and have it go away as soon as possible. This applies to trauma and the body responses that follow. I discuss 5 different ways we can "Go all in" to heal. And then discuss how those approaches help trauma releases happen in our bodies, so we can truly "Let go" of pain and trauma. 3 Steps to Heal Trauma Internal Power Chat w/Cami 2022-12-1624 min
The Intimacy Podcast for the Million Dollar ManNavigating Sexual Trauma and Thriving, a Conversation with the Birdno’sIs it possible to heal after sexual trauma? What’s it like to be in marriage after sexual abuse? How can I live and support my wife who is a survivor or sexual abuse. Tune in for all these answers and more. Cami , birdno.cami@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/cami.birdno/ . Merrill merrill.birdno@gmail.com2020-07-0246 min