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The Truth About Healing Podcast
The Truth About Healing is a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based podcast designed to cut through the overwhelming noise of modern wellness culture and explain what healing actually is and what it isn’t.
In an era flooded with mental health misinformation, toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, and oversimplified “coping strategies,” this podcast offers clarity, accuracy, and grounded nervous system education.
Hosted by EMDR therapist and consultant Dana Carretta-Stein, the show reframes symptoms as intelligent survival responses and helps listeners understand why they feel stuck, burned out, anxious, or disconnected without shame or pathology.
This podcast bridges the gap between clinical knowledge and real life, translating complex concepts like EMDR, polyvagal theory, attachment trauma, and nervous system regulation into language that makes sense and actually helps.
The Truth About Healing Podcast
💣 Truth Bomb: Your Body Hasn’t Moved On
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You understand what happened.
You've talked about it. You've analyzed it. You know logically that it's in the past.
So why does your body still react like it's happening right now?
In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why healing isn't about forcing yourself to “move on”—and why understanding your trauma intellectually doesn't always change the way your nervous system responds to it.
Trauma isn't just remembered as a story.
It's remembered as an experience.
That's why something from the past can still trigger fear, panic, shutdown, overwhelm, or other survival responses in the present.
Your brain may know you're safe.
Your body may not know it yet.
Work With Peaceful Living Mental Health Counseling
If you understand your patterns intellectually but your body still responds with fear, anxiety, panic, shutdown, or overwhelm, therapy can help you work with what your nervous system is still carrying.
📍 In-Person Therapy: Scarsdale, NY
💻 Virtual Therapy: Available for residents of NY, NJ, CT, FL & CO
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Additional Resources
🧠 EMDR Resources for Clinicians & Clients
www.danacarretta.com/shop
🛠️ Recommended Therapy Tools, Regulation Resources & EMDR Systems for Clinicians
www.danacarretta.com/therapytools
🎁 Free Nervous System Resources
www.danacarretta.com/free
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Because healing gets easier when we stop doing it alone. 💛
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