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As we close out 2025, Dr Nat Green reflects on a powerful year of growth, integration, and becoming — both personally and collectively within the Growing Tall Poppies community.

This episode is a gentle yet honest Year in Review, exploring the arc many of us travelled this year: from burnout and emotional exhaustion, through meaning-making and identity grief, and into deeper integration and wholeness.

Together, we revisit the conversations, themes, and insights that shaped 2025 — including burnout, nervous system wisdom, post-traumatic growth, identity shifts, and the courage it takes to let go of who we once needed to be.

This is not just a recap. It’s an invitation to pause, reflect, and honour how far you’ve come.

We Reflect on:

• Burnout isn’t always about doing too much — vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and nervous system overload often play a role
• The concept of identity grief
• Why healing is the doorway, not the destination — and what lies beyond it
• A guided reflection to help you honour what you’ve released, what you’re nurturing, and what you want to carry forward
• Reframing the urge to “burn it all down” as a call toward truth, integrity, and alignment

A Special Reflection: 2025 — The Year of Shedding & Sacred Completion

In this episode, Dr Nat also names something many have felt but struggled to articulate: 2025 has carried a strong energy of completion.

Across cultures and traditions, this has been symbolised as a year of shedding — of letting go of skins that no longer fit. If you’ve felt an urge to:

• walk away
• simplify
• release old roles or identities
• question what no longer feels aligned

You’re not broken — and you’re not self-sabotaging. Your nervous system knows when something has run its course.

This episode gently explores how unbecoming can be just as vital to growth as becoming — and why endings are often the gateway to post-traumatic growth.

Who This Episode Is For

This episode is especially for you if:

• You’ve experienced burnout, exhaustion, or emotional heaviness this year
• You feel like you’re in a season of transition or completion
• You’ve done a lot of inner work, but sense something deeper is shifting
• You’re curious about post-traumatic growth, identity change, and nervous system-led healing

Looking Ahead to 2026

As we move into 2026, the invitation is no longer to chase perfect healing — but to live from integration, authenticity, and presence.

Dr Nat also shares her intention to take a short restorative break, modelling the very nervous system care she teaches, before returning refreshed in January 2026.

Thank You

Thank you for being part of the Growing Tall Poppies community.
For listening deeply.
For choosing growth — even when it was uncomfortable.
For allowing yourself to become.

✨ Keep showing up.
✨ Keep feeli

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When violence occurs in a shared public space, it doesn’t only impact those directly involved — it ripples through communities, values, and our collective sense of safety.

In this short, reflective episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green explores community trauma, collective memory, and why events like the recent violent attack at Bondi during a Jewish Hanukkah gathering can feel deeply triggering for so many Australians (and audiences worldwide).

Violence in familiar, public places can shake us in ways that are difficult to explain. Even if we weren’t there. Even if we don’t know anyone directly affected.

Dr Nat speaks gently to the community trauma — and why these events can reawaken old wounds, both personally and collectively. Drawing on decades of trauma-informed work, including her involvement in community recovery following the Port Arthur massacre, Dr Nat reflects on how trauma memory lives in the nervous system and why reactions such as fear, hypervigilance, sadness, anger, or numbness are deeply human responses.

This episode also acknowledges the specific impact of violence on communities gathering in faith and celebration, and speaks directly to the Jewish community with compassion and validation.

Importantly, listeners are offered clear, practical, trauma-informed strategies to support themselves in the days and weeks following community violence — not to fix or bypass what’s happened, but to help the nervous system settle and feel supported.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn About:

• What community trauma is and why it affects all of us
• How collective and historical trauma can be reactivated by current events
• Why heightened vigilance, sleep disruption, emotional swings, or numbness are normal trauma responses
• The impact of violence on communities gathering around faith and culture
• Trauma-informed grounding strategies to support the nervous system
• How compassion, connection, and shared values support collective healing

7 Trauma-Informed Strategies Shared in This Episode

• Creating psychological distance from distressing news and social media
• Orienting the body to present-moment safety
• Grounding through movement, breath, and sensory awareness
• Normalising emotional fluctuations after community trauma
• Staying connected to others as a buffer against isolation
• Lowering expectations and prioritising self-care
• Seeking additional professional or community support when needed

Resources & Support (Australia) If you are struggling, support is available:

• Lifeline — 13 11 14 (24/7 crisis support)
• Beyond Blue — 1300 22 4636
• Headspace (for young people) — headspace.org.au
• Your GP — for referrals and mental health care plans

If you are part of the Jewish community, consider reaching out to trusted community leaders or culturally safe support services.

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Today’s episode marks a deeply meaningful transition.

In this personal and reflective solo episode, Dr Nat Green shares why she has chosen not to re-register as a Clinical Psychologist after 35 years in the profession — and why, instead of feeling heavy or sorrowful, this decision feels grounded, aligned, and freeing.

This is not a rejection of psychology.
It’s the completion of an identity — and the conscious integration of lived experience, professional wisdom, and post-traumatic growth into a new chapter of work.

In this episode, Dr Nat explores what it means to:

• honour an identity that has completed without bitterness or rebellion
• navigate identity grief — the quiet, often unnamed grief that can accompany growth
• step into a new version of yourself with integrity, nervous system safety, and self-trust

This conversation is especially for you if:

• you feel like you’ve outgrown a role, title, or version of yourself
• you’re on the edge of a transition and unsure how to let go with clarity
• you’ve done a lot of inner work but sense there’s another chapter calling
• you want reassurance that growth doesn’t have to come through collapse

✨ In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why identity completion is not failure — but maturity
• How identity grief shows up (even when a decision feels right)
• The difference between burnout, rebellion, and true alignment
• Why nervous system regulation matters more than rushing to redefine yourself
• Three grounded strategies to support yourself through an identity shift
• How ethical, embodied transformation can exist beyond traditional systems

🧭 Three Grounded Identity Transition Practices Shared:

1. Honour the identity you are completing — recognise what it gave you before moving on
2. Allow identity grief without pathologising it — grief means it mattered
3. Regulate before you redefine — somatic clarity precedes identity clarity

💬 A Reflection to Sit With:

📝 Important Note

This episode is shared for reflection, education, and personal growth.
It is not therapy and does not replace professional mental health care.
If you are experiencing distress or need additional support, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional.

🌱 About Dr Nat Green

Dr Nat Green is a former Clinical Psychologist of 35 years, now a trauma-informed transformational coach, speaker, author, and host of Growing Tall Poppies. Her work sits at the intersection of identity, nervous system regulation, post-traumatic growth, and integrated leadership, supporting people who are ready to move beyond survival and truly thrive.

If this episode resonates with you then I'd love for you to hit SUBSCRIBE so you can keep updated with each new episode as soon as it's released and we'd be most grateful if you would give us a RATING as well. You can also find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drnatgreen/ or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrNatalieGreen

Intro and Outro music: Inspired Ambient by Playsound.

Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended to be deemed or treated as psychological treatment or to replace the need for psychological treatment.