Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers short, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains how stress, trauma, and shame differ, using a real-life story to show how mislabeling feelings can keep our nervous system stuck.

Learn how to recognize the "judge" of shame, ask what wound is being triggered, and use simple practices—naming shame and refusing to honor it—to begin healing and reclaim a sense of safety, worth, and belonging.

Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast focuses on practical, trauma-informed tools to calm the nervous system and create real change. Troy L. Love explains why insight alone often isn’t enough — safety must come first so new learning can stick.

This episode offers a simple, body-first approach and a micro-practice: when you notice a repetitive pattern, ask, “What might my nervous system be trying to protect me from right now?” The episode guides listeners toward building safety, softening shame, and returning to curiosity and connection.

Welcome back to the Finding Peace Podcast—and welcome to a new season.

If you’ve been walking alongside us for a while, thank you. Thank you for listening, for doing the work, and for being willing to sit with conversations that are meaningful, vulnerable, and sometimes uncomfortable.

Last season, we moved slowly and intentionally through the Finding Peace Worksheet, exploring awareness, patterns, attachment, and the wounds that often keep us stuck. That work still matters, and there’s no rush to complete it. Healing is not a race.

This season, we’re shifting gears.

These episodes are shorter—about 10 to 15 minutes—and focused on practical, trauma-informed tools you can use in your real, everyday life. Each episode introduces one core idea, practice, or tool you can try immediately. Some will help regulate your nervous system. Some will support healthier responses in relationships. Some will help you get out of your head and back into your body. Others will help you reconnect with the parts of you that feel exhausted, guarded, or quietly longing for more.

The intention is simple: Not just insight—but integration.

You don’t need to overhaul your life. You don’t need to become someone else. You don’t need to be fully healed to experience peace.

What you do need are small moments of intention, consistency, and compassion—right in the middle of life as it is.

Whether you’re listening between sessions, on a walk, during a commute, or in a rare quiet moment that finally belongs to you, this season is designed to meet you where you are.

Let’s get practical. Let’s get honest. And let’s keep finding peace—together