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Have you ever felt like you’re “doing all the right things” for your health, yet your body still won’t cooperate? In this deeply powerful episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green is joined by Jodi Geline, a health expert known for helping people age healthier, banish bloat, IBS, and chronic health issues, and reclaim lasting wellbeing.

Jodi shares her lived experience of years of debilitating gut symptoms including intense bloating (to the point she looked “nine months pregnant”), severe pain, and a life dominated by the bathroom. But what makes her story especially meaningful is what she discovered underneath it all: the emotional energy of trauma, shame, and chronic stress stored in the body.

Together, Nat and Jodi explore the mind–body connection, how trauma can disconnect us from our bodies (and intuition), and why symptoms are often your body’s way of saying: “This needs to be healed.” If you’ve experienced childhood adversity, narcissistic abuse, chronic gut issues, or you’re on a post-traumatic growth journey and ready for deeper integration, this conversation will land.

In this episode, we cover:

• The link between trauma and gut health (bloating, IBS, chronic symptoms)
• Why “knowing” the mind–body connection isn’t the same as embodying it
• How shame can become a core wound that impacts health, relationships, and identity
• The trauma pattern many people recognise: repeating dynamics with narcissistic or abusive partners
• What it really means to build self-love and self-compassion when it wasn’t modelled
• Jodi’s practical “Step Away Method” to calm an overactive mind when meditation feels impossible
• How to begin reconnecting to your body by asking: “What do you need right now?”
• Why your symptoms aren’t your enemy: your body may be signalling unprocessed emotional energy
• Moving from survival and hiding to visibility, safety, and post-traumatic growth

Key takeaways

Your body hears your inner dialogue. Unprocessed emotions can lodge as tension and symptoms. And healing isn’t just about food, supplements, or protocols—it can also require deep work with identity, nervous system patterns, and emotional wounds.

Connect with Jodi Geline

• Website: JodiGeline.com
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Free gift: Body–Emotion Connection Quiz

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In this opening episode, for 2026 Dr Nat Green invites you to pause — before pushing forward — and reflect on who you are now, after everything you’ve lived through.

As we close the Year of the Snake and step into the momentum of the Year of the Fire Horse, this episode explores what it really means to stand tall after trauma, adversity, or major life disruption — without shrinking, forcing, or abandoning yourself.

This conversation goes beyond “getting back to who you used to be” and into the deeper work of identity, integrity, and nervous system integration — the often-missing pieces in post-traumatic growth.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why you don’t go back to who you were after trauma — and why that’s not a problem
• What identity wounds are and how they form through survival and adaptation
• The often-overlooked impact of integrity wounds — when staying safe meant overriding yourself
• A powerful real-life case example showing how early experiences shape what feels safe, possible, and allowed
• How the nervous system remembers moments when it wasn’t safe to be seen, heard, or fully yourself
• Why insight alone doesn’t always lead to change — and why the body must be included
• How old “agreements” formed in childhood or adversity can quietly limit visibility and growth
• Gentle, practical strategies to begin restoring identity, integrity, and nervous system safety

This episode is for you if:

• You’ve done a lot of healing but still feel held back or misaligned
• You feel ready for growth but notice your body pulling you back when you become more visible
• You struggle with the idea of “going back to who you were”
• You want to understand why standing tall can feel unsafe — even when you’re capable and confident
• You’re ready to move forward in a way that honours your nervous system, not overrides it

A powerful reframe explored in this episode:

You are not stuck in the past —
you may be organised around it.

And growth doesn’t always require pushing harder.
Sometimes it asks us to gently update agreements that no longer fit the life we’re living now.

As we begin 2026 together, I’ll leave you with this reflection:

Who am I now — really — and what is ready to move forward with me this year?

This episode sets the foundation for a new season of Growing Tall Poppies, featuring solo episodes and guest conversations exploring identity after trauma, archetypes, nervous system wisdom, visibility, and standing tall without apology.

If this episode resonated, be sure to subscribe, follow and share it with someone who might need to hear it.

You don’t need to rush.
AND you don’t need to hide anymore. 🌾

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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

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.