How to Heal Chronic Health Symptoms by Addressing Hidden Trauma

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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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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.