Welcome.

This is Echoes. It’s my podcast, and it’s where I talk about the issues that quietly run the show for a lot of people. A big chunk of it is trauma, in the real sense of that word: what happens to us in relationships, what happens in childhood, what happens when life trains your body to stay on watch. And I don’t mean dramatic headlines. I mean the slow drip. The atmosphere. The roles you had to play (and still play). The things you learned to swallow. The way you can be competent, funny, successful, and still feel as if you’re braced for impact.

 

We’ll take those threads one at a time. Relational trauma. Developmental trauma. Vicarious trauma, especially for people who work close to suffering and have no decent place to put it.

But I’m not boxing this into a single theme, because that’s not how people are built. So there’ll be episodes on ADHD, on authenticity, on identity, on the way “coping” can become a personality, on why insight can be genuinely useful and still change very little until your nervous system catches up.

Sometimes it’s just me speaking plainly. Sometimes it’s a conversation, including joint episodes with a both professionals and others.

 

If you’re after neat answers, you’ll probably get irritated with me.
If you want language for what you’ve been living, and a way of thinking that has some spine to it, have a listen.