The Finding Peace Podcast

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  The Tiny Click That Changes Everything 15.09.2026 17min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help you create space between what happens and how you respond. In this episode, Troy L. Love uses the metaphor of an orthodontic expander to show how small, consistent adjustments build room for choice. Instead of trying to eliminate reactions, the episode invites you to notice when you’re activated, pause, and say, "Something just shifted in me." These brief moments of awareness gradually widen the pause and allow curiosity, compassion, and wiser choices to emerge. With simple practices repeated over time, the episode reminds listeners that small changes lead to greater emotional freedom and more connected relationships.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Regulate First: Why Timing Trumps Words in Relationships 08.09.2026 14min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode, host Troy L. Love tells Mike and Sarah's story to show how timing and nervous-system states, not just words, shape conversations and conflicts. The core lesson: regulate your nervous system first, then communicate. The episode includes a simple invitation to pause, check readiness, and return to important talks when both people can actually hear each other.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  When 'Fine' Feels Like a Threat: How Emotional Flooding Breaks Conversations 31.08.2026 15min

  Season 8 of Finding Peace offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday moments when emotions run high. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains emotional flooding in relationships, what it is, why it happens, and how past wounds can make small moments feel like threats. You'll learn to notice early signs of activation, pause before urgency takes over, use grounding strategies, and create a safe promise to return so deeper needs can be heard and connection can be restored.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  When Silence Becomes Survival: Understanding Shutdown in Relationships 24.08.2026 17min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday moments when emotions run high and relationships feel heavy. This episode explores why people shut down during conflict, how shutdown is often a nervous-system protection (freeze or collapse) rather than indifference, and shows how curiosity, compassionate language, and small, honest sentences can build a bridge back to connection. Listeners learn simple practices and phrases to communicate overwhelm without abandoning the relationship (for example, "I'm here, but I'm overwhelmed and I need a minute") and how partners can respond to reduce threat and invite return. The episode emphasizes return, safety, and compassion as steps toward repairing connection one bridge at a time. https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  When Defending Disconnects: Stop Explaining, Start Connecting 10.08.2026 24min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains why we react by defending, explaining, or fixing—how shame and attachment wounds activate our nervous system and turn ordinary conversations into threats. He shares a clear four-step practice: pause, name the reaction, validate before explaining, and ask what’s needed, and emphasizes that slowing down and prioritizing safety over immediate understanding preserves connection. Short and actionable, this episode gives listeners tools to recognize defensiveness, take responsibility, and repair ruptures so relationships can move from proving to belonging.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Why You Often Feel Worse After Calming Down 03.08.2026 26min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast with host Troy L. Love explores why we sometimes feel worse after a conflict or panic has passed, and how the nervous system makes room for deeper emotions like shame, grief, and loneliness. This episode explains the difference between guilt and shame, uses a real-life example to show how post-activation emotions surface, and offers simple, trauma-informed tools—breathing, naming feelings, and integration—for responding with compassion and responsibility. Short and practical, the episode guides listeners to notice what’s underneath the anger, repair harm without self-condemnation, and find greater safety, connection, and healing.     https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Repair, Not Perfection: How Healing Looks After Dysregulation 27.07.2026 30min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast shares trauma-informed, practical tools for everyday life. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains that healing isn’t about never becoming dysregulated; it’s about recognizing activation, regulating your nervous system, and returning with compassion. He offers four clear steps—regulate before you analyze, name what happened, take responsibility for the impact, and identify what you need next time—so you can repair ruptures, restore safety, and strengthen connection.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Trauma-Informed Evening Shutdown: Invite Rest, Not Rush 20.07.2026 17min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode, Troy L. Love explains why the nervous system needs cues—completion, safety, and containment—to move from doing into resting, and he guides a simple evening shutdown practice to help you set aside unfinished worries. The short ritual includes writing a “Not tonight, tomorrow” list, choosing one small action for tomorrow, closing the notebook as a cue, and doing a brief regulating act to signal safety and invite rest.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Before You Do: A Trauma-Informed Morning 13.07.2026 20min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help you bring more peace, joy, and connection into everyday life. Hosted by bestselling author and psychotherapist Troy L. Love, this episode reframes morning routines away from pressure and toward safety. You’ll learn three simple practices — orientation (grounding into the present), gentle movement, and one regulating act before productivity — designed to help a trauma-shaped nervous system feel supported rather than evaluated. The episode includes short, actionable prompts like asking three gentle check-in questions and the practice “before I do, I receive” (a single breath, a slow sip of water, sunlight on your face) to help you begin the day with compassion and presence. Ultimately, this episode invites you to start the day as a person first and to treat mornings as moments of repair, choice, and kindness toward yourself.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  When Bedtime Feels Unsafe: Healing Sleep After Trauma 06.07.2026 13min

  In this episode, Troy L. Love explains why sleep problems are often a safety—not willpower—issue rooted in trauma and hypervigilance. He offers compassionate, practical tools to help the nervous system feel safer at night. Learn three simple strategies—predictability, warmth, and gentle transitions—and a mindset shift from fighting sleep to partnering with your body so rest can slowly return.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  When Flooding Hits: Your Nervous System Needs a Reset 29.06.2026 16min

  In this short episode, Troy L. Love explains emotional flooding, when your nervous system is overwhelmed, and why insight is offline during these moments. He offers practical, trauma-informed steps to recover: name the state, reduce sensory input, simplify choices, and postpone processing. Learn accessible strategies to lower stimulation, create predictability, and return to calm before trying to problem-solve or reconnect. This episode is a brief guide to finding safety and clarity one moment at a time.
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  Slow Down, Stay Connected: Micro-Regulation for Real-Time Conflict 22.06.2026 17min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast with host Troy L. Love focuses on practical, trauma-informed tools you can use in everyday life. In this episode Troy shares a personal story about parenting and introduces micro-regulation: small, intentional actions to keep your nervous system engaged rather than defensive during conflict.Learn simple techniques — slow your speech, lower your shoulders, ground through your feet, and take a brief pause — that help you stay present, choose your response, and protect connection even when emotions are high.
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  Track, Don’t Tackle: A Gentle Practice for Body Awareness 15.06.2026 12min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools with host Troy L. Love. This episode introduces the simple skill of tracking sensation to reconnect with your body without overwhelming your nervous system.Learn the difference between noticing and diving in, and discover pendulation — moving between discomfort and safety — to build choice and agency over your experience.A brief practice guides you to gently notice bodily sensations, shift attention back to your environment, and return as feels manageable. The goal is relationship, not rush: small moments of safety support lasting healing.
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  Stop Hacking Your Vagus: Build a Relationship With Your Nervous System 08.06.2026 14min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast explores trauma-informed, practical ways to support the vagus nerve and nervous system—not through quick hacks, but through repeated experiences of safety.Host Troy L. Love explains why connection, gentle rhythm, predictability, warm presence, vocal vibration, and movement help regulation more deeply than forced techniques, and how healing is a relationship built with compassion and consistency.
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  Walk It Out: How Movement Heals Trauma One Step at a Time 01.06.2026 16min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast shares practical, trauma‑informed tools you can use in daily life to support your nervous system. Host Troy L. Love explains how bilateral stimulation—like walking rhythmically, tapping left/right, or using the butterfly hug—can help regulate emotions, reduce overwhelm, and create space for clearer thinking. These short, accessible practices are designed to help you find more peace, perspective, and connection one moment at a time.
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  Breathe for Safety: Trauma-Informed Breathwork That Actually Calms 25.05.2026 18min

  In this short episode, Troy L. Love guides a trauma-informed approach to breathing that emphasizes choice, diaphragm engagement, and gentle lengthening of the exhale. You’ll learn simple, practical steps—and a four-minute guided practice—to help your nervous system settle without pressure or performance.Perfect for moments of anxiety, overwhelm, or everyday stress, this episode offers accessible tools to reconnect with your breath and create more ease, safety, and presence.
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  Name It to Tame It 18.05.2026 10min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for everyday life. In this episode Troy L. Love explores how naming sensations and experiences—descriptive before interpretive—helps calm the nervous system and prevent shame-driven reactions. Try the simple practice: notice "Something's happening in me," name bodily sensations and impulses, breathe, and ask what wound or need is being stirred. Safety and clarity grow from noticing, not fixing. You are worthy of love and belonging.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  When Midnight Overwhelms: The Containment Practice That Helps 11.05.2026 15min

  In this short episode of Finding Peace, host Troy L. Love shares a personal story of lying awake, flooded with shame and intense emotions, and introduces a trauma-informed tool called containment. He guides listeners through a simple visualization—naming feelings, placing them gently into an imagined container, and choosing when and how to return to them—emphasizing that containment is self-compassion, not suppression. The episode offers a practical way to pace emotional processing, honor your limits, and return to connection and repair when you have support and capacity.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Pendulation: Finding Healing Between Pain and Connection 04.05.2026 14min

  Welcome to Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast with Troy L. Love. In this episode Troy shares a personal story of his abandonment wound being triggered at an event, and how the rhythm of pendulation—moving between felt pain and safety through connection—helped him slowly find relief and grounding.   Troy offers a short, trauma-informed practice to notice uncomfortable sensations, briefly touch the wound, and return to a sense of support. The episode emphasizes that healing is messy, happens through connection, and that you are worthy of love and belonging.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast
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  Grounding Using The 5-4-3-2-1 Practice 20.04.2026 9min

  Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools to help you stay present when emotions run high. In this episode, host Troy L. Love guides a short orientation exercise (the 5-4-3-2-1 practice) to gently bring attention back to the present and support nervous system regulation. Through a brief in-session example with a client, Troy shows how naming neutral sensory details can shift the body from activation toward safety, helping listeners find calm, connection, and belonging one moment at a time.   https://pod.link/findingpeacepodcast