The Finding Peace Podcast

When Flooding Hits: Your Nervous System Needs a Reset

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.

Slow Down, Stay Connected: Micro-Regulation for Real-Time Conflict

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.

Track, Don’t Tackle: A Gentle Practice for Body Awareness

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.

Stop Hacking Your Vagus: Build a Relationship With Your Nervous System

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.

Walk It Out: How Movement Heals Trauma One Step at a Time

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.

Breathe for Safety: Trauma-Informed Breathwork That Actually Calms

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.

Name It to Tame It

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.
 
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When Midnight Overwhelms: The Containment Practice That Helps

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.
 
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Pendulation: Finding Healing Between Pain and Connection

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.
 
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Grounding Using The 5-4-3-2-1 Practice

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.
 
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