The Finding Peace Podcast

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.

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.

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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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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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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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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In this episode, Troy L. Love shares a raw personal story of a panic attack that reconnects him to childhood wounds, showing how transference and the inner critic can amplify shame.
He reframes peace as the capacity to feel without collapsing, to stay connected, and to return to ourselves after being triggered, offering practical, trauma-informed guidance on responding with curiosity rather than self-judgment.
 
 
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Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers practical, trauma-informed tools for moments when emotions run high, relationships feel heavy, or your nervous system needs support.
In this episode, host Troy L. Love shares Sarah’s story to illustrate how healing attachment wounds can feel unfamiliar and even threatening — growth often registers as danger before it feels like freedom.
Learn brief, actionable practices to stay grounded, notice discomfort without reacting, and teach your nervous system to tolerate calm so peace can become a new normal.
 
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Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast presents practical, trauma-informed tools to help when emotions run high and relationships feel heavy. In this episode, host Troy L. Loved explores identity confusion—how trauma and survival roles (the politician, the martyr, the judge) shape who we become—and shares personal stories and the example of "Jason" to illustrate how we adapt by taking on roles.
Troy invites listeners to slow down, notice the shadows of shame, ask, "Who do I have to be to stay safe?", and gently reclaim their true self by creating internal and external safety. For more resources, visit FindingPeaceConsulting.com.
 
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Season 8 of the Finding Peace Podcast offers short, trauma-informed tools you can use when emotions run high, relationships feel heavy, or your nervous system needs support.
In this episode Troy L. Love shares a powerful ninth-grade story to show how shame started as protection, then explains the "shadows of shame" (the Judge, the Royal, the Politician, the Martyr, the Impotent One, and the Rebel) and offers practical steps—externalizing these voices, asking what wound they protect, thanking them, and choosing self-acceptance and compassion—to build shame resilience and find belonging
 
Previous Episode on the Shadows of Shame: https://thefindingpeacepodcast.podbean.com/e/the-shadows-of-shame-are-lousy-cheerleaders/
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