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Naked Insights Podcast - musing all things health, relationships and trauma

Naked Insights Podcast - musing all things health, relationships and trauma

By: Adele Theron and Sam McSorley
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The Naked Insights Podcast explores the powerful connection between mind and body in navigating trauma, health, and relationships. Each episode examines how our perceptions and behaviours shape mental health, our relationships with others, and the delicate balance with physical well-being.


From managing trauma, workplace stress, and major life transitions to cultivating healthy, nourishing relationships, Naked Insights offers tools, tips, and real stories to help you and your loved ones become more resilient and adaptable to change. Through an integrative and evidence-based lens, you’ll learn how to maintain balance and well-being in today’s increasingly chaotic world.


Hosted by Adele Theron, each season features a different expert as she deep-dives into the intersections between trauma, health, and relationships.


Season 1 features Sam McSorley, a functional medicine specialist, exploring the biology of stress, the role of the nervous system in healing, and how emotional regulation impacts the body.


About the Host:
Adele Theron (CCTP, CFTP, CFFTP, PGDipTraumaticStudies, MPsych) is a trauma therapist and specialist in trauma and transition recovery. She is the founder of Naked Recovery, which offers structured programmes to help clients transform trauma related to bereavement, redundancy, birth trauma, separation, divorce, infidelity, midlife crises, family estrangement, and health-related challenges. Her evidence-based recovery programmes have supported thousands of clients across more than 90 countries.


Adele is currently completing her doctorate in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland, where her research focuses on developing trauma recovery interventions for chronic illness. Her integrative, science-based methods draw from somatic psychology, coaching psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice.


About the Season 1 Expert:
Sam McSorley (MHealSc, PGHlthSci, DipClinHerbMed, BHSc (Complementary Medicine)) is a naturopath and functional medicine practitioner passionate about empowering people with choice in healthcare. As the founder of Sam McSorley Connecting Wellness, she helps clients recover from complex health conditions through holistic programmes that unite body and mind. Sam’s approach integrates nutrition, herbal medicine, genetic testing, nutritional psychiatry, and somatic psychotherapy, guided by the emerging science of psychoneuroimmunology - the study of how psychological processes influence immune and nervous system function.


In season 1, Adele and Sam bridge the gap between holistic health and psychological resilience, guiding you towards a more balanced, empowered, and successful life.

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Episodes
  • Episode 20 - Season Finale - The Courage to Break Your Word (and Keep It to Yourself)
    Oct 29 2025

    In this deeply personal season finale, Sam shares the raw truth behind stepping back, slowing down, and honouring her own limits. After facing a series of personal losses, she opens up about what it really means to choose yourself - even when it means disappointing others.

    We explore:
    💔 The hidden cost of keeping promises that tip you over the edge
    🌱 Why sometimes the bravest thing you can do is break your word to others to keep it with yourself
    🧘‍♀️ How grief reshapes identity, purpose, and self-trust
    💡 The art of conscious pause - knowing when to rest instead of push
    ❤️ What endings can teach us about courage, compassion, and renewal

    This episode is raw, reflective, and profoundly human - a reminder that integrity isn’t about never breaking promises; it’s about knowing which ones to keep.

    🎧 Tune in for Sam’s final reflection of Season 1 — a tender closing to a season of growth, honesty, and healing.

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    18 mins
  • Episode 19 - Rescuer or Disappearing Act - Untangling Codependency and Pathological Accommodation
    Oct 22 2025

    Are you always the one fixing, pleasing, or holding everything together, even when it hurts?

    In this raw and revealing episode, Adele dives into the hidden psychology of codependency and pathological accommodation - the deep, often unconscious patterns that make us sacrifice our own needs to keep the peace.

    We explore:
    🌀 The difference between healthy empathy and self-erasure
    ❤️‍🩹 Why “helping” can sometimes be a trauma response
    💣 How childhood survival strategies turn into adult relationship traps
    🧠 The inner drivers behind rescuing, over-giving, and emotional burnout
    💬 Steps to break free — reclaiming your boundaries, voice, and authentic self

    This isn’t about blaming yourself, it’s about seeing yourself. Because you can’t heal what you can’t name.

    🎧 Tune in for a powerful deep dive into how to stop rescuing, start receiving, and finally learn that you don’t have to disappear to be loved.

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    28 mins
  • Episode 18 - Are You Anxious, Avoidant, Fear Attached or Secure - Why Attachment Shapes Every Relationship
    Oct 15 2025

    Your attachment style is running the show, whether you realise it or not.

    In this episode, Adele unpacks the powerful science of attachment theory and how early experiences wire the way you love, fight, and connect.

    We dive into:
    💞 The three core attachment styles - anxious, avoidant, fear attached and secure - and how they play out in adult relationships
    🔥 Why opposites attract… and then drive each other crazy
    🧠 How trauma and childhood patterns silently shape your emotional reactions
    ❤️‍🩹 What healing looks like - and how to move toward secure attachment, no matter your history
    💬 Practical ways to recognise triggers, communicate better, and build real emotional safety

    Whether you’re dating, married, or healing from heartbreak, this episode will help you finally understand why your relationships feel the way they do and how to change the script for good.

    🎧 Tune in to uncover your attachment blueprint — and start loving from a place of security, not survival.

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    30 mins
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