Silence is never empty—it is crowded with unsaid words, unspoken grief, and stories the body was too afraid to tell. In this episode of Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast, Olga Costa gently explores the weight of unspoken trauma, why silence becomes a survival strategy, and how it can also keep us isolated.

Through real-life reflections, trauma-informed metaphors, and neuroscience explained simply, Olga guides listeners into the paradox of silence: how it both protects and imprisons. With a Reflective SWOT moment and practical tools, this episode offers ways to slowly give silence a voice—through whispering, writing, safe presence, and grief work.

Silence is not failure. Silence is protection. But healing begins when we learn to open the sealed box of what has long been unsaid.

Trigger Warning: This episode explores grief, loss, and trauma responses. Listen gently and with care.

For many trauma survivors, touch doesn’t feel like comfort—it feels like alarm. A hug can feel like a trap. Even the gentlest touch can awaken memories of danger.

In this episode of Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast, host Olga Costa explores why touch can feel unsafe after trauma, how grief and memory live in the body, and what it means to slowly reclaim safety in your skin. Through gentle metaphors, psychology, and practical tools, this episode offers a compassionate guide for reconnecting with your body—on your own terms, and at your own pace.

If touch has ever felt complicated for you, this episode is a hand extended softly, saying: Your body is yours. And it can learn safety again.

Can joy be terrifying? For many trauma survivors, the answer is yes.

In this deeply reflective episode of Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast, host Olga Costa gently explores the strange and tender space where joy and grief meet. When you've lived through Complex PTSD, emotional numbness, or loss, happiness can feel like a betrayal — of those you lost, of the pain you endured, or of the safety your nervous system has learned to crave in stillness.

Through poetic metaphors, real-life vignettes, and somatic tools, this episode offers a compassionate exploration of why joy often arrives hand-in-hand with guilt, anxiety, or tears. Learn how to recognize micro-joys, build a dialogue between Joy and Guilt, and create space for both grief and celebration in your healing.

This isn’t about forcing yourself to be happy. It’s about letting yourself trust joy… gently, slowly, without shame.

Because you deserve more than survival. You deserve to live — with presence, softness, and permission to feel it all.

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Next up: When Touch Feels Unsafe — reclaiming your body after trauma.