In this fourth episode of The Truth My Body Told, Danielle Bird (Licensed Counselling Therapist & Somatic Attachment Trauma Recovery Coach) responds to a listener question from TikTok:

"What are the very first steps to acknowledging layered trauma and attachment wounds if you've spent your entire life suppressing it in survival mode?"

With her Radical Rebirth™ framework, somatic tools, and trauma-informed attachment approach, Danielle explores:

🌹 Why denial is a survival strategy and how it connects to the grief cycle (denial, bargaining, anger, depression, acceptance)

🌹 How the psyche protects itself through shutdown, numbness, or hypervigilance when it doesn’t have the resources to process

🌹 The layers beneath survival mode: unprocessed emotions, belief wounds, unmet needs, and subconscious comfort zones

🌹 Step #1: Creating nervous system safety by rewiring attention toward neutral or pleasurable states and de-shaming survival strategies

🌹 Step #2: Building your “spider web” of connection through safe-enough relationships, archetypes, and your future self

🌹 Step #3: Meeting triggered states with compassion, titration, and relational repair between your adult self and protective parts

🌹 Why subconscious rewiring is essential for long-term trauma and attachment recovery—and how your reticular activating system (“razzle-dazzle”) filters your daily experience based on subconscious programming

💌 Want to submit a question for the “If You Were My Client” series? Email Danielle at danielle@daniellebird.com or connect on socials @thedaniellebird.

✨ Danielle’s upcoming course Create Safety in Your Nervous System ($87) teaches you how to do this step by step. Join the waitlist here: https://www.daniellebird.com/

✨ Book a free 15-min consult to work together here: https://calendly.com/birddaniellee/radical-rebirth-application

📺 Watch the visual version of this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/no7ogJ3sGHc

Danielle’s Psychology Today profile: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/danielle-bird-kelowna-bc/1595103

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