What if the messy, silent, private moments of your healing journey were the ones that mattered most?

In this episode, Michael gets honest about the side of healing no one posts on Instagram—the raw, unfiltered reality of navigating trauma recovery. Through mindfulness, compassion, and small but powerful practices, you'll learn how resilience is truly built: not in perfection, but in the messy middle.

Takeaways:

• Discover why real healing isn’t linear—and why that’s a sign of resilience, not failure
• Learn a quick mindfulness practice to support your emotional recovery through trauma
• Reclaim your digital wellness with a new tool that helps you scroll less and live with more joy

Press play to embrace the messy, human side of healing—and discover how resilience and mindfulness are forged in the mud of trauma.

What happens to love when trauma, illness, or injury change everything?

In this deeply reflective episode, Michael explores how trauma, recovery, and life’s inevitable changes impact not only our personal healing but also our closest relationships. Through mindfulness, resilience, and compassion, we can navigate these shifts with more grace—and rediscover both ourselves and each other along the way.

Takeaways:

• Learn how trauma reshapes identity, relationships, and resilience
• Discover mindfulness prompts to help you and your loved ones navigate change with compassion
• Understand why acceptance—not clinging to the past—is essential to healing after trauma

Take a deep breath in and a relaxing breath out and discover how resilience, mindfulness, and radical honesty can transform your healing journey—and your relationships—after trauma.

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With Whole Again: A Fresh Approach to Healing, Growth & Resilience after Physical Trauma through Kintsugi Mindfulness listeners explore resilience through personal stories of trauma, scars, and injury while learning to overcome PTSD, imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and perfectionism with self-compassion, self-love, and self-worth. Through insightful discussions on stress management, mindfulness practices, and digital wellness, the show offers practical tools like breathwork, micro-dose meditation, grounding techniques, visualization, and daily affirmations for anxiety relief and stress relief. Inspired by the art of kintsugi, the podcast embraces healing as a process of transformation, encouraging a shift in perspective from worry and being overwhelmed to gratitude and personal growth. By exploring the mind-body connection, micro-dosing strategies for emotional well-being, and holistic approaches to self-care, this podcast empowers listeners to cultivate emotional resilience and live with greater balance and intention.

What if the key to grounding yourself wasn’t in thinking less—but sensing more?

In this calming microdose episode, Michael offers a sensory-based mindfulness practice designed to gently guide trauma survivors back into the body, reduce overthinking, and spark a moment of calm awareness—helping to build true resilience from the inside out.

Takeaways:

• Discover a simple 5-sense practice that reconnects you to the present moment
• Learn how mindfulness through the body supports trauma recovery and emotional balance
• Build your resilience by shifting out of mental loops and into direct, grounded experience

When you're ready, take a full breath in and slow releasing breath out and get out of your head, into your senses, and into a moment of mindful resilience.

Discover how to scroll less and live more by taking my Free Smartphone Wellness Audit by clicking phone.

Did you know that stickers are wonderful visual cues to help you create healthy habits? You can get one of my free Pause Breathe Reflect sticker by clicking sticker.

To discover more and sign up for My RIPPLE EFFECT newsletter by clicking Ripple Effect.

We can also connect on LinkedIn. or at Michael@PauseBreatheReflect.com

Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.

If you feel you need more mental health support, please contact NAMI.

With Whole Again: A Fresh Approach to Healing, Growth & Resilience after Physical Trauma through Kintsugi Mindfulness listeners explore resilience through personal stories of trauma, scars, and injury while learning to overcome PTSD, imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and perfectionism with self-compassion, self-love, and self-worth. Through insightful discussions on stress management, mindfulness practices, and digital wellness, the show offers practical tools like breathwork, micro-dose meditation, grounding techniques, visualization, and daily affirmations for anxiety relief and stress relief. Inspired by the art of kintsugi, the podcast embraces healing as a process of transformation, encouraging a shift in perspective from worry and being overwhelmed to gratitude and personal growth. By exploring the mind-body connection, micro-dosing strategies for emotional well-being, and holistic approaches to self-care, this podcast empowers listeners to cultivate emotional resilience and live with greater balance and intention.