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Linda Meredith Complex Trauma Coach, Brisbane (2025)

21/10/2025

⚡ Part 9: You Flip Between High Functioning and Burnout
You push hard, care for everyone, hold it all together — until you can’t.Then you crash, withdraw, feel guilty, and start again.
That’s not laziness or inconsistency.
It’s survival cycling — your brain swinging between overactivation and shutdown to protect you.

When your brain’s been trained by long-term stress or trauma, it doesn’t trust rest.
So it stays busy until energy runs out, then shuts down to recover.
It’s protection, not failure.
💡 The shift begins when you stop seeing burnout as weakness and start recognising it as a signal:
"My brain doesn’t feel safe to slow down yet.”

Healing isn’t about doing less - it’s about doing from safety, not survival.
Rest isn’t a luxury. It’s rewiring.

🌱 Save this if it resonates.
Your brain can learn that pausing is safe too.

📚 Accredited CPtsd Coaching/Counselling & CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/cFS2qIy

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💡 Type Trauma Trained to see what sets this approach apart
🧭 Type Coaching to work with Linda Meredith — accredited and registered CPtsd Counsellor & Coach

20/10/2025

Big thanks to

Sharon Johnston, Tiffany Rivett

for all of your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥!

16/10/2025

🕰️ Part Eight: You Lose Time or Struggle With Memory Gaps

You forget conversations.
You can’t recall parts of your childhood.
Whole periods of life feel foggy, dreamlike, or missing.

You might even “check out” during stress and realise you’ve lost time.

🧠 This is dissociation - not weakness, not forgetfulness, but a trauma-related brain response.
When experiences or emotions feel too overwhelming, the brain protects you by disconnecting awareness from pain.
It’s the brain saying, “You don’t have to feel this right now - I’ll hold it for later.”

💡 Healing doesn’t mean forcing memories back.
It means helping your brain feel safe enough for awareness to return on its own.

If you’ve ever felt broken because of your memory gaps - you’re not.
You’re living proof of how intelligently your brain kept you safe.

🌱 Save this if it resonates.
Your brain didn’t fail you — it protected you until it believed you could handle remembering.

📚 Accredited CPtsd Coaching/Counselling & CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/cFS2qIy

🧭 Type Coaching to work with Linda, an accredited and registered CPtsd Counsellor & Coach. Pioneer Training Provider
📚 Type Courses for recovery programs
📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

15/10/2025

💭 Part Seven: Persistent Shame or Feeling “Broken”

You look fine on the outside - but inside, there’s a quiet ache that whispers:
“Something’s wrong with me.”
“I’m faking it.”
“I don’t deserve love or success.”
That belief is one of the deepest impacts of CPtsd.
It’s not personality. It’s wiring.
🧠 When you’ve lived through chronic invalidation or emotional abuse, the brain learns that shame equals safety.
If you blame yourself, you can stay small, avoid conflict, and reduce risk.
It’s a survival pattern - not your truth.

💡 Healing doesn’t begin by rejecting the shame.
It begins by understanding it:

“This feeling once kept me safe - but I can choose curiosity over criticism now.”

🌱 Save this for the days you feel unworthy or “too much.”
Your shame isn’t proof you’re broken - it’s evidence of how hard your brain has worked to protect you.

📚 Accredited CPtsd Coaching/Counselling & CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/cFS2qIy

🧭 Type Coaching to work with Linda, an accredited and registered CPtsd Counsellor & Coach. Pioneer Training Provider
📚 Type Courses for recovery programs
📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

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13/10/2025

💭 Part Six: You’re Extremely Hard on Yourself
You carry an inner story that whispers:
“You’re not enough.”
“You’re too much.”
“You’re broken.”
You brush off praise.
You replay mistakes.
You apologise for existing.

🧠 This is shame-based wiring — a survival adaptation that formed when your brain learned love was conditional.
When approval or safety had to be earned, the brain tied worth to effort and perfection.

That critical voice isn’t truth - it’s protection.
It kept you scanning for danger, avoiding rejection, staying “good enough” to be safe.

💡 Healing begins when you notice the critic without merging with it.
Each time you pause and say,

“This voice once protected me, but I’m safe enough to listen differently now,”
you build new neural pathways for compassion.

🌱 Save this if it resonates: You don’t have to silence the critic - you just have to show your brain that kindness is safe too. Remember the kind words people have spoken to you, not all of them can be wrong.

📚 Accredited CPtsd Coaching/Counselling & CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/qP8eR2S

🧭 Type Coaching to work with Linda, an accredited and registered CPtsd Counsellor & Coach. Pioneer Training Provider
📚 Type Courses for recovery programs
📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

#

12/10/2025

🧠 Part Five: You Can’t Switch Off Your Mind - Or You Zone Out Entirely

You lie awake replaying conversations.
You spiral through shame, self-blame, or “what ifs.”
Your mind never stops — until suddenly, it does.

Then you crash.
You scroll, binge, dissociate, or do anything to escape your own thoughts.

🧠 What’s really happening?
Your brain is caught in a survival loop - fight/flight or freeze/dissociation.
When it can’t find safety, it flips between hyperalert and numb.

💡 Healing starts with recognising this isn’t a character flaw.
It’s your brain trying to keep you safe the only way it knows how.

🌱 The next time your mind won’t stop - or goes completely blank - try saying:
“This is my survival brain doing its job. I’m safe right now.”

✨ Save this if it resonates.
Awareness doesn’t stop the thoughts overnight - but it does begin rewiring the pattern.

📚 Accredited CPtsd Coaching/Counselling & CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/qP8eR2S

🧭 Type Coaching to work with Linda, an accredited and registered CPtsd Counsellor & Coach. Pioneer Training Provider
📚 Type Courses for recovery programs
📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

#

11/10/2025

🌱 Part Four: You Feel Disconnected From Joy, Calm, or Fulfillment

Life looks fine on the outside - but it feels like a checklist.
Work. Family. Tasks. Sleep. Repeat.
Even when everything’s “okay,” you don’t feel it.

🧠 When the brain is stuck in survival, it deprioritises joy and connection.
Those things require safety - and your brain hasn’t had enough of it.

You’re not joyless. You’re surviving.
And your brain can relearn what it feels like to rest, play, and feel safe enough to let joy back in.

✨ Save this if it resonates. Healing doesn’t begin with chasing happiness - it starts by noticing the small moments that already feel safe enough to feel joy, think about a song you love and play it, immerse yourself in the moment.

📚 Accredited CPtsd Coaching/Counselling & CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/qP8eR2S

🧭 Type Coaching to work with Linda, an accredited and registered CPtsd Counsellor & Coach. Pioneer Training Provider
📚 Type Courses for recovery programs
📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

#

09/10/2025

💼 Part Three: You’re Driven to Perform, Please, or Control Everything

You’re the one who keeps it all together.
Always doing, fixing, organising, helping.
You say things like:

“If I stop, everything will fall apart.”
“It’s just easier if I do it myself.”

And people call you capable or strong.
But beneath that… you’re exhausted.

🧠 What’s really happening?
Your survival brain might still be running a fight or fawn adaptation.
Somewhere along the line, your brain learned:

“If I keep performing, I’ll stay safe.”
“If I please everyone, I won’t be rejected.”
“If I control everything, nothing can hurt me.”

That’s not overachieving.
That’s over-surviving.

💡 Healing isn’t about doing less — it’s about doing from a place of safety, not fear.
When the brain feels safe enough, you can finally pause without panic.
You can let things unfold without losing your sense of worth.

🌱 Save this if it resonates.
Noticing your “drive to do” is one of the first signs that your brain is ready to heal.

✨ More in Part 4 soon.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/qP8eR2S

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📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

08/10/2025

🧠 Is Your Brain (unconsciously) Stuck in Survival Mode?

(CPtsd in Adults Who Seem to Be Coping)

2. You Overreact or Underreact to Normal Stress

🧠 Why It Happens:
Your brain is still wired to see daily life as a threat.
It’s not you overreacting - it’s your survival brain doing its job a little too well.
🌱 One Next Step:
Notice when stress feels bigger than it should.
Pause. Breathe. Remind your brain:
“This moment is not the same as back then.”

💬 This series is for adults who look “functional” — working, parenting, showing up — but whose brains may still be running old trauma patterns from childhood.

📚 Accredited CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/qP8eR2S

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📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

07/10/2025

(Repost without the heading confusion!)
🧠 Why This Matters
When your survival brain is in charge:
The thinking brain (prefrontal cortex) goes offline
Calm logic, empathy, long-term vision, and connection disappear
Life becomes about managing threat — even when the threat isn’t real anymore
This is what CPtsd looks like in adults who appear to be coping:

💬 “Everyone sees me as high-functioning, but I feel broken inside.”
💬 “I can’t relax — unless I completely shut down.”
💬 “I don’t know who I am without the pressure, the pain, or the patterns.”
💬 “I’ve built a life around survival, not choice.”

🧭 What’s the Next Step?
Awareness is the first step in rewiring the brain. From there, recovery involves:
✨ Helping the brain feel safe enough to shift out of survival
✨ Strengthening the thinking brain through consistent, gentle habits
✨ Identifying old survival patterns — and upgrading them with conscious choice

You’re not broken. Your brain just learned to survive.
Now it’s learning how to live. 🌱
📌 Save this as a reference, and if these signs resonate, know you’re not alone. Healing is possible - and you don’t have to do it by sheer willpower.

📚 Accredited CPtsd recovery courses by Linda Meredith, developer of NeuroSynqt™ + Trauma Integrated Movement™.
✨ Designed for individuals + professionals.

👉 Start here → link in bio → https://buff.ly/qP8eR2S

📚 Type Courses for recovery programs
📥 Type Thriver for practical tools
💡 Type Trauma Trained to learn what sets this approach apart

07/10/2025

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🧠 Whether you’re refining your trauma-trained skills or learning how to integrate the NeuroSynqt™ approach into your practice, these sessions are designed to help you apply what you’ve learned in real time.

What you’ll love:
✨ You’ll get a brand-new worksheet every fortnight.
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We’ve made it super easy to join:
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4️⃣ Bring your coffee, curiosity, and compassion – we’ll do the rest.

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