In The Nude: Naked Truth of Healing Podcast
In The Nude: Naked Truth of Healing with Rachel Abi Dr. Judith Swack
Season 2 Episode 70: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns | Healing Childhood Trauma, Limiting Beliefs & the Hidden Roots of Self-Sabotage
Have you ever wondered...
"Why do I keep ending up here?"
"Why do I know what needs to change, but I still can't seem to change it?"
"Why do I keep people pleasing, overthinking, shutting down, or choosing relationships that hurt me?"
If you've asked yourself those questions, this conversation is for you.
In this deeply honest episode of In the Nude: The Naked Truth of Healing, Rachel sits down with Dr. Judith Swack, biochemist, immunologist, master NLP practitioner, hypnotherapist, and pioneer in energy psychology, to explore why trauma often lives far deeper than our conscious thoughts.
Many of us spend years trying to heal through insight alone. We understand our childhood. We recognize unhealthy patterns. We know our triggers.
Yet we still find ourselves repeating the same behaviors.
Why?
According to Dr. Swack, the answer often lies beneath conscious awareness.
Together, Rachel and Dr. Swack unpack how childhood trauma, complex trauma, emotional neglect, religious trauma, limiting beliefs, and subconscious survival patterns become stored throughout the mind and body, quietly shaping our relationships, self-worth, health, boundaries, and everyday decisions.
They explore why traditional approaches sometimes leave people feeling frustrated and stuck, and introduce practical techniques designed to help uncover and shift the deeper beliefs driving those patterns.
In this episode you'll discover:
- Why understanding your trauma isn't always enough to heal it
- How limiting beliefs formed in childhood continue shaping adult relationships
- Why people pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, self-doubt, and emotional overwhelm are often survival adaptations
- How subconscious beliefs influence your nervous system, body, and sense of safety
- Practical exercises Dr. Swack uses to help uncover deeply rooted emotional blocks
- Why healing isn't about becoming someone new, but uncovering who you were before trauma taught you who you had to be
Whether you're healing from childhood trauma, CPTSD, emotional abuse, religious trauma, chronic anxiety, perfectionism, people pleasing, or simply feel exhausted from repeating the same patterns, this conversation offers a compassionate perspective that may help explain why healing can feel so difficult, even when you're trying so hard.
This isn't about finding another formula.
It's about understanding yourself more deeply.
Because healing isn't about becoming a different person.
It's about finally coming home to the person you've always been underneath the survival strategies.
If you've ever felt like you're "doing all the work" but still feel stuck, this episode will remind you that you're not broken, you're not behind, and you're certainly not alone.
