Growing Tall Poppies : Thrive After Trauma
Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma is the podcast for anyone ready to heal from trauma, reclaim their power, and step into post-traumatic growth. Hosted by trauma therapist, coach, and author Dr. Natalie (Nat) Green, this empowering podcast blends real-life survivor stories, expert insights, and practical strategies to help you move beyond pain and create a life filled with purpose, resilience, and joy.
Each episode dives deep into the psychological and emotional journey of thriving after trauma—exploring identity, values, nervous system healing, resilience, and renewed purpose. You’ll hear how others overcame adversity, plus learn tools you can use to regulate your nervous system, rewire your mindset, and accelerate your growth journey.
What You’ll Gain from Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma
🌱 Real Stories of Resilience – Inspiring conversations with survivors who turned trauma into strength and transformation.
🧠 Expert Guidance & Healing Tools – Proven strategies from leading professionals on trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, and mental health.
✨ Empowering Insights – Explore the mindsets, practices, and Trauma Archetypes that unlock post-traumatic growth and freedom.
💡 Psychology Meets Coaching – Innovative approaches that bridge science, therapy, and coaching to fast-track healing and thriving.
With over 35 years’ experience and her own lived journey of trauma and growth, Dr. Nat Green—creator of the ABS Method® and Archetypes of Transformation—is dedicated to ending trauma-associated suffering. Through her podcast, bestselling books, and transformative programs, she guides survivors and professionals alike to rediscover their identity, align with their values, and shine brightly beyond adversity.
If you’re ready to not just survive trauma but truly thrive after it, this podcast is your roadmap to resilience, healing, and post-traumatic growth.
Episodes
121 episodes
Tall Poppy Syndrome: Why You Were Never Meant To Stay Small
What if tall poppy syndrome isn’t only about other people cutting us down? What if we have also learned to cut ourselves down before anybody else gets the chance?We minimise our achievements, soften our opinions, deflect compliments, hid...
When Survival Becomes an Identity: Finding Your Way Back to Yourself with Mary Armendarez
Have you noticed how trauma or hardship can leave you feeling stuck in survival mode - not fully present, with layers of anger, grief, or fear bubbling beneath the surface? What if thriving after trauma isn’t about fixing yourself or “getting b...
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She Taught Me Why the Ordinary Days Are Everything: A Tribute to My Beautiful Friend Narelle
This episode is a little different.In Episode 111, I spoke about two beautiful friends facing very different battles. One of those friends was Narelle — my beautiful friend of more than twenty years, who had been living with cancer for o...
In the Presence of Excellence: Powerful on the Outside, Quietly Unravelling Within
What happens when a woman who has spent her entire life producing excellence at the world's highest level suddenly finds herself quietly unravelling?In this episode, Dr Nat Green sits down with Stacey Nye - a remarkable wom...
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When Was The Last Time You Felt Like Yourself? Maybe Coming Home Isn't About A Place
When was the last time you truly felt like yourself?Not the version of you that's constantly managing responsibilities, meeting expectations or holding everything together.The real you.In this deeply personal episode...
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Who Taught You That Being Strong Meant Never Stopping ?
Have you ever noticed that even when you finally have time to rest....you still can't?You answer one more email.Fold another load of washing.Organise tomorrow.Check on everyone else.And before you know ...
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You Don't Have a Productivity Problem, You Have a Permission Problem
Conversations with Dr Nat is a short weekly reflection for high-functioning women who are tired of just ‘surviving’ and ready to come home to themselves.Have you ever finally had time to rest.... only to find yourself cleaning the house,...
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Conversations with Dr Nat: The Hidden Cost of Always Being the Strong One
Have you become the person everyone relies on?The capable one.The dependable one.The one who remembers everything, carries everyone, and somehow keeps all the plates spinning.From the outside, your life ...
When Strength Becomes the Problem: A Vietnam Veteran's Journey Through Trauma, Burnout & Recovery
Burnout doesn't happen because you're weak.More often, it happens because you've spent years being strong for everyone else.In this deeply moving episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr Nat Green sits down with US Marine and ...
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Two Friends. Two Very Different Battles. One Week That Changed Things Forever
Some episodes are planned.This wasn't one of them.This week, I found myself walking alongside two very dear friends whose lives took completely different paths.One is courageously facing the final chapter of a long battle w...
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From Refugee to Beauty Founder: Resilience, Reinvention and Learning to Receive with Michelle Doan
What does it take to rebuild your life from nothing?In this inspiring episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green sits down with Michelle Doan, founder of Emani Vegan Cosmetics, to explore an extraordinary...
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Stop Looking Outside Yourself: Soul Language, Self-Trust and the Hidden Patterns Keeping You Stuck with Jennifer Urezzio
What if the answers you've been searching for aren't outside of you at all?In this deeply insightful conversation, Dr Nat Green is joined by Jennifer Urezzio, founder of Soul Language®, intuitive strategist, and self-described "soul whis...
Episode 108 - The Invisible Ceiling: How Identity Fractures Keep You Stuck (Even After You've Done the Work)
You've done the therapy. You've read the books. You've attended the workshops, listened to the podcasts, and invested in your personal growth.So why do you still feel stuck?Why do the same patterns keep showing up?Why do yo...
How Self-Judgment Became Autoimmune Illness—and the Inner Shift That Changed Everything
What if the challenges you're facing aren't happening to you... but are inviting you into a deeper conversation with yourself?In this thought-provoking episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr. Nat Green...
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When Your Body Says ‘Enough’: The Hidden Cost of Being High-Functioning
What happens when the life you’ve built… is the very thing making you sick?In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Dr. Nat Green is joined by Ramah Leith — a former public health professional turned multidimensional healer — wh...
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What Alcatraz Taught Me About the Invisible Prison High-Functioning Women Live In
In this deeply reflective episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr. Nat Green shares an unexpected insight sparked during a visit to Alcatraz in San Francisco after several weeks travelling through Canada, the Rockies a...
When Your Nervous System Finally Exhales
What happens when you finally stop pushing… and your nervous system gets the space to just be?After making the decision to travel as part of their "celebrating 30 years together" travelling through San Francisco and the breathta...
When Trust Is Broken: What It Does To Your Nervous System
When trust is broken, your nervous system doesn’t forget — it adapts.In this episode, Dr Nat Green explores what really happens when trust is disrupted — not just emotionally, but physiologically.Because trust isn’t just relationa...
I Thought It Was a Strategy Problem... But It Was a Nervous System Trust Pattern
What if it’s not a strategy problem… but a safety pattern?In this episode, Dr Nat Green shares a powerful insight from a recent mastermind retreat — a moment that completely reframed what she thought was holding her back.Go...
The Cost of Holding It Together: Why High-Functioning Women Burn Out Quietly
You’re getting everything done… but it’s costing you more than anyone can see.From the outside, it looks like you’re handling life.You’re showing up. You’re achieving. You’re the one people rely on....
The Cost of Not Being Heard — Betrayal, Nervous System Impact & Reclaiming Your Voice
There are moments in life that change everything.Not gradually.Not gently.But in an instant.In this deeply personal and powerful 100th episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Gre...
Living in the Unknown: Trauma, Identity & Finding Serenity in Life’s Hardest Moments
There are moments in life that change everything.Not gradually. Not gently. But in an instant.This week on Growing Tall Poppies, I’m joined by someone incredibly special to me — my dear friend Bron Watson — and this is a ...
From Self-Hatred to Self-Worth: The Nervous System Shift That Changes Everything
In this week's episode I’m joined by Ramona Kossowan — Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, fitness professional, and food relationship coach — who shares her deeply personal journey from self-hatred to self-worth.Together, we unpa...
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You’re Too Bold to Stay Silent: Healing Trauma, Shame & Identity with Dr Louise Hayes
What if the very parts of your story you’ve hidden… are the exact parts that hold your power?In this deeply moving and honest conversation, I’m joined by Dr Louise Hayes — clinical psychologist, author, educator, and meditation te...
When Old Trauma Resurfaces: Identity Shifts, Nervous System Memory & The Invisible Ceiling
Have you ever done years of personal development or therapy… and still found old patterns resurfacing when life becomes challenging again?In this episode of the Growing Tall Poppies podcast, Dr Nat Green explores why past experien...
