On Her Own Since 13 Years Old- Overcoming Trauma with Angela Jean | EP 467
Nervous System Healing After Trauma: From Survival to Sovereignty with Angela Jean What if healing isn’t about fixing your thoughts—but about retraining your body? In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth, Brian Smith sits down with Angela Jean, a mindset and nervous system strategist whose life was shaped by profound trauma—and radical transformation. After surviving childhood abuse, homelessness, and the devastating loss of her father and sister to suicide, Angela discovered somethi...
Nervous System Healing After Trauma: From Survival to Sovereignty with Angela Jean
What if healing isn’t about fixing your thoughts—but about retraining your body?
In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth, Brian Smith sits down with Angela Jean, a mindset and nervous system strategist whose life was shaped by profound trauma—and radical transformation.
After surviving childhood abuse, homelessness, and the devastating loss of her father and sister to suicide, Angela discovered something that changed everything:
🧠 The body remembers danger before the mind can explain it.
This conversation goes beyond performative healing and into the lived, embodied work of coming home to yourself.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why mindset work alone often fails after trauma
- How the nervous system “locks up” in survival mode
- Why rhythm and micro-movements signal safety to the body
- How childhood trauma imprints beliefs about love, pain, and worth
- Practical tools to interrupt anxiety, anger, and emotional collapse in real time
- Why healing is a daily practice—and who you train yourself to be matters
Angela shares simple, powerful techniques you can use in the moment—not someday, not after years of therapy—to regulate your nervous system and reclaim your inner authority.
This episode is for anyone who:
- Feels stuck in survival mode
- Is tired of chasing healing
- Has experienced trauma, abuse, or suicide loss
- Is ready to stop abandoning themselves and start listening inward
🌿 About Angela Jean
Angela Jean is a mindset and nervous system strategist who blends rhythm, embodied movement, and nervous system science to help people move from self-sabotage into sovereignty.
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https://angelajeanchat.com
🎧 Free nervous system demo available on her site.
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From runaway to resilience architect, Angela Jean transforms survival into mastery. At 13, she traded classrooms for life’s relentless curriculum, where trauma became her teacher. After losing her father and sister to suicide, she turned her body’s survival instincts—once a prison of silence and hypervigilance—into a science of self-reclamation.
Her mantra, “You are who you train to be,” fuels a method that bypasses theory for visceral change. Blending rhythm, micro-movements, and nervous system science, Angela helps clients rewrite subconscious patterns not with affirmations, but with embodied truth. “Your body knew danger before your mind did. Now, it’s time to let it guide you back to safety—and strength.”
Today, she helps others to replace survival reflexes with unshakable self-belief. No performative healing. No chasing.. Just embodiment alignment and inner authority.
