Jimi Katsis: Echos of Trauma
A trauma-informed podcast exploring the long shadow of relational and vicarious trauma — attachment, nervous-system patterns, and adult healing. Hosted by consultant psychotherapist Jimi Katsis, author of Broken Childhood: The Path to Wholeness, You Look Fine, and Other Lies Trauma Taught Us and Tasting Oranges. Drawing on 30 years of clinical work, The Echoes of Trauma offers insight, story and reflection for anyone rebuilding a sense of self beyond survival. More at jimikatsis.com.
Jimi Katsis: Echos of Trauma
Episode 8 — Fully Being, Fully Feeling
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To live fully after trauma isn’t to erase the past — it’s to hold every season with equal reverence.
In this closing episode, Jimi speaks about the art of inhabiting life in its entirety — the good, the brutal, the mundane. The way chaos can still hold beauty. The way grief and joy coexist like changing tides.
Healing, he says, isn’t about calm; it’s about capacity. The ability to feel everything without needing to turn away. To know that even in the storm there’s rhythm, even in pain there’s a pulse worth listening to.
This is where the echoes quieten — not because the past is gone, but because it no longer defines the sound of your life.
Resources & Support
If anything in this episode feels difficult or familiar, you don’t have to face it alone.
You can reach out for support at any time:
Mind — 0300 102 1234
SANEline — 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10pm daily)
National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK — 0800 587 0800
SHOUT — text 85258
Switchboard LGBTQ+ — 0300 330 0630
NHS 111 — urgent mental health helpline
These services offer free, confidential help.
You’ll also find this information, along with additional resources, in the show notes and on my website www.jimikatsis.com
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