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.
Episodes
10 episodes
A Farmers wisdom
In this episode, I’m reflecting on the idea that healing from childhood trauma has far more in common with farming than with quick-fix self-help. We look at what happens when your inner world feels more like a cracked car park than a field – al...
Episode 1, Beginnings
We begin where every story starts — in the silence after survival. In this opening episode, psychotherapist Jimi Katsis explores how childhood trauma shapes the adult self: the watcher, the performer, and the echoes that never quite fade...
Episode 2 — The Weather Inside
Some storms never make the news. In this conversation, Jimi explores what it means to live inside an emotional climate shaped by childhood trauma — the fog, the pressure, the sudden change in air when safety disappears.It isn’t just depr...
Episode 3 — The Lie the Echo Tells
Some voices in our heads don’t belong to us.In this episode, Jimi explores the echoes that repeat long after trauma ends — the internal whispers that say you’re too much, you’re not enough, you’ll never be safe...
Episode 4 — The Watcher and the Performer
Long before we learned the language of safety, we learned to watch ourselves survive.In this episode, Jimi unpacks the two internal roles many trauma survivors come to know well — the watcher, always scanning the room for danger...
Episode 5 — The Mirror Moment
There are times when reflection isn’t metaphor — it’s confrontation.In this episode, Jimi talks about the moment you catch sight of yourself — not as healed or finished, but changed. When you realise the roles you built to survive no lon...
Episode 6 — The Turning Point
Change rarely announces itself with fireworks. More often, it begins quietly — the moment you realise you can’t keep performing the same life.In this episode, Jimi explores the slow recognition that survival patterns can’t coexist with...
Episode 7 — The Space Between Us
Learning to connect after trauma isn’t about finding new people — it’s about finding a new nervous system.In this episode, Jimi explores what it means to stay in connection instead of performing it. The moment someone reaches toward you ...