ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Leigh Ann welcomes licensed clinical social worker Lisa Arrigo for a conversation on complex trauma, addiction, generational patterns, nervous system survival, and the parts of us that form in response to pain. Lisa shares how her own complicated upbringing, cocaine addiction, recovery, and long healing journey led her into psychology, social work, trauma-informed treatment, and a desire to help people understand the neurobiology beneath their patterns. Leigh Ann and Lisa explore how trauma can begin before conscious memory, including in utero experiences, birth trauma, attachment wounds, generational inheritance, and the early danger signals that shape the nervous system. They discuss complex trauma, addiction, dissociation, parts work, internal protector strategies, and why behaviors that look self-sabotaging are often survival adaptations trying to protect us. Lisa also shares honestly about what helped and what did not in her own recovery, including traditional talk therapy, 12-step recovery, psychoanalysis, EMDR training, somatic work, IFS, and trauma-informed therapy.
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