S3 E3 From Battlefield to Breakthrough: Trauma, Ibogaine & Transformation | Benjamin Ahn

What happens when the very qualities that helped you survive become the patterns that keep you stuck? In this episode of Season 3, Moniquea Spiteri returns to guest interviews with Benjamin Ahn, former US Navy SEAL, international corporate executive and founder of Nomena, a medically supervised ib…

S3 E2 - Hot topic #1 - What If You Don’t Need to Be More Regulated?

What If You Don’t Need to Be More Regulated? When nervous-system healing becomes another form of self-control... What if our obsession with nervous-system regulation is actually becoming another form of hypervigilance? Welcome to a new chapter of Transcending Trauma®. Following the educational jo…

S3 E1 - Dissociation: When Leaving Was the Way You Stayed

Dissociation is often described as disconnection, but it is also an intelligent survival response. It can occur when an experience feels too overwhelming, threatening or inescapable for the nervous system to process in the moment. The body remains present, but some part of our awareness moves away…

S2 E14 - Secure Relating: When Connection No Longer Costs You Yourself

What happens when connection no longer requires self-abandonment? In this powerful closing episode of the attachment and people-pleasing series, Moniquea Spiteri explores what it truly means to move from survival-based relating into secure connection. Many of us learned to stay connected through …

S2 E13 - Boundaries: The Return of the Self

What if boundaries are not walls… but a return to yourself? In this episode of Transcending Trauma, Moniquea Spiteri explores boundaries through the lens of trauma healing, nervous system regulation, attachment, somatic awareness, and relational repair. Many people struggle with boundaries not be…

S2 E12 - The People Pleaser Pattern: Breaking the Cycle Without Losing Your Heart

Why does saying no feel so hard? In this episode of Transcending Trauma, Moniquea Spiteri explores the people pleaser pattern through the lens of trauma healing, nervous system regulation, attachment, parts work, and somatic awareness. Many people experience people pleasing as kindness, over givi…

S2 E11 - The Fawn Response: When Safety Becomes Self-Abandonment

In this episode of Transcending Trauma, Moniquea Spiteri explores the fawn response, a powerful and often misunderstood trauma response where the nervous system learns to prioritise harmony, approval, and connection in order to stay safe. Often experienced as people pleasing, conflict avoidance, o…

S2 E10 - Secure Attachment in Action

What does secure attachment actually look like in real life? In this episode of Transcending Trauma, Moniquea explores how relational safety is built not through perfection, but through regulation, repair, and emotional maturity. Drawing on nervous system science, attachment theory, and relationa…

S2 E09 - From Reaction to Regulation

From Reaction to Regulation Why do we react before we can think? In this episode of Transcending Trauma, Moniquea explores what really happens in the body when we get triggered and how to build the capacity to regulate in real time. Drawing on Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing, parts work, …

S2 E08 - The New Story: Embodied Agency

In this episode of Transcending Trauma, we explore what it really means to reclaim agency over your life, not through mindset alone, but through embodied choice. Trauma shapes the stories we live inside of. It influences our attachment patterns, our nervous system responses, and the internal narra…