I choose to walk each day with integrity, service, respect, excellence and compassion. I remain focused on my life’s purpose and pursue opportunities for education with personal and professional growth in order to write, teach and develop quality products and services for a Global audience seeking practical solutions to Complex Trauma. The intergenerational silence has to cease.
The Silence Has to Cease. The silence in families where we don’t communicate beyond the surface, the external of our lives, has to be broken.
We need to be the generation who consciously choose to break free of the unconscious trauma handed down for many generations. It’s an Intentional Choice.
We are the first generation with the language and science to begin to break free. We need to make an intentional choice to recongise the non verbal rules in our families where we are only part of our family if we keep silent about unhealthy family rules.
We begin the process through our family systems to ensure our children and our children’s children have healthier, functioning relationships thereby ceasing to hand down the toxic stress of trauma.
If we don’t begin to take action now we will have a continuing mental health crisis worldwide – for many generations to come.
Professional Qualifications include:
Currently studying
Linda is the Developer of Trauma Informed Movement
A multiple level process to retrain the brain and body to release toxic stress at the unconscious level.
Linda presented at the Dept of Health, Makassar, Indonesia Conference.
Presentation on “How to Recognise when our Prefrontal Cortex and Limbic system aren’t Engaged.” There were over 700 attendees with Linda also spending an hour answering questions from the audience. Linda has been asked to return to present a course on Soul, Spirit & Neurobiology.
Linda was a Featured Speaker on Finding the Beauty within Tragedy Summit
Certification
Advanced NPE Certification
Supervisory Certification
Courses Taken include the following –
Treating Trauma Master Series
Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety,
Working With Core Beliefs of “Never Good Enough”,
Why the Vagal System Holds the Key to the Treatment of Trauma,
Working with the Pain of Abandonment,
How to work with Shame,
The Neurobiology of Trauma,
Expert Strategies for Working with the Pain of Traumatic Memory
The Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma
Linda has been interviewed by
Linda appeared on DearFutureWife Podcast Live
Linda Meredith is the founder of Healing from Complex Ptsd, Owner of the Worlds First Complex Ptsd Membership, Australia’s first Certified Trauma Recovery Coach/Supervisor, the Worlds first Advanced NPE Trauma Recovery Coach, CEO of the International Complex Trauma Association and is developing the worlds first Complex Trauma Training experiential program.
Passionate, Innovative and effective in the Complex Trauma Recovery field she coaches individuals globally for Complex Trauma, gives international seminars to hundreds from her desktop and spends her spare time developing effective new products for complex ptsd recovery based on the latest in Neuroscience & Soul.
Currently Linda is working on completing the writing of a world first experiential Complex Ptsd certification as she continues to study more information for complex trauma recovery.
Linda shares healthy relationships with her 3 adult children Joshua, Chloe and Nicholas and her gorgeous granddaughter Rose. Her rescued Manx Panda is never far from her side, unless she’s out having coffee with her besties, exercising (what cat wants to exercise?), reading, bowling or putt putt golf or watching the latest legal show online.
What I’m about to share with you has taken me many years and a lot of personal work, professional study and persistence to find the answers. It’s important you begin with knowing the science for all of this is only around 5 years old in the public domain. To gain further clarity for yourself I suggest you read The Body Keeps the Score by Dr Bessel van der Kolk, watch How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime by Dr Nadine Bourke Harris and you can use Janina Fishers workbook Transforming the living legacy of Trauma to gain a greater understanding of the impact in your life.
It’s also vital you take time to wrap your mind around this fact. Toxic stress is stored at an unconscious level in our brain, our body, our nervous system, to the point where until we are conscious of it our life continues to repeat. Psychologists and Psychiatrists, generally speaking are not trauma trained in University GLOBALLY. IF you find one trauma trained it’s because they pursued further education after University. Most have not heard of Complex Trauma for this reason. Talk therapy does not work for Complex Trauma.
On the 1st January, 2022 the IDC-11 will be the first to recognise Complex Trauma as a separate diagnosis. The group running the DSM have refused to adopt complex Trauma for years because there’s no University level training for it – this is from the group of professionals who’ve been trying for many years to get the DSM board to recognise complex trauma. The science is there. Without the DSM on board it will take 17 years for the information to filter through to medical textbooks, to University’s, to your local doctor. For some of us, actually many of us, we don’t have that amount of time to wait for our good health to be returned.
I’m Linda Meredith, mum to 3 amazing adults Joshua, Chloe and Nicholas, Mimi (Nanna) to a beautiful granddaughter Rose and own a rescued Manx, Panda. I’m currently enjoying time being single (over ten years) as I recover from Complex Trauma plus spending enjoyable long hours creating a global business, well, priorities!
I am supported and supportive of a close tribe of besties and friends locally and globally and fortunately I am an avid reader of all things Complex Ptsd, Neuroscience and Personal Development and love a well written fiction story. Oh, and a definite Netflix binger as well.
Chocolate in one hand, coffee in the other and no off switch until the series is complete. Did I mention gym? No? It helps with the sanity factor of life and I also love long distance driving! Road trip anyone?
All my children, just what do you call your adult children, are following through with the intentional changing of the generations. I’ve had to make some super hard choices that impacted them from a young age. However, as adults and having lived through the process, they have a huge appreciation for the decisions I made and believe in the benefits because we have such deep, fun, loving, mutual relationships between all of us.
Joshua, Chloe, Rose, Nicholas plus another couple of adults and I live in a 3 story home in Brisbane, Australia. I was originally born and bred in Sydney, Australia but all my children were born and raised in Qld. It’s a lifestyle people from overseas just love when they’re here too!
Today it’s hard to write, to record, the reality of what happened to me. To have reached a space where I now understand all of what happened in my life was driven by toxic stress stored throughout my body, my brain, my nervous system, and to be winning the battle of returning my health, well, there’s tears of relief, and tears of grief. Tears of grief because I left home at 18 absolutely determined to not live the life I’d observed happening in the generations that came before me.
I had no problem being responsible and making choices. I worked hard, played harder, and enjoyed life. However, the internal niggle that all was not “right” in my life had me seeking answers from 20 years of age.
At 15 I developed epilepsy seemingly out of nowhere, and no one could pinpoint why. Medication was effective and I continued to pursue a life that saw me moving between 3 different states in Australia, living in both the country and the city, doing long road trips, enjoying life and marrying at 24. Immediately after our marriage hubby was transferred to Brisbane, Qld. And I’ve stayed here ever since.
At 27 I had Joshua and got post natal depression. Again, seemingly out of nowhere. I never experienced it with Chloe and Nicholas. However, over time, I did develop panic attacks, anxiety, and occasionally depression, but none of it stayed permanently. I was searching at this time for answers not just for my health but because I “knew” there was something not functioning internally for me.
Externally, I had it all. The handsome husband, the 3 gorgeous kids, my own home business, 3 cars, our own home and friends and family spanning states. And yet, still I knew something was not right.
I spent years pursuing personal growth, learning so much from a variety of sources. I wrote and taught My Authentic Self, saw clients and kept looking for answers. I once saw a Psychologist and said to them ‘look, there’s something not right, externally all looks functional, but I need answers to why I feel life isn’t working.” His response was “well, you’re doing better than most of my clients, so you’ll be fine.”
Then, it all began to come to a head. Somewhat like a pimple that had been germinating for decades, the head began to ooze. In pursuit of answers for nearly 2 decades, the memories of childhood sexual abuse emerged. I was fortunate, no, blessed, to find a local counsellor who had resources from America.
Once I understood the generational hand me downs, I began to be able to make healthier choices for my life. Due to then husband not being willing to address his anger issues I had to navigate a divorce because there was no way my children were going to be raised believing that what went on behind closed doors was a healthy way of life.
Believe me, I thought I’d finally popped that pimple! But no, like a bad infomercial, there was “wait, there’s more!” Having navigated a divorce and losing all of my friends, because no one believes what’s happening behind closed doors, I focused on raising my kids in a healthy manner. Determined to never go down the road of divorce made the divorce process crippling for me. However, consciously making the decision that my kids didn’t deserve to be raised in a toxic environment has paid off many years later. All of them have thanked me for the hard choices I had to make and have continued to pursue healing the generational trauma.
After the divorce I had one friend remaining, and when my ex and her hooked up, loneliness was my friend for awhile. I had no idea where my life would go, so I kept taking just one step at a time. I ended up married again, believing this time I had worked out how to choose the “right” person. I’d read tonnes of books on marriage etc. Instead, my health went progressively downhill. Experiencing migraines that lasted days on end that 30 mg of morphine every 3 days wasn’t touching, my then gp began to mess with my epilepsy medication. What then followed was over 2 years bedridden, over medicated by the gp and a specialist, losing all my cognitive functions, unable to walk, talk, feed or bathe myself, losing my memory and needing a full time carer.
Eventually I began to have grand mal seizures that I have never had previously. That’s when I was taken to a neurologist who recognised the medical overdosing and got me into a psych ward to get me off the overdoses. I don’t have a lot of memory from all of that time. I just know that once I wasn’t overdosed it took me a year to be able to go back to the neurologist and get put back on my original epilepsy medication. Considering I couldn’t talk when I had seen her the year before she immediately agreed to me returning to my original medication, and I’ve had zero medication or seizure problems since then.
And yes, just like that bad infomercial, “but wait, there’s more….”
Getting out of bed on my own I was terrified if I fell over I’d never get up alone. Every step I took had to be planned ahead to have support i.e. lots of holding walls and furniture. The day I made it up and down the hall way 4 times I knew I’d make it into wellness.
The problem with wellness over the years was this: having spent many years on personal development and internal awareness – I wrote the manual for it – I was still not able to fully function. Incredibly frustrating. And then I began to study the neuroscience. Finally, I began to piece together a multigenerational puzzle of toxic stress. Then I had to develop a way to rid my body, brain and nervous system of toxic stress stored at the unconscious level.
The brain is complex, there’s no denying it. However, there are key parts impacted by Complex Trauma. Once I began to put my Prefrontal Cortex back online, over the last 2 years my actual health has begun to return. Without my Prefrontal Cortex engaged there can be no emotional regulation, no filing away of unconscious memories, no releasing of the intergenerational trauma, and no increasing health.
I know this because the build up of toxic stress derailed my entire life. Today, not only do I retrain my brain, I also retrain my nervous system to get used to good things happening. It’s exhausting, but worth it.
More than anything in this world I want you to know you’re not alone and there are paths to wellness. You do not have to do this journey without information, you do not have to wait for the health care system to catch up, you can take action and build the life you truly want for yourself and your family. It’s complex, but it’s definitely doable. Please feel welcome to join our global family in the facebook group or the Mighty Networks memberships, and begin to take your one next step.
Now, I can say with confidence but wait, there’s more, plenty more good things to come, more life to enjoy, and with a bit of luck plenty more grandkids to spoil with a tonne of love.
The ICF is a coaching organization that upholds a set of core competencies, competencies which set a clear path for how accredited programs teach coaches. They are not designed to support any type of coaching that varies from their model and competencies. In that way, their focus is on ensuring conformation to their methods rather than a coaching program’s effectiveness or impact because they believe their way forward is the best way.
If we were to conform to the ICF’s methods and competencies we would be limited in our capacity to help trauma survivors. Doing so would essentially gut our program of it’s most effective and beneficial components. For this reason we have neither sought, nor will seek, ICF accreditation.
The International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching does not conform to the ICF’s model of coaching. We are not coaches who work with trauma survivors. We are trauma professionals who use the modality to coach to help trauma survivors build a life they love to live.
I understand. I hear you. I see you. Your Trauma is valid. The impact from past abuse and neglect is alive inside of you today, here, now. I see your struggle to maintain your external sense of togetherness as your internal world wants to crumble. I’ve lived it and I lost it all, twice.
I hear you questioning why can’t I just adult? Why can’t the past just be over and done with? Why can’t I get a good nights sleep? How can I stop this anxiety when it’s “not me?” When will this depression lift? Why do my relationships always end? How can I break this cycle for my children?
Are you ready for the good news? Are you ready to take action? Complex Trauma Recovery is possible, even when you need an individual road map.
Up to date Neurobiology and Psychology information applied in practical applications by Coaches who live the recovery journey to thrive. We ensure through continued training and research we can help you as an individual recover from the impacts of Trauma.
Techniques developed in house plus ongoing professional development to ensure we can help you gain the most out of our coaching and courses. We know your brain needs to have new experiences in your daily life to recover and we ensure your path includes specifically designed for Trauma recovery tools and techniques.
Have you spent years in recovery, in therapy, and still battle to achieve your personal recovery goals? We consult with you specifically to determine your recovery goals and to help you achieve them. Results happen when you are equipped with the essential tools needed for Trauma Recovery.
Disclaimer: This website uses affiliate links, meaning: at no additional cost to you, I earn a small commission if you click-through and make a purchase. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I feature products that I believe in. Your support means the world and allows me to host this website. Thank you!
You must be logged in to post a comment.