A gentle place for those living with Complex PTSD, emotional numbness, or dissociation — and for the people who love them.
Through poetic storytelling, neuroscience explained in human terms, and lived experience, Olga Costa invites listeners into conversations about the unseen weight of trauma. Each episode blends metaphors, reflective moments, and practical tools for self-regulation, grounding, and healing.
From understanding emotional flashbacks in relationships to unpacking the quiet exhaustion of survival mode, this is a space where grief, joy, numbness, and hope can exist together.
Numbness Paralysis doesn’t rush you. It sits beside you. It names the things that were never named, and it offers pathways back to safety — in your own time, in your own way.
Because healing isn’t about becoming who you were before. It’s about learning to live, softly, with who you are now.
New episodes every Friday at 3:00 PM.
Love is often described as healing, safe, and comforting — yet for many trauma survivors, love can feel like danger.
In this episode of Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast, host Olga Costa explores why intimacy can activate fear, tension, and emotional withdrawal in those living with PTSD and complex trauma.
Drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, and lived experience, this episode examines:
Why the body remembers love as threat
How attachment and survival systems collide
Why calm can feel unfamiliar — or even unsafe
Gentle tools for relearning safety in connection
How love can become a slow, nervous-system repair
This is a soft, reflective episode for anyone who longs for closeness but feels overwhelmed when it arrives.
🎧 New episodes every Friday at 3:00 PM.
12 Dec 2025
Grief as a Language
Grief is not an obstacle to healing — it is the healing. In this deeply compassionate episode of Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast, Olga Costa explores how grief becomes the body’s native language for love, loss, and transformation.
Through science, poetry, and lived experience, Olga guides listeners to see grief not as something to escape, but as something sacred — the body’s way of translating pain into meaning. This episode touches on the physiology of sorrow, the unspoken grief of trauma survivors, and how to give yourself permission to mourn what the world cannot see.
Gentle reflection, grounding tools, and a trauma-informed SWOT analysis help you navigate the waves of sorrow with compassion and awareness. Because when you allow yourself to grieve, you’re not falling apart — you’re learning to speak the language of your own soul.
🕊️ New episodes every Friday at 3:00 PM.
🎧 Stay safe, stay soft, and stay curious.
14 Nov 2025
The Myth of Moving On
We’re often told to “move on.” To let go, to get over it, to stop looking back. But for survivors of trauma, that phrase can feel like erasure — a demand to abandon the very parts of us that still ache for understanding.
In this reflective episode of Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast, Olga Costa explores the quiet truth behind healing: that it’s not about erasing the past, but learning to move with it. Through lived experience, science, and embodied compassion, she invites listeners to rediscover integration — the process of turning pain into wisdom, and memory into meaning.
You’ll learn why “moving on” can backfire, how the nervous system stores trauma, and how to practice gentler, trauma-informed rituals of remembrance. With a soft tone and deep emotional intelligence, this episode reminds us that healing is not linear — it’s a spiral that keeps leading us home.
🕊️ New episodes every Friday at 3:00 PM.
🎧 Stay safe, stay soft, and stay curious.
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