For the Cycle Breakers: The New Chapter of Grounded in 10

Welcome to a new chapter of Grounded in 10.In this re-introduction episode, Sarah Benitez-Zandi, licensed clinical social worker, trauma therapist, EMDR and ART-trained clinician, somatic therapy practitioner, and owner of Trauma Wise Healing, shares the deeper thread connecting her work: supporting cycle breakers.This episode explores what it means to stop repeating what hurt you, notice inherited patterns, and begin choosing something different in your body, relationships, parenting, boundaries, and sense of self.Sarah reflects on the evolution of Grounded in 10 from a space for short nervous system resets into a podcast for trauma recovery, nervous system healing, relational repair, family-of-origin work, and embodied change.Whether you are a parent, partner, adult child, trauma survivor, therapist, or someone who is beginning to recognize the patterns you no longer want to carry forward, this episode is an invitation to pause, notice, and begin again.Because cycle breaking is not about perfection.It starts with awareness.And noticing the cycle is where change begins.In this episode, we explore:What it means to be a cycle breakerHow trauma patterns can show up in parenting, relationships, and the bodyWhy insight alone is not always enough for changeThe role of nervous system healing and somatic practiceThe next chapter of Grounded in 10 and Trauma Wise HealingWhy small, intentional pauses can become powerful moments of changeGrounded in 10 is for cycle breakers who are ready to stop surviving their past and start building something different -- one breath, one pause, and one embodied choice at a time.