From Survival to Self-Trust: Anu Verma on Trauma, Healing & Rebuilding Your Life

Some conversations don’t just inspire you — they stay with you. This is one of them.In this raw and deeply powerful episode, we sit down with trauma specialist, embodiment coach, filmmaker, and founder of Victim 2 Victor, Anu Verma, to talk about what healing really looks like beyond the surface-level conversations often shared online.Anu courageously opens up about surviving childhood sexual abuse, addiction patterns, toxic relationships, suicide attempts, and years of living disconnected from herself through overworking, people-pleasing, and self-destructive coping mechanisms. She shares how trauma silently shapes identity, relationships, nervous system regulation, self-worth, and even success — and what it truly takes to rebuild your life from the inside out.We explore emotional resilience, survival patterns, boundaries, burnout, entrepreneurship, healthy risk-taking, and the difference between performing healing and actually living it. Anu also explains why recovery is messy, nonlinear, and deeply human — but absolutely possible.This episode is honest, emotional, empowering, and a reminder that the conversations we avoid are often the ones capable of changing lives.