Leslie Peters - You're Not Broken, You're Just Lost: How Holding Space Heals What Helping Never Could Part 2

Leslie Peters is a former nurse, childhood adversity specialist, and speaker whose life's work sits at the intersection of trauma recovery, heart coherence, and the neuroscience of human connection.Most people who've survived childhood trauma spend decades trying to fix themselves. They do the therapy, take the courses, buy the books — and still feel like something is fundamentally wrong with them. But here's the thing: the problem was never you. Leslie grew up in the 1960s, reported sexual abuse to the adults around her, and was not believed by any of them. By sixteen, she had two choices — end her life or go find her reason for being in it. She chose the world. And what she discovered on those streets, stopping strangers and asking them about their lives, would become the very thing neuroscience now calls heart-brain coherence. She didn't learn it in a classroom. She lived it.Expect to learn why none of us are broken — only lost, what heart coherence actually is and why Leslie had it before science had a name for it, how childhood adversity physically reshapes the developing brain and its executive function, why holding space for someone is more powerful than trying to help them, how trauma can make you spiritually awake while keeping you emotionally unsafe at home, why isolation during COVID quietly dismantled the confidence of even the most resilient people, what it means to abandon yourself while appearing strong to the outside world, how following your intuition outperforms analytical thinking when executive function is compromised, and much more.This conversation will challenge everything you think you understand about trauma, healing, and why the most broken-seeming people sometimes carry the greatest gifts.