Naked Insights Podcast - musing all things health, relationships and trauma
The Naked Insights Podcast explores the powerful connection between mind and body in navigating trauma, health, and relationships. Each episode examines how our perceptions and behaviours shape mental health, our relationships with others, and the delicate balance with physical well-being.
From managing trauma, workplace stress, and major life transitions to cultivating healthy, nourishing relationships, Naked Insights offers tools, tips, and real stories to help you and your loved ones become more resilient and adaptable to change. Through an integrative and evidence-based lens, you’ll learn how to maintain balance and well-being in today’s increasingly chaotic world.
Hosted by Adele Theron, each season features a different expert as she deep-dives into the intersections between trauma, health, and relationships.
Season 1 features Sam McSorley, a functional medicine specialist, exploring the biology of stress, the role of the nervous system in healing, and how emotional regulation impacts the body.
About the Host:
Adele Theron (CCTP, CFTP, CFFTP, PGDipTraumaticStudies, MPsych) is a trauma therapist and specialist in trauma and transition recovery. She is the founder of Naked Recovery, which offers structured programmes to help clients transform trauma related to bereavement, redundancy, birth trauma, separation, divorce, infidelity, midlife crises, family estrangement, and health-related challenges. Her evidence-based recovery programmes have supported thousands of clients across more than 90 countries.
Adele is currently completing her doctorate in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland, where her research focuses on developing trauma recovery interventions for chronic illness. Her integrative, science-based methods draw from somatic psychology, coaching psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice.
About the Season 1 Expert:
Sam McSorley (MHealSc, PGHlthSci, DipClinHerbMed, BHSc (Complementary Medicine)) is a naturopath and functional medicine practitioner passionate about empowering people with choice in healthcare. As the founder of Sam McSorley Connecting Wellness, she helps clients recover from complex health conditions through holistic programmes that unite body and mind. Sam’s approach integrates nutrition, herbal medicine, genetic testing, nutritional psychiatry, and somatic psychotherapy, guided by the emerging science of psychoneuroimmunology - the study of how psychological processes influence immune and nervous system function.
In season 1, Adele and Sam bridge the gap between holistic health and psychological resilience, guiding you towards a more balanced, empowered, and successful life.
Naked Insights Podcast - musing all things health, relationships and trauma
Episode 5 - PTSD Isn’t What You Think
Episode 5: PTSD Isn’t What You Think
PTSD isn’t just “mental health” — it’s your brain’s survival system on overdrive.
In this raw and real episode, Adele and Sam unpack:
🧠 The difference between PTSD and PTS — and why it matters
⚠️ What trauma actually does to your brain (think amygdala hijack & hippocampus shutdown)
🔥 Why PTSD symptoms feel like you're stuck in a loop
👩🔬 Why women are twice as likely to develop PTSD
💥 Fight, flight, freeze, fawn — survival reactions that linger long after the threat is gone
You’ll also hear:
🛠️ What actually works — from Enhanced CBT, EMDR to IFS to Hakomi
💡 How trauma-informed therapy gently rewires the nervous system
Whether you’re living with PTSD or supporting someone who is — this episode brings compassion, clarity, and real hope.
Listen now. This one could change everything.
