Untangle

Why (some) Negative Emotions Persist, Despite Your Best Efforts to Let Them Go. With Dr. Shahrzad Jalali

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Feb 17, 2026
Dr. Shahrzad Jalali, clinical psychologist and author focused on trauma and nervous-system healing. She talks about how unprocessed trauma shows up in the body, her Regulate to Rise approach to calm learned overreactions, meaning-making versus reframing, Jungian shadow work and integrating opposites, and practical first steps for self-awareness and safety in relationships.
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INSIGHT

Trauma Is A Nervous System Pattern

  • Trauma means the nervous system responds to past events instead of present realities.
  • That conditioned response causes overreaction like chronic fight-or-flight.
ADVICE

Re-Regulate Your Nervous System

  • Heal trauma by re-regulating the nervous system with body and cognitive exercises.
  • Shahrzad's Regulate to Rise program offers practical modules to renegotiate patterns with the body.
INSIGHT

Reframe Trauma Into Strength

  • Meaning-making after trauma reshapes identity and behavior by renegotiating false beliefs.
  • Reframing a survival story can reveal strengths gained rather than permanent limitations.
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