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Host: Brad Schipke • Overcoming PTSD Podcast • Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching

 

In this episode, Brad and Kayleen break down a powerful but often overlooked part of PTSD recovery: the “lens” you use to interpret your life. They walk you through how every situation starts as raw data, and how your beliefs and perspectives shape that data into either hope or hopelessness, possibility or shutdown.

You’ll hear real stories from their own relationship and recovery journeys—times when changing a single belief or focus completely transformed how they felt, how they showed up, and the decisions they made next. Same circumstances, totally different experience, just by switching lenses.

At the center of this session is one simple question: “How can I?” Brad and Kayleen show how this tiny shift—from “this won’t work for me” to “how could this work for me?”—can open doors in your PTSD healing, relationships, routines, and daily challenges. They also preview upcoming sessions on routines, patience, and addiction so you can keep building on this new lens day by day.

 

💡 What You’ll Learn

How your brain takes in raw data and runs it through a “lens” or belief system

Why the same situation can feel completely different depending on the lens you use

How childhood, trauma, and past pain quietly shape the way you interpret life now

A simple way to catch when you’re looking for reasons healing “won’t work for you”

The power of the question “How can I?” in PTSD recovery, routines, and daily stress

How to shift from judgment and resentment to understanding without accepting mistreatment

Why focusing on what is improving creates momentum and hope in trauma healing

How simplicity and small changes in perspective can lead to massive life changes

A practical challenge you can use today to start putting on a new recovery lens

 

🧠 Key Takeaway

You don’t have to change all the facts of your life to change your reality—change the lens you’re looking through and the path of your PTSD recovery changes with it.

 

🔗 Next Steps

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Introduction to Recovery Secrets Daily Coaching

00:36 Starting the Week Strong

01:37 Understanding the Concept of Lenses

04:49 Personal Stories of Changing Lenses

12:34 The Power of Perspective and Beliefs

22:09 Visualizing the Impact of Lenses

26:29 Applying the 'How Can I' Mindset

33:05 The Power of Self-Reflection

33:20 Ask and You Shall Receive

33:50 Changing Your Perspective

39:21 The Importance of Simplicity

45:26 Morning Routines and Personal Growth

49:40 The Value of Hobbies and Fun

53:43 Final Thoughts and Q&A

 

Topics Covered:

PTSD recovery • trauma healing • changing your lens • belief change and PTSD • nervous system regulation • trauma coping tools • gratitude practice for trauma survivors • mindset shifts for PTSD • emotional regulation • simple PTSD routines • recovery mindset • overcoming trauma triggers • how to heal from PTSD without therapy • daily PTSD coaching • trauma and relationships • perspective shifts in healing • overcoming negative self talk • practical PTSD tools

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Erscheinungs­datum: 5.12.2025, 13:00:00