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Breaking Generational Trauma: Emma Lyons on Invisible Wounds, Caregiving, and Self-Care
Episode 486th August 2025 • The Sharegiving Secret: How to Survive Family Caregiving • Deborah Greenhut, PH.D.
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SUMMARY:

Emma Lyons shares how trauma, generational patterns, and family dynamics shape caregiving—and why self-care is vital. Learn why boundaries, healing, and supportive environments matter for caregivers, and how to break the cycle of self-sacrifice.

BIO:

Emma Lyons is a trauma-informed healer and founder of The Trauma Matrix, where she helps women break up with the shame voice that’s been sabotaging their success, relationships, and visibility for years. After studying law and international human rights, Emma turned away from a life path that looked good on paper but felt like slow death — and spent the next decade deep in the healing world. Despite all the therapy, yoga, mindset work, and energy practices, she still found herself stuck in loops of self-erasure, burnout, and invisibility… until she uncovered the deeper truth: she’d internalized a narcissistic system of control, and it was running her from the inside out. Today, Emma helps high-functioning, heart-led women dismantle that inner narcissist, the shame voice that humiliates, controls, and impersonates them, so they can reclaim clarity, power, and nervous system freedom.

Grab Emma’s FREE guide: "5 Signs You Need to Break Up with Your Inner Narcissist" This isn’t another mindset gimick . It’s the root system behind shame spirals, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and chronic self-sabotage. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.  https://tinyurl.com/nottodaynarc


Emma’s Social Media Links:


https://www.instagram.com/trauma.matrix/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-lyons-traumamatrix/

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https://www.youtube.com/@trauma.matrix

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https://traumamatrix.substack.com/




ABOUT ME:

I have cared for many family members across the life span, experiencing the joys and challenges of child-rearing, the poignance of caring for parents, friends, and elder partners. I realized that I could not handle the stress of family caregiving 24/7/365. It was time for a new approach to caring. My health and happiness were slipping away. This is how Think to Thrive for Caregivers evolved. Let your mind meet your heart so you don’t lose track of your life.

Connect with Me:

https://www.deborahgreenhut.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahgreenhut01/

Find my books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Deborah-S.-Greenhut/author/B001KI5BAU?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=985b6dac-012d-4eb4-aabb-e15635ed3d7f


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