📌 Episode Description:
What if the voice in your head that keeps criticizing you… isn’t actually you?
In this powerful episode of The Purple Passion Project, Dr. Stacy sits down with transformational healer and trauma decoding expert Emma Lyons to explore the deep link between shame, trauma, love avoidance, and intimacy.
Emma shares how shame isn’t a flaw—it’s a survival response. We talk about how trauma lives in the nervous system, why some women can’t fully receive love, intimacy, or pleasure (even after years of self-work), and the 5 signs it might be time to break up with your “inner narcissist.”
This episode is raw, validating, and deeply transformative.
🧠 In This Episode, We Cover:
- • What the “inner narcissist” or shame voice really is
- • Why shame is a survival response, not a flaw
- • How trauma blocks intimacy and emotional safety
- • Love avoidance and why receiving can feel unsafe
- • The difference between somatic healing and mindset work
- • The 5 signs it’s time to break up with your inner critic
🛍️ Featured Resource:
FREE GUIDE: 5 Signs It’s Time to Break Up with Your Inner Narcissist
🔥 Connect with Emma Lyons:
IG: trauma.matrix/ LinkedIn: emma-lyons-traumamatrix/ FB: trauma.matrix
YouTube: @trauma.matrix / TikTok: @trauma.matrix / https://traumamatrix.substack.com/
- • Program: Evict the Narc Within
- • The Trauma Matrix Framework
💜 Connect with Dr. Stacy:
- • Website: www.drstacyfriedman.com
- • Social: @drstacyfriedman (IG, TikTok, YouTube, FB)
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Emma 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.
