Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sabotage

Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sabotage | Numbness Paralysis – The PTSD Podcast

Why do we sabotage the very things we long for? Why do we retreat just before success, push away love when it arrives, or abandon projects we care about?

In this gentle and reflective episode, host Olga Costa explores self-sabotage not as laziness or failure, but as a survival strategy born from trauma. Through lived stories, neuroscience insights, and compassionate reframing, we uncover:

✨ Why self-sabotage shows up in trauma survivors. ✨ The hidden cycle of desire → fear → sabotage → shame. ✨ How shame and survival instincts disguise themselves as “protection.”  ...