489: Rewiring PTSD and Healing Trauma with Mike Zeller
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide, PTSD, and trauma. Please listen with care and step away if needed.
Today, I'm sitting down with someone I've known for years and whose story moved me deeply. Mike Zeller joins me for a powerful, raw, and eye opening conversation about trauma, healing, nervous system regulation, and the life changing breakthroughs that helped save his wife, his marriage, and his family.
Mike opens up about the traumatic season that began when his daughter was born. His wife, a three time suicide survivor with complex childhood trauma, spiraled into severe PTSD and depression triggered by pregnancy and early motherhood. For nearly two years, Mike lived in constant fight or flight trying to support her while feeling completely lost about how to help.
This episode takes you inside their journey, the tools that finally created real change, and the multimodal healing approach Mike now uses to support others through trauma, depression, and burnout.
In this episode, we explore:
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Mike and his wife's powerful story and what was really happening beneath the surface
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How trauma hijacks the nervous system and why traditional tools weren't enough
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What Mike learned about somatic therapy, PTSD, and the subconscious mind
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How NAD therapy works and why so many people are deficient without realizing it
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The role psychedelics played in opening the nervous system for deep healing
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The importance of integration and nervous system support after a therapeutic journey
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Michelle Chalfant Show. I am thrilled to be here with you today. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope that you're doing well during this crazy holiday season. You know, I only have like a little bit of my house decorated and I'm going to just say that I'm okay with it. I don't think I'm going to go all the way this year. I'm done. This holiday just sort of snuck up on us right after Thanksgiving. So it's |
| 0:24.9 | been a little bit of a manned dash for me this whole month of December with holidays. But |
| 0:28.4 | anyway, I hope you guys are having a wonderful holiday season. I have such a good show for you, |
| 0:34.5 | you guys. I'm so excited. Today on the show we have Mike Zeller. |
| 0:40.1 | It is a deeply, it's not only powerful, it's vulnerable, and it's even deeply educational. |
| 0:46.5 | He is going to help us take a different look at trauma, the nervous system, and what becomes |
| 0:53.5 | possible when healing is approached from every |
| 0:56.9 | level of the human experience? We are going into NAD therapy, that's NAD therapy, optimization. |
| 1:04.8 | We're talking about metabolic health. We're talking about somatic therapy and psychedelic, |
| 1:10.6 | guided. I'm going to say it like this. therapy and psychedelic, guided. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm going to say it like this. |
| 1:13.1 | Guided psychedelic work. |
| 1:15.7 | So he gets into it. |
| 1:17.9 | His wife had severe postpartum PTSD after the birth of their daughter, and he walks us |
| 1:23.2 | through that journey and how it led him to the career than he has today. |
| 1:26.8 | So such a great show, here we go |
| 1:29.3 | with Mr. Mike Zeller. So welcome to the Michelle Shelfont Show, Mike Zeller. |
| 1:38.5 | Hi, Michelle, super excited to be here. You rock and this is going to be a ton of fun today, I'm |
| 1:43.7 | sure. I just said, I'm sure. |
| 1:49.0 | I just said, I can't believe I've known you since 2018. That's a long time. Yeah. I was still in the 30s. |
| 1:53.0 | When we've changed a lot since then, as far as, I mean, the world has changed a lot. |
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