Meghan Judge: Living with CPTSD & Misdiagnosis

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Complex PTSD doesn't show up like a broken arm - nobody opens doors for you when your nervous system is on fire. Meghan Judge shares how losing her sister at age two, then her father at twelve, then her best friend in her twenties created a lifetime of hypervigilance that looked like "something wrong with her" instead of what it actually was: a body that learned too early that people disappear without warning. The conversation gets raw about female friendships turning vicious (women can smile while destroying you), parenting teenagers when your trauma tells you everyone you love will die, and why meditation advice feels like trying to light a wet match when your brain writes disaster scripts at 2 AM. There's real talk about the years of misdiagnosis - depression, ADHD, bipolar - before finally understanding this is your nervous system and brain trying to protect you. The relief of finding the right therapist after years of bad fits, permission to need continuous support instead of white-knuckling independence, and why you can't unlearn trauma but you can retrain your system to feel safe again. Find Meghan's Podcast , Judging Meghan, wherever you listen to shows. Find her on Social Media @judgingmeghan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the show.
0:02.8	This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.
0:06.2	I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.
0:10.0	And on today's episode, I am with Megan Judge from judging Megan.
0:15.0	And we are discussing living with C PTSD and trauma recovery.
0:30.9	Yeah. living with C.P.S.D. and trauma recovery. I am so excited to be here with Megan Judge from her show,
0:36.3	judging Megan. We have so much in common when it comes to resiliency
0:40.4	and healing C-P-T-S-D. There it is. So I'm excited to have a conversation with you today. Thank you so
0:48.8	much for spending some time with me. Thanks, Nikki. I'm so excited to meet you in person. You're going to
0:53.9	come on my podcast. So I'm so excited to meet you in person. You're going to come on my podcast,
0:55.0	so I'm super thrilled and very passionate to talk about mental health and specifically,
1:01.5	I'm going to say it really slow, too, C-P-T-S-T. Yes. Did I say it backwards? It's hard.
1:07.4	And you do the abbreviation. Yeah. Yeah, and that's just complex post-traumatic stress that I have been healing all of my life too.
1:14.5	So let's hear a little bit of your background to introduce you to my audience.
1:18.8	Tell us a little bit about what culminated in your life to leave you with that set of symptomology.
1:27.6	Okay. So do you have five hours? Because of symptomology. Okay.
1:28.4	So do you have five hours?
1:30.2	Because I can't keep joking.
1:32.0	I'm not going to just, I'll let you talk.
1:34.0	But so as a child, when I was about two years old, my younger sister passed away, sadly,
1:42.1	in her crib.
1:43.3	And my mom found her. And I was kind of left in my high chair
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