Healing, treatment and trauma
7 episodes of The Truth Hurts on this topic, each with its notes, key points and the questions it answers.
Episode 99 · August 14, 2025
Heal Yourself: Change Your Story
You keep waiting for the right time, and the time just passes
You already know exactly where your fear comes from, and you still find yourself in the same place. Gili says the problem is not understanding. Knowing your traumas and seeing what your parents left in you matters, but it is not healing. The way she sees it, healing happens only in the moment you stop telling the old story and start living a new one, and there is a simple test for it: if it is really working, it should show on the outside too.
Episode 97 · July 3, 2025
How to Build Emotional Resilience
You feel like the world is collapsing and it is not clear how a person gets up from that again. The question is not how to avoid falling. It is how to build the ability to get up again and again. Gili says that this strength is something you can develop and not a trait you are born with, and that goes for people who grew up with hardship or trauma too. The tools are simpler than they seem: self-compassion instead of criticism, focusing on what is really in your control, and the support of the people close to you.
Episode 93 · May 15, 2025
When a Mother's Love Is Missing
You have a mother, so why do you feel like an orphan
You know that you have a mother, and even so there's a longing in you for something that never was. This isn't a mother who died. This is a mother who is there, but not really there: not steady, not giving you safety, not present in the way you need. Gili says you can't demand from a mother what she doesn't have, because she never received it from her own mother either. And that gap doesn't stay in one place. It comes back in your relationships too, in choices you make without noticing why.
Episode 58 · May 23, 2024
Healthy Soul, Healthy Body
You can eat the healthiest food in the world and still get cancer
You can eat the cleanest food there is, drink nothing but green juice, do everything exactly right, and still find out that something in your body has broken down. According to Gili, health is not decided only on the plate but in the emotional system behind it: anger, grief or frustration that never get expressed do not disappear. They settle into a specific organ and weaken it. There is even a syndrome in which an emotional crisis produces symptoms in the body that are identical to a heart attack. The question is not only what you eat, but what you do with what you feel.
Episode 7 · May 4, 2023
What Really Shapes Our Lives?
You're right back in the same situation, the same kind of partner, the same fight, the same feeling of "here it is, happening to me again". As Gili presents it, that's no accident. Our subconscious remembers everything from the moment we were born, it's constantly trying to repeat itself, and so, without noticing, we're drawn to situations we already know. Even your least logical reaction in a tense moment belongs to a five- or six-year-old child who is still at the wheel. Once you look at that straight on, you can start changing direction.
Episode 6 · April 27, 2023
Why Go to Therapy?
You tried medication, you changed your diet, you went to doctors, you sat with psychologists, and the body still isn't getting better. That's what Tal went through for almost four years, until she found, in her words, that the perfect checklist hadn't healed her, because the way she sees it the source was in the soul and not in the body. Gili Man Wolner explains, as she presents it, why even a good practitioner doesn't hand you answers: she shows you what you can't see about yourself. And she has sessions of her own, she says, because even someone who works with other people has blind spots.
Episode 2 · April 3, 2023
It Hurts Less, but It Still Hurts
Who says the thing that made you angry today is really a bad thing
Something happens, and you can't get past it. It keeps coming back as a thought, it settles into a feeling, and sometimes it breaks out in the body, a flush in your cheeks or a leg that starts bouncing on its own. The way Gili Man Wolner sees it, what happened was never in our control, and even the first reaction, the spontaneous one, is almost automatic. But there is one point that really is up to us. Not what happened, but how long we stay stuck in the feeling that we are the victim of it. A moment, an hour, or seven years.