Why Do I Never Follow Through With Things?

Episode 8: The Secret to Overcoming Self-Sabotage – Trauma, Triggers & Why You Never Follow Through
In this eye-opening episode of The Trauma Queen, Jessica Ella explores the trauma-driven roots of self-sabotage—and why even the most ambitious, self-aware women can find themselves stuck, blocked, or spiraling in guilt over not following through.

If you've ever bought a course and never opened it, signed up for a gym and ghosted it after one visit, or started a business idea only to watch it fade… this episode is for you. Because it's not just procrastination—it's trauma, and Jess is here to show you why.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:

• The Root of Self-Sabotage: How early emotional wounds, unhealed trauma, and subconscious programming hijack your conscious desires—keeping you stuck in a pattern that feels like failure but is actually survival.

• Breaking the Shame Spiral: Why shame is one of the lowest emotional frequencies—and how it becomes a trigger that reinforces your belief that you can’t be trusted to follow through.

• Curiosity Over Criticism: Jess reveals how shifting from self-judgment to trauma-informed curiosity can heal your relationship with action, success, and your own nervous system.

• Aligning Identity & Desire: Learn how your identity (often shaped by complex trauma) must match your goals—or your body will resist, sabotage, or shut down. Jess teaches you how to gently realign and reprogram your beliefs.

• Self-Trust & Integration: From gut instinct to embodied decision-making, Jess shares how to cultivate self-trustand commit with discipline that honors your truth—not your trauma response.

This episode is full of real talk, personal stories, and grounded strategies that will help you break the cycle of self-sabotage, reconnect with your desires, and finally become the healed, powerful, thriving version of yourself that you know is in there.

🎧 Tune in now—and share with a friend who keeps asking, “Why can’t I just do the thing?”

💫 Start your healing journey or connect with Jess here: https://linktr.ee/jessellaainsworth