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Rock Maze

Holistic Trauma Healing Basics

Self-Paced Course

Goals of Holistic Healing Basics

  • Understand how trauma impacts your nervous system and the rest of your body.

  • Identify the true extent of your trauma and stress

  • Work through basic emotional healing around mindfulness, self-compassion, and shame.

  • Map and manage your stress response

  • Calm and heal trauma triggers

  • Release trauma from your body

  • Develop skills to overcome shame and avoidance

  • Develop mindfulness and self-compassion 

  • Get better sleep and understand the connection between food and mood

  • Get out of survival mode and start living your life!

Here's What You Get
  • Hybrid program with weekly group coaching 
  • Worksheets 
  • Private Skool discussion group
  • Separate audio recordings of the meditations to download
 
BONUSES
  • Everyone who signs up during 2025 will receive a one-hour individual coaching session with me AND the beta cohort will receive an additional week of group coaching.
(c) The Joy Recovery Project, 2025. All rights reserved.

Preparation Week

Before beginning the first module, you will do some work to set goals, become familiar with new terms, and begin to change your mindset. 

Topics

  • Establishing a safety touchpoint

  • Goal setting

  • Looking at some new vocabulary 

Skill Building

  • ​A quick morning self-talk routine

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Week 1 - Trauma and its Impact

Topics

  • What really  is trauma

  • Some types of traumatic experiences

  • Recognizing all of the acute stress, trauma and post traumatic stress in your life

Skill Building

  • Grounding

  • Self analysis of impacts of coping mechanisms

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Week 2 - Root Causes

Topics

  • Root causes - your childhood

  • Finding your ACE and Resilience scores

  • Childhood trauma and adult wellness

  • ​Mindfulness and self-compassion

Skill Building

  • ​Self compassion meditation

  • Grounding 

  • Overcoming toxic shame

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Week 3 - Mindfulness and Self Compassion as Keys to Healing

Topics 

  • The stress response system

  • Trauma's impact on your brain

  • Your vagus nerve and trauma healing

  • Window of capacity

  • Identifying your stress response

Skill Building

  • Vagal toning

  • Bilateral stimulation

  • Orienting

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Week 4 - The Stress Response System

Topics

  • ​Identifying, mapping and managing your stress response and your story

  • Fawning as a stress response

  • ​Emotions and feelings associated with each stress response type

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Week 5 - Identifying, Mapping and Managing Your Stress Response

Topics

  • The science of mindfulness and self compassion as keys to trauma healing

  • Meditation - is it for you?

  • Nature and forest bathing for healing

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Week 6: Restoring Rhythms: Trauma Sensitive Movement for Healing a

Topics

  • Movement and Breathing for healing trauma 

  • Yoga 

  • QiGong and Breath Routines

  • Forest bathing

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Week 7 - Breathing for Release and Nervous System nd Rebalancing

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Week 8 - Overcoming Toxic Shame

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Week 9 - Desserts is Stressed Spelled Backwards

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Week 10 - Working Through Grief

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Module 11 - Sleep and Trauma Healing

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Module 12 - Healing Attachment Wounds

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
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Post Traumatic Growth is a Thing

Topics

  • Assessing Your progress

  • What is PTG!?

  • Lessons moving forward

Skill Building

  • Safe expression of needs - Nonviolent communication

  • Safe practice of boundaries

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BONUS

 

Topics

  • Plotting your path forward

  • Analyzing what worked for you

  • What will you add to your toolkit?

  • Your healing plan
     

Skill Building

  • Grounding in the present moment​

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