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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
  • Online program to do at your own pace
  • Worksheets 
  • Community discussion
  • 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 a bonus teaching session 
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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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Module 1

Topics

  • What is trauma

  • Some types of traumatic experiences

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

Skill Building

  • Movement to counteract shame

  • Grounding

  • Self analysis of impacts of coping mechanisms

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Module 2

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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Module 3

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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Module 4

Topics

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

  • Fawning as a stress response

  • ​Emotions and feelings associated with each stress response type

Skill Building
  • Identifying how story follows state
  • ​Exercises for fight, flight, freeze
  • Identifying emotions
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Module 5

Topics

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

  • Meditation - is it for you?

  • Nature and forest bathing for healing

Skill Building
  • Self Compassion Meditation
  • Meditation techniques for different states 
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Module 6

Topics

  • Movement and Breathing for healing trauma 

  • Yoga 

  • QiGong and Breath Body Mind Routines

  • Forest bathing

Skill Building
  • Breathing techniques
  • Meditation techniques
  • Choosing what movement to do
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Module 7

Topics

  • Healing sequences

    • EFT (tapping)​

    • Havening

    • Breath Body Mind

Skill Building
  • EFT
  • Havening exercise
  • Breath Body Mind exercise
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Module 8

Topics

  • Food and Sleep for Trauma Healing

  • Your Sleep Cycle

  • Stressed is 'dessert' spelled backwards 

Skill Building

  • ​Sleep hygiene

  • Circadian rhythm balance

  • Meal planning for insulin regulation

  • Self compassion

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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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