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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.
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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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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

  • Your stress response

  • Feelings within each response

  • Window of Capacity

  • Polyvagal ladder

Skill Building
  • Guided meditation
  • Mapping your stress response
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Week 6: Restoring Rhythms: Trauma Sensitive Movement for Nervous System Regulaiton

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

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Skill Building
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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

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Skill Building
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Module 11 - Sleep and Trauma Healing

Topics

  • Sleep architecture​​

  • Circadian rhythm

  • Journaling for insomnia

Skill Building
  • Yoga Nidra
  • Sleep hygiene checklist and journal
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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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