What we’re about
Facilitated by Natalie, Healing & Embodiment Coach
🗓️ Virtual Meetup
📍 GoogleMeet | 💫 Free | 🎯 Open to all (LGBTQ+ inclusive)
Group Overview:
This is a trauma-informed, body-aware space for adult children who grew up with emotionally immature, narcissistic, or unavailable parents. If you were the scapegoat, the fixer, the lost child, or the “too much” one—this circle offers a safe and supportive environment to explore your healing journey.
We focus on nervous system regulation, boundary-setting, and personal growth as you unravel old patterns and reconnect with your authentic self.
What Makes This Group Unique?
Facilitated by Someone Who Gets It: I’m Natalie, a Healing & Embodiment Coach who holds an MA in Psychology (Indiana Wesleyan) and certified yoga therapist. I’m also trauma-informed, somatically trained, and certified in nervous system healing through lived experience and professional study. And an Adult Child.
Body-Aware, Empowering Approach: You’ll learn how family dysfunction shows up in your body and how to gently work with it. We integrate nervous system tools, emotional intelligence, and supportive group connection.
Judgment-Free, Inclusive Space: Whether you’re no-contact, low-contact, or navigating complex family dynamics, your story is welcome here. This group is open to all gender identities and LGBTQ+ inclusive.
What to Expect:
Gentle Grounding & Check-In
Breath awareness, body talk, or regulation techniques to help you arrive fully.
Mini Teaching Topic (10 min)
Topics rotate and may include:
Family Roles (Scapegoat, Hero, Lost Child, Mascot)
Emotionally Immature or Narcissistic Parents
Boundaries, Guilt, and Gaslighting
Inner Child Work & Self-Compassion
Nervous System Regulation & Healing Tools
Codependency, Enmeshment & People-Pleasing
Healthy Isolation vs. Loneliness
Embodied Practice or Journaling (Invitational)
Gentle movement, body awareness, or reflective writing to deepen connection.
Open Sharing Circle (Invitational)
Speak if you feel called. All emotions are honored. Listening is healing too.
Who Is This For?
This group is for any adult who grew up in a dysfunctional family system and is seeking clarity, connection, and healing.
You might resonate if:
You feel guilt when setting boundaries
You’ve been labeled “too sensitive” or “too much”
You’re working on breaking generational patterns
You’re ready to stop people-pleasing and start self-honoring
Join Us
You are not the family problem.
You are not too much.
You are healing—and that is powerful work.
This circle offers a warm, welcoming space to be seen, heard, and supported as you grow.
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Releasing Family Roles: A Body-Based Healing Circle
Have you spent your life feeling like the Scapegoat, the Peacemaker, the Invisible One, or the Golden Child?
Many of us unknowingly adopted survival roles as children to feel safe, loved, or accepted in families where emotional connection was missing.
These roles helped us survive, but they are not who we truly are.This healing circle is a space to begin gently recognizing and releasing the role you've carried, so you can reconnect with your true, authentic self.
What to Expect:
- A grounding space to gently connect with your body
- Insight into how family roles show up somatically
- Time for journaling, visualization, and nervous system regulation
Most of the session will take place in quiet, internal space — supported by guided prompts and gentle pacing. You will be guided every step of the way.
You’ll explore how these roles live in the body, how to begin letting them go, and how to reconnect with the self that lives beneath the roles.
Reminder: This is body-based healing.
This is not a space for storytelling or sharing details of your past. We will stay present in the body, focusing on what’s alive for you in the present moment.Cross-talk will not be permitted (no comments or advice after sharing). Sharing is always optional and is offered only as a way to further your personal healing or to gently practice using your voice in a supportive space.
No experience is needed. This space is especially supportive for adult children of dysfunctional families (ACA, ACOA, and similar recovery paths), or anyone on a healing journey seeking more clarity and embodiment.
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Please bring:
- A journal and pen
- A quiet, comfortable space
- Anything that helps you feel grounded (blanket, tea, etc.)
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Host:
Natalie Bussell
Healing & Embodiment Coach | NB Holistic Health
Trauma-informed. Nervous-system aware. Body-based healing.### Core Principles of Trauma-Informed Practice
- Safety – Physical, emotional, and energetic safety are prioritized. People aren’t pushed to do anything that feels overwhelming.
- Choice – Participants have agency; they can opt in or out of any practice, change positions, or just observe without pressure.
- Collaboration – The facilitator and participants are in a shared experience, rather than a top-down “expert/subject” dynamic.
- Empowerment – Focus is on strengths, resilience, and self-trust rather than on deficits or “fixing.”
- Cultural Humility – Recognizing and respecting that people’s experiences, beliefs, and bodies are shaped by diverse backgrounds.
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### Why It Matters for Healing
- Many trauma survivors are hyper-aware of threat cues (tone of voice, body language, abrupt changes), so being mindful of these creates a safe space where healing can actually happen.
- The nervous system learns safety through experience, not just logic — so a calm, respectful, choice-based space helps the body downshift out of survival mode.
- Avoiding re-traumatization means you don’t accidentally trigger someone into reliving their trauma through overly intense, invasive, or fast-paced practices.
