Greensboro Leaving Traumaland Meetup Group

# 🌿 WEEK 1: Build a Foundation

Understanding trauma, why it matters, and how to begin real healing
This first session is all about laying the groundwork. Before you can regulate emotions or change old patterns, you need a solid understanding of what trauma actually is, how it affects your daily life, and why healing requires more than just “moving on.” This week will help you connect the dots, reduce self-blame, and take your first intentional step toward lasting change.

Introduction (5min)
Teaching + Slides (40 min)
Q&A + closing reflections (15 min)

### 📚 Topics Covered This Week

(A brief overview of the first stage of the course)

1. Why Work on Trauma – Understanding what’s at stake if we don’t
2. Big T & Little t Trauma – What counts as trauma and why it all matters
3. The Healing Process – What recovery really looks like (not linear, not instant)
4. Self-Care – Beyond bubble baths: practical tools for nervous system safety
5. Relationships – How trauma impacts connection, trust, and boundaries
6. Therapy – What works, what doesn’t, and how to find the right kind
7. Spirituality – How meaning and belief support healing
8. Medications – When they help, why they’re not the whole answer

THIS IS ONLINE ZOOM MEETING ONLY - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE YOUR CAMERA ON. YOU WILL NOT BE CALLED OUT WITH QUESTIONS. I WANT YOU TO FEEL SAFE - JUST LISTEN IN.

Week “Leaving TraumaLand” Intro Series
Welcome to Week 1 of our healing series! Over five weeks, we’ll walk through a big-picture overview of the trauma recovery journey using my B.R.A.V.E Framework - a roadmap that helps you move from survival mode to genuine emotional freedom.

# 🌿 WEEK 2: Regulate Your Emotions & Trauma Responses

Why you react the way you do—and how to finally regain control
Trauma doesn’t just live in the past—it lives in your nervous system. The panic, the shutdown, the overthinking, the people-pleasing… none of it is random. It’s your body and brain doing exactly what they were wired to do to keep you alive. In Week 2, we’ll break down those patterns so you can stop blaming yourself and start working with your nervous system instead of against it.

Introduction (5min)
Teaching + Slides (40 min)
Q&A + closing reflections (15 min)

📚 Topics Covered This Week Two
(A brief overview of the first stage of the course)

1. Trauma Responses – Fight, flight, freeze, fawn in everyday life
2. Trauma-Based Thinking – Survival beliefs, overinterpretation & self-blame
3. Emotional Regulation – Tools for calming the nervous system
4. Triggers – Why they happen & how to work with them
5. Panic Attacks – Understanding the cycle & how to interrupt it
6. Disclosures – When, how, and whether to share your story

THIS IS ONLINE ZOOM MEETING ONLY - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE YOUR CAMERA ON. YOU WILL NOT BE CALLED OUT WITH QUESTIONS. I WANT YOU TO FEEL SAFE - JUST LISTEN IN.

Part of the 5-Week “Leaving TraumaLand” Intro Series - ONLINE
Welcome to Week 2 of our healing series! Over 5 weeks, we’ll walk through a big-picture overview of the trauma recovery journey using my B.R.A.V.E Framework - a roadmap that helps you move from survival mode to genuine emotional freedom.

# 🌿 WEEK 3: Allow Your Feelings

Learning to feel what you spent a lifetime avoiding
Most of us grew up in homes where feelings were ignored, punished, mocked, or overwhelmed. So we learned to disconnect, minimize, rationalize, or stay strong. The problem is—what we don’t feel, we don’t heal.
In Week 3, we’ll explore what it really means to allow your emotions instead of fighting them, shutting them down, or intellectualizing them. This is the heart of trauma recovery.

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### 📚 Topics Covered

• All Feelings Are Allowed – Why emotion isn’t the enemy
• Attachment & Emotional Safety – How early bonds shaped emotional expression
• Trauma Bonds – Why we stay attached to pain and call it love
• Grieving What Wasn’t Safe to Grieve – Loss of childhood, safety, innocence
• Anger & Rage – The emotions most trauma survivors fear the most
• Feeling Without Drowning – How to process emotion without being overwhelmed

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### 🧭 What You’ll Walk Away With

• A new understanding of why emotions feel “too big”
• Tools for sitting with feelings instead of numbing or exploding
• A safe framework for grief, anger, and stored survival emotion
• Permission to feel without shame

Introduction (5min)
Teaching + Slides (40 min)
Q&A + closing reflections (15 min)

THIS IS ONLINE ZOOM MEETING ONLY - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE YOUR CAMERA ON. YOU WILL NOT BE CALLED OUT WITH QUESTIONS. I WANT YOU TO FEEL SAFE - JUST LISTEN IN.

# 🌿 WEEK 4: Voice Your Truth

Understanding the younger parts of you that still need safety and care
By Week 4, you’ve learned how trauma shows up in your body, thoughts, and emotions. Now we move into the heart of healing: connecting with the younger version of you who lived through the chaos. This week is about compassion, insight, and finally giving your inner child what she never received—safety, validation, and a voice.
We’ll explore how the past shows up in present-day reactions, how journaling and dreams reveal buried truth, and how regression (planned or unplanned) is actually part of the healing path—not a setback.

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### 📚 Topics Covered

• The Child Within – Understanding the younger parts still driving feelings, decisions, and reactions
• Journaling – Why it’s one of the most effective tools for accessing deeper layers of healing
• Dreams – How your subconscious communicates what your conscious mind avoids
• Planned Regression – Safe, intentional ways to revisit early memories for healing
• Unplanned Regression – What it is, why it happens, and how to navigate it without shame

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### 🧭 What You’ll Walk Away With

• A compassionate understanding of your inner child and how she affects your adult life
• Practical journaling tools that help you access clarity, truth, and feelings
• Insight into dreams and how they process unresolved experiences
• Confidence in handling emotional regressions—planned or unexpected
• A deeper sense of self-connection, safety, and direction

Introduction (5min)
Teaching + Slides (40 min)
Q&A + closing reflections (15 min)

THIS IS ONLINE ZOOM MEETING ONLY - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE YOUR CAMERA ON. YOU WILL NOT BE CALLED OUT WITH QUESTIONS. I WANT YOU TO FEEL SAFE - JUST LISTEN IN.

“Leaving TraumaLand” Intro Series
Welcome to Week 4 of our healing series! Over five weeks, we’ll walk through a big-picture overview of the trauma recovery journey using my B.R.A.V.E Framework - a roadmap that helps you move from survival mode to genuine emotional freedom.