Name: What Childhood Trauma Does to Your Brain — and Why You’re Not Going Crazy
Start: 2026-03-10T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-10T20:30:00-04:00

**Live Teaching Webinar \+ Q&A \| One\-Night Event**
Many trauma survivors quietly carry the same questions:
*Why do I still react this way?*
*Why can’t I just move on?*
*Why do certain situations still overwhelm me — even years later?*
If you’ve ever wondered whether something is wrong with you, this session offers a different perspective.
In this live teaching, trauma recovery coach Maggie Weldon shares a compassionate, easy-to-understand explanation of what trauma actually does to the brain — and why many reactions that feel confusing or overwhelming are not signs of weakness or failure, but signs of a nervous system that learned to survive.
This is **not a clinical lecture**.
It is a grounded, lived-experience understanding of trauma and healing, explained in a way that is clear, relatable, and deeply validating.
You’ll learn:

* Why trauma responses continue long after the events are over
* How the brain adapts to protect us during overwhelming experiences
* What triggers really are — and why they happen
* How survival patterns form and why they can feel like personality
* Why healing begins with safety, not force or pressure
* How understanding your brain can reduce shame and increase self-compassion

Most importantly, you’ll leave with a new understanding:
**Your brain is not broken. It was protecting you.**

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### **Event Format**

* 5-minute welcome & introduction
* 45-minute teaching session
* Q&A

Maggie Weldon

Greensboro Leaving Traumaland Meetup Group

LeavingTraumaland

Support & Coaching

Spirituality

Mental Health Recovery

Support and Recovery

Life Coaching

Group Coaching

Childhood Trauma

Somatic Healing

Panic Disorders

Anxiety, Depression, and Panic Disorder

Support Group for Panic & Anxiety Disorder

Emotional Trauma and PTSD

Transforming Trauma

PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Anxiety, Panic, OCD

## **Speaker Bio — Maggie Weldon**

Maggie Weldon is a trauma survivor, speaker, teacher - founder or Leaving Traumaland and creator of the **BRAVE Method™**, a step-by-step healing framework developed from her own lived journey through childhood trauma and long-term recovery.
After growing up in an environment marked by instability, abuse, and early separation, Maggie spent years struggling with panic attacks, emotional overwhelm, and survival patterns that once helped her cope but later limited her life. Through deep therapeutic work, personal healing practices, and decades of lived experience, she gradually moved beyond trauma’s impact and discovered something life-changing: many trauma responses are not signs of brokenness, but evidence of a brain working hard to protect and survive.
Today, Maggie’s work focuses on helping survivors understand **what trauma does to the brain**, reduce shame and self-blame, and learn how healing becomes possible when safety and compassion replace pressure and judgment.
Her teaching style translates complex trauma concepts into clear, relatable language rooted in real experience rather than clinical theory, helping survivors finally make sense of reactions that once felt confusing or overwhelming.
Maggie is the founder of *Leaving TraumaLand*, where she teaches practical, compassionate approaches to trauma recovery and emotional healing.

What Childhood Trauma Does to Your Brain — and Why You’re Not Going Crazy

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