Healing Together: Exploring Social Anxiety, Attachment, and Inner Compassion

Join us for our first gathering—a safe, welcoming space for those healing from social anxiety, complex PTSD, loneliness, or the effects of narcissistic relationships.

Whether you’re navigating life after emotional neglect, struggling with connection, or just feeling invisible, you are not alone here. This peer-led group is for anyone seeking to feel seen and supported—especially as the holidays can stir up loneliness and emotional pain.

🌱 This week’s focus will be on attachment wounds—what they are, how they form, and how they continue to shape us into adulthood. I’ll share some insights from research as well as reflections drawn from my own experience as a former therapist and mental health professional. Together, we’ll explore what healing can look like over time, including the idea of earned secure attachment—a path toward deeper connection, even when secure bonds were missing in early life.

🎧 On a personal note: I’ve used AI tools to create short, narrated videos that bring my book Tell Me I'm Not Invisible: A Story of Social Anxiety, Attachment, and Complex PTSD (link: https://bwlinks.me/nia) to life. I find it amazing how confident I sound—nothing like my trembling hands at Friday night’s open mic! That voice may come across polished, but it’s really a reflection of a lifelong effort to feel seen without shutting down.

The book weaves together personal experience and professional insight. It’s not required reading—and I won’t be reading from it in the group—but if you take the time to explore it between sessions, you might discover how the themes we’ll touch on show up in real, lived experience. If it helps you feel less alone, then I’ve done what I hoped. Again, [the link https://bwlinks.me/nia ](https://bwlinks.me/nia)gets you there.

🖼️ Optional: Bring something that speaks to your inner story—a poem, a piece of art, a photo of yourself as a child, a memory, or even just a single sentence. This isn’t about being a writer. It’s about being real. While I introduced the group at a creative open mic, you won’t feel out of place if you’re just here to listen or reflect.

This isn’t a therapy session. It’s a circle of shared humanity. Together, we’ll explore:
• Compassion for the child within us
• What healing and connection can look like in adulthood
• How we might grow trust in ourselves and each other
Whether you speak or simply witness, you’re welcome here.
Let’s begin, together.