An Invitation To Find Your Way Home
Post-Traumatic Growth can teach us so much wisdom and can reveal the beauty of our existence that, because of trauma, we lost sight of.
Have you experienced traumatic attachment or other traumatic events in your early childhood?
Have you suffered a trauma shock as an adult? From my own trauma recovery, I came to understand that traumatic experiences are shocking to our system when they overwhelm our sensory capacity to adapt to the experience.
When you hear the words post-traumatic growth, do you wonder if learning more about it could be of benefit to you?
If you answered yes and are ready to take the next step, join my Post-Traumatic Growth Coaching Community. Sessions and groups include a blending of evidence-based mindfulness and the science of healing and growth — Each member is finding her way to reconnect with herself, and finding her way to growth, healing, and happiness.
About Post Traumatic Growth Coaching
Our coaching sessions will provide a safe enough space to explore your hopes and dreams, your doubt, uncertainty, or fears. Together, we’ll explore the resources of transformative evidence-based mindfulness practices, the tools of self-compassion, and practical approaches to integrate science and mindful awareness to soothe and regulate your nervous system.
From my trauma recovery I learned how this blending of mindfulness and science is medicine for our nervous system. I learned to blend Interpersonal Neurobiology, often referred to as Relational Neurobiology and PolyVagal theory, learning how to soothe and shift my nervous system from a state of threat to a state of safety. As the nervous system is soothed and regulated, internal physical changes in the heart, the lungs, the gut, go into a mode where growth can take place.
As you find your way to support and nurture your well-being, we’ll work together to:
Nurture your resilience by softly being with whatever is there.
Nourish your relationships and connections with others
Clarify your purpose as you find your way to bring your unique courage and strength into the world
A Window Into My Story
“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We feel more alive.
We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation and healing.”
– Jon Kabat Zinn
Thirty-seven years ago, I wandered into a workshop titled Mindfulness, led by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and a way opened for me to repair my trauma woundedness.
For the next 19 years, I was the director of an undergraduate education field training office at a local college. I developed a relationship-based field experience program, which included teaching students, field supervisors, adjunct faculty, and school district administrators, mindfulness tools and practices.
I have warm memories of teaching and practicing with these dedicated educators. I retired from the college, which by then had become a university, in 2012. A community of friends and colleagues, and work that nourished my purpose, were no longer in my life.
After I retired, I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. I’m 10 years well. My traumatic early childhood experiences had made my nervous system particularly vulnerable, and the stress, the hormones, the fear and uncertainty overwhelmed my system.
I was working with a therapist who was highly recommended and was traditionally trained. She was not trauma-informed. She encouraged me to talk about the memories and feelings from the past that were arising.
What I needed was to slowly become aware of the trauma energy, which had been stuck in my body for too long. I needed to resolve and integrate the energy and information in digestible bits, as I was ready. Talking about what happened was re-traumatizing. My system collapsed, and I became clinically depressed.
And then I was in a time of darkness. I struggled to stay alive. I was taken to a local hospital by two dear friends. In the hospital the cumulative, residual trauma woundedness that had broken my connection with life became a force of resurgence of my life.
Reclaiming my agency opened a gateway to reconnect with myself. My steps forward were a life force that was both wavering and filled with clarity and strength. It was a time of feeling many layers of grief and loss, which has opened my heart to forgiveness and love. A quiet time of finding the light you do not expect to find in the darkness. A time of seeing our quest for wholeness as a heroic journey.
I am looking forward to connecting with you.
“The gift of healing trauma is that the woundedness becomes a gateway to freedom, healing and love.”
— Tara Brach
