It's time to feel better. To move away from anxious thinking and self-criticism.
Award-winning science journalist and health-science expert Donna Jackson Nakazawa presents:
Breaking Free From Trauma
A 3-hour writing-to-heal workshop to transform your emotions, your relationships, and nurture an inner sense of calm and contentment in your life.
A science-based program taught at top universities around the country.
$147 $97
(for a limited time)
Sign UpDo you ever feel like something is just "off"? Do you get caught up in negative self-talk? Do you have a hard time self-regulating in life’s stressful moments?
Does this sound familiar?
"Small worries and setbacks leave me feeling distressed and anxious for hours or days!"
"It's so hard to manage my feelings around conflict."
"I'm just not good at relationships. I get easily agitated and hurt, and I overreact. Then I keep ruminating over painful moments in my head for hours."
I've heard it so often in the trauma-healing programs I've taught over the years, especially from those who've been through difficult experiences in early in life.
Here is the thing,
You want to stop past trauma from ruining your present life and relationships. But to break the cycle of rumination and improve self-regulation in the face of stress, you need to get to the root cause of your emotional overwhelm.
If you want to stop suffering from the negative effects of past trauma and find a sense of inner peace and freedom ...
... then it is time to acquaint yourself with the unexamined parts of your story, allow difficult feelings to safely emerge, and override your brain's old, habitual reactions.
That is exactly why I created this writing-to-heal workshop!
What can you expect from this workshop?
You're about to embark on a journey of transformation through carefully crafted neuroscience-based exercises which use guided writing prompts, drawing, meditative, and visualization exercises.
You’ll uncover how the unique challenges you’ve faced have shaped your beliefs about who you are today, your view of the world, how you talk to yourself, and how you respond to new challenges.
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You will examine how old, sticky feelings from the past are causing you to feel stuck.
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Break the toxic cycle of rumination.
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Improve self-regulation
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as well as:
- Foster a sense of safety, gratitude, and contentment in your present life.
- Shine the light on old beliefs and thought patterns that no longer serve you.
- Use the neuroprotective power of self-talk to change the messages you send to yourself.
- Find your TRUTH: Who you really are and the goodness of who you always have been.
- Build a “flourishing toolkit” you can use moving forward to soothe your nervous system whenever you face big challenges.
- Find a sense of inner calm that is not shaken by others’ behaviors or actions.
You will leave this workshop with lasting tools to continue and deepen your healing journey on your own.
Breaking Free From Trauma
An intensive writing-to-heal workshop to transform your emotions, your relationships, and nurture an inner sense of calm and contentment in your life.
Get Immediate AccessHow does writing-to-heal work?
Research shows that simply writing about an emotional state helps to bring trauma out of the body by getting it on the page.
Writing-to-heal can help rewire old, trauma-based neural pathways.
By putting pencil to paper, you’re able to operate in the past, present, and future all at once. You engage in the present moment, even as your brain chooses words that call up events from the past.
You create new meaning out of your experiences, which benefits you long into the future.
As you make your way through the program you’ll discover how the past shows up in the present based on your unique story. Each exercise in this guided journey is designed to help you dive deeper, to uncover a new layer of understanding.
Through these exercises and reflections, you’ll gain a clearer picture of why you react the way you do in stressful moments, and how to rewrite the way you respond toward yourself and others in powerful and lasting ways.
Once you gain an understanding of your patterns, and the links between your past and present, you’ll learn new techniques to help you set aside old thought patterns and reframe your beliefs about yourself, so that you’re able to move forward seeing yourself, and your life, in a new light.
The details
The entire program contains 6 modules which are delivered to you over the course of 3 days (at the pace of 2 modules per day). We finish each day with a soothing meditation.
The purpose of doing this work in stages is so that you won’t feel overwhelmed, and can do each day’s work in bite-sized bits.
Most people will need to set aside 45 minutes to 1 hour each day to complete the coursework and the meditation.
Here is the breakdown of the modules:
Module 1 - Preparing for Your Healing Journey
Focus: Gathering what you’ll need to have on hand for your personal story of discovery.
Module 2: Diving into Childhood Experiences and Emotions
Focus: Identify sticky feelings which are causing you to feel stuck.
Module 3: The Bridge Between the Past and the Present
Focus: Connecting the dots between emotions from the past and big, overwhelming feelings in your current life.
Module 4: Naming Your Feelings to Enhance Self-Regulation
Focus: Working through old thoughts and emotions to self-regulate and break the cycle of rumination.
Module 5: Harnessing the Power of Positive Self-Messaging
Focus: Using positive self-messaging to shift your brain’s old thinking patterns.
Module 6: Building Your Flourishing Toolkit for the Future
Sign UpFocus: Techniques to face challenging situations and soothe your nervous system.
