11,796 people have taken this course
Tragedy changes our brain and our everyday functioning. Life altering events create a disconnect with everyone and everything. States of hyper-vigilance and numbness can cycle. Triggers can set off reactivity. Your spiritual life can suffer. Trauma can make you feel detached, irritable, anxious and highly reactive in a myriad of ways. It re-wires the brain in an attempt to protect you but it can actually harm you more.
Traumas highjack our sense of well-being and true purpose. You may have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Acute Stress Disorder. The good news is you have neuro-plasticity, which means your brain can recover and be restored. You can live well again or maybe for the first time.
Trauma doesn't have to define you. It can refine you. With reframing and proper processing, you can learn to reconnect with yourself and others. You can change the course of your life by focusing on the things that aid your healing. In doing so, the thoughts and reactivity that harm you will extinguish over time. You can find your value and purpose and move toward it.
This course was designed to facilitate your personal recovery at your pace. Your healing journey is sacred to you. Your story is unique. You alone know how you feel and more importantly, how you want to feel. These lessons are an aid to your transformation. Trauma may have infiltrated every part of your life but you can change what it has done to you. That time was not lost or wasted. It can be processed with a new perspective.
You will learn what is operating in your body, mind and spirit is subconsciously holding you to trauma responses. You will be shown how to employ the same trinity to reconnect with the good life you were born to have before anything bad happened to you. You can get past the past. You don't have to re-live your trauma or be constantly triggered by it.
These lessons employ spiritual guidance to help you tap into your powerfully healing connection with your spiritual source. You are meant to find restoration and resilience. This body, mind and spiritual guide is an aid to your personal process toward a holistic sense of protective safety and security.
You will be gently guided to your recovery in an individualized solution-focused approach. Brief and simple lessons about neuroscience and other biological, psychological and spiritual aspects of trauma will be explored. Guided meditations are in several lessons. Brief affirmations with music are available with every lesson.
These lessons include insights such as:
- Learning to recognize triggers and gain self-regulation.
- Guided imagery, creative and curative visualization and grounding exercises.
- Brief neuroscience education to help you understand and recondition physiologic responses.
- Breaking the cycle of reenactment, re-victimization and rescuing behavior.
- How to find true trust.
- Forgiveness and vengeance in the context of your trauma.
- Cleansing of guilt, shame and blame.
- Dealing with flashbacks, flooding, numbing and nightmares.
- Learning resilience and gaining neuroplasticity through creative expression.
- Spiritual and emotional healing.
This course would also be a good guide for someone who is a Highly Sensitive Person, as it addresses the body, mind and spirit connection with proven and creative ways to expedite healing.
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"Mary Joye has been the perfect fit for me! She has helped me tie together a lot of my past with my present and has helped me better understand those around me. I couldn't have asked for a better counselor!"
"Mary Joye has been thoughtful, knowledgeable, spiritually supportive, and considerate. Her response time is rapid, her advice is comprehensive, and I just can't say enough positive things about this counselor!"
"So far M. J. seems very competent, and is clearly a caring person and is very nice to me. I feel I can be frank with her."
"I have been receiving therapy from Mary Joye...I was surprised how specific Mary's skills were to my needs...This made a huge difference for me and helped me feel validated right away."
"Mary is quick to respond with support and helpful information and links. She answers questions, is kind, patient, and practical."
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Mary Joye, M.A., L.M.H.C, is currently in private practice as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Her father was a psychiatrist and she worked with him assisting with art therapy and psychodrama but she went in a different direction before becoming a licensed counselor. Mary has written this guide from professional and life-long personal experience in a compassionate way to assist and support your recovery and to retrieve and restore your life. This course was conceived in Sedona, Arizona where Mary went to process a tragic loss of a family member. Every lesson is one she has experienced at some point in her life and is sharing with you to heal in your own way. Starting today, you will receive a new lesson every day for 3 weeks (total of 21 lessons). Each lesson is yours to keep and you'll be able to refer back to it whenever you want. And if you miss a lesson or are too busy to get to it that day, each lesson will conveniently remain in your account so you won't have to search for it when you're ready to get back to it.
We are offering this course with the option of selecting how much you want to pay. No matter how much you pay, you'll be getting the same course as everybody else. We simply trust that people are honest and will support the author of the course with whatever they can afford. And if you are not 100% satisfied, we will refund your money.
