Free trauma recovery resources
Free trauma recovery workbooks, a quiz, and a weekly letter
Start where you are.
You don’t have to be ready to hire a coach to begin. You just have to be tired of the loop.
Start here
The first resource is a conversation.
Before any workbook or course, there is a free half hour with me. You talk, I listen, and I reflect back the pattern I hear. No pitch, no preparation, nothing to perform. Whether or not we ever work together, you leave with one honest next step.
The free library
What’s in the free library?
A growing shelf of short, practical guides, plus the quiz and the Sunday Letter. Each title opens a page that explains what it is and who it may help.
Understanding Patterns
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The 3-Minute Pattern Quiz
Three minutes to see your pattern’s shape. If you’re new, start here.
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The Trauma Tree Workbook
The free download at the heart of the Method. Map the roots (what happened), the trunk (the beliefs), and the branches (the patterns) as one system.
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The Addicted to Trauma Companion Workbook
For reading the memoir with a pen in your hand: the questions the story raises, asked of your own life rather than mine.
Grounding and Regulation
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Befriending Your Nervous System
A workbook for making peace with the alarm system that kept you alive: learn to read your own body, then work with it instead of against it.
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The Philosophy Poster
The whole method in one unbroken line, for your wall: the loop, the pause, the choice, and the open path. A quiet daily reminder that the pattern is not the ending.
Reflection and Creativity
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The Conscious Creation Workbook
The Method in workbook form: prompts for all five steps and for building the intentional life that comes after regulation, one honest choice at a time.
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The Small Leavings Journal
Named for the way we lose ourselves: one small leaving at a time. A journal for noticing the exits, and choosing to stay.
ADHD and Executive Functioning
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You’re Not Broken: Understanding the ADHD Brain
A 27-page ebook on why your brain works the way it does: executive function, RSD, and practical tools that work with your wiring instead of against it.
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ADHD Affirmation Cards
Printable cards with gentle reframes for the ADHD brain: for the days when executive function feels out of reach.
For Nurses and Caregivers
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What the Vigilance Costs You After the Shift Ends
Written nurse to nurse, for anyone whose alertness does not switch off at the end of the shift: what that costs, how to spot it, and one practice for telling your body the emergency is over.
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For Nurses & Caregivers
The longer piece on doing this work when you are also the person everyone else leans on, written by a nurse who has been the patient.
Free and Ongoing
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The Sunday Letter
One honest essay and one small practice, most Sundays.
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The Monthly Gathering
A free monthly online gathering: teaching, sharing, community. The next is Tuesday, September 1, 7:00 to 8:00pm Eastern, on Zoom.
The Sunday Letter
One more free thing.
The Sunday Letter: a small practice in your inbox, most weeks, free like everything else here.