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.
After a Narcissistic Relationship
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Ebook
Overcoming Narcissistic Relationships
A ebook for healing from a narcissistic relationship, with the work built in: name the pattern, build the pause, and come home to yourself.
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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Companion
Four Ways of Leaving the Room
Fawn, fight, flight and freeze, laid out side by side: what each one looks like, what it costs, what it protects, and the smallest way back. Two pages.
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Workbook
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.
Grounding and Regulation
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Workbook
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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Printable
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 isn’t the ending.
Reflection and Creativity
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Workbook
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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Journal
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 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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Printable
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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Guide
What the Vigilance Costs You After the Shift Ends
Written nurse to nurse, for anyone whose alertness doesn’t 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’re 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 22, 8:00 to 9:00pm Eastern, on Zoom.
For nurses · A paid ebook
The workbook behind the free nurse guide
The nurse guide in the library above is the companion excerpt from Both Sides of the Bed: A Somatic Workbook for Nurses and Healthcare Workers, a paid ebook that lives on its own page rather than in this library: 124 pages, $37. The full chapter list is there, and after purchase it lands in your inbox.
The Sunday Letter
One more free thing.
The Sunday Letter: a small practice in your inbox, most weeks, free like everything else here.