Setting Boundaries with Family at Christmas

If Christmas with family leaves you feeling overwhelmed, guilty, or emotionally drained, this course helps you understand why. You’ll learn how trauma shapes family triggers, why boundaries feel difficult, and how to protect your emotional health during the holidays with compassion and flexibility.

Surviving the Holidays: Understanding Christmas Triggers and Complex Trauma

If the holidays feel overwhelming rather than joyful, this course helps you understand why. You’ll learn how complex trauma affects your nervous system at Christmas and how to navigate the season with less shame, more self-compassion, and greater emotional safety.

The thought of being truly seen by others can trigger deep anxiety for survivors of complex trauma, where vulnerability was often met with harm. This course provides a compassionate path to understand that fear, heal the parts of you that learned to hide, and gradually build the self-trust needed to take the courageous risk of authenticity. Learn how showing up as your true self can transform your relationships and your sense of belonging.

Do you find yourself constantly saying yes, managing others' emotions, and erasing your own needs to keep the peace? This pattern of people pleasing is often a deeply ingrained survival strategy rooted in complex trauma. This compassionate course helps you understand its origins, recognize the exhaustion and resentment it causes, and guides you to set boundaries that allow you to show up authentically and build connections based on your true self, not constant compliance.

For survivors of complex trauma, relationships can feel like a minefield of intensity, confusion, and fear. Healthy boundaries are not walls; they are the essential framework that creates safety, trust, and the space for true intimacy to grow. This course guides you to reframe boundaries as acts of love, recognize and respond to manipulation, and build the consistency needed for relationships that are both close and secure.

Healing from complex trauma requires more than just setting boundaries with others; it begins with setting them with yourself. If you struggle with harsh self-criticism, overcommitment, or ignoring your own needs, you are violating your own internal limits. This course focuses on building compassionate self-boundaries, learning to honour your energy, respect your limits, and replace inner criticism with kindness. It’s a vital step in rebuilding the internal safety and self-trust that trauma eroded.

Anger is often misunderstood, especially for those healing from complex trauma. It can feel scary or out of control, but it frequently holds a vital message: a boundary has been crossed. This course helps you reframe anger not as a destructive force to be feared, but as a protective signal from your nervous system. Learn to decode its message, express it in safe and constructive ways, and harness its energy to define and defend the personal boundaries essential for your recovery.

Do you feel a wave of guilt or fear every time you need to say no? For those healing from complex trauma, this is a common survival response rooted in childhood experiences where your boundaries were ignored or punished. This course goes beyond simple scripts to help you understand the deep origins of this guilt, separate it from your true self, and practice setting limits that are not acts of rejection, but essential steps toward safety, self-respect, and healthier relationships.

If the idea of setting a boundary fills you with guilt, fear, or confusion, you're not alone. For those healing from complex trauma, personal limits were often violated or used against them. This course provides a compassionate, foundational guide to understanding what healthy boundaries truly are, a form of self-respect and safety. Learn to identify your needs, communicate limits, and build the framework necessary for sustainable recovery and healthier relationships.

Putting off difficult conversations, avoiding intimacy, or delaying important relationship decisions is often a form of emotional procrastination rooted in complex trauma. It’s a protective strategy against perceived threat and vulnerability. This course helps you understand the fears driving this avoidance and provides tools to build internal safety, so you can engage in relationships with more presence, honesty, and courage.

Why do we sometimes push away the very relationships we long for? Often, it’s a protective pattern rooted in complex trauma. This course helps you identify the fears and survival mechanisms that lead to relationship sabotage, offering a compassionate path to recognize your worth, trust in safety, and build the secure connections you deserve.

Codependency and narcissism are not just relationship labels; they are often survival strategies born from complex trauma. This course compassionately explores how these patterns collide, fueled by deep shame and unmet childhood needs. By understanding their roots, you can begin to break free from cycles of chaos and performance, moving towards relationships grounded in honesty, safety, and true connection.

Knowing when to walk away can feel impossible when past trauma clouds your judgment. This course offers a compassionate roadmap for survivors of complex trauma, helping you untangle trauma bonds, identify manipulative patterns, and overcome the deep fear and guilt that keep you stuck. Learn to trust your needs, set life-giving boundaries, and find the courage to choose safety and respect.

Do you find yourself in relationships that feel intensely magnetic but ultimately unsafe? This confusion between intensity and intimacy is a common legacy of complex trauma. This course provides the framework to distinguish between the two, helping you slow down, recognize true safety, and build connections that are steady, trustworthy, and genuinely healing. Learn how to move from survival-based bonding to secure relating.

Have you ever felt that your way of loving is tied to old wounds? Complex trauma can deeply distort our love languages, turning them into survival strategies instead of pathways to connection. This course offers a compassionate guide to untangling that past, helping you reclaim how you give, receive, and feel love. Discover how to heal your foundational approach to relationships.

Do you feel lonely even when you're not alone? This profound isolation is often a survival response shaped by complex trauma. It rewires your brain, impacts your body, and locks you in a cycle of disconnection.

If you're ready to break that cycle and rebuild a sense of true belonging, this guide is your first step. Learn how to start healing here.