Resting to Recover: A Trauma-Informed Guide to Rest and Wintering

If rest has never felt restorative, this course helps you understand why. Through a trauma-informed approach, you’ll learn how complex trauma drains energy in hidden ways and how to practice real rest that supports recovery, safety, and nervous system healing—without guilt or pressure.

That harsh, constant voice in your head telling you you're not good enough likely has its roots in complex trauma. What was once a protective mechanism can become a source of immense shame and paralysis. This course helps you understand where your inner critic came from, recognize its distortions, and develop the self-compassion skills needed to quiet its voice and replace it with one of kindness and encouragement.

If you feel a deep, unshakable exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix, you might be experiencing more than just stress. For survivors of complex trauma, burnout is often the inevitable result of a nervous system stuck for years in survival mode. This course compassionately explains the link between early trauma and chronic fatigue, helps you untangle the belief that you must earn rest, and guides you toward a sustainable recovery that honors your true capacity.

That feeling of mental fog, forgetfulness, and overwhelm isn't a personal failing, it's a common protective response of a nervous system shaped by complex trauma. This course offers a compassionate, science-backed understanding of why brain fog happens and provides practical, gentle tools to calm your system, reduce shame, and create the conditions for lasting mental clarity to return.

'Who am I?' is a question that can feel unanswerable after complex trauma. When your early environment was unsafe, your authentic self often went into hiding to survive. This course provides a compassionate framework to explore the identity you formed to cope, gently reconnect with the parts of yourself that were lost or fragmented, and begin the healing work of integrating them into a whole, stable, and truly authentic sense of self.

Who are you, beyond the survival strategies? Complex trauma can leave you feeling disconnected from your own sense of self. This profound course focuses on healing your relationship with your inner child, the part of you that holds early wounds, needs, and your authentic core. By compassionately reconnecting with this younger self, you can begin to heal the fractures in your identity, integrate your past experiences, and build a stronger, more compassionate adult self grounded in wholeness.

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.

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.

Is your clutter more than just a mess? For many survivors of complex trauma, possessions become intertwined with safety, memory, and identity, making letting go feel terrifying. This course moves beyond simple organization tips to address the emotional roots of hoarding behaviors with deep compassion. Learn how to reframe the mess as a survival strategy, calm the inner battle around release, and take small, steady steps toward a space, and a self, that feels light and free.

Procrastinating on your own healing journey is a common, yet frustrating, experience for survivors of complex trauma. Often, the work itself can feel overwhelming or threatening. This course reframes this resistance not as a failure, but as valuable information. Learn how to approach your healing with gentler expectations, break tasks into manageable steps, and build the consistent self-compassion needed for lasting recovery.

Procrastination is often misunderstood as laziness. For survivors of complex trauma, it is frequently a nervous system response—a way to avoid overwhelm and protect oneself from perceived threat. This course reframes procrastination through a trauma-informed lens, offering self-care tools not as a reward for productivity, but as the essential foundation for safety, focus, and sustainable action.