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Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde

Running on Empty: Fatigue, Overwhelm and Life in Survival Mode

Relearning Life’s Balance: Work, Rest, and Play

If balance has always felt out of reach, this course helps you understand why. Through a trauma-informed approach, you’ll learn how survival patterns disrupt rhythm and how to begin living with steadier work, deeper rest, and safer play—without guilt or extremes.

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Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Shannon Vanderlinde Trauma Foundations and Core Concepts Shannon Vanderlinde

Humiliation Trauma: When Shame Attacks Identity

Humiliation Trauma: When Shame Attacks Identity

Designed for those who want to understand the roots of shame and begin loosening its hold, this course examines humiliation trauma and how repeated experiences of being shamed, mocked, or diminished become internalized as identity. You’ll explore the connection between humiliation and shame, the development of the inner critic, and how these patterns shape self-perception, relationships, and behavior.

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Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde

Work, Rest and Play: Relearning Life’s Balance

Relearning Life’s Balance: Work, Rest, and Play

If balance has always felt hard to maintain, this course explores why. You’ll look at how work, rest, and play became tied to survival rather than rhythm, and why slowing down can bring guilt, discomfort, or avoidance. The course focuses on understanding these patterns and learning how to meet your needs in steadier, more sustainable ways.

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Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde

Setting Boundaries with Family at Christmas

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.

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Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde

Navigating Holiday Triggers

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.

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Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde

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

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.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

Quieting the Inner Critic

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.

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Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde

Burnout and Complex Trauma: Why You’re So Tired

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.

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Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde Daily Functioning and Recovery Shannon Vanderlinde

Clearing the Fog: Brain Fog and Complex Trauma

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.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

Becoming Me: Thriving in a Grounded Identity

Healing from complex trauma is about more than managing symptoms; it's about building a self you can finally come home to. This advanced course guides you to move beyond survival-based roles like the helper or achiever, rebuild a sense of safety that originates from within, and integrate your experiences into a grounded, coherent identity. Discover how to live from truth instead of performance, transforming past pain into a foundation for a purposeful and authentic life.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

The Courage to be Seen: Authenticity in Relationships

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.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

Expressing Myself: Identity Through Passion + Creativity

Do you feel disconnected from your creativity and passions? This course explores how complex trauma teaches us to hide our true thoughts and emotions to survive. You'll gently learn to move through fear, reconnect with curiosity, and rebuild the confidence to express your authentic self through safe, creative practices. It’s a journey back to feeling truly alive.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

Beyond the Masks: Breaking Free From False Selves

Many survivors of complex trauma learn to navigate the world through protective masks—like the relentless perfectionist, the compulsive caretaker, or the person who makes themselves invisible. These roles, forged in unsafe environments, can become a confusing false identity. This compassionate course helps you understand the origin of these masks, thank them for their protection, and take gentle, courageous steps to live from your authentic, unfiltered self

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

Anchored in Worth: Building Self-Worth + Confidence

When your worth was questioned, conditional, or attacked in childhood, building a stable identity feels impossible. Complex trauma often leads to a shame-based self-concept where your value feels tied to what you do for others. This course is dedicated to healing that core wound. It helps you separate your identity from shame, anchor your sense of self in inherent worth and self-compassion, and learn to live from a place of dignity that is unshakeable by external validation.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

Who Am I? Rebuilding Identity After Trauma

'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.

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Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde Identity and Inner Healing Shannon Vanderlinde

The Inner Child and Me: Healing the Relationship Within

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.

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Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde

Boundaries and People Pleasing

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.

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Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde

Boundaries and Relationships

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.

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Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde Boundaries and Self-Leadership Shannon Vanderlinde

Boundaries with Yourself

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.

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$45
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$60
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when you purchase all 7 Procrastination + Complex Trauma courses together.

Includes courses on Procrastination and: Work, Creative Dreams, Self-Care, Relationships, Financial Worry, Hoarding, and Healing.

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What They Are and Why They Matter, People-Pleasing, Anger, Saying No Without Guilt, With Yourself, and Relationships.

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Includes holiday-themed courses on: Setting Boundaries with Family, Navigating Triggers, Resting and Recovering, and Thinking Differently About Gifts.

  • "This was a great addition to talking to a counsellor in helping me navigate this ongoing situation and learning more about myself I wouldn't have otherwise that I'm sure will reverberate into all areas of my life."

    — A.G., Evergreen Participant: Boundaries and Anger
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  • "It was so interesting for me to learn and understand myself! Thank you so much!"

    — D.S., Evergreen Participant: Running on Empty
    ★★★★★

  • "It is very helpful in understanding why we are afraid of people in authority."

    — D.C., Evergreen Participant: Humiliation Trauma
    ★★★★★

  • "Great self study to compliment what I've been working towards for over 10 years. When you think you've done all you can there always seem to be more!"

    — A.G., Evergreen Participant: The Courage to be Seen
    ★★★★★

  • "Very revealing. I learned new thing about myself that I had no idea were there."

    — P.P., Evergreen Participant: Love Languages
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  • What I've Been Looking For

    "There are plenty of resources out there to help you understand your issues, but I've really struggled finding anything that says ‘what do I do next?’, ‘How do I start the healing process?’ This is the information you need to start down the path of feeling better about you."
    — J.P., Evergreen Participant: Running on Empty
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  • "Finally, answers! This is a wonderful resource to help me to fully understand how my scapegoating abuse from a toxic family caused such profound angst within me. With understanding, I now have tools for healing."

    — W. E., Evergreen Participant: Loneliness - A Guide to Belonging
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  • "This course helped me understand why I procrastinate in relationships as an adult, it helped me explore my childhood and the root cause of this behavior. The course was bite sized and informative for the price. Thank you!"

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  • "This is a straightforward course that gets right to the point. It is helpful to make the connection between my behavior and it's origins. The self work questions and journal prompts are meaningful, and I found them easy to do."

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  • "Everyone needs this course, I realize how deep my inner critic has eaten into the fabric of my soul. I got so much clarity and resources for healing through this course. Thank you so much Tim Fletcher and team."

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