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All Foundations courses by topic.
Love Languages + The Impact of Complex Trauma
If love has always felt confusing, or kindness makes you uneasy instead of cared for, this course looks at why. It explores how Complex Trauma, attachment wounds, and shame can distort the five love languages, and how to separate genuine connection from survival relief. You’ll learn practical ways to set boundaries, receive love, and nurture yourself in each love language.
Anger and Complex Trauma: Hidden Fire
If your anger feels bigger than what set it off, or you're convinced you don't have any anger at all, this course looks at why both may be true. It traces anger back to its roots in Complex Trauma, showing how a healthy alarm meant to protect love can get buried, distorted, and turned into a shield or a weapon. You'll learn to recognize the different faces anger takes and start the real work of understanding what's stored underneath.
Anger and Complex Trauma: When Fire Flares
If you understand your anger but still find yourself blindsided when it flares, this course picks up where insight leaves off. It walks through what actually happens in the seconds after a trigger fires, and gives you practical tools for pausing, grounding, and figuring out what a reaction is really about before you act on it. You'll learn to catch rising tension early and build a plan for the moments that used to catch you off guard.
Gaslighting and Complex Trauma: Finding My Way Back
If you've lost confidence in your own memory, feelings, or judgment and can't explain why, this course looks at gaslighting, a slow psychological pattern that leaves no visible marks. You'll learn to recognize the tactics behind it and the specific vulnerabilities Complex Trauma can create, along with why the self-doubt tends to get worse before it gets better. Written for the person living it, this course offers a name for what's happened and gentle, practical steps toward trusting your own mind again.
Emotions and Complex Trauma: The Unseen Impacts of Buried Emotion
If you believe the past doesn't affect you anymore but your body seems to disagree, this course looks at what buried emotion actually does. It explains the real, physical toll of repressed feeling on the immune, hormonal, and nervous systems, and names the hidden layers of stress, like no boundaries or wearing a mask, that Complex Trauma adds on top. You'll learn practical, compassionate ways to reconnect with what was buried and start easing the load your body has been carrying.
Numbness and Dissociation: Why I Feel So Far Away
If you often feel far away, even from your own life, this course looks at why. It explains dissociation as a protective response rooted in Complex Trauma, tracing how numbing, daydreaming, and disconnecting from the people around you once kept you safe. You'll learn to recognize your own patterns of going away and build practical, gentle ways to notice the slide and come back to presence and connection.
Hypervigilance: Why I Can't Relax or Feel Safe
If you can't remember what it feels like to truly relax, this course looks at why. It explains hypervigilance as a nervous system stuck in survival mode, often from Complex Trauma, and traces how a body that learned to stay on guard struggles to rest even when the danger is long gone. You'll learn practical, body-based tools for recognizing the warning signs and gently teaching your nervous system that it's safe to slow down.
The Need to Please: Fawning to Survive
If you're the person everyone relies on to keep things easy while your own needs quietly disappear, this course looks at why. It explores fawning, the fourth trauma response after fight, flight, and freeze, and how Complex Trauma can teach a child that pleasing people is the only way to stay safe. You'll learn to recognize your own patterns of appeasing, merging, and self-erasure, and start the slow work of turning attention back toward yourself.
Trust Issues: Why It’s So Hard to Let People In
If closeness feels less like relief and more like risk, this course looks at why trust can be so hard to give. It traces trust issues back to their roots in Complex Trauma, including relational betrayal, gaslighting, and the lies a child can absorb about love and worth. You'll learn to recognize the stages distrust moves through and build a gradual, evidence-based way to let safe people back in.
Never Good Enough: Perfectionism + Complex Trauma
If nothing you do ever feels good enough, this course looks at what perfectionism is often really protecting you from. It traces the pattern back to shame and Complex Trauma, showing how striving for flawless can become a prison of false guilt, comparison, and hidden struggle. You'll learn to tell perfectionism apart from healthy effort and build a gentler, more human standard to live by.
Worst-Case Thinking and Complex Trauma: Why I Expect the Worst
If you spend your days waiting for the other shoe to drop, even when nothing is actually wrong, this course looks at why. It traces worst-case thinking back to its roots in Complex Trauma, including fearful caregivers, unsafe homes, and cycles where calm always came right before harm. You'll learn to tell real danger apart from old alarm and build practical ways to sit with uncertainty instead of bracing against it.
Abandonment + Complex Trauma: Why Am I So Afraid They’ll Leave?
If closeness always seems to come with the fear that it will end, this course looks at what may be underneath that dread. It traces the fear of abandonment back to a real wound in Complex Trauma, including early attachment injuries and the shame that says you are not enough to make someone stay. You'll learn to recognize the patterns that can push people away without meaning to, and build a steadier, more trusting way to stay connected, to others and to yourself.
The Need For Control: Why Letting Go Feels Unsafe
If you feel like you can never fully relax because someone has to keep everything on track, this course looks at what usually sits underneath that drive. It traces the need for control back to its roots in Complex Trauma, including shame, broken trust, and old fear, and shows why managing the outside world so rarely calms what is happening inside. You'll come away with a clearer understanding of the pattern and practical ways to build trust and inner steadiness in its place.
Grief and Complex Trauma: Mourning What I Didn’t Get
Complex Trauma is often shaped as much by what was missing as by what happened. This course explores grief connected to unmet needs, lost childhood, disrupted attachment, hidden parts of yourself, and years spent surviving. You’ll learn how these losses continue to affect relationships, identity, emotions, and recovery, while developing a healthier understanding of grief, healing, and self-compassion.
Triggers, Flashbacks and Overreactions: Why Do I React This Way?
Small moments can feel overwhelming when they activate old shame wounds. This course explores how Complex Trauma shapes emotional triggers, shame beliefs, protective reactions, and shame spirals. You’ll learn why certain situations feel so intense, how past experiences influence present-day responses, and how greater self-awareness can help you interrupt old patterns and respond with more understanding, responsibility, and self-compassion.
Shame in Relationships: Why I Hide, Please or Pull Away
If you want close relationships but find yourself hiding, people-pleasing, pulling away, or becoming defensive when things feel vulnerable, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how shame shapes intimacy, boundaries, conflict, emotional honesty, and the fear of being fully known, so you can begin building connection without abandoning yourself.
Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Trauma No One Saw
If you've ever thought, "Nothing that bad happened, so why do I struggle the way I do?" this course may help you make sense of that question.
Childhood Emotional Neglect explores how growing up without enough emotional connection, validation, comfort, or attunement can shape self-worth, relationships, emotional awareness, and the ability to trust your own needs. You'll learn why emotional neglect is often difficult to recognize, how it continues to affect adult life, and what healing can look like when you begin understanding the trauma no one saw.
What Are Emotions?
If emotions feel overwhelming, confusing, numb, or hard to trust, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma shapes the emotional system, why certain emotions become difficult to handle, and how to begin noticing what your emotions may actually be trying to communicate.
Why Can’t I Feel My Emotions?
If you struggle to know what you feel, go blank emotionally, stay stuck in your head, or feel numb and disconnected from yourself, this course will help you understand why. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma can shape emotional shutdown, emotional numbness, overthinking, and disconnection, and why reconnecting with emotions often has to begin slowly and safely.
What Do I Do With My Emotions?
If emotions tend to escalate quickly, leave you overwhelmed, or create problems in relationships, this course will help you build practical emotional skills. You’ll learn how Complex Trauma affects emotional regulation, triggers, shutdown, conflict, and emotional reactions, along with concrete tools for grounding, self-awareness, communication, boundaries, repair, and healthier emotional responses.
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I can honestly say that Lift has completely changed my life. When I started Lift I didn’t even know who I was as I wore masks my entire life … My relationships are currently better than I could have ever dreamed of.”
Amazing! Life transforming! Thank you so much! Thank you for this wonderful roadmap to finally learning how to provide my needs and heal my complex trauma. I’m overjoyed with gratitude. Truly transformational!”
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Before I started I had no idea how to pinpoint my core beliefs, issues and thought patterns. It’s really helped me grow and given me tools to keep growing. This is what I’ve needed my whole life, and I’m so thankful.”
It was very healing for me to begin reparenting myself by working on the 12 Basic Needs I didn’t receive as a child.”
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.”
I felt heard. I will recommend to others. This is the missing puzzle piece in my healing journey.”
I’ve been watching Tim’s videos for a couple of years. I had worked through many things before starting … but I was stuck on some. Through this course I have made progress and will make more. It’s working.”
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.”
Must-have information for every human-being. This experience reignited the joy of life within me. I feel loved.”
This course taught me so much. I am a little sad for the little girl inside me and have more compassion for myself and others.”
What I’ve been looking for. There are plenty of resources to help you understand your issues, but I’ve really struggled finding anything that says, ‘What do I do next?’ This is the information you need to start down the path of feeling better about you.”
This program has really opened my eyes. I still have a lot of work to do, but I now have a lot more awareness and the resources I need to continue healing.”
Amazing. I feel so much healing from this.”
Life changing … It’s so full of gems. I’ve recovered a lot through the techniques in this course. It’s extremely resourceful and also shares a bunch of resources at the end which is very generous. Forever grateful.”
Absolutely life changing in every way. I cannot convey my gratitude, respect and admiration enough.”
This was a real eye-opener, but even more importantly, it gives you steps to start the healing process. The bonus resources section at the end is worth its weight in gold!”
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100% highly recommended! I really loved the system and how it presents deep topics in such a clear, digestible, and empathetic way. I also appreciate the resources provided to go deeper and continue working on key points.”
This course is excellent. I haven’t read anything quite like this material before, and it out words to my experience so I could begin to grieve what happened.”
This was helpful for me to understand the basics and has answered a lot of questions related to some of the underlying issues I have been living with.”
Love and compassion.. I so appreciate this course as it gives voice to long buried feelings so they can be processed and healed one day at a time.”
Thank you for this course. I could relate to a lot of it for myself & others in my life. This course gave me an understanding of why I am who I am & what I need to do to help myself heal and move forward one step at a time.”
Bite-sized and informative for the price. 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. Thank you!”
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.”
Appropriate. A great introduction to the topic of emotional neglect. Making me aware of its impact was most helpful.”
This is a straightforward course that gets right to the point. It is helpful to make the connection between my behavior and its origins. The self work questions and journal prompts are meaningful & I found them easy to do.”
Great compliment to what I’ve been working towards for over 10 years. When you think you’ve done all you can there always seems to be more!”
First course I have done. Very thought-provoking. You definitely need a quiet private spot to do these courses.”
A really good insight into myself and the process of boundaries with a narcissist.”
Well put-together. Videos with handouts are very informative.”
Foundations course bundles.
$60 CAD
Save over 70% 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.
$50 CAD
Save over 70% when you purchase all 6 Boundaries + Complex Trauma courses together.
Includes courses on Boundaries and:
What They Are and Why They Matter, People-Pleasing, Anger, Saying No Without Guilt, With Yourself, and Relationships.
$45 CAD
Save over 62% when you purchase all Christmas + Complex Trauma courses together.
Includes holiday-themed courses on: Setting Boundaries with Family, Navigating Triggers, Resting and Recovering, and Thinking Differently About Gifts.
$45 CAD
Save 50% on all three Relationships and Complex Trauma courses.
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Foundations FAQs.
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No — our Foundations courses have been developed as a place to begin. You can do one course or many, and it does not matter in which order.
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We have a few options!
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Cancel any time.
You keep access to the courses as long as you have an active membership.
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Foundations courses are $30 each when purchased on their own.
You get lifetime access to the course as long as you have your Thinkific account.
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Some courses are included in themed bundles. When purchased in a bundle, you’ll usually save a lot on each course.
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Yes! During checkout, check the “This is a Gift” box and Thinkific will prompt you to enter the recipient’s information.
If you don’t see it there, reach out to us, and we’ll be happy to help.
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Currently we are growing our Foundations library frequently to offer more affordable and introductory options for all. Each course is bite-sized and offers complex trauma recovery education on a specific, related topic. You can see the full course library above.
If you’re looking for more in-depth options, you can also check out our ALIGN courses and our most popular resource, LIFT Live Online Learning.
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No, our Foundations courses are not accredited or intended for training purposes. They have been developed as an affordable and gentle way to begin learning about your own Complex Trauma and its characteristics.
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All of our courses and programs are hosted through Thinkific! Click Participant Login in the main menu above, or log in here. We recommend bookmarking the page for later.
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Our courses and programs are online-only and hosted through the Thinkific learning platform. You can access them through your computer, tablet, or smart phone. We recommend using a computer or tablet for the best experience.
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You will gain indefinite access to the course materials as long as you have your Thinkific account, have purchased the course, or have an active membership.
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Our Foundations courses are self-paced , so you can get started right away. You will be working through lessons, watching videos, and working through journals. We have regular, optional webinars within the Foundations community, accessible to members.
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If you’ve gone through any of our Foundations courses and decide you’d like to go deeper, we encourage you to explore our ALIGN Self-Study Courses and LIFT Program.
If you’re looking for more guidance, book an Intake Session with us! Our team will be happy to get to know you and make program recommendations.
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If you still have more questions about our Foundations Courses, reach out to us at contact@timfletcher.com.