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Day 1

Understanding how trauma manifests as symptoms in the brain, body and behaviors

"Impacts of trauma"

Jessica Lahey

The addiction inoculation

What you'll learn

How genetics and environment impact substance use disorder risk
What the protective factors are that can offset Adverse Childhood Experiences
Why honest, factual conversations about drugs and alcohol empower kids to make good choices

Dr Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

The root cause of pain

What you'll learn

How pain is caused in the brain not body
The importance of mood and emotions in pain
How to change your relationship with pain

Said Dawlabani

Navigating the living journey of grief

What you'll learn

Why grief is rarely a neat and tidy process
How to navigate the limitations of the healthcare industry
The journey of cultivating acceptance

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Trauma and immune responses in the brain

What you'll learn

How chronic unpredictable stress impacts our immune system
What we now understand about the tie between the brain's immune system responses and mental health and autoimmune disease
How you can use narrative practices based in science to re-program your brain's messages.

Dr David Hanscom

Transforming chronic pain

What you'll learn

Why surgery is rarely effective for chronic pain
The real root cause of most chronic pain
Practical steps for working with chronic pain

Cornelia Kastner

Managing stress and burnout after trauma

What you'll learn

Understanding the correlation between stress and burnout and trauma
How to prevent stress and burnout
How to heal after burnout

Dr Gabor Maté

The 5 levels of compassion

What you'll learn

The inner critic and the importance of defending from it
Understanding the 5 levels of compassion
How to begin to cultivate more compassion for yourself

Dr Nzinga Harrison

Trauma, substance use and psychiatric disorders

What you'll learn

How A.C.E. scores predict trauma and addiction responses
The whole person treatment necessary to help in recovery
How to best support someone dealing with addiction or psychiatric disorders related to trauma

Dr Arielle Schwartz

Becoming free from dissociation

What you'll learn

What dissociation is and why it happens
How to recognise dissociation in yourself and others
Practical strategies to support healing and learning to be present

Rafaella Fiallo

How trauma & PTSD can impact your sex life

What you'll learn

The similarities between PTSD and sexual trauma
Releasing shame and redefining sex and pleasure
Practical tips for overcoming erectile dysfunction, vaginal dryness, post-coital dysphoria and more

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: What's your relationship with yourself?

What you'll learn

Session 1 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: Coordinating breath and movement

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Meditation to find presence

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 10 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Day 2

Therapies designed to help you feel whole again

"Methodologies for healing trauma part 1"

Dr Peter Levine

Self-regulating for trauma healing

What you'll learn

Why co-regulation and self-regulation are both important
Practical exercises for self-regulation
Why trusting the wisdom of our body is so important

Karen Ortner

Tapping to release resistance to healing trauma

What you'll learn

What causes resistance to healing
How to recognise your own resistance
Practical tapping techniques to work with your resistance

Dr Frank Anderson

Healing complex PTSD using IFS therapy

What you'll learn

What is Complex PTSD
What happens when parts of ourselves experience repeated extended trauma
How we can use IFS therapy to heal our wounded parts and experience Post Traumatic Growth

Roxy Manning

The impact of microaggressions and how to respond

What you'll learn

Understanding the impact of micro-aggressions and why they're traumatic
How to respond if you're the receiver of micro-aggressions
How to respond if you're the "actor" of a micro-aggression

Dr Darryl Tonemah

Modeling trauma techniques

What you'll learn

The role of sovereignty in healing trauma
How music can help us learn to self-regulate
What a tornado taught Dr Tonemah about traumatic experiences

Dr Sophia Graham

Healing trauma with DBT & radical self-acceptance

What you'll learn

What dialectical behavior therapy is and how it supports trauma healing
Understanding and applying DBT & radical acceptance
How to use radical acceptance with trauma

Jason Prall

Embracing our traumatized parts

What you'll learn

How trauma causes coping strategies to develop
The impact of missing experiences
How to cultivate inner trust and curiosity for healing

Paul McKenna

Havening techniques for healing trauma

What you'll learn

The importance of the unconscious in healing trauma
Why humour can be so important in our darkest moments
How to use Havening techniques

Deirdre Fay

Becoming safely embodied

What you'll learn

Why triggers can be a tool for transformation
What our attachment patterns tell us about our trauma
How we can build tiny steps over time toward transformation

J.C. Hall

Hip hop therapy

What you'll learn

How Hip Hop developed as a narrative community building tool
Why teaching young people how to create Hip Hop gives them skills outside the music studio
Why it is absolutely crucial that adults listen and pay attention to the music their kids listen to without judgement

Hilary Jacobs Hendel

Using the change triangle for emotional education

What you'll learn

How defenses protect us from the emotions of traumatic events
Using the Change Triangle to bypass defenses to feel core emotions
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: Rediscover who you are

What you'll learn

Session 2 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: Grounding practice 1

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Guided deep relaxation

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 15 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Day 3

Understanding intergenerational, cultural, social and institutional trauma.

"Collective trauma"

Thomas Hübl

Healing our collective trauma

What you'll learn

The impact of our ancestors on our lives now
The danger of spiritual bypassing
What true healing looks and feels like

Dr Stephen Porges

Trauma as a lens to understand cultural mistrust

What you'll learn

How trauma causes us not to trust
Polyvagal theory as a lens to understand conspiracy theories
How to engage constructive dialogue with those with different views

Michelle Johnson

Processing collective grief

What you'll learn

Understanding collective grief
How spiritual practice can support processing collective grief
How grieving is connected to liberation

Dr Claudelle Glasgow (Dr g)

Trauma healing: remembering to forget

What you'll learn

What remembering is in a trauma context
The costs and benefits to remembering
Daily remembering practices

Caroline Myss

Why people don’t heal

What you'll learn

Woundology and how it stops healing
The power of prayer
The nature of organic divinity

Dr Alex Iantaffi

Understanding and healing from gender trauma

What you'll learn

Understanding the historical legacy of gender trauma
How gender trauma has been passed down from generation to generation
How to heal from gender trauma

Rabbi Dr Tirzah Firestone

Healing intergenerational trauma

What you'll learn

The impacts of intergenerational trauma
Understanding ancestral healing and how to put it into practice (includes demo)
The positive individual and collective impact of ancestral healing

Vimalasara Mason-John

Recovering from sexual assault

What you'll learn

How sexual assault affects us on multiple levels
What supports healing on each level
Practical steps to begin and support your healing journey

Kimberly Weeks

Trauma and oppression

What you'll learn

Why dismantling power structures starts with internal work
How oppressive ideologies impact intimate relationships and community organizations
What nervous system regulation has to do with liberation

Dr Patrice Douglas

Mental health and racial trauma

What you'll learn

The impact trauma has on mental health
Why it's important to understand cultural context when discussing trauma and mental health
How to be supportive to BIPOC communities

Dr Kathy Hagler

Healing organizational trauma

What you'll learn

The parallels of individual trauma and organisational trauma
The importance of communication and dialogue
Why culture is at the heart of everything

Zayna Ratty

The trauma of concealment

What you'll learn

Understanding what concealment is and how it links to trauma
How and why people code-switch and conceal
Strategies for recovery

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: What does your inner child feel

What you'll learn

Session 3 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: Grounding practice 2

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Cultivating deep rest

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 20 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Day 4

When trauma happens in our close relationships and families, it requires a relational approach

"Relational trauma"

Rachel Brathen

How to love and let go

What you'll learn

Why we need to shed our defenses first in order to heal
What Rachel learned about how to heal childhood wounds
How movement is an integral piece of healing

Heather Monroe

Healing relational trauma

What you'll learn

Why feeling unsafe or unloved will cause trauma
What continued mistreatment tells our nervous system
How to heal our relational wounds and foster connection

Melanie Tonia Evans

Recovering from narcissistic abuse

What you'll learn

How to know if you're in a relationship with a narcissist
The first steps to take when trying to recover from a narcissistic relationship
Why "self-partnering" is important in recovery from trauma

David Cooley

Restorative relationship conversations

What you'll learn

What the Restorative Relationship Conversation (RRC) model is
How the RRC model promotes approaching conflict from a new paradigm
How to apply the RRC model and practical tips for conflict transformation and relationship repair

Dr Judith Orloff

The gifts of being an empath

What you'll learn

How to recognise you are an empath
How trauma relates to being an empath
How to cultivate the gifts of being an empath

Mel Cassidy

Trauma informed nonmonogamy

What you'll learn

The importance of taking a trauma-informed approach to nonmonogamy
Recognising abusive behavior in nonmonogamous relationships
The four pillars of trauma informed relating

Dr Richard Kagan

Treatment for complex PTSD in children and families

What you'll learn

How resiliency focused solutions heal trauma and attachment wounds
The difference between treating behavioral problems and treating trauma
What safety includes when children experience trauma

Turiya Hanover

Healing the trauma of the feminine

What you'll learn

How trauma causes disconnection
The impact of patriarchy on the feminine
How to support healing and coming home to the body

Dr Liz Powell

Kink and trauma

What you'll learn

The connection between kink and trauma
How to establish safe sex practices before, during and after sex
The therapeutic elements of kink

Dr Ava Pommerenk

Recovering from betrayal

What you'll learn

What the different types of betrayal are
Why betrayal is normal
How to recover from betrayal

Alex Howard

The 3 core emotional needs

What you'll learn

The impact of not having your emotional needs met
How to identify the impacts in your life
How you can learn to meet your emotional needs in your life now

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: Self-care builds self-esteem

What you'll learn

Session 4 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: Pleasant scent and neuroplasticity

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Meditation to cultivate self-love

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 11 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Day 5

Trauma healing is more than understanding, it requires full body integration

"Trauma and the body"

Dr Pedram Shojai

Committing to the journey of trauma healing

What you'll learn

The power of mindfulness to support healing
Why showing up to the healing path is so important
The power of intention and attention

A H Almaas

Presence and awakening on the healing path

What you'll learn

What awakening is
The problem with identifying with our ego
How presence can be a support to healing

Heather Mason

Yoga therapy for trauma & PTSD

What you'll learn

The importance of learning to self-regulate the nervous system
Why working with the breath is so important
How to get started with yoga

Dr David Treleaven

Trauma sensitive mindfulness

What you'll learn

The connection between trauma and mindfulness
The relevance of the window of tolerance to COVID and trauma-sensitive mindfulness
Practical tips for meditators and yoga/meditation/mindfulness teachers

Dr Joe Dispenza

You are the placebo

What you'll learn

How placebo works
How to tap into your own healing potential
Practical exercises for healing

Holly Wood

Healing sexual trauma

What you'll learn

What the overt and covert causes of sexual trauma are
Where to begin in your journey to heal sexual trauma
Why partners are vital in the process of post traumatic growth

Britt Frank

The science of stuck

What you'll learn

How self-help myths are harmful to healing
Why you can't think your way out of trauma
How understanding our parts is one of the keys to getting unstuck

Dr Cathy Malchiodi

Expressive arts therapy

What you'll learn

Why talk therapy is limited when it comes to healing and integrating trauma
Four main practices of somatosensory psychotherapy
How we increase our circle of capacity

Carolyn Sargentson

The power of the exhale

What you'll learn

Why our stories are good predictors of our breath patterns
How our breath can restore individual and group nervous systems
How to find your own inner healing power (includes 20 minute guided breathing meditation)

Anat Baniel

Integration using the brain body connection

What you'll learn

How movement and neuroplasticity partner in healing and integration
9 essentials for positive brain changes
Why it is essential to move from fixing to connecting

Michael Stone

Neurodynamic breathwork

What you'll learn

How breathwork accesses your inner guidance and inner healing capability
What you need in order to engage in breathwork from anywhere
How breathwork can give you a tool toward healing your trauma (includes 20 minute guided session)

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: The power of vulnerability

What you'll learn

Session 5 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: The breath and the parasympathetic response

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Guided surrendering

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 10 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Day 6

Cutting edge psychedelics research and somatic approaches for treating trauma

"Methodologies for healing trauma part 2"

Dr Terence Ching

Understanding obsessive compulsive disorder

What you'll learn

What OCD is and how it can be related to trauma
Why OCD attacks that which is most significant for a person
How psychedelics may be used to treat OCD in the future

Dr Meg-John Barker

Trauma and plurality

What you'll learn

What is plurality and how it relates to trauma
Understanding the impact of trauma in terms of an inner system of parts  
Practical tips for getting to know your parts and healing trauma

Dr Pilar Jennings

Healing trauma with psychoanalysis and buddhism

What you'll learn

How to understand trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective
Why presence and trust are so important in healing
The power of going slow on the healing journey

Dr Eva Detko

Healing internal family systems

What you'll learn

What is our internal family
How to recognise our different parts
How to support healing of our different aspects

Andrew Penn

The future of psychedelics for healing trauma

What you'll learn

How psychedelic medicine helps in psychotherapy
Why psychedelic experiences aren't enough to heal trauma
When psychedelic drugs may be available for treatment

Nick Ortner

Resolve your anxiety with tapping

What you'll learn

What tapping is
How to tap on yourself
Practical techniques to start tapping right now

Irene Lyon

Why a somatic approach is so critical

What you'll learn

What a somatic approach is
How trauma is held in the body
Why respecting our defenses is so important

Jodi Cohen

Balancing the vagus nerve with essential oils

What you'll learn

Why intuition is so important in navigating grief
How the vagus nerve connects our mind and body
How to work with essential oils

Crystle Lampitt

The myth of self-sabotage: getting unstuck

What you'll learn

Why NARM is a cutting-edge model for addressing attachment, relational and developmental trauma
What role trauma responses play in self-sabotage
How the NARM survival styles relate to our needs and behaviors

Tamara Andreas

Trauma as a gateway to core transformation

What you'll learn

Why access to core states is so important for healing
How to understand the needs of our different parts
Practical steps to start working with your inner parts

Monique Koven

Creating inner safety for healing trauma

What you'll learn

Why validation is critical when healing trauma
How to cultivate inner safety on the trauma healing journey
Why setting boundaries helps us realize which relationships are safe

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: It's okay to be you

What you'll learn

Session 6 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: Developing a new relationship with your body

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Gratitude meditation

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 10 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Alex Howard

Meditation for deep sleep

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 13 minutes
Best listened to in a quiet environment
Includes images, music and voice

Day 7

Supporting our healing from the inside out using nutrition, supplements and mindfulness

"Functional medicine"

Dr Tom O'Bryan

The 5 pillars of inflammation

What you'll learn

Why your microbiome is so important to your health
The impact of food intolerances on your overall health
How to cultivate healing in your microbiome

Dr Ameet Aggarwal

Healing anxiety & depression with natural medicine

What you'll learn

How inflammation affects our mind and emotions
The power of family constellations for healing
Practical steps to start your healing

Dr Christine Schaffner

Healing the toxic effects of trauma

What you'll learn

How trauma creates a toxic impact in the body
The importance of healing on different levels
Practical tools to support healing the toxic effects of trauma

Ocean Robbins

Food as medicine for healing trauma

What you'll learn

What drives resistance to changing food habits
Foods that support trauma healing
How to make responsible food choices

Dr Aimie Apigian

The biology of trauma

What you'll learn

The impact of attachment disorders on trauma
How trauma is stored in the body
Why working with biology and psychology together is so important

Brian Vaszily

Freedom from the trauma of aging

What you'll learn

Why aging is more in the mind than body
The power of right actions
How to avoid toxic beauty products

Trudy Scott

Neurotransmitter imbalances and high cortisol in PTSD

What you'll learn

The powerful role of neurotransmitters
How low GABA can affect your mind and emotions
Why addressing high cortisol can be so important for healing

Zeeba Khan

Ayurveda to heal & prevent illness after trauma

What you'll learn

Understanding what Ayurveda is and how it works on the 4 bodies
How Ayurveda can support trauma healing and help prevent illness from trauma
Practical tips for a balanced and healthy lifestyle

Dr Elena Villanueva

Using your thoughts actions and beliefs for healing

What you'll learn

How the body responds to our thoughts, words, and emotions
Why perpetual activation of the sympathetic nervous system rewires our brains and bodies
How trauma changes our DNA

Dr David Perlmutter

Uric acid and balancing your metabolism

What you'll learn

What is uric acid and how it affects us
How to support balance
How to optimise our body's ability to heal

Andrea Nakayama

Addressing ancestral and in-utero trauma

What you'll learn

How ancestral and in-utero trauma can affect us
The importance of a personalised approach to healing
Why core principles such as sleep and digestion are so important to healing

Bonus Sessions

Alex Howard

In therapy: How to shift a negative state

What you'll learn

Session 7 of Katie's in therapy session with Alex Howard.

Heather Mason

Yoga: Moving body scan

What you'll learn

Yoga

A guided yoga session
Please ensure you have enough space around you
Best practiced in a quiet environment

Alex Howard

Accepting the present moment

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 10 minutes

Alex Howard

Simple guided meditation

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 15 minutes

Alex Howard

A simple grounding exercise

What you'll learn

Meditation

Running time 4 minutes

Meet your hosts

Alex Howard

Alex Howard is the Founder of Conscious Life. He is also Chairman of The Optimum Health Clinic, one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics. With a team of 25 full time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries.

Alex is an immensely experienced psychology practitioner, having delivered more than 10,000 consultations. He has also led the Therapeutic Coaching practitioner program since 2005, training the next generation of psychology practitioners. Since March 2020, Alex has been documenting his therapeutic work with real life patients via his In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series.

Alex has published research in the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health. His books, Why me? My Journey from ME to Health and Happiness, and Decode Your Fatigue: A clinically proven 12-step plan to increase your energy, heal your body and transform your life, are published by Hay House.

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Meagen Gibson

Meagen Gibson is the CEO of Conscious Life. Her career includes award-winning journalist, educator and entrepreneur. Meagen’s enthusiasm and energy for personal development led her to take the leadership role at Conscious Life.

Meagen is passionate about taking complex concepts and distilling them down to simple, accessible applications we can use to take action in our everyday lives.

Meagen is an experienced teacher, facilitator, and speaker on the subjects of journalism, entrepreneurship, film and video as well as improv.

Her previous television work in the U.S. includes The Voice and Who Do You Think You Are.

Most recently, Meagen co-created and directed the series, How I Created A Cult, for Conscious Life. The series is currently available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV in North America.

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Jaia Bristow

Jaia Bristow is a multiethnic queer content creator and group facilitator. She has been working in events and media production since 2010 and hosting groups around social identity since 2016.

She is the creator of Beyond Boxes with Jaia Bristow, a podcast and youtube channel exploring labels and identity. Jaia runs in person workshops on power, privilege and prejudice and works as a diversity and inclusivity consultant.

She has been practicing meditation since childhood, been a student of the Diamond Approach spiritual path since 2016 and training in nonviolent communication (NVC) since 2018.

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