A program for women who are ready to liberate themselves from their past and feel whole again.
Where you can rediscover and reconnect with your true authentic self to find freedom, acceptance and peace.
There is a pathway…
…that leads from merely existing in life, to flourishing. This peer-designed and peer-led program is for any woman that experienced sexual abuse during childhood or teen years. It will step you through the four stages of existing, opening, growing and flourishing.
Does this sound like YOU?
Check off any that apply…
You often say ‘It’s OKAY, I’m FINE’
You feel POWERLESS to change your REALITY
You packed your past away in a BOX, never to be spoken of
You struggle with accepting others didn’t PROTECT or BELIEVE you
You AVOID or have trouble feeling your EMOTIONS
You know it’s STILL impacting you and you’re FED UP with that
You are TIRED of feeling like your past is all around you and you want to move BEYOND it
You have a KNOWING you can OVERCOME this but you’re just not sure how
You don’t need to continue to sit in the back seat of the bus of life. With gentle steps that carefully reveal the way forward, you can take the wheel and rediscover and reconnect with your true authentic self to find freedom and peace.
A little about Karen…
When I was nine years old, I was sexually abused by a trusted neighbour. For 36 years I held that story in. Within my being. Within my body. I never told anyone.
I believed that once the abuse had stopped it wasn’t hurting me anymore. What I didn’t understand was the trauma responses activated during my childhood were running my life. I was trapped in Freeze and Fawn responses. The undigested experiences of trauma had taken up residence within my body. I’ve learnt that every experience we’ve ever had energetically resides in our body until we provide an opportunity for it to be processed.
Minimizing my experiences and attempting to fool myself that what happened was of no real consequence, wasn’t serving me. My failure to acknowledge the depth of my experiences, and trying to ignore them, eventually came back to bite me. My emotions would erupt unexpectedly and disproportionately in ways that left me feeling I had no control.
Speaking about my story of trauma and literally shaking it free from my body has gifted me liberation. Speaking the truth of my experiences has delivered self-acceptance, self-compassion, and peace.
I want that for you too
I constantly put everyone else’s needs and feelings before my own.
The roots of my behaviour were deep in my experiences of being sexually abused. The imprint of those experiences held me in a freeze state. But I didn’t know it. I thought I was ‘normal’. I thought my life was ‘as good as it gets’.
Until I learnt how to unwind and RESOLVE the contraction I experienced in my body and in my energetics.
I want you to find your RESOLUTION
Through bringing awareness to what you’re holding that doesn’t need to be held any more.
Through exploring your stories, your narrative, your inner dialogue, that chatters away in your mind and forms your beliefs and existence. You’ll examine your inner scripts with love and compassion. And connect with the little girl that experienced so much pain and betrayal. We’ll acknowledge her and offer her love and understanding.
You will have space to express ALL of who you are. You will have permission to speak without censorship, and rant and yell, if that’s what you want to do. And permission to ugly cry or gently cry if that’s what you want.
ALL of you will be welcomed, to express yourself exactly as you are
There will be no judgement, no taboos and no stigmas.
You are precious and it’s time to express that to yourself by acknowledging what hasn’t been fully acknowledged from the past, to then allow you to move forward in your life with love and understanding. With compassion and peace. With a connection to all that you would like to call into your life from here.
This program is for you if you want to SPEAK the truth of your experiences, and HEAL your wounds, so you can ‘Speak From The Scar’.
Guided practices to support you in your journey to liberation and wholeness.
The program will include:
Meditation and Grounding Breath
Writing prompts / Automatic Writing
Listening Circles
Movement
Connecting with feelings
Guided Visualisation
100% of past participants of the Speaking From The Scar weekend retreat said that ‘Being in a circle exclusively or women that have experienced trauma created connection and a sense of safety’. And 100% agreed that ‘Being in a peer-led program is validating and beneficial’.
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“The benefit of being heard is one of the most rewarding and healing experiences I have ever had – knowing I’m not on my own.”
Jane Youngberry
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“A beneficial program to help reach the emotions needed to release. To help embrace strength and improve resilience.”
Anonymous
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“A rare, beautiful opportunity to connect within and with other women in a raw, authentic and deeply healing way. It’s the most nourishing thing you can do for yourself.”
Cassandra Leigh
Pilot discount
This is the first time the Reclaiming ME program will be offered in this online format. You can benefit from being in this pilot group and receive the full program at half-price: $190.
What you will walk away from this 4-week program with…
Permission to own your story
Validation that your experiences were absolutely NOT okay.
Confidence to explore your feelings
Less of the crap you’ve been lugging around in your emotional back-pack
A roadmap for resolution, acceptance and peace
It’s time to make the choice to take action and create change. If you want to reconnect with your true self, do some excavation on what’s not serving you and release it… register today!
Take steps to heal the past, and step into the next chapter of a life you’ll want to wake up to every day
Claim your full expression, your voice, your body, your feelings and your Soul
Vision the life you want, not just settling for the life you have
Discover that love, acceptance, freedom and peace are possible
You will experience the safety of a confidential group of women who are also on a mission to create the life they want without the residues of the past
This 4-week program is perfect for you if you want to…
Take steps to heal the past, and step into the next chapter of a life you’ll want to wake up to every day
Claim your full expression, your voice, your body, your feelings and your Soul
Vision the life you want, not just settling for the life you have
Discover that love, acceptance, freedom and peace are possible
Experience the safety of a confidential group of women who are also on a mission to create the life they want without the residues of the past
The Reclaiming ME 4-week program ISN’T for you if…
You are experiencing significant mental health challenges
You would easily be activated (triggered) to a state that you can’t manage
You don’t have the capacity to self-manage
This program is not and does not purport to be therapy. This is a compassionate, safe(r), private and inclusive peer-led program that is intended to complement (but not substitute) professional therapies and mental health supports.
Please be aware that I am not a therapy professional and lead this program through sharing the learnings of my lived experiences acquired over multiple decades.
I acknowledge that every experience of trauma is unique as is every healing journey. The practices in this program are offered to complement other therapies you have or are engaged with – not replace them. If you are under the care of a professional, please check with them if this program would be appropriate for you – I would be happy to field any questions they may have.
4 x 2-hour live sessions (Zoom) Thursday evenings, 7-9pm on 21 & 28 November and 5 & 12 December.
Daily practices and meditation recordings
Facebook group for connection throughout the program
Connection with a community of supportive women who also want to explore and release the pain of the past.