M6 : Lesson 8: Module 6 Summary and Dr. Cat Personal Testimonial + Q&A Sessions w extra teachings
PLEASE take the time to watch these Q&As below, they have crucial additional guidance.
I teach NEW understanding that I wished I had time to put into the module and clarify concepts that I see need more practical explanation at the beginning of each Q&A. Watch at least watch 30 min of EVERY Q&A to get the teaching.
Transcript
Lesson 8. Summary of module 6 learnings, tools, and guided practices. And just wanna say that there have been a lot of practice is in this module that I presented, and you’re not gonna do all these all day, and this is not why I showed you so many tools. I just want you to have an understanding of several of them so that in the moment, you have some things to choose from, and you have a sense of capacity to think, okay. Do I you know, how can I just be with myself right now?
Can I start moving this feeling through my body with some breath work help right now? So you have resourcing within you but don’t do these things all day long. There’s way too many and that would just be more stressed than what they’re worth. But at least you’ve been informed of things you can do in this early stage of trauma processing. And now these tools will be with you as you go through the level 2 process.
Now in a lot of these modules, I have had testimonials of others and their experience. But in this module, I want to share my own testimonial of trauma processing and a little bit about what life was like for me. I was somebody just 5 years ago who I my function was very limited, and a lot of it was because I was having constant trauma flashbacks flashbacks from my childhood of physical and sexual trauma. I had a ton of fear about being in relationships. I wasn’t even able to honestly hold my own babies that were crying.
And that’s hard for me to admit, but just the sound of a baby crying was like, guns going off inside of me. I had a very difficult time mothering. I had a very difficult time being around children because a lot of my brain had associations that were pretty negative with children and things like that. And so, you know, I had to work through a lot. I was somebody who would go to lots of different therapies.
I mean, I did I did a lot of therapy for many years, and it did didn’t get me very far because I didn’t know how to regulate my nervous system. I’d often go to these trauma processing therapists of all sorts, and I would leave just lately, emotionally flooded. I was somebody who was emotionally dysregulated more than I wasn’t, and Here I am now running this huge platform which, you know, obviously, you have to build quite a nervous system capacity to do so. So I want you to know that I am just like most of you who are having a really hard time. I could hardly function.
I literally the thought to, like, get up and get dressed was too overwhelming. Like, I just it it just felt like life was too much. I mean, definitely, making food was too much and caring for my kids, it was just too much and everything would trigger me. Everything. And, you know, and I’ve I’ve slowly progressed.
And eventually, when I started adding the brain retraining and nervous system work, I really skyrocketed in my healing because I was building that stage 1, which is building capacity in the nervous system. And then what happened for me was, as I built that capacity, I had more of my childhood start to resurface actually. Because my subconscious said, well, she’s safe enough to hear this and feel this now. And that’s what took me on the level two journey of learning how to do the inner work, and that’s why I created that whole mentorship because it’s what I had to go through myself. But, you know, I’ve come a long way.
Literally, 3 and a half, 4 years ago, I remember I couldn’t even write a blog post. I was so scared of being criticized, of being seen. I was scared. I wasn’t gonna write it the right way. I mean, it might have I remember it took me, like, 6 months to write a simple blog post, and this was even after I’d done a lot of nervous system work and you know, here I am today, and I’ve got hundreds of hours of content to be seen.
So it’s just a testament to how much my nervous system has worked through, but I’m still working through stuff. I am, you know, on the same journey. I still get triggered, I still am finding new trauma patterns, and I just wanna own that with you. Like, creating this regulate program there was so much stress with it involved and it brought up a lot of my trauma patterns like, you know, need to get it all done before I can rest and trying to please others as far as the timeline of releasing it. I mean, just so many things.
And it’s really shown me that It’s important for me to continue to build my own nervous system capacity, and it might not be about, you know, chronic illness healing anymore, but I’m still working through my own stuff. And, you know, so I might be guiding you, but I’m also beside you. And I just want you to know that, and I also just want you to see you know, what’s been possible for me in just a handful of years. I’m doing this kind of work. I also wanna say that I wish I had had a community when I was going through this, which is why I said when I get better, I’m going to create a community because Our nervous system needs to feel safe with others, as well as just with ourselves.
And I just believe that it’s in community that we feel best, so I encourage you to stay involved in this community and to recognize the rich resource that is here. You don’t have to do this alone anymore. Lastly, I just wanna give some hope for those who’ve had trauma experiences and something that vessel Vandercock has said because he is just Vessel is one of the leading trauma thought influencers, and he has so many great things to say. But One of the things he said was that this is his quote. I have found that the more traumas someone has had in their background.
The more creative and successful they often become. It’s the people who have had to struggle who often see new possibilities and have no choice but to discover new options. Traumatized people and their ability to see new things accounts for some of the progress that we have made in our society today. In other words, what he’s saying is that those with trauma have forged new pathways that help us to expand our consciousness and possibilities for creating new systems with better understanding and I think that some of the greatest leaders in the world have been through the most amount of trauma I think that was the case for me. You know?
I grew up in deep deep trauma. I mean, my ace score was 9 out of 10, arguably 10 out of 10 depending on how I answer one of the questions. Anyway, the point is is that I somehow found my way through and I forged a new line. The first person in my family to graduate high school, get along, go to college, and get a doctoral degree. My mother is illiterate, you know.
So It’s a big gap. And it was the survival energy that was my fuel. And, yes, it was very dysfunctional for a long time. It had its downsides. But everything that you have learned here has been because I have been through trauma and a lot of it.
It’s brought me the motivation to create this platform and to help others who are on a similar path. So my trauma served a great purpose. And how might it be that your traumas have also served a great purpose? That might be hard for you to answer right now, and maybe for some of you even makes you mad that I ask you that. But I assure you that a healing is available to you, and you have a bright future of helping others if you choose to walk this path.
It’s through learning to deal with our traumas that we can bring forward the needed understanding to society at large and create this massive healing movement worldwide, helping each other through our trauma patterns and becoming those regulated adults for our children, teaching our children these tools. That’s my vision. I want the pattern to stop with me. I’ve transferred a lot of my trauma patterning to my kids, and it’s heartbreaking for me to notice this, but I intend to try to help them through it. And I hope that this course is is so much more than just helping you with your chronic illness that you are becoming a chain breaker for your family and for your community and a primal trust grid holder.
So that was a long winded testimonial. Let’s go into the summary of module 6. Trauma healing summary of learnings. We learn that trauma happens when the brain is in overwhelm. And it results in the limbic system, the body’s nervous system, and even cellular imprinting of the event.
And what can happen is survival protection patterns develop. In other words, parts are created And then we often end up on a healing journey where we become aware of our patterns, we go inward to begin to process emotions and find new perspectives based on the current timeline and a higher mindset. This practice of repatterning our trauma loops is all about awareness, processing, and learning to bond differently. We do this by building the capacity in the brain, in the nervous system to process stress, which is all of these level 1 tools. Then the inner work, the adult mean personality development, parts integration, and the beautiful process of discovering your true self.
Which we do in the level 2 mentorship. And 3, emergence coming back into life with new skills and wisdom which is what we encourage through the level 3 community involvement. What are the outcomes Well, we finally have the ability to respond with our conscious mind when we’re triggered rather than being hijacked by parts of us. And maybe most important of all, at least it has been for me, is to develop self compassion for our self and to have compassionate, healthy relationships. Module 6 trauma process the same tools and practice summary.
Like I said, I’ve given you a bunch of new tools again. But what I’d like you to do is continue to do your daily routine from your practices of modules 1 through 5. Because these new tools in module 6 are not meant to be a substitute for the daily routine. These module 6 tools are meant to be used in the moment when you’re feeling overwhelmed or flooded. There’s a detailed handout in your module 6 workbook that says, what practice to do when?
And also, the handout that says, summary of concepts. Please look at those as that’s gonna help you learn how to implement the tools that I’ve introduced in module 6. I will go over this a bit more. You have learned 5 self resourcing tools in module 6. The purpose of the self resourcing tools is to be able to meet yourself or be present in your body a little more when you’re feeling unsafe or having intense emotions flooding your system.
We learned the healing hug and the physiological sigh, the head, heart, belly, self processing hold, finding yourself in boundary, re centering and grounding, and finding presence filled certainty. In addition to the self resourcing tools, I also presented some guided practices. I think of the guided practices as strategies you can use when you are ready to go deeper into your body. To be able to have an emotional or an energetic release. The guided practices I introduced were the guided somatic trauma and emotional presence in practice in lesson 5.
In lesson 5.5, we had a guided TRA practice from Doctor. Robbins. In lesson 6, we had some new breath work practices, some were parasympathetic breathing practices, And we also had an advanced sympathetic breathing practice in lesson 7. Well, that wraps up module 6. I know it was another hefty module, but an important one that I wanted to give you almost a mini trauma course so that you fully understand what’s involved, and that’s gonna help you have awareness and discernment of the type of trauma processing that you choose to do, whether it’s continuing on with me in the mentorship or another practice.
At least you’ll know the road map. You’ll know how to better guide yourself through it. I can’t believe that this program is almost finished. Next up, we have module 7. Which is just the final touches, putting it all together, and explaining a little bit more about the next step.
So I will see you in module 7.