To integrate trauma awareness

To integrate trauma awareness into your method while preserving the mastery-based structure, we need to ensure that:

Trauma-sensitive education is front-loaded — clients must understand how trauma functions before they can regulate or express emotion safely.
Trauma-informed language, pacing, and choices are woven through each pillar — reinforcing emotional safety as the client progresses.

Here’s where and how it can be woven in — without adding a new pillar:

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Placement: Directly before or within the Foundational Resource: Grounding & Regulation Tools

Purpose: To provide trauma-informed context so clients understand why nervous system support is vital — and normalise their trauma responses.

Add a Trauma Awareness Module with topics like:

“What Is Trauma?” — Normalise overwhelm, freeze, or shutdown
“How Trauma May Be Showing Up in Your Grief” — Flashbacks, reactivity, numbness, difficulty making decisions
“What Safety Actually Feels Like” — Introduce felt sense, agency, consent
“You Are Not Broken” — Affirm survivor coping vs. dysfunction

✨ This module becomes the lens through which every other module is processed.

Pillar	How to Weave Trauma Support
Pillar 1: Creating Safety	Introduce the concept of “window of tolerance”; help clients identify what safety feels like in their body; offer scripts for internal consent
Pillar 2: Feeling It All	Normalise trauma responses like dissociation, (polyvagal theory - Hyper & Hypoarousal) numbness, or overwhelm during emotional work; remind clients they can slow down or pause without failing
Pillar 3: Relationship With Loss	Acknowledge that even ritual or memory work can activate trauma (e.g., smells, locations); offer grounding techniques pre/post ritual
Pillar 4: Navigating the World	Name the impact of trauma in relational settings — especially around family invalidation or social triggers; teach boundary setting through a trauma-informed lens
Pillar 5: Recognising Healing	Reframe healing as “increased capacity for safety and choice,” not return to who they were; introduce the concept of post-traumatic growth gently and with nuance