This resilience-oriented trauma support group helps survivors build strength, coping skills, and community in a safe, supportive environment. Rather than focusing on reliving the past, we emphasize empowerment, connection, and the development of emotional and nervous system resilience.

What You Will Gain from This Trauma Support Group

Participants will:

• Learn practical tools such as mindfulness, grounding, and somatic regulation to calm the nervous system

• Develop self-compassion and emotional regulation skills

• Identify personal strengths and past coping strategies to build resilience

• Understand how trauma affects the brain, body, and nervous system

• Reduce shame and isolation by connecting with others who truly “get it”

• Reclaim a sense of agency, empowerment, and hope for the future

Through guided practices, gentle skill-building, and supportive peer connection, members cultivate emotional stability and a deeper sense of safety within themselves.

A Resilience-Informed & Trauma-Informed Approach

This group is inspired by The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook by Arielle Schwartz, PhD, and integrates mind-body tools drawn from trauma-informed therapy, somatic practices, and nervous system healing.

We use the book as a supportive framework, offering:

• Structured psychoeducation

• Journaling and reflection

• Experiential practices that foster self-trust and inner strength

The hero’s journey metaphor invites you to see yourself not as broken, but as courageous. Healing becomes a process of reclaiming your wholeness, wisdom, and capacity for growth.

Who This Group Is For

This trauma survivor support group is ideal if you:

• Have experienced childhood trauma, complex trauma, or PTSD

• Want emotional healing without being retraumatized

• Are seeking community and understanding

• Are ready to focus on resilience rather than pathology

• Desire personal growth, empowerment, and nervous system regulation

Trauma Healing Rooted in Empowerment

You are not defined by what happened to you.
You are defined by your capacity to heal, adapt, and grow.

This group offers a compassionate, supportive environment to reconnect with your inner strength and begin living from a place of clarity, choice, and self-trust.

Participants will:

• Learn practical tools such as mindfulness, grounding, and self-compassion to regulate the nervous system.

• Identify strengths and past coping strategies to foster resilience.

• Connect with others who “get it,” reducing isolation and shame.

• Receive psychoeducation about how trauma affects the brain and body.

• Reclaim agency and hope for the future.

Through guided practices, skill-building, and peer support, members cultivate resilience and develop a stronger foundation for healing and growth. This group offers a safe, trauma-informed space to move from surviving to thriving.

This group is inspired by The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook by Arielle Schwartz, PhD, which offers practical, mind-body tools to support trauma healing, resilience, and personal growth.

The work invites you to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own healing journey—not defined by what happened to you, but by your courage, strength, and capacity to grow. Through reflection and gentle practices, you are supported in reconnecting with your inner wisdom and sense of possibility.

You may discover that you are more resilient, empowered, and capable than you once believed.