What will I learn from this course?

  • Learn about the inner war, fragmentation, and how Parts Work will help you address inner conflicts.

  • Utilize both art and writing to make a mind-body connection between yourself and your parts.

  • Create an "Anchors to Self" toolbox to use while working with parts.

  • Identify and name protectors and wounded parts: fight, flight, freeze, fawn.

  • Learn how to separate or "unblend" from parts as you work with them.

  • Identify and name healing inner allies: observing, curious, compassion, and caregiving parts.

  • Learn how to dialogue with protective and wounded parts, bringing understanding to their experience and attention to their needs.

  • Practice conversations at the inner table with your trauma-related parts and their healing allies.

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Download the Reconciling the Ruptured Self Workbook

    • Getting to Know Sara - Author of the Survivor Wise Courses and Recovering Complex PTSD Survivor
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4

    • A Dysregulated Nervous System + The Shame Story

    • Shift Your Language Around Your Experience

    • The Inner War and Your Nervous System
  5. 5

    • What is Parts Work?

    • What do you want from Parts Work?

    • Uncovering Self Energy: Creating an Anchors to Self Toolbox
  6. 6

    • Naming and Externalizing Inner Protectors and Managers

    • Parts Of Me, Not the Whole of Me

    • Gather Them Up and Invite Them In
  7. 7

    • Understanding Your Inner Protectors and Managers

    • Observing Your Inner Protectors and Managers

    • Discovering the Needs and Concerns of Your Inner Protectors
  8. 8

    • Why Rest is So Hard

    • What is BOTH safe AND restful?

    • Try One of Your Safe Rest Practices
  9. 9

    • Understanding Triggers and Externalizing Trauma-Related Parts

    • Trauma-Related Parts as Younger Versions of Ourselves

    • Noticing the Cues for Your Trauma Related Parts
  10. 10

    • Understanding the Needs of Your Wounded Parts

    • What kind of care do my Wounded Parts need?

    • Making Space for Grief and the Unburdening of Wounded Parts
  11. 11

    • Getting Curious About Inner Resources

    • With Inner Allies, We Integrate Instead of Unblend

    • Crafting Definitions for Inner Allies
  12. 12

    • Uncovering Inner Allies

    • Acknowledging Strengths and Developing Skills

    • Growing Inner Healing Allies
  13. 13

    • Envisioning Your Inner Table Or Something Else

    • What happens at the Inner Table?

    • Create Your Own Inner Safe Space
  14. 14

    • Inviting Parts to the Inner Table

    • Parts Mapping

    • Practicing Parts Dialogue
  15. 15

    • What are my next steps?

    • Revisit Your Collage