Find your footing when grief and trauma collide
A trauma-informed course that goes beneath the surface — giving you real, body-based tools to feel again, regulate your nervous system, and build a healing path that actually holds.

"I will never tell you to think positive — I'll show you how to help your body feel safe enough to heal."— Heather Johnson

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and name emotions they previously couldn't access, using somatic and body-awareness techniques
- Understand the five stages of grief and recognize where they personally are — without shame or pressure to 'move on'
- Explain how prolonged stress and trauma physically affect the nervous system, hormones, and the body's stress response
- Apply at least three evidence-based nervous system regulation techniques (such as breathwork, grounding, and vagal toning) to lower cortisol and reduce emotional flooding
- Use a structured printable journal to track emotional patterns, triggers, and breakthroughs in their own healing process
- Build a personalized coping toolkit that replaces ineffective coping habits with embodied, lasting strategies for emotional regulation
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 26 lessons

Understanding Grief and Trauma Together
Lays the foundation by explaining how grief and PTSD intersect, normalizing the experience of feeling stuck, numb, or overwhelmed without knowing why.
- 1.1When Grief Meets TraumaIncluded
- 1.2The Five Stages of Grief — Without the PressureIncluded
- 1.3Why You Feel Stuck: Trauma's Role in Complicated GriefIncluded
- 1.4You Are Not Broken: Reframing Your ReactionsIncluded
What Stress and Trauma Do to Your Body
Teaches the science of how prolonged stress, grief, and trauma physically alter the nervous system, hormones, and overall health.
- 2.1Your Nervous System 101Included
- 2.2Cortisol, Grief, and the Stress Hormone CycleIncluded
- 2.3How Trauma Gets Stored in the BodyIncluded
- 2.4Why Positive Thinking Isn't EnoughIncluded
Finding the Words: Naming What You Feel
Guides emotionally numb or disconnected learners to gently identify, locate, and begin naming their emotional experience.
- 3.1Emotional Numbness Is a Message, Not a FailureIncluded
- 3.2Body Signals as Emotional CluesIncluded
- 3.3The Emotions Wheel: Expanding Your Emotional VocabularyIncluded
- 3.4Your First Emotion Check-In PracticeIncluded
Getting Into Your Body: Somatic and Grounding Techniques
Delivers practical, evidence-based body-based tools to help learners feel safe in their bodies and begin processing stored stress.
- 4.1What Somatic Work Actually MeansIncluded
- 4.2Breathwork for Nervous System RegulationIncluded
- 4.3Grounding Techniques When You Feel OverwhelmedIncluded
- 4.4Vagal Toning: Activating Your Body's Calm SwitchIncluded
- 4.5Guided Meditation for Grief and TraumaIncluded
Your Printable Journal: Tracking the Journey
Introduces and activates the structured printable journal as an ongoing, personalized tool for emotional tracking and self-discovery.
- 5.1How to Use Your Grief and Healing JournalIncluded
- 5.2Identifying Triggers and Patterns Over TimeIncluded
- 5.3Logging Breakthroughs and Small WinsIncluded
- 5.4The Weekly Emotional Weather CheckIncluded
Building Your Personal Coping Toolkit
Brings everything together so learners can assemble, practice, and sustain a personalized, body-based toolkit for lasting emotional regulation.
- 6.1Auditing Your Current Coping HabitsIncluded
- 6.2Choosing Tools That Match Your Nervous System StateIncluded
- 6.3Creating Your Personal Regulation PlanIncluded
- 6.4When Grief Comes Back: Staying Resourced Long-TermIncluded
- 6.5You Are Your Own Expert: Celebrating the Path ForwardIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The numb survivor
They've been through something shattering and feel oddly nothing — this course teaches them to read body signals and gently reconnect with what they actually feel.
The skeptic of 'positive vibes'
They've rolled their eyes at every 'just journal it out' recommendation — this course respects that skepticism and backs every tool with a plain-language explanation of the science.
The chronically overwhelmed
They cycle between emotional flooding and shutdown and can't find steady ground — the nervous system regulation techniques here give them real-time tools to interrupt that cycle.
The therapy companion
They're already working with a therapist but want a body-based toolkit to deepen that work between sessions and make the breakthroughs stick.
The 'stuck' griever
It's been a long time and they still can't move — this course explains why trauma complicates grief and removes the shame of not being 'further along' by now.
The self-guided healer
They prefer to work through things on their own terms, at their own pace — the structured journal and personalized coping toolkit make this course built for exactly that.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Heather Johnson
If you've found your way here, I want to say something first: I see you. Not in the hashtag way — in the real way. I know that you may have already tried the books, the breathing apps, the well-meaning advice to "give yourself grace." I know that some of it may have helped a little, and some of it may have felt like being handed a Band-Aid when what you needed was surgery. And I know how exhausting it is to be told that healing is possible when your body doesn't believe it yet.
That's exactly why I built this course the way I did. Not from a place of "here's what worked for me," but from a deep respect for the science of what grief and trauma actually do — to your hormones, your nervous system, your ability to feel anything at all. When I started working in trauma-informed care, the thing that struck me most was how many people were suffering not because they weren't trying hard enough, but because they'd never been given tools that worked at the right level. Positive thinking is a cognitive tool. But grief layered with trauma lives in the body. It needs a body-based response.
So here's what I want you to know about this course: it will not rush you. It will not tell you to look on the bright side. It will not treat your numbness, your overwhelm, or your inability to "just move on" as character flaws. Instead, it will explain — clearly, without jargon — why you feel the way you do. It will teach you to read your own body as a source of information rather than a source of confusion. And it will give you real, evidence-grounded tools: breathwork that actually shifts your cortisol response, grounding techniques you can use in the middle of a hard moment, a journaling practice that helps you find your own patterns without judgment.
By the time you reach the end, the goal isn't that you're "over it." Grief doesn't work that way, and I won't pretend it does. The goal is that you have a toolkit that belongs to you — one built around your nervous system, your patterns, your life. One you can return to every time grief comes back in waves, because it will, and that's not failure. That's just what love looks like after loss.
You don't need to feel ready. You don't need to believe this will work. You just need to take one small step and meet yourself where you are. I'll meet you there too.
— Heather Johnson
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- 6 modules, 26 lessons
- AI-adaptive lessons tuned to your level
- Quizzes & checkpoints to lock in progress
- Your own AI learning coach
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