What You’re Living With...

You might relate to this:

• You overthink everything, especially relationships
• You feel guilty resting or needing support
• You tolerate dynamics that drain you
• You struggle to name your needs
• You feel responsible for other people’s emotions
• Peace feels unfamiliar — sometimes even unsafe
• You know why you’re this way, but can’t seem to change it

That’s not because you haven’t “healed enough.”

It’s because childhood trauma lives in the nervous system — not just the mind.

The Real Issue (What No One Explained to You)

Trauma isn’t only what happened.
It’s what you didn’t receive. So your body adapted.

You learned to survive by:

• Over-functioning
• People-pleasing
• Staying small
• Staying busy
• Shutting down
• Becoming hyper-independent
• Carrying guilt that was never yours
• Those were intelligent survival strategies.
  They just aren’t meant to run your adult life.

Move from survival mode to feeling safe in your body — without forcing memories or re-traumatizing yourself.

This Isn’t Just a Journal. It’s a Bridge Out of Survival Mode.

This guided childhood trauma journal + workbook isn’t about rehashing the past
or forcing memories to surface.

It’s a step-by-step way to identify the survival rules shaping your reactions today — and gently replace them with responses rooted in safety.

Each prompt helps you:

• recognize when your body is in survival mode

• understand why it learned that response

• and practice new, safer internal rules — without overwhelm or re-traumatization

This is the missing step between insight and embodied calm.

_{One Important Note}

_{This journal is not therapy and doesn’t replace professional care.It’s an educational, self-guided tool designed to support awareness, reflection, and nervous system safety}