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Day 1

Impacts of Trauma

Understanding how trauma manifests as symptoms in the brain, body and behaviors.


Dr Gabor Maté

Dr Gabor Maté

The 5 Levels of Compassion

  • The inner critic and the importance of defending from it
  • Understanding the 5 levels of compassion
  • How to begin to cultivate more compassion for yourself
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Dr Darryl Tonemah

Dr Darryl Tonemah

Wellness Through Sovereignty and Stillness

  • The power of daily self-nurturing for wellness
  • Cultivate "sovereign moments" to regain personal agency
  • Overcome extremes by connecting with your body and breath
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Brittany Piper

Brittany Piper

Body-First Approach To Healing Trauma

  • Why is a body-first approach to healing trauma so impactful
  • What is somatic experiencing
  • Why the experiential process of healing as important as psychoeducation
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

How To Decode Your Trauma

  • The 4 stages of trauma
  • Your 3 core emotional needs
  • Why only treating symptoms doesn’t work
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Michele Paiva

Michele Paiva

Financial Struggles and Emotional Resilience

  • How trauma affects our relationship with money and decision-making
  • How to work towards independence after financial abuse
  • The need for boundaries and support systems
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Britt Frank

Britt Frank

How To Align Your Mind for Healing

  • What are the eight characteristics of the self that help us align?
  • What it means to engage in shadow work
  • How to do parts work and self-dialogue for trauma healing
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Melody Wilding

Melody Wilding

How To Build Resilience

  • The six key qualities sensitive strivers can focus on when building resilience
  • Why reflection is vital for identity shifts
  • How to maintain resilience growth long term
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Dr James Gordon

Dr James Gordon

The Heart of Trauma Healing

  • James's journey recovering from heart surgery
  • Why bringing our heart into healing is so important
  • How to get unstuck on the healing journey
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Dr Richard Schwartz

Dr Richard Schwartz

Trust in your Self with Internal Family Systems

  • Why Internal Family Systems is a powerful trauma healing tool
  • What the difference is between our parts and our Self
  • How to restore the true nature of our parts
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Gina Moffa

Gina Moffa

Understanding Grief and Loss in Modern Times

  • Why moving on doesn't mean letting go
  • Why endurance is important for grief
  • The top 3 things to stop doing when grieving or supporting someone through grief
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Dr Peter Levine

Dr Peter Levine

An Autobiography of Trauma

  • Peter's experiences with Albert Einstein
  • The power of guides and mentors on our healing path
  • What supports growing our courage and living in truth
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Dr Bruce Lipton

Dr Bruce Lipton

Trauma and the gift of sleep

  • How trauma impacts sleep
  • 3 strategies for changing unconscious programs
  • How to use sleep for trauma healing
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Day 2

Healing Tools and Approaches

Therapies designed for addressing trauma.


Cedric Bertelli

Cedric Bertelli

Emotional Resolution Tactics

  • How debilitating emotional patterns form
  • How to safely feel our internal emotional states to heal
  • How to use our brain's protective, predictive nature to our advantage
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Dr Cathy Malchiodi

Dr Cathy Malchiodi

Flow and Expressive Arts in Trauma Recovery

  • How mark making helps individuals express themselves
  • How to find flow states
  • The connection between breathwork and emotional regulation in expressive arts practices
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

From Outer Chaos to Inner Calm

  • Why our trauma is not something to get rid of
  • The importance of cultivating inner calm
  • The healing power of community
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Crystle Lampitt

Crystle Lampitt

What to Expect From Trauma Therapy

  • What to expect from the healing process and somatic tools
  • How our identity and self-talk impact our self-image
  • What emotional regulation looks and feels like
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Michael Stone

Michael Stone

Using Neurodynamic Breathwork for Healing

  • What to expect from a breathwork session
  • Why community and safe spaces are important for practice
  • How breathwork can impact individual and group consciousness
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Brett Cotter

Brett Cotter

Suicide Prevention: Words That Save Lives

  • How body language helps people open up
  • How to remain present and manage our stress while supporting others in pain
  • Which five prompts facilitate deeper healing
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Irene Lyon

Irene Lyon

Safely Releasing Difficult Emotions

  • The price of repressing emotions
  • What helps create safety
  • The gift of really feeling and releasing our emotions
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Dr MaryCatherine McDonald

Dr MaryCatherine McDonald

Overcoming Barriers to Joy in Trauma Recovery

  • Why joy is sometimes difficult to access for those with trauma histories
  • What are the six common barriers to joy
  • How to understand and activate the hope circuit
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Dr Anu Arasu

Dr Anu Arasu

Personalized Medicine for Trauma Healing

  • The role of the limbi-hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis
  • The power of heart rate variability for guiding healing
  • The importance of tailoring treatment to the individual
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John Assaraf

John Assaraf

How to Use Mental Rehearsal for Trauma Healing

  • How to visualise to support healing
  • The power of rewiring your brain
  • How to get started with visualisation
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Day 3

Collective Trauma

Understanding intergenerational, cultural, workplace trauma.


Kristina Kuzmic

Kristina Kuzmic

Parenting a Child Through Crisis

  • Why curiosity is essential for connection
  • How to get over our self-judgement when our kids are struggling
  • Why questions can be disconnecting and create stress
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Dr NaKaisha Tolbert-Banks

Dr NaKaisha Tolbert-Banks

Fostering Safety and Belonging After Racial Trauma

  • How to create communal spaces for healing
  • The role of humor in healing and resilience
  • How to overcome systemic barriers to mental health for Black and Brown communities
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Dr Jessi Gold

Dr Jessi Gold

Treating Burnout in Healthcare Professionals

  • The systemic factors contributing to the struggle of healthcare workers
  • How medical field culture contributes
  • What emotional regulation looks like for medical professionals
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Majet Reyes

Majet Reyes

Emotional Processing for First Responders

  • How working as a paramedic informs Majet's work in trauma therapy
  • How to help first responders process emotions not just events
  • How we can better support first responders
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Dr Jim Hopper

Dr Jim Hopper

The Science of Survival in Assault

  • Origins of "fight, flight, freeze, fawn" in trauma
  • Strategies to process trauma-related sensations
  • Differences between traumatic and normal memories
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Jaï Bristow

Jaï Bristow

Healing Social Identities and Trauma

  • How do we differentiate between intent and impact
  • What are the stages of development in understanding collective trauma
  • How can individuals begin to heal collective trauma
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Day 4

Relational Trauma

When trauma happens in our close relationships and families, it requires a relational approach.


Dr Christian Kloss

Dr Christian Kloss

Understanding the Impact of Mentally Ill Parents

  • How language and power structures contribute to recovery
  • Why grief can be the key to healing
  • How identity accompanies each stage of life as a child of a mentally ill parent
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Meghan Keane

Meghan Keane

The Stigma of Single Living

  • How social conditioning of coupling affects singles
  • Why the distinction between being alone and feeling lonely matters
  • How to create deeper connection through ritual
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Avery Neal

Avery Neal

Understanding the Impact of Psychological Abuse

  • How psychological abuse contributes to mental and physical health conditions
  • Why psychological abuse is more harmful than physical abuse
  • What methods help people heal
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Ruth Whippman

Ruth Whippman

Male Depression: Causes Consequences and Solutions

  • How to reconcile the pressures on boys with the feminist movement?
  • The important ways male and female brains develop differently
  • What steps can parents take to nurture their sons emotionally and socially?
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Ronia Fraser

Ronia Fraser

Understanding Trauma Bonding

  • How to recognize trauma bonding
  • What the long term impacts are on mental health
  • How to break the trauma bond and regain emotional well-being
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Dr Ava Pommerenk

Dr Ava Pommerenk

Complex Trauma and Attachment

  • How does insecure attachment develop
  • What the lived experience of different attachment styles look like
  • How to heal from attachment trauma and move towards secure attachment
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Dr Lindsay Gibson

Dr Lindsay Gibson

Navigating Emotionally Immature Grandparents

  • How emotionally immature parents impact your own parenting journey
  • How to set boundaries with an emotionally immature grandparent
  • Managing estrangements
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Heather Monroe

Heather Monroe

Understanding Attachment in Trauma Healing

  • How attachment informs our relationships and connection
  • How attachment styles can change depending on the circumstances
  • How to navigate overwhelm during family interactions
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Melanie Tonia Evans

Melanie Tonia Evans

Trauma Healing After Narcissistic Abuse

  • How to recognise abuse
  • Releasing trauma from the body
  • Moving beyond victimhood
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Kimberly Weeks

Kimberly Weeks

Intention vs Impact in Relational Conflict

  • What are the types of relational conflict ruptures
  • How our identity as victim or villain affects repair of conflict
  • What are the different types of repair possible
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Matthias Barker

Matthias Barker

People Pleasing as a Trauma Response

  • The varying faces of people pleasing
  • The childhood environment which creates people pleasing
  • How to break the cycle and learn to show up for yourself
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Day 5

Physical Wellbeing and Restoration

Trauma healing is more than understanding, it requires full body integration.


Terri Cole

Terri Cole

Unlearning High Functioning Codependency

  • What does high functioning codependency cost you
  • How perfectionism, guilt and shame contribute to codependency
  • How to break codependent relationship patterns
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Hailey Magee

Hailey Magee

Overcoming People Pleasing

  • What is people pleasing and where does it come from?
  • How people pleasing is different from kindness
  • How to self-advocate and set boundaries
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Dr Cathleen King

Dr Cathleen King

Trauma, Emotional Processing, and Physical Health

  • Why we should understand the science behind nervous system regulation
  • How to separate trauma story from identity
  • Self-regulation techniques to help with trauma therapy
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Dr Arielle Schwartz

Dr Arielle Schwartz

Connecting Breath, Posture, and Resiliency

  • How the nervous system impacts resilience
  • How community and supportive relationships foster resilience
  • Understanding the process of healing and post-traumatic growth
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Dr Aimie Apigian

Dr Aimie Apigian

5 Steps of Your Body's Instinctual Trauma Response

  • Stress response vs trauma response
  • Why the body stores trauma
  • How do we heal trauma stored in the body
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Dr Austin Perlmutter

Dr Austin Perlmutter

Harness Your Brain Biology for Optimal Mental and Cognitive Health

  • How neuroinflammation influences mood and brain health
  • How metabolism influences mood and brain health
  • How neuroplasticity influences mood and brain health
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Jason Prall

Jason Prall

How Trauma Becomes Conditioned

  • How trauma can happen outside of awareness
  • The problem with normalizing to our experience
  • Practical strategies for breaking free
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Dr Diane Poole Heller

Dr Diane Poole Heller

How To Unfreeze Trauma

  • How trauma becomes frozen in time
  • How to balance feeling and holding our trauma
  • The difference between processing and reliving
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Dr Margaret Paul

Dr Margaret Paul

Inner Bonding self healing

  • Why learning to love yourself is key to healing trauma
  • How to use the six steps of Inner Bonding® to stop abandoning yourself
  • How to turn your wounded Ego into an ally
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Day 6

Integrating Emotions, Sensations and Thoughts

Somatic approaches and therapies designed for working with trauma.


Shannon Myers

Shannon Myers

Preparing and Integrating Psychedelic Experience

  • What is the psychedelic state
  • Why preparation for psychedelic experiences is important
  • How shadow work helps integration and healing
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Paul F. Austin

Paul F. Austin

Understanding Psychedelics For Trauma Healing

  • The five key elements for effective psychedelic therapy
  • What practices maintain the benefits of psychedelics in daily life
  • What ethical considerations should be considered
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Dr Fleet Maull

Dr Fleet Maull

Stacking Your Practices for Trauma Healing

  • The key practices you need to heal
  • How to stack practices together
  • Simple practices to start with now
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Mark Walsh

Mark Walsh

Strength Training for Healing Trauma

  • Why strength training is so important
  • The power of being 'in' your body
  • How to start with strength training
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Charlie Morley

Charlie Morley

Embracing Your Shadow for Trauma Healing

  • What is our 'shadow' self
  • How to recognize your shadow
  • Steps to embracing and healing your shadow
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Jess Thompson

Jess Thompson

Therapeutic Coaching for Healing Trauma

  • Key principles of Therapeutic Coaching
  • The stages of trauma healing
  • Recognizing when processing work is needed
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Katja Cahoon

Katja Cahoon

Consent and Safety in Ketamine Assisted Therapy

  • The benefits of ketamine for depression, addiction, chronic pain and anxiety
  • The role of preparation, intention and integration
  • Establishing safety with your facilitator
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Professor Rachel Yehuda

Professor Rachel Yehuda

How Psychedelics Can Heal Trauma

  • The science behind the psychedelic treatment of trauma
  • How MDMA is used to help people move toward post-traumatic growth
  • How psychedelics are used to treat veterans
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Dr Pamela Kryskow

Dr Pamela Kryskow

Behind the Scenes in a Psychedelic Clinic

  • Insights from behind the scenes at a legal clinic in Canada
  • Why a multi-disciplinary approach is vital for psychedelic healing
  • How to demystify microdosing
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Day 7

Functional Medicine

Supporting our healing from the inside out using nutrition, supplements and lifestyle.


Dr Ameet Aggarwal

Dr Ameet Aggarwal

Impact of Family Trauma on Emotional Wellbeing

  • How family constellations therapy overcomes family history
  • How homeopathy works with energy
  • Why traumas in the family contribute to mental and physical issues
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Ben Ahrens

Ben Ahrens

Stress, Trauma and Chronic Health Conditions

  • What techniques help retrain the nervous system for better regulation
  • How energy, trauma healing and nervous system regulation are related
  • How to cultivate resiliency
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Dr David Perlmutter

Dr David Perlmutter

Heal Your Brain To Heal Your Trauma

  • The critical role of immune metabolism
  • Why understanding mitochondria is critical to understanding health
  • Practical lifestyle changes to help support brain healing
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Martina Cowen

Martina Cowen

Trauma, Gut Health & Hormones

  • Why your microbiome is so important
  • How hormones impact your gut health
  • Practical strategies for healing your gut and balancing your hormones
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Laura Frontiero

Laura Frontiero

Heal Trauma With Functional Medicine

  • 4 main root causes of health issue
  • Difference between functional medicine and mainstream medicine
  • How to select a practitioner
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Shivan Sarna

Shivan Sarna

Trauma, SIBO and Healing Your Gut

  • How trauma can cause SIBO
  • SIBO testing options
  • Practical tools for healing
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Meet Your Hosts


Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Alex is the founder of Conscious Life, and co-host of the world leading Super Conference series. He is also founder of The Optimum Health Clinic, one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics, which has a team of 25 full time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries.


Alex is an immensely experienced psychology practitioner, having delivered more than 10,000 consultations. He has also led the Therapeutic Coaching practitioner programme since 2005, training the next generation of psychology practitioners. Since March 2020, Alex has been documenting his therapeutic work with real life patients via his In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series.


Alex has published research in journals such as the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health and is the author of three books. His first two books Why ME? and Decode Your Fatigue focus on his work with fatigue, and his most recent book, It's Not Your Fault: Why childhood trauma shapes you and how to break free, outlines his groundbreaking approach to healing the impacts of childhood trauma.


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Meagen Gibson is the Chief Content Officer of Conscious Life. Her career includes award-winning journalist, educator and entrepreneur. Meagen’s enthusiasm and energy for personal development led her to take the leadership role at Conscious Life. Meagen is passionate about taking complex concepts and distilling them down to simple, accessible applications we can use to take action in our everyday lives.


Meagen is an experienced teacher, facilitator, and speaker on the subjects of journalism, entrepreneurship, film and video as well as improv. Her previous television work in the U.S. includes The Voice and Who Do You Think You Are.


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