Workbook
For Survivors of Childhood Trauma
What Happened Before You Had Words for It
Your body kept score. This workbook writes down what it recorded.
For the adult survivor of childhood abuse, neglect, or dysfunction who is ready to name what happened, understand how it shaped them, and author the identity that comes after the reckoning.
The Name It First Experience
Trauma happened before you had words for it. It lives in your nervous system, in how you attach, in how your body responds to threat. Your Childhood Trauma Charter is what you build across thirteen chapters — mapping the pre-trauma self, naming what happened, confronting what it cost, and constructing the agreements that replace survival responses with chosen ones.
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Sample questions
- What is the pattern you keep noticing in yourself — in your body, in your relationships, in how you respond — that you suspect started before you have clear memory?
- What does your body do when you feel unsafe — not what you think, but what you notice in your chest, your shoulders, your breath?
- What would the Survivors of Childhood Trauma Charter say about what you are reclaiming and what you are choosing to build forward?
Research basis
van der Kolk and Levine on trauma stored in nervous system and body beyond cognitive access / Porges's polyvagal theory on nervous system hierarchy explaining survival responses / Siegel and Teicher on early trauma physically rewiring brain architecture / Levine's somatic experiencing on completing interrupted defensive responses / attachment theory on early relational trauma affecting attachment patterns
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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