Friends and Family Toolkit
The toolkit you need for supporting friends, family or colleagues as they recover from trauma or overwhelm.
With hands-on support for you from highly experienced trauma therapist Anne Cheshire SEP® MNIMH
Know what to do
Discover how to create the one thing that will help most: an environment of emotional safety.
Know what to say
Have the right words ready at the right time, and avoid saying the wrong things.
Look after yourself
Learn mental and mind-body strategies yourself, to keep calm, confident, and positive.
Are you supporting someone who is recovering from trauma?
Dealing with the aftermath of trauma is horrible. It's horrible for the person themselves, but also for those who are supporting them, whether you are a friend, family member, or a colleague.
You witness the struggle, the distress, the mood swings, the despair, and the shut-downs.
You see the battle with irrational thoughts, the momentary freezes, the flashes of anger, and the moments of sickening dread, although the traumatising events or circumstances are over.
It's confusing, but it's important to know that these responses are entirely normal and expected for someone who is recovering after trauma. It's hugely distressing for them, and really difficult for us to respond to helpfully, when it happens.
In my work as a trauma therapist, I see family members, friends, and work colleagues desperately trying to find the right words, do the right things, and help the person they value so much, get back on track.
We want them to enjoy life again, pick up the activities they once enjoyed, have a laugh and a natter with us, and get back to happy, healthy normality. We want to reconnect, be there for them, and make it OK again.
But we don't know how to do it, and too often we feel that we're doing or saying the wrong thing, making it worse, or not helping at all. We feel as if we are on a knife edge all the time. And that's exhausting.
If this resonates with you, and you're struggling with taking on the role of supporter, possibly without warning, without training, and without specialist help, this is for you.
I've been a trauma therapist for over fifteen years, and I know without a doubt, that one of the most important factors in recovery from trauma is to have support from others, from real people, not just professionals. Friends and family who know what's needed, and who know how to help, and who know what to do and what not to do.
That is why this toolkit is for you, the supporter, rather than for the person recovering from trauma. In it, I help you understand what's going on, give you the words to say and what to do (and what not to say or do), and I hold your hand whilst you find your way, helping someone who is finding THEIR way out of the aftermath of trauma.
Anne Cheshire SEP® MNIMH
I'm a trauma therapist, and I show friends and family how to support their friend or loved one recovering from trauma, so they avoid the common, well-intentioned mistakes, and discover what to say and do, that will really help.
If your friend, family member, or work colleague is struggling with normal everyday life following a medical event, accident, or attack or abuse, and you want to be there for them, but you don't know how, this is for you.
What you get with this programme
- Discover how to create emotional safety, for yourself and the person you are supporting, the prerequisite for recovery.
- Discover how to regulate your own nervous system, so you become a rock solid anchor for yourself and others.
- Learn what to do and say to restore dignity, a sense of safety, and boundaries for someone who is recovering from trauma.
- Learn which words and actions to avoid.
- See how best to respond when someone is triggered, how to help in the moment, and the words and phrases to use.
- Learn how to read trauma-specific body language and respond with help, rather than further worsening the situation.
- Specific help for supporting people after medical trauma.
- Specific help for supporting people with complex post traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) or trauma originating years or even decades ago.
- How to look after yourself, keep your boundaries, and stay calm, confident and positive.
- How to help without becoming a therapist.
- How to maintain your relationship with the person you are supporting, beyond the trauma.
- Understand what happens in our brains when we undergo trauma, and how to support someone reverse the changes, and help them repair the damage.
- Live webinars and WhatsApp access to me, to help you along your way.
The Friends and Family Toolkit includes
- Instant access to 6 modules with short, clear videos, 10 - 20 minutes in length, so you can take in the information easily and apply it immediately.
- Words and phrases for specific situations, which you can use immediately.
- PDFs with all the words, phrases, and repair scripts, to download and print off, or store on your device.
- Live group webinars for four weeks, as an integral part of the programme, in which we look at general issues, and I provide live support for you, the supporter.
- Answers for your own specific questions, which you can send to me before our live webinars, so I can respond AND preserve the confidentiality of the person you are supporting.
- Office hours WhatsApp access to me (not an AI construct), for your questions.
- No end date for access to the programme, videos and downloads.
- All for £385, with payment plan available.
- The first module is absolutely free to access. I explain what the programme is about, and what is needed for someone to recover from trauma. Please do view this (click below), both to see whether you like the way I do things, and for essential information about trauma, recovery, and about your role as a supporter. There is no obligation to buy when you view this module.
Imagine being someone your friend or loved one can safely turn to during recovery.
I have created this programme to equip you with the tools you need to become a powerful supporter, and a valuable pillar of strength in their recovery. And I'll hold your hand whilst you're learning how to fulfil that powerful role.
Email or phone me for an informal chat to see whether this is the right programme for you. [email protected]
+44 07890 212076
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Friends and Family Toolkit
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