COURSE 2 The Trauma That Hid ME
A child’s solutions can become an adult’s struggles.
This course is designed to help participants recognize adult emotional responses, protective behaviors, and relational patterns as meaningful clues. Rather than asking,
“What is wrong with me?” Course 2 helps participants begin asking,
“What was this response designed to protect?”
Through this course, participants learn to listen more carefully to the language of the heart, understand the needs of the Child within, and recognize how grief, pain, protection, and unmet needs can shape present-day life.
This course is not about shaming survival responses. It is about understanding them with clarity, compassion, and care.
Who is Course 2 for?
Course 2 is for students who have completed Course 1 and are ready to go deeper into the impact of trauma, child development, protective responses, and dissociation-informed understanding.
It may be especially helpful for:
- Adult survivors of severe childhood trauma
- Individuals seeking to understand emotional overwhelm and protective responses
- Support persons, helpers, pastors, counselors, and caregivers
- Professionals seeking deeper trauma-response language
- Those wanting to better understand how childhood trauma can affect adult relationships
- Students preparing for more advanced dissociation education in Course 3
ABOUT COURSE 2 ENROLLMENT
Completion of Course 1 is required.
Course 2 builds directly on the shared language developed in Course 1.
Because Course 1 introduces the Dynamic of Being Human, emotional awareness, protective responses, relational patterns, and foundational trauma-response language, participants must complete Course 1 before enrolling in Course 2.
For questions about Course 2 eligibility, enrollment, or whether this is the right next step, please contact Fern & Audrey, LLC.
What Course 2 participants will explore
Course 2 explores how childhood experiences, relational disruption, neglect, abuse, and overwhelming stress can shape protective responses that continue into adulthood.
Participants will better understand how the Child’s defense system may influence emotions, relationships, body responses, internal conflict, and patterns of protection.
Course 2 includes education related to:
- Child development and trauma responses
- Emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and attachment needs
- Protective defenses that form in childhood
- Body-based responses, including medical trauma and stress responses
- Shock, grief, and repeated relational rehearsing
- The impact of trauma on the brain, body, and nervous system
- Emotional overwhelm and difficulty with clear thinking
- Automatic protection and relational disconnection
- Differentiating thoughts, feelings, and protective responses during distress
- The language of the heart and the meaning beneath behavior
- Dehumanization, unmet needs, and emotional dysregulation
- Spiritual dynamics and trauma
- Vicarious trauma and common conflicts for helpers and support persons
- Tools that support steadiness for both survivors and those walking alongside them
- True-story examples that support practical application of the material
Course 2 helps participants consider questions such as:
- How can childhood experiences shape adult emotional and relational patterns?
- How do protective responses develop, and why might they continue into adulthood?
- Why can present-day situations trigger responses that feel larger than the moment?How do emotional abuse, emotional neglect, attachment wounds, or medical trauma affect the person?
- How can trauma affect the brain, body, nervous system, and sense of safety?
- Why can it become difficult to think clearly, communicate, or stay connected when overwhelmed?
- How can helpers respond to emotional dysregulation or difficult behaviors without shame, disgust, or moralizing?
- How do spiritual dynamics interact with trauma?
- How can survivors, helpers, and support persons remain steadier in the journey?
COURSE 2 THE TRAUMA THAT HID ME
COURSE 2 ENROLLMENT
For questions about Course 2 eligibility, enrollment, or whether this is the right next step, please contact Fern & Audrey, LLC.