Develop greater body awareness, safety, and regulation when navigating trauma responses related to gender-based harm.
Feel more grounded and connected to your body while gently releasing stored survival responses.
Gain practical somatic tools to restore agency, boundaries, and emotional regulation in daily life.
Somatic Healing for Gender Trauma
This workbook is a grounding, trauma-informed guide designed to help survivors and practitioners understand gender-based trauma through the body, not just the mind. It begins by situating healing within land, history, and culture, acknowledging how colonialism, patriarchy, and systemic violence have shaped gendered harm and embodiment. From there, it introduces the foundations of somatic healing, explaining how trauma lives in the nervous system and why body-based approaches are essential for restoring safety, agency, and connection. Structured as both an educational and practical resource, the workbook weaves together gentle psychoeducation, reflective journaling, and actionable somatic tools. Readers are guided through grounding practices, boundary mapping, movement and gesture completion, resourcing, and co-regulation, all presented in consent-based, adaptable ways. The language consistently emphasizes choice, pacing, and cultural humility, making the resource accessible for a wide range of identities, bodies, and lived experiences. Inside, readers can expect clear explanations of how trauma shows up somatically, concrete practices they can use immediately, and reflective prompts that deepen awareness without overwhelm. By the end, they leave with a stronger understanding of their nervous system, practical skills for regulation and safety, and an increased ability to listen to and trust their bodies again. Ultimately, this workbook supports success by helping readers move beyond survival states toward embodied self-trust, clearer boundaries, and a more grounded, connected relationship with themselves and others.
About Breelove.ca
This resource, like all offerings in our digital library, was co-created by the Breelove collective: a team of culturally rooted, trauma-informed practitioners, drawing from real moments in real healing spaces. At Breelove.ca, we offer more than care, we create it in community. Our practice centers Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, and other marginalized communities in the Maritimes, while holding space for all bodies throughout Turtle Island and Canada. Our approach combines clinical counselling with community wisdom: trauma-informed support, anti-oppressive frameworks, and real tools for emotional resilience. We offer 1:1 therapy, live support groups, self-paced healing courses, digital downloads like this one, and a free online community where you’re never expected to heal alone. Because we believe that we each deserve to be well, and to be witnessed as we get there.
Download the workbook now to begin restoring safety, agency, and embodied healing through trauma-informed somatic practices.
This culturally grounded, consent-based resource blends science, history, and practical somatic tools to support embodied healing from gender-based trauma, at your own pace.
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