Gain deeper self-understanding, emotional clarity, and practical tools to gently support trauma healing.
Develop greater compassion for wounded inner parts while building trust, safety, and emotional regulation skills.
Feel more grounded, hopeful, and resourced as you integrate past experiences with present-day care.
Understanding Childhood Trauma, Gently
This workbook is a gentle, thoughtfully paced resource designed to help readers understand how childhood trauma continues to shape their inner world, relationships, and sense of self. Rather than approaching trauma as something to “fix,” it invites curiosity, compassion, and reflection. Centering healing as a relational and embodied process. Inside, readers are guided through the seven common hurts associated with childhood trauma: fear, shame, anxiety, grief, envy, feeling gaslit or confused, and hopelessness. Each hurt is described in clear, accessible language that normalizes trauma responses as adaptations, not personal failures. The focus is on understanding how these hurts show up in daily life and how they may have once served as protection. The workbook unfolds in a steady, supportive rhythm. Brief psychoeducational sections offer clarity and context, followed by reflective journaling prompts that encourage personal insight without overwhelm. Readers are also introduced to parts-based moderation questions, helping them engage wounded inner parts with curiosity and care rather than judgment or urgency. Throughout the resource, the language remains grounding and choice-centered. Readers can move through the workbook in order or return to specific sections as needed, making it a flexible companion for individual reflection, therapy support, or ongoing healing work. By the end, readers can expect to have a deeper understanding of their trauma responses, greater emotional awareness, and increased compassion for themselves. They leave with language to name their inner experiences, tools to support regulation and integration, and a strengthened sense of self-trust. Ultimately, this workbook supports healing by helping readers feel more grounded, resourced, and capable of meeting their lives with clarity, patience, and care.
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.
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