The Self-Forgiveness Program offers a step-by-step process to strengthen and support a healthy connection with yourself. The journey begins by learning how trauma and conflict impacts your autonomic nervous system and leads to patterns of disconnection from your physical felt experience and disconnection from your external relationships. The program offers techniques and self-supportive strategies for reconnecting to your body and learning how to release and heal the tensions from your past in a gradual and supportive way. We will establish a capacity of self-support, and then seek to understand how trauma has historically impacted your relationship with yourself and led to negative beliefs and patterns. Through self-inquiry, you will learn the role negative beliefs and patterns played in managing the impacts of trauma and conflict in your past. Throughout the program you will learn to release these old dynamics and embody a more loving and self-forgiving approach to your life.

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Trauma and conflict persists and reverberates through your life not just because of what happened, but because of what did not happen during moments of challenge and overwhelm. A Healing Circle is a means to provide what you needed and still need in your healing process. Most of the time this shows up as a person or group that listens to your story, validates your experience, reflects similar life experiences to your own, and offers a stable environment that holds you accountable to the positive changes you need and deserve.

In each Self-Forgiveness Class, you will walk into a circle of participants who will be journeying with you through the process of self-forgiveness. In this group you will learn and practice new approaches to self-care in the form of meditation, somatic techniques, journaling, witnessing other people’s stories and life experiences, sharing your own history and stories, engaging in group dialogue and exercises, learning to be a healthy support system for others, and learning to accept and allow yourself to be seen and supported.

The circle will challenge you to grow through being vulnerable, through being seen and supported, through being a more present support system, and through learning more positive and healthier approaches to your own self-care. Through this healing community you will have a group that is committed to providing what is and was so desperately needed through all of our stories — a space that is safe, supportive, committed, non-judgemental, and present. A space that allows you to move forward with confidence as you leave the burdens of the past behind you.

The Self-Forgiveness Program has addressed life challenges for participants such as divorce, loss, abandonment, abuse, neglect, betrayal, and trauma; this group helps participants understand how their autonomic nervous system managed the impacts of these life circumstances. Self-forgiveness will help you reestablish a relationship with yourself in which you no longer hold onto the pain, resentment, powerlessness, overwhelm, and loss of control that were created during these events, while establishing a new-found capacity to let go, release, and move forward.

The core of this process is understanding how our autonomic nervous system responds during stressful occurrences. Through learning about the autonomic nervous system, we develop strategies for processing and releasing through our somatic experience, discovering how our body naturally releases stress, and developing more competency to flow through our feelings and emotions.

Through the program, you will also learn how we manage overwhelming events and seek to regain control through taking on the weight, responsibility, and self-blame for what occurred in the past. You will develop new capacities of managing stress, new and more positive perceptions, learning how safety in your body leads to a more positive self-esteem, releasing beliefs that hold you responsible for past events, and developing new meaning and purpose for your life that will allow you to take action based on being more open and vulnerable.

These new approaches lead to a greater sense of capacity, regulation, and resiliency and an expanding sense of safety and resolution within your physical felt experience and emotional energy. These approaches and the resolution that occurs through the program will help you to maintain the changes that have occurred through the four weeks spent together.

A new you also emerges through cultivating a more positive relationship with yourself. In the past you may have felt burdened, resentful, responsible, not enough, or wrong, based on what has occurred; through the course you will learn how this thinking keeps you stuck in the past and erodes a positive approach to self-care. You will develop new perspectives about yourself that come from the regulation and emotional security that are developed through continuously navigating back to your body as a means to soothe the physical responses of the autonomic nervous system.

Regulation and resolution lead to new beliefs of being okay, secure, able to stand on your own two feet, permission to be your full and authentic self, and a greater sense of resiliency and confidence in your life. As you feel more positive in yourself, the content, lessons, group classes, and teachings on self-forgiveness will help you identify the positive aspects and changes in your internal and external life that will continue to support you in a more positive trajectory.

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Jake White 

is an Integrative Energy Medicine Practitioner who graduated from White Winds Institute of Energy Medicine in 2010 and is currently studying at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute to become an SE Practitioner. Jake has a private practice in Winchester, VA where he works with individuals and groups, in order to resolve the energetic dynamics that keep us from being a consistent, loving support system for ourselves. Jake has a passion for creating dynamic healing environments that invite us to live from a place of vulnerability, authenticity, and an open heart.