❤️ The Next Chapter of Your Healing
🌱 Moving Forward With Self-Trust & Compassion
14-week Rewired Healing Series- Week 14
MOVING FORWARD WITH SELF-TRUST & COMPASSION
⚠️ Trauma-Informed Reminder
Some of what’s shared here might bring up strong emotions or old memories. Please go at your own pace.
✔️ Pause or step away if you feel overwhelmed - that awareness is part of healing.
✔️ Use grounding tools if your body feels tense (a few deep breaths, stretching, or orienting can help).
✔️ Skip this entirely if it doesn’t feel safe for you today. Your emotional safety comes first - always.
🌟 Congratulations! You made it!
Fourteen straight weeks of showing up for yourself.
You learned:
How to calm your nervous system when it felt out of control.
How to notice a trigger before it pulled you under.
How to offer compassion to your inner child.
That boundaries aren’t selfish — they’re a sign of self-love.
Most people spend their whole lives avoiding this kind of deep inner work.
But not you — you did it. 🌟
🌜This is the Final Post in the Rewired Healing Series
But it’s not the end of your healing.
It’s the beginning of carrying what you’ve practiced into your daily life — not as another task on your list, but as a natural part of how you live and care for yourself.
🧠 Now It’s Time to Integrate All Your Favorite Tools
As you’ve learned earlier in the series, integration is what makes healing stick — it’s the steady weaving-in of tools until they feel like second nature.
It’s not about piling on new tools.
It’s about weaving what you already know — grounding, regulation, reconnecting with your inner child, setting boundaries — into your daily patterns.
Think of it like physical therapy.
The first sessions feel new and hopeful.
But the real progress happens when those small movements become second nature — part of how you move through the world.
Your nervous system works the same way. Through neuroplasticity (your brain’s ability to rewire itself through repeated practice), each choice strengthens new pathways until they become steady and reliable, allowing you to:
✋ Pause instead of snapping
🌬️ Breathe instead of shutting down
💛 Speak kindly to yourself instead of piling on shame
🌱 Sustainable Healing
Sustainable healing doesn’t mean rigid routines or doing everything perfectly.
It means daily patterns that feel safe and doable, like:
Starting with just one tool you know you’ll return to daily
Adjusting when life gets messy — writing one sentence in your journal when ten pages feels impossible
Simply noticing you’ve slipped… and gently beginning again without shame.
The power isn’t in doing it perfectly.
The power is in returning to yourself with love & compassion.
✨ Reflection prompts
Take a few moments to sit think about the following:
What’s one tool, practice, or strategy from the series you’re excited to use going forward?
How has your definition of healing shifted since Week 1?
What’s one phrase you can lean on when you face a setback?
(Examples: “This is hard, but I’m learning.” or “Setbacks are part of the process.”)
We would love to hear your thoughts!
🎓 Graduation Toolkit
To make this last step easier, I’ve created a Graduation Toolkit - Free Integration Toolkit you can download as a PDF.
Inside you’ll find:
A Mini Integration Map with prompts + examples to jot down your go-to grounding, regulation, inner child, and boundary tools
A few Compassion Phrases you can lean on when setbacks happen
A One-Question Daily Check-In to help you stay steady without overwhelm
✨ [Download the Free Integration Toolkit here]
🎉 A Certificate to Celebrate You
To honor your dedication, we have a Rewired Healing Series Completion Certificate just for you!
You’ve earned this by showing up week after week, doing the brave work of looking inward, and continuing to choose compassion over avoidance.
✨ Send us a message and we will send you your Certificate!
💫 Moving Forward Together
Thank you for letting us walk alongside you these past fourteen weeks.
It’s been a privilege to share not just tools, but pieces of our own journey, as you grew brave enough to face your own. This isn’t the end — just a pause, a breath, before the next chapter unfolds.
Finishing this series doesn’t mean your healing is complete — it means you now have tools, language, and practices to carry with you in everyday life. Healing is a path that keeps unfolding, and you don’t have to walk it alone.
This community is just beginning.
From here, we’ll be showing up in your inbox each week with:
🌱 A trauma-informed newsletter with education on C-PTSD, generational trauma, and narcissistic abuse and recovery — plus reflections and tools you can use right away
🎙️ Podcasts with both of us — giving you the survivor’s voice and the partner’s perspective
❤️ Stories, blogs, resources, and practices to remind you that healing is possible, connection is real, and you’re part of something bigger than your past
Because this isn’t just about completing a series.
It’s about building a steady pattern of support, encouragement, and growth - together.
We’ll keep showing up for you, and we hope you’ll keep showing up for yourself.
With love and compassion,
Kristin & Travis ❤️
💌 Thursday’s Paid Post
This Thursday, paid subscribers will receive the Full Graduation Toolkit — including:
A Personalized Healing Plan worksheet
An Expanded Integration Map with detailed examples
A Full Sheet of Compassion Scripts to interrupt shame
Closing Journaling Prompts to anchor self-trust and compassion
Because integration isn’t about doing it all at once.
It’s about small, steady practices that add up in ways you may not see yet — but your nervous system will feel.
And stay tuned… the Beginner’s Guide to Complex PTSD Workbook is coming very soon!
💌 Share + Reflect With Others
If this series has been meaningful for you, consider sharing it with someone else in your life who might need it.
And if you feel comfortable, we’d love your honest feedback about The Rewired Series — what helped, what stood out, and what you’d like more of as we continue growing and healing together.
🔄 Ways to Keep Using This Series
Even though our 14 weeks are complete, your growth and self-discovery with these posts can keep building:
📖 Revisit your worksheets
Pull out your completed worksheets from the series
Ask yourself: Do I see myself differently now?
What once felt impossible may feel more doable today.✍️ Repeat the reflections
Prompts about triggers, boundaries, or shame will land differently as your nervous system grows safer. Try answering them again — notice what’s shifted.🌱 Use the series as a reset
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed? Start back at Week 1 and move through slowly. Each post is designed to stand on its own but also builds step by step.🤝 Pair posts together
Some weeks go hand in hand:Week 3 (Regulation Tools) + Week 12 (Setbacks) → when tools stop working
Week 4 (Inner Child) + Week 5 (Reparenting) → when you want to nurture yourself
Week 6 (Shame) + Week 8 (Triggers) → when old patterns of blame resurface
🧩 Check in with your nervous system
Healing isn’t linear. A tool that didn’t land the first time might feel supportive later. Give yourself permission to circle back withour guilt or shame.
📚 Rewired Healing Series Archive
Here’s the full journey — all in one place. Bookmark this page so you can come back anytime:
Week 1 — Creating Safety
Paid: 7 Subtle Signs Your Body Is Starting to Feel Safe — Even If You Don’t Yet — includes grounding practices + printable starter guide
Week 2 — Finding Support
Paid: What I Learned From 40 Years of Therapy — practical scripts + checklist for choosing safe support
Week 3 — Regulation Tools
Free: Coping vs Healing
Paid: It Feels Calming, But Is it Helping You Heal? 10 Trauma-Informed Tools + Printable Guide — body-based tools explained with neuroscience
Week 4 — Inner Child
Paid: Why You Still React Like This -12 Childhood Patterns That Follow You Into Adulthood Journal Prompts & Guided Visualization — step-by-step prompts + soothing inner child practice
Week 5 — Reparenting
Free: Reparenting Isn’t a Buzzword — It’s the Step Most of Us Miss
Paid: How to Start Reparenting Yourself Scripts + Practices for Daily Reparenting — everyday phrases + gentle exercises for self-support
Week 6 — Shame & Self-Worth
Paid: I Lived With a Bully for Years - The One Inside My Head Shame Repair Worksheet + Reflection Prompts — tools to interrupt shame spirals and practice compassion
Week 7 — Thought Patterns
Paid: The 3 Morning Practices I Use To Rewire My Brain— neuroscience-based steps to shift critical thoughts
Week 8 — Triggers & Parts
Paid: 5 Steps To Survive a Shame Hangover What to Do After You React: Shame, Repair & Safety — trigger tracker worksheet + repair practices
Week 9 — Boundaries
Free: Boundaries Aren't Walls
Paid: Feel Guilty Setting Boundaries? Scripts, somatic prep + Boundary Practice Sheet
Week 10 — Attachment & Relational Trauma
Paid: Why It's Hard To Let People In Healing Attachment Wounds Through Repair Practices — repair tools + reflection prompts for connection
Week 11 — Integration
Paid: 5 Steps To Make Your Healing Stick + Integration Map — guided framework + downloadable map
Week 12 — Setbacks
Paid: 5-Step Reset After a Setback Shame Repair Scripts + Reset Practices — scripts + regulation resets for getting back on track
Week 13 — Becoming You
Free: 12 Weeks of Healing
Paid: The Strength You Didn't Know You HadCelebrating Your Healing Milestones + Guided Reflection — milestone celebration prompts + self-trust practices
Week 14 — Moving Forward
Free: Moving Forward with Self-Trust & Compassion + Free Integration Toolkit
Paid: Your Personalized Plan for Sustainable Healing + Full Integration Toolkit — expanded worksheets, daily check-in card + journaling prompts
📌 About Us:
We’re Kristin & Travis Francis — founders of Complex PTSD Warrior.
We provide trauma-informed education and support for healing your nervous system, repairing relationships, and breaking generational cycles — using curated tools rooted in neuroscience and lived Complex PTSD experience.
Our mission is to spread Complex PTSD Awareness, Education & Tools around the world.
If this post helped you feel seen, understood, or less alone — we’d be so grateful if you shared it with someone who might need it too.
It might be the message they’ve been waiting their whole life to hear.
Disclaimer: The content shared here is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care, diagnosis, or treatment. Please go at your own pace, and always prioritize what feels safe for your body and nervous system. If you’re in crisis or need immediate support, please reach out to a licensed mental health provider or crisis resource in your area.
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What a great series this has been! Thank you for all your time and effort to helping others. I've just been dipping in here and there because I've just relocated, but I plan to come back and do this start to finish.