A gentle, soul-friendly way to move through the holiday season together. Starting 25th December, we’ll begin a daily grounding, reflection, and healing challenge designed especially for trauma survivors who may find this time of year overwhelming, lonely, or emotionally complex. Each day offers one small, compassionate step — nothing intense, nothing exposing — just simple prompts that help you reconnect with your body, your boundaries, your truth, and your glimmers. Across the 12 days, we’ll explore themes like: ✨ noticing your body ✨ grounding ✨ safety ✨ rest ✨ boundaries ✨ self-compassion ✨ glimmers ✨ emotional validation ✨ and gentle connection This challenge is zero-pressure: you can engage daily, occasionally, or silently from the background — all ways of participating are welcome here. If Christmas is a complicated time for you, you won’t be doing it alone. We’ll move through it together, one day at a time, in a way that honours your nervous system and your pace. There will be a free session with me up for grabs for those who engage the most! Join us in our wonderfully supportive community for free here: https://www.skool.com/virtual-trauma-therapy-1376/about Let’s end the year with softness, connection, and tiny moments of healing. 🎁✨

For many of us with trauma histories, happiness isn’t simple. Moments of joy can be quickly followed by guilt, fear, or a strange sense of unease — as if feeling good is somehow unsafe or undeserved. This often isn’t about self-sabotage. It’s about what our nervous systems learned. If you grew up in environments where: good moments were short-lived happiness was followed by punishment, loss, or withdrawal staying alert mattered more than feeling relaxed your joy was minimised, envied, or taken away …then happiness can register as a threat, not a reward. Some common trauma responses: Feeling guilty for being happy when others are suffering Waiting for “something bad” to happen after a good moment Dimming your joy so you don’t stand out Feeling disloyal to past pain, lost loved ones, or former versions of yourself None of this means we’re ungrateful or broken. It means our systems learned that safety mattered more than pleasure. Healing doesn’t mean forcing ourselves to be happy. It means slowly teaching our body that joy doesn’t equal danger. Sometimes the work is simply this: noticing a good moment letting it stay for a few seconds longer reminding ourselves we don’t have to earn joy or justify it We are allowed to feel happy and honour our pain. Both can exist at the same time. 💬 If this resonates, we would love to welcome you into our very supportive community: Virtual Trauma Therapy With love, Chris ❤️

There’s a quiet message that often shows up around this time of year: “I’ll deal with it after Christmas.” “I’ll start in January.” “I just need to get through this bit first.” If you’re struggling right now, I want to gently say this — you don’t have to wait. Pain doesn’t run on a calendar. Your nervous system doesn’t know it’s nearly the new year. And support isn’t something you need to earn by surviving a little longer alone. The weeks leading up to January can be some of the hardest: heightened family dynamics loneliness and grief pressure to be “festive” exhaustion from holding it all together Reaching out now doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means you’re listening to yourself. You don’t need a grand plan. You don’t need to know exactly what you need. Sometimes support starts with a single, quiet step: naming that this is hard and not wanting to carry it alone anymore. January can still be a place for new beginnings — but relief is allowed now. If you’re thinking about reaching out, consider this your permission slip. You matter in this moment, not just in the next chapter. 💛 Chris - Founder of Virtual Trauma Therapy. Global peer support for trauma healing 🌏🫶🏻 Virtual Trauma Therapy

Get your typing fingers ready.... it's Friend Friday!!!! That means that IN THE COMMENTS BELOW, you get to shout out a group that has provided value to you or that you think others would benefit from. But don't just drop a link, give us some context. Let us know what it's amazing, how it has helped you, or what type of person it's meant for. Then tag the person or send them a DM to let them know that you mentioned them here! You'll make their weeking - I promise. 😊 Unfortunately, shoutouts that are posted in the main feed will be deleted. Have a great weekend!

If you are already on the Premium tier and want to know how to make the most of it, or are thinking about upgrading, here is everything you need to know... ⭐️ 🗞️ In the Standard tier, you can post in the community once a day in any category (except for days with a hashtag prompt, then you get an extra post!). There are two kinds of acceptable community posts: "anything" promoting your Skool group, or offers that are free (freebies, free workshops, podcast promotions, your own YouTube channel promotions). You can see the list of categories in the How It Works pinned post. These "rules" are for both standard and premium members. 🌟 🗞️ Now for the additional benefits for Premium members: 1. Premium members are allowed to put an "ad" in the classroom to advertise anything they want - free or paid. The ad stays up for as long as they are a premium member. Ads rotate weekly. 📰 You can place your ad by creating a draft course in your own community and then copying the course key and sending it to me to copy into the Classifieds. Course keys can be found by going to the thumbnail of the course in your classroom and clicking on the three dots in the top right corner. 2. Premium members also have access to all live events on the calendar. This includes meetups twice a month (called the PERSONALS) and open drop-ins once a month. 📆 The meetups are structured and focus on improving your visibility as well as helping you make connections and foster collaboration. 3. Premium members also have the opportunity to host their own free masterclass for all members on the CLASSIFIEDS calendar. This gives you the chance to provide value to the members and then pitch your group or product at the end. 💵 In order to qualify to host a masterclass, you have to first take my How to Teach a High-Value, High-Converting Masterclass workshop ($27). The next one is being offered on January 6th with doors opening for registration January 2nd. After taking the prerequisite workshop, the first masterclass you offer is of no charge. Subsequent masterclasses that you would like to offer will be subject to a $10 administrative fee.