TRAUMA INFORMED YOGA GROUP

Feel empowered, known, and connected to your own body.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR HEALING THAT LASTS

  • Guided Journaling

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga

  • Group Therapy

For women overwhelmed and exhausted by expectations of the way their body appears and performs, we invite you to practice mindfulness, breath, and gentle yoga with a certified yoga instructor and licensed therapist.

These practices intend to foster a deeper knowledge and appreciation of your body, building a relationship of trust between you and the body which carries you.

Through exploring your past and present relationship with your body, we will examine what you have been implicitly taught regarding your body's appearance and performance.

Through these practices, you will move toward compassion and kindness in the ways you speak to and treat your body.

for women facing

 

Eating Disorders

For women who look to numbers and images of others for their sense of beauty and worth, the internal dialogues on imperfection and failure are resounding. Women with eating disorders engage in patterns of disturbed eating or weight control behaviors that severely disrupt daily functioning. Disturbed eating behaviors may include restricting food intake, adhering to strict dietary rules, extreme preoccupations with food, and ritualistic mealtime behaviors. Disturbed weight control behavior can consist of excessive exercise, self-induced vomiting, and misuse of laxatives and diuretics. Eating disorders include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Atypical Eating Disorders, including Disordered Eating.

 

Intimacy Disorders

The loving nature of women thrives on authentic connection with others and the security of true love with a partner. Women who struggle with Intimacy disorders have difficulty developing, maintaining, and expressing appropriate levels of emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and sexual intimacy in relationships due to deeply rooted insecurities driven by fear of vulnerability, rejection, and abandonment. For women, the trauma of childhood attachment injuries can lead to a lifelong search for intimacy and value in the brokenness of Codependency, Love Addiction, and Sex Addiction. Learning to speak, behave, and self-protect in open and honest ways is the mark of healthy vulnerability and provider of intimacy in a relationship.

Substance Abuse

The moral fortitude and willpower of a woman serve as no defense against the disease of addiction. Substance Addiction is a preoccupation with acquiring mood-altering substances, compulsive use despite adverse consequences, and patterns of continued use or relapse despite consequences. For women, alcohol, prescription stimulants such as Adderall, opiate pain medications, and the benzodiazepines Xanax and Klonopin are abused to cope with stressors or manage mental health and medical conditions. When abuse progresses to addiction, recovery rests not on the futile attempts to control use but on a decision to begin a new life based on abstinence and self-compassion.

 

Depression

For women living with depression, daily life is marked by persistent feelings of sadness, despairing thoughts, anxiousness, irritability, frequent mood changes, fatigue, and loss of interest and pleasure in activities once found to be enjoyable. Biological and hormonal factors unique to women put them at greater risk for certain forms of depression at different stages in life and self-harming behaviors and suicidal ideations.

Post-Traumatic Stress

Trauma is a response women may experience when facing a deeply disturbing event or personal encounter that evokes intense fear, loss of control, overwhelming helplessness, and a sense of betrayal. The stress of repeated verbal, emotional, and physical abuse, sexual violation, domestic violence, a partner's infidelity, natural disasters, and violent combat can be traumatizing for women. When trauma symptoms include intrusive memories, pervasive avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, and worsening arousal responses, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may be a more accurate diagnosis.

 

Anxiety

For women, anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease triggered by a real or perceived threat. Excessive worry and fear occurring daily, sudden episodes of intense fear triggering severe physical reactions, overly anxious and self-conscious in social settings, or experiencing acute and extreme fear over an object or situation are severe symptoms associated with different anxiety disorders.

 

“The compassion I felt from the therapists was amazing. I really enjoyed the small group setting. Hearing from other women and their experiences contributed to my own self-acceptance and healing. As I continue to grow, I hope to set good examples and influence others in a positive way.”

women supporting women

  • Mary Kathryn Evans

    Licensed Professional Counselor | EMDR Trained | Certified Yoga Instructor | Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

  • Tammy Coker

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Clinical Therapist

  • Cynthia Hearst-Turner

    CEO | Clinical Director | Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

  • Gayle Wimberly

    Licensed Professional Counselor | Clinical Therapist

Meet The Team

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