Awaken your vitality after complex trauma through a somatic, energetic, and soul-based approach. In this on-demand workshop, you’ll learn how to understand freeze, shutdown, and depression through the lens of neuroscience, somatics, energetics, and soul work with practical tools to support your recovery. 

What You're Getting

• A 3-hour on-demand workshop (instant access)
• A neuroscience-informed, body-based, and soul-oriented framework for understanding trauma-related immobilization, freeze, shutdown, functional freeze, shame, anger, learned helplessness, and depression
• Three guided somatic practices to support your recovery
• One year of access from the date of purchase

What You'll Learn

• The Difference Between Freeze & Shutdown – Understanding these nervous system responses and how they manifest differently in the body.
  
• Functional Freeze – The experience of our nervous system when we live in freeze while remaining fully functional on the outside.
  
• Somatic Approaches to Freeze & Shutdown – How to engage with the body differently depending on whether we’re in freeze or shutdown.
  
• Shame as an Inhibitor of Life Energy – How shame locks us into states of immobility and how to shift out of it.
  
• The Suppression of Anger, Power & Healthy Aggression – Why our body may experience our own power as a threat and how to reclaim it.
  
• Learned Helplessness & Developmental Trauma – How early experiences of powerlessness shape our nervous system and sense of agency.
  
• The Archetypal Experience of Depression – The key elements of depression that can guide us to the depths of our unconscious.
  
• Creative Depression: When the Psyche is Calling for Transformation – Exploring depression as a creative psychic and somatic process of death and rebirth.
• Three Somatic Practices – Practical tools to support the integration of the workshop learnings. 

What others are saying...

"Effie's course has been life changing for me. I decided to join because of her philosophy, her story and because I felt that she'd 'get' me. She broke down complex information so it was understandable, gave me tools to support myself with my cPTSD, anxiety and depression, and she offered persistent and reliable guidance. There has been such a transformation for me and I'm in a totally difference place compared to where I was before."  Corina Ebnother

"Your guidance has helped me immensely. I feel that my mental and emotional state has improved a lot, and it happened in the best moment in my life. In certain ways my whole mindset shifted and I learnt a new approach. It works! I'll be using the methods you taught us."  Szilvia Frank