Courageous Journeys® ~ Impact & healing from childhood trauma
Episodes
Why Adult Children Are Going No Contact with Parents and How Therapy Plays a Role
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Video mentioned: The Pain of Hoping They’ll Change: Grief in Trauma Healing- https://youtu.be/SI-V5zFU8XUThere’s been more talk lately about the s...
The Pain of Hoping They’ll Change: Grief in Trauma Healing
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one thing to lose someone. It’s another to grieve the version of them that only ever existed through hope. If you've ever found yourself ...
Healing Your Inner Child: Understanding and Healing from Childhood Trauma
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever felt confused by (or avoided) the term inner child or unsure what it really means in trauma healing, you’re not alone.It can feel...
Complex PTSD: Understanding the Diagnosis & What It Means for Healing
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Getting a mental health diagnosis, or even self-diagnosing, can feel like a relief, overwhelming, or anywhere in-between.So often, people believe the ...
Why You Feel Stuck on Your Healing Journey (And What It Really Means)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Link for Returning to Wholeness https://courageousjourneys.com/courses/returningtowholenessjcEver felt like you’re doing everything right on your he...
Talking to AI Instead of a Therapist? Here’s What You Need to Know (Trauma Therapist’s Perspective)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be honest, sometimes it feels easier to open up to a chatbot than to a human. No judgment, no awkward pauses, just instant validation. If you’...
The Right Way to Respond to Someone's Pain or Grief? It’s Not What You Think
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saying “I’m sorry” when someone we care about shares their pain or grief is a common response. Have you wondered why people say it? Is it a refl...
Journaling for Trauma Healing - What Helps and What to Watch For
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journaling can play a powerful role in healing from childhood trauma. It offers space to process emotions, explore your thoughts, and begin to notice ...
Trauma Healing - Don’t Make This Mistake in Therapy
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt like you had to “bring something important” to therapy or skipped a session because you didn’t know what to talk about? You’...
Debunking Harmful Myths About Child Abuse: The Truth About LGBTQ+ Scapegoating
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We grow up with a variety of ideas about staying safe. Who we can and can’t be safe with. What not to do so we don’t end up in trouble or a bad si...
Healing Childhood Trauma - Honoring Every Part of the Healing Journey
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I recently asked my YouTube community to describe their healing journey in one word and what came back reminded me just how layered and nuanced the wo...
Hidden Messages About Trauma and Healing on Social Media
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With so much mental health content available online, it’s easy to feel like support is just a quick click or scroll away. But not all information la...
The Truth About Healing from Childhood Trauma: It’s Not Just About Doing the Work
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been doing all the “right” things to heal; journaling, affirmations, therapy, mindfulness but still feel stuck, you’re not alone.Hea...
Healing Childhood Trauma: The Truth About Shame That Took Me Years to Understand
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a long time, I’ve talked about “healing shame”. But something about it never sat right with me. It felt… inaccurate.In this video, I talk ...
Trauma Healing in the Midst of Chaos: Do THIS to Help Reclaim Your Energy
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Life keeps happening around us as we navigate through the healing journey. When the world is loud, relationships are draining, or everything just feel...
The Hidden Grief of Trauma Survivors: Disappointment, Longing, and Reckoning
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are some things we lose before we even know they’re missing.When we grow up with trauma, in chaos, or without the love and safety we needed, w...
The Hidden Fear of Connection - Healing Childhood Trauma with Anxious or Avoidant Attachment
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For so many survivors of childhood trauma, connection feels like a double-edged sword. Something we deeply desire and yet often fear. You might crave ...
Why Progress Matters More Than Perfection - Healing Childhood Trauma One Step at a Time
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Perfection is a myth—and chasing it affirms your false, core beliefs.If you’ve ever felt like you’re not “doing healing right,” this message...
This ONE Practice Will Transform Your Trauma Healing Journey
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Link to Deeply Rooted: https://courageousjourneys.com/courses/deeply-rooted-a-guided-journalThat title is a pretty bold claim. But, after over 20 year...
Healing Childhood Trauma: When Normalizing Becomes Destructive
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Normalizing things can be reassuring… until it isn’t. In a world where so many unpleasant experiences are brushed off as normal, it’s easy to st...
Why Trauma Survivors Struggle to Feel Free (And a practice to help you get there)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re interested in working with me, you can learn more here: https://courageousjourneys.com/courses/journey-to-wholenessFor anyone who’s spen...
The Real Reason You Struggle to Stay Motivated in Your Healing
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What drives your motivation in healing? Many start with self-criticism and shame—the fear of not being enough or the pressure to avoid failure. But ...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Unworthiness, Shame, and Self-Trust
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many practices needed along the healing journey. All of them help to deprogram a core wound or belief around unworthiness.True worthiness tr...
Healing Beyond the Therapy Room: Turning Insight into Daily Practice
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Healing is a process” you’ve heard me talk about this many times, but healing is more than just a process, it’s an ongoing practice that unfo...
Rewriting False Beliefs: How Childhood Trauma Informs Your Daily Thoughts
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not every thought we have is true. In fact, for survivors of childhood trauma, many of the thoughts we have are not based in truth. But, when we’ve ...
Creating a Safe Space for Survivors - Healing Childhood Trauma
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Healing isn’t just about what we process within ourselves, it’s also about the spaces we exist in. When we feel safe, we can be vulnerable. We can...
A Grounding, Self-Compassion practice for Childhood Trauma Surivovrs
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deeply Rooted: https://courageousjourneys.com/courses/deeply-rooted-a-guided-journal So many of us move through life disconnected from our bodies, esp...
Managing stress and overwhelm in an uncertain and unjust world: A guide for trauma survivors
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For survivors of childhood trauma, a sense… a reality, of life being unfair and unjust isn’t a new concept…we lived it. But that deep understand...
A Guide to Emotional Healing: The Far-Reaching Impact of Hiding Our Emotions
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a trauma therapist, I've witnessed many individuals get emotional and immediately apologize for expressing their feelings. Even in my own work,...
Childhood Trauma Survivors: Understanding the Core of the Healing Process
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many practices along the healing journey. Some are easier than others. There are some you may have a lot of resistance to. There may even be...
Unmasking a Hidden Trauma Symptom: The Cost of Denying What You Truly Want
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever looked at others succeed or experience something meaningful and thought, “I wouldn’t want that” or something similar? Have you eve...
Healing Childhood Trauma -A practice for learning to feel safe in your body and life
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get the Meditation Album here: https://courageousjourneys.com/courses/connecting-within-meditations For many survivors of trauma, there can be a signi...
Reconnecting with Your Body's Intuitive Wisdom through Your Trauma Healing Journey
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Self-doubt has a way of silencing our intuition, leaving us questioning every choice we make. Have you ever felt the weight of ignoring that inner voi...
Your Trauma Healing Journey- Honoring your progress in 2024 and all that is possible in 2025
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For some, this time of year… the ending of one and beginning of another, can be a time that feels a bit daunting or disappointing. For others, it is...
Breaking the Cycle of Self-Protection: Allowing Yourself to Feel Good After Childhood Trauma
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever experienced a moment of success or happiness, only to be immediately overwhelmed by anxiety, self-doubt, or the fear that something bad ...
Overcoming Guilt: Why Childhood Trauma Survivors Don't Report Abuse and How to Heal
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ATTENTION - I’ll be holding a FREE Zoom Gathering for women survivors of childhood trauma on December 12th. Learn more and sign up here: https://cou...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Setting Boundaries When You’ve Been Let Down
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ATTENTION - I’ll be holding a FREE Zoom Gathering for women survivors of childhood trauma on December 12th. Learn more and sign up here: https://cou...
Ways to Rebuild Your Connection to Your Body: A Gentle Practice for Trauma Healing
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Healing from trauma isn’t just a mental journey; it’s a physical one, too. We all know the body remembers. 😉 We also carry tension, fear, or nu...
Holding Onto Hope: Finding Strength Amidst Heartache and Uncertainty Post Election
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It has been a week since the US election and many of us, especially trauma survivors, women, and marginalized communities, are feeling a variety of fe...
The Consequences of Neglecting Self-Care on the Trauma Healing Journey
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does the thought of taking a rest day fill you with anxiety? Do you find yourself making excuses to avoid self-care, or feeling like you're being self...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Including Men in Trauma and Healing Conversations
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Link mentioned in video - https://1in6.org/ While trauma doesn't discriminate by gender, the way we talk about it often does. Today's video is a heart...
The Therapy Relationship: Knowing How and When it Might Be Time to Move On
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Therapy is about healing, growth, and finding your voice. But what happens when that voice is telling you it's time for a change? And what if there is...
Childhood Trauma: Boundaries and Self-Trust Through the Healing Journey
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. There is something we all experience that impacts more than just that moment in time. It can cause us to q...
Unraveling the Complex Web of Trauma and Mental Health Diagnoses
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Childhood trauma often intertwines with various mental health diagnoses. In today’s video, we’ll explo...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Moving beyond fear to embracing what is possible
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Childhood trauma shapes the way we think in a lot of different ways. For years, I found myself stuck in th...
When the Bottom Drops Out: Staying Grounded Through the Trauma Healing Process
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Staying the course of a trauma healing journey is often the most challenging aspect to navigate. This is e...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Staying Grounded on Your Toughest Days
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Life can often feel like a rollercoaster, with ups and downs that leave us feeling shaken and uncertain. O...
Building Trust and Connection for Healing Childhood Trauma
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. There are so many things you’ve likely wondered about. Things about your experience, your struggle, how ...
Overcoming the #1 Obstacle to Setting Healthy Boundaries
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. There are a variety of things that make understanding, setting, and enforcing boundaries challenging. But,...
Impact of Rationalizing & Excusing Abusive Behavior: The return of familiar betrayal and heartbreak
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. In this episode I share a personal story of the heartbreak and betrayal I experienced as a child coming ba...
Protecting Your Peace: Navigating Toxic Relationships and Healthy Boundaries
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Navigating relationships can sometimes feel like walking through a minefield, especially when you’re dea...
How Childhood Trauma Shapes Adult Anxiety
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Millions of people struggle with anxiety (among other symptoms), often without understanding its true orig...
The Ripple Effect: Societal Systems and Their Impact on Your Healing Journey
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. Have you noticed feeling a little more anxious, irrit...
Overcoming Shame: How Trauma Survivors Can Advocate for Their Health and Well-being
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Advocating for ourselves is difficult for a lot of people. The more vulnerable the situation, the more dif...
Finding Peace with Uncertainty While Healing Childhood Trauma
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Have you ever felt paralyzed by uncertainty on your healing journey? That nagging doubt that creeps in whe...
Breaking Through Denial: The Key to Emotional Healing
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Acknowledgment is an important step in healing. But, deep healing requires us to go deeper, into the emoti...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Essential Insight for Lasting Freedom
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Imagine being near the summit of this healing process and realizing that you’ve forgotten an important p...
Relational Trauma: Trust, Betrayal, and the Healing Process
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. For too many children, the people they should be able to trust the most turn out to be the people who hurt...
The Forgotten Childhood Trauma - Impact & Healing of Neglect
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Join me for an important conversation on an often forgotten, yet deeply impactful ,form of childhood wound...
The Unexpected in the Search for My Biological Father
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. About a year and a half ago I spit in a tube and sent...
Healing Childhood Trauma - Self-care, Supporting Others, World Crises
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Whether it’s watching fiction on television or the 24 hour news and images of the devastation across the...
Internalizing Moments Along the Healing Journey - Healing Childhood Trauma
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. You know those moments when you hear or experience something and your way of thinking or perspective sudde...
Boundaries for Survivors of Childhood Trauma - Navigating Guilt and Fear
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. One of the major challenges people face when trying to set boundaries is dealing with the unhappiness and ...
Navigating Trust and Safety as Survivors of Sexual Trauma - Bear VS Man
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. There's a video going around on TikTok asking the question "Would you rather run into a bear or a...
Myths and Misconceptions: What it means to be a survivor of childhood trauma
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. When we think of a survivor of childhood sexual trauma, we tend to have preconceived ideas, expectations, ...
Mental Health Awareness: Normalizing Emotional Struggles after Childhood Trauma
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to bring awareness to help lessen the stigma around mental il...
Navigating Familiar Feelings as a Survivor of Childhood Trauma
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Today, I'm sharing a personal story that explores how self-doubt, panic, shame, and a disastrous seven...
The Complexities of Disclosing Childhood Trauma
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. There is a lot that goes into choosing when and with whom to share your trauma experience. There are many ...
Childhood Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Healing
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Returning to Wholeness: a journey of learning to trust and embody the truth of who you've always been:https://courageousjourneys.com/courses/retur...
Sexual Assault Awareness Month - Ending the Shame Together
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. It's Sexual Assault Awareness Month and this year's theme really resonated with me - Building Conn...
Healing Childhood Trauma - A Practice to Help You Become Aware of Your Needs
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Honoring our needs and desires after experiencing childhood trauma is crucial to the healing journey, yet ...
Healing Childhood Trauma - Navigating Relationships as a Survivor
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The links mentioned are further down in the description Navigating relationships when you’ve been hurt by ...
Ending Shame: Conversations about Sex, Shame, and Sexual Abuse
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The links mentioned are further down in the description For too long, we've lived in a society where the...
Self-Acceptance: Learning to Embrace and Appreciate Things We Often Wish Were Different
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. If you've been following me for a while you probably hear me talk about self-acceptance and honoring y...
What Helps Survivors Feel Supported After Disclosing Childhood Trauma?
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. When a trauma survivor confides in you by sharing the...
Practices for Becoming More Body Aware and Relieving Tension for Survivors of Childhood Trauma
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Tension and stress within our bodies- this is something most of us carry but often aren’t aware of the i...
How Emotional Wounding Can Show Up In Unexpected Ways
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Today I’m sharing an example of the reality that we are all wounded, whether from trauma or… life. And...
Why You Feel Bad When Nothing's Wrong (And What To Do About It)
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Do you ever find yourself feeling bad that you’re not feeling or doing better when there’s nothing rea...
Navigating Trauma Related Feelings Through the Healing Journey
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. A common misconception… or expectation, about the healing process is that when you’ve “healed” you...
Why Conventional Gratitude Practices May Not Work and How to Make Them More Meaningful
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. A gratitude practice is commonly recommended to help ...
How Journaling Unlocks Your Healing Potential
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The links mentioned are further down in the description. I believe journaling can be one of the most importa...
When Therapy or Healing Doesn’t Seem to Work - Healing childhood trauma
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The links mentioned are further down in the description. Have you ever found yourself questioning the effect...
Increased Negative Thoughts in Trauma Healing - What does it mean and how to stop it
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. We have up to about 60,000 thoughts per day. Most of us are aware of only a tiny fraction of what those th...
Embracing What is Possible When You Don’t Yet Believe It
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. In today's episode, I’m talking about something I’ve noticed coming up quite a bit lately on my po...
Letting Go of Unrealistic Expectations for the New Year
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. It’s the time of year when people are thinking about goals and resolutions… identifying the ways they ...
Reclaiming Sexuality After Childhood Sexual Trauma
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Today's episode is a heartfelt conversation about something that impacts many lives but often stays in...
Overcoming Self-Doubt: Learning to Trust Yourself After Childhood Trauma
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Do you sometimes (maybe oftentimes) doubt what you think or want because of what someone else says or does...
Choosing to Disclose Childhood Trauma or Confronting an Abuser
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. For a lot of childhood trauma survivors, choosing t...
Meditation as a Tool to Heal Childhood Trauma
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. If you've been a part of my community for a whi...
Childhood Trauma and Coping with Holiday Stress
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The holiday season can be a stressful time for everyone. For survivors of childhood trauma, there are ofte...
Understanding and Managing Triggers from Childhood Trauma
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description. What does it mean to be triggered? Is it just somet...
Healing Childhood Trauma, Connection, and Resources
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The links mentioned are further down in the description. It’s so exciting to see our courageous communit...
The Complex Link Between Empathy and Childhood Trauma Survivors
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. As survivors of childhood trauma we often develop a heightened sense of empathy as a result of our experie...
What is the Right or Healthy Way to Feel About Someone Who Hurts You?
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. A significant part of healing from childhood trauma is navigating feelings about the people who hurt you…...
Healing Childhood Trauma: Trusting the process when it seems unattainable
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. One of the challenges with the trauma healing process is being able to trust that the process will lead you...
Grieving the Loss of Childhood for Survivors of Childhood Trauma
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Grieving is a necessary part of healing from childhood trauma. It can also be one of the most challenging a...
Misdiagnosis in Childhood Trauma Survivors and its Effect on Healing
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description There are times that receiving a mental health diagnos...
What You Need to Know About Mental Health Certifications
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description In today’s episode, I continue the conversation abou...
What does it mean to be an expert in mental health?
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. Over the last several years, it has become even harder to discern who might be best to provide information ...
Why It's Vital to Honor Your Desires When Healing Childhood Trauma
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired on YouTube. The link mentioned is further down in the description I often talk about the importance of honoring ourselve...