An On-Line workshop with Damon Sean Dickinson
Trauma Healing through Reparenting the Self
Discover thriving, aliveness, and the deepest of healing through the gentle, accessible, and effective art of Becoming Your Own LOVING PARENT!
Healing The Past
Unhealed traumas from our past form defense patterns that lead to fragmentation. Yet these wounded parts are longing for integration. And our adult selves are wanting to thrive instead of just survive. We know that healing is possible, we’re just not always sure how.
Loving Parent Approach
The deepest possible healing is available through the gentle and effective art of reparenting our wounded inner parts. It is an empowering, accessible, affordable process that touches the core of these patterns and truly transforms them.
Outcomes
We learn how to become integrated, alive, and harmonious adults capable of a strong sense of inner wellness, thriving relationships, and ease around offering our gifts to the world.
When we integrate and heal the wounded parts of us, we become our true essence: present, empowered, and alive; with less and less reliance on distraction, addiction, and repetition of our trauma patterns.
Our definition of trauma is ‘any experience that we cannot integrate.’ Complex trauma is often defined as repeated unintegrated and unresolved experiences.
For many of us growing up in under resourced and ill-equipped households, within the context of a toxic cultural framework, we have a myriad of experiences that we have not integrated.
Trauma causes us to disconnect from our essence, from core and important parts of ourselves. Over time, these parts become “disowned” and fragmentation is the result.
Instead of moving through the world with our innate wisdom, delightful embodiment, and connection with our divinity in tact, we struggle with self sabotage in the form of insecurity, disassociation, codependence, abuse (to self and others), shame and blame, codependence, anxiety, rage, and more.
Oftentimes these adaptive strategies lead to habitual negative coping strategies that manifest as addictions and ongoing patterns of trauma in our adult lives.
Fortunately, we possess the ability to heal this cycle of dysfunction. The solution is to become our own loving parent.
Thankfully this is an elegant and accessible healing modality. Once we learn the formula, we can begin to befriend every part of ourselves and reintegrate parts of us that have been wanting to “come home” to the self.
Damon Sean Dickinson a decades-long practitioner of breathwork, open-heart meditation, zen, shamanism, plant medicine, and 12 step recovery. As a 6/2 Projector in Human Design, he holds a specific and unique role as a mentor, guide, and support for others to embrace their authentic self and uncover their true essence. Damon Sean works with a variety of modalities such as Sedona Method, Flower Essences, NLP, Internal Family Systems, Tantra, and the simple yet profound art of letting go. Equally at home in the physical and metaphysical worlds, Damon Sean is a true Renaissance soul – weaving his life experience into his psycho spiritual integration coaching and his ongoing experimentation as a dad, partner, friend, and community member.
My Reparenting Story:
“Having grown up in a highly dysfunctional home I found myself coping in unhealthy ways at a very early age. In fact, by the time I was 17, I was dealing with a severe drug and alcohol addiction. Thankfully, at that same time (age 17), I found recovery through an in patient treatment center and immersed myself in the 12 steps of recovery.
Over the course of these many years, I explored a multitude of different personal and spiritual growth paths. Although I healed in many ways, I still found myself plagued with relationship, career, and financial struggles. No matter how hard I tried, I seemed to re-create the painful patterns of my past.
Through a series of major life crises, I was forced to find new modalities of healing and support, which led me to discover ACA and becoming my own loving parent.
Discovering and practicing this body of work has been one of the most pivotal healing points in my life journey and I want to be able to share it with the world. It is truly that powerful!
I continue to learn and grow as I discover my internal parts, engage with love, and bring harmony to my inner family. As a result , I am experiencing major shifts in my ability to feel inner peace clarity and becoming who I want to be in life.”
~Damon Sean
When we become our own loving parent, we…..
- transform surviving into truly thriving
- create harmony with your Inner Family
- cultivate our inner sense of wellbeing, experience peace in our relationships, and activate our contribution to the world
- stay present and empowered as the healthiest version of ourselves
- transform traumatized parts that formed protective defense patterns into liberated and alive aspects of ourselves
- feel awareness, hopefulness, empowerment, and enthusiasm for self and life
- experience peaceful, regulated, grounded, centered, and open-hearted loving towards self and others
The Solution, to overcome trauma and dysfunction, as stated in the Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families (ACA and ACoA) program, is to become our own loving parent.
The Loving Parent Guidebook provides step-by-step support on creating the conditions to reclaim your inner child and reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect.
Developing your reparenting skills can change your life.
You do NOT need to purchase this guidebook for our workshop together. You may however wish to continue your reparenting journey and may wish to use this guidebook as a support. Go here to purchase the guidebook (it’s less expensive here than on Amazon and supports the ACA movement).
Another free and very useful tool is the reparenting worksheet, which we will be using this workshop together (I will provide copies). Go here to download for free.
