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Sometimes we don't need more information about healing. We need safe places to practice a different way of being. Growth happens differently when we don't have to do it alone.
These 6-week groups are designed for women who are ready to strengthen their mental and emotional health in a supportive, and trauma-informed environment.
We rotate through different resources that cover a variety of topics designed to support emotional wellness and personal growth.
It’s perfect for you if you’re longing for a nurturing space where you don’t have to perform, rush, or be anything other than yourself.
New Group: 🌱 Beyond Survival
You’ve done a lot of healing. What if the next chapter isn’t about fixing yourself, but learning how to live more fully?
Beyond Survival is a six-week guided experience for women who are ready to explore what can come next with greater self-trust, connection, meaning, possibility, and hope.
Together, we’ll use concepts from The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook by Dr. Arielle Schwartz to explore what can begin to grow as we reconnect with ourselves and the lives we want to live.
Maybe you’ve already spent a lot of time trying to understand what happened to you.
You’ve reflected.
You’ve learned.
You’ve grown.
You’ve survived things that changed you.
And yet, underneath all that work, there may be a quieter question:
How do I build a meaningful life from here?
Not when every wound is resolved.
Not when you finally become the person you used to be.
Not when you’ve figured everything out.
From here. As you are.
🌱 Maybe Survival Isn’t the Whole Story
You may be functioning, but not always feel fully alive.
You may have done a lot of healing work and still wonder why something feels missing.
Maybe you’ve changed so much that you’re not entirely sure who you are anymore.
You want to trust yourself and your choices more.
You want deeper relationships without losing yourself inside them.
You want to feel more grounded and less driven by fear, guilt, or obligation.
And perhaps some of your beliefs or your relationship with faith have changed along the way, too.
You don’t need to have all of that resolved before you begin living.
There can be room for what still hurts and for what is beginning to grow.
🌱 What If Healing Isn’t Only About Looking Back?
So much of healing understandably focuses on what happened:
Why did this affect me this way?
Why do I respond like this?
How do I feel safe again?
Those questions matter.
But eventually, other questions may begin to emerge:
Who am I becoming?
What matters to me now?
What kind of relationships do I want?
What do I trust?
What possibilities might exist for my life now?
This is the territory of post-traumatic growth.
Post-traumatic growth does not mean what happened to you was good. It doesn’t mean you should be grateful for painful experiences, and it doesn’t mean pain simply disappears.
It gives us language for something deeply human:
Sometimes, as we rebuild after difficult experiences, something new begins to grow.
🌱 What We’ll Explore Together
Over six weeks, we’ll gently explore five areas associated with post-traumatic growth:
Personal Strength
Recognizing the courage, wisdom, capacity, and self-trust that may have developed within you.
Deeper Relationships
Exploring connection, authenticity, healthy boundaries, and relationships where you can increasingly be yourself.
New Possibilities
Making room for choices, dreams, directions, and ways of living that may not have seemed possible before.
Greater Appreciation for Life
Getting clearer about what matters to you and how you want to spend the life in front of you.
Spiritual & Existential Growth
Making room for questions about meaning, purpose, beliefs, and faith when those questions are meaningful to you—without pressure to arrive at particular answers.
🌱What You Can Expect Over Our Six Weeks Together
Over our time, we’ll create space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and explore what may be ready to shift or grow in your life.
This is a guided, experiential group where you’ll have opportunities to reflect, learn, connect, and practice new ways of relating to yourself and your experiences.
Our time together will include:
Guided teaching and meaningful conversation
Reflection and experiential exercises
Gentle practices to help you feel more grounded and present
Exploration of growth, meaning, and new possibilities
Opportunities for authentic connection with other women
Space to notice what you’re learning about yourself and what you want to carry forward
Faith and spiritual questions are welcome when they’re part of your experience, but you don’t need to be in any particular place with your faith to belong here.
There’s no pressure to have it all figured out. You’re invited to come as you are, participate at your own pace, and see what begins to unfold over our six weeks together.
🌱 Could Beyond Survival Be Right for You?
This group may resonate if you find yourself thinking:
“I’ve survived a lot, but I want to feel like I’m actually living again.”
“I’ve done so much work on myself. Why does something still feel missing?”
“I want to trust myself and my choices more.”
“I want deeper relationships without losing myself.”
“I’m tired of treating myself like a problem I need to solve.”
“I’ve changed, and I’m trying to understand who I am now.”
“I don’t need someone to fix me. I want support as I figure out what comes next.”
If those words feel familiar, Beyond Survival may offer the kind of space you’ve been looking for.
🌱 What Might Become Possible?
There is no promised outcome and no timeline you need to follow. Every woman will bring a different story and have her own experience.
During our six weeks together, you’ll have opportunities to cultivate:
Greater self-understanding and self-compassion
A growing sense of self-trust
Greater clarity about what matters to you
Healthier boundaries and more authentic relationships
Practical ways to feel more grounded during difficult moments
Greater awareness of your strengths
New possibilities for your life
Space for meaning, hope, and honest questions
Because moving forward doesn't require pretending the past didn't happen.
And living more fully doesn't require waiting until everything is completely healed.
🌱 Our Approach Is…
Trauma-informed
Safety, pacing, consent, and nervous system awareness guide everything we do.
Gentle
No pressure to share, perform, or “fix” anything.
Just space to breathe and grow.
Steady
Small steps, week by week, with compassion leading the way.
Faith-integrated
Grace-filled, grounded, and honoring your story — never religious or pushy.
🌱You Don't Have to Wait Until Everything Is Resolved to Begin Living
You can still have questions. You can still have tender places.
You can still have days when old patterns show up. And alongside all of that, something else can also be true:
You can begin creating a life that feels more like yours.
A life with more choice.
More connection.
More meaning.
More self-trust.
More room to breathe.
More hope.
Not because the hard parts don’t matter, but they don’t have to be the final chapter.
If something in you is wondering what life beyond survival could look like, we'd be honored to explore that question alongside you.
🌱 Group Details
Length: 6 weeks
Format: Weekly live gatherings through a secure video platform
Book:The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook by Dr. Arielle Schwartz
(Participants purchase their own copy.)
Dates: Wednesdays October -November
Time: 9-10:30am PDT/ 12-1:30pm EDT (90 minutes)
Investment: [Insert Investment]
Group size will be kept to 8 women to intentionally hold supportive space and connection.
This experience may be especially supportive for women who have already engaged in some reflection or healing work and feel ready to explore growth, meaning, connection, and what comes next.
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Beyond Survival is a six-week guided experience for women who are ready to explore what can come next—with greater self-trust, connection, meaning, possibility, and hope.
Pay your deposit of $99 to hold your place. Remaining Balance is due prior to the group start. An invoice will be sent to you 7 days before the start date of the group. NON-REFUNDABLE. If you choose to not join the group you may use the deposit towards a future group.
$297
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Beyond Survival is a six-week guided experience for women who are ready to explore what can come next—with greater self-trust, connection, meaning, possibility, and hope.
What WOmen had to say about our groups
“This is a space intentionally designed to hold and support you as you move through your journey of restoration. From the start, I felt a sense of permission that allowed me to slow down and show up as I am. I leave each session feeling more grounded and connected to myself. I’m truly grateful for this space and would recommend it to anyone seeking meaningful restoration by "trying softer".”
— Group Participant“Being with this group of women showed me that there is safety and importance in just showing up and being present rather than a focus of preparedness and achievement. I have been able to notice and practice recognizing my emotions and nervous system regulation.”
— Group Participant“I noticed that I was able to take some of the grounding practices with me in a way that I haven't been doing before. I find myself thinking about my time with the group and I feel encouraged.”
— Group ParticipantMeet Your Facilitator’s
Heather Berg
Trauma-Informed Coach| IFS Practitioner | Clinical Mental Health Counseling GraduateHeather Berg is a trauma-informed coach and graduate-level mental health counselor in training who walks alongside women and couples healing from betrayal trauma, complex PTSD, religious trauma, and stuck relational patterns. Her work is rooted in the Created To Move philosophy and the same invitation found in Try Softer: that real change doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from learning how to feel safer, more compassionate toward yourself, and more connected to what’s true inside.
Heather integrates IFS (parts work), somatic and polyvagal-informed practices, and the Enneagram as gentle tools for awareness and sustainable growth. Married for nearly 30 years and a mom to three young adult sons (including twins), she brings both lived experience and advanced training—especially in betrayal trauma and relationship repair—creating spaces where people don’t feel rushed, fixed, or judged, but supported in taking their next right step toward healing and wholeness.
Melissa Short
Melissa Short is a Trauma Recovery Coach and Certified Trauma Support Specialist who supports women healing from complex trauma (C-PTSD), attachment wounds, religious trauma, and painful relationship patterns.
Through a compassionate, trauma-informed approach, Melissa integrates IFS (parts work), somatic and nervous system regulation practices, and mindfulness to help women cultivate greater internal safety, clarity, self-trust, and connection with themselves.
Married for 15 years and a mom to one son, Melissa understands the importance of creating space for healing that feels gentle, grounded, and sustainable. Her work is centered on helping women feel deeply seen and supported while giving them practical tools to move forward without pressure, perfection, or the need to rush the process.
Healing happens one gentle step at a time—and you don’t have to take those steps alone.
Trauma Recovery Coach | Certified Trauma Support Specialist Our StoryFrom Friends to Partners
Heather and I first met in a group, and over time, our friendship became a meaningful source of support as we each walked through our own healing and professional training.
Through many conversations, we began to recognize something we both deeply felt: there are not enough spaces where women can come exactly as they are while they are healing.
Spaces where there is no pressure to have it all figured out.
No spiritual or emotional bypassing.
No need to minimize the pain, put on a brave face, or perform healing for anyone else.
We wanted a place where women could be honest about what they were carrying and still feel welcomed, supported, and understood—a space where healing could unfold gently, at its own pace, in the presence of safe and compassionate community.
And we realized that the kind of space we were longing for was difficult to find.
So we decided to create it.
That desire became the beginning of our groups: the kind of supportive space we both wished we had along the way. A place to show up authentically, receive support, build meaningful connection, and take the next step in healing without pressure, perfection, or having to pretend you’re okay.