Tell us what you were looking for in a method, and why you decided to enrol with us.
Hi. The reason I chose to enrol with the, um The Centre for Healing organisation was because I had been in the social work field for about 20 years. And then, um, I suffered a very significant and prolonged trauma which took me away from my career for about two years. When I re-entered, um, the workforce. I was looking for some courses to re jog my memory, Um, to remember some of the modalities that I, um, had been practising. And I accidentally stumbled across two men, um, on social media, talking about a, um, trauma informed course that was free and online. So I thought, Why not? I'll jump online and see what they've got to offer. Well, halfway through the introduction course, I realised that I needed to become certified in, um, this form of therapy because I realised that as I was learning this and studying this, it was actually healing me. It was healing me from my trauma. Um, the reason why I'd left the, um, the workforce and how I knew this was because I was having epiphany after epiphany. Um, light bulb moments, Um, about why I was operating in the way that I was with life. I was just doing I wasn't living, um, through learning, um, this course I realised I had disassociated from my body and I was living in my mind. Um, and I was able to reconnect, reconnect back into the body. Um, and I wasn't I wasn't reacting in the way that I was beforehand. I was able to look at situations, um, differently. I wasn't, um, running away from the feelings I was feeling in my body. I was able to observe, to process and to digest and move on from it. Memories from childhood came up, um, unpleasant memories. And again, I was able to look at it from an adult's point of view and work through it, and it no longer triggers me in the way that it was triggering me before I learnt how to heal my body by completing the courses that the centre for healing offer. It has been a game changer for me. If I hadn't stumbled across, um, the video with Ryan and Matt talking about, um, trauma informed therapy, I would still be living my life in freeze response, which is what, um, that trauma caused for me. I didn't realise it was even freeze response. And I work in the social work field. You know, II, I counsel and support young people who have had trauma, and I talked to them about the freeze response and the flight response and any survival tactics that our body uses when we believe there is a threat. And I couldn't even recognise that in myself. And I have been, um, as I said in this field for, you know, 20 years, So I really II I owe my new life to the centre for healing. Um so grateful things don't happen by accident. I found these people for a reason. And if any of this is resonating with you, jump on board. It's not as scary as you think it is. You will. You will love it. Trust me.
Tell us a bit about how you found the training itself and what kind of results you have seen in yourself and others in sessions?
the training is so easy to follow. I love how it is, um, self paced. So everything is recorded and it's Melissa or Ryan or or Matt having a conversation like I'm having a conversation with you right now. Um, they don't speak In the professional jargon, there is no referencing. There is no having to learn, um, political views, um, and all those other things that come along with, um, a degree in whatever field. Um, it's just so easy and so simple to follow, and they speak from experience themselves. So it's like you are having a direct conversation with them. Even though it is Pre-recorded, you have the opportunity to ask questions. You have the opportunity to, um, see other people's questions and the responses that are given from Ryan or or or, um, Melissa. Um, and they get back to you. It's not, you know, AAA month or two months down the track. It's an almost instant response. So you were learning via video, but it is in real time response. Um, it was just easy, you know, I. I listened to the videos. I wrote down important things that I, um thought I'd need to remember. And, um, that was all it was. It wasn't hours of studying on end. There were no deadlines. It was just at your pace whenever you could do it. But I'll tell you something. As soon as I found how beautiful, Um, this was healing my body. I envisioned myself seeing the finishing line with the modalities of, um, the mo the, um, module I was completing. And I was just grabbing every single, uh, resource, every single, um, opportunity to collect. Um, before I got to the finish line to be certified, cos I knew exactly that this is what I want. This is what I wanted to do. I get excited. I talk fast. This is what I wanted to do to help heal the world, to help pay it forward. And I couldn't wait to get there. So I was just studying every opportunity that I had. I worked full time, and I'm trying to start my own business. But I was so focused on studying because I just wanted to keep learning more about this specific type of therapy that is designed to help people who have had trauma. As I said in myself, Um, Gosh, where do I start? I sleep better. I don't walk in the victim mentality pose. I don't have my shoulder slump. I don't have my chin down. I was walking to work one day and I noticed I was open. My shoulders were back, my chin was up and I just had this feeling of happiness again in in the sense of happiness that I hadn't had since my trauma back in September 2018. They they have given me a new me. This is Jo, version three point. Oh, and I am so excited to be living her to find out what else is in store for the new me. Um, people that have held sessions for the only words that I can use to describe What I see created in these sessions is magic Now. I always believed in magic when I was a little girl. Yes, I was special and I used to think that adults are lying to us because there is magic. There has to be a magic. It says so in the books. It says so on the TV screens. And now, as an adult, I realise this is magic. This shifting our vibration, our energy that is in stuck response that is in freeze, that is, in fight or flight, whatever it is. Once that energy is shifted into a higher vibrational state of love, joy, happiness, peace, all of those wonderful feelings. When we literally shift, we feel that shift, and there is no other word to describe except magic.
