PART ONE

From experience I know just as each person is unique, each trauma experience is unique. We will begin by 1) Identifying your own unique trauma experience: an assessment of how the trauma has impacted you and exactly where and how the trauma is currently keeping you stuck. 2) We will explore what you already have available to you --- your own, unique resources, aids, and tools --- which can help you begin to move from where you are now to where you want to be. 3) We will consider the difference between Prayerfulness and Mindfulness as helpful healing aids.

PART TWO

4) We will take a closer look at how trauma affects the brain, to better understand what role trauma plays in your thoughts, feelings, and perception of yourself and  work, together, to begin to heal and transform those thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. 5) We will focus on your emotions and on learning how to use whatever you are feeling as a tool that can help you heal.

PART THREE

6) Trauma impacts our lives and changes us in important ways, and so we will take note of who you were before the trauma, how the trauma has changed you, then map out who you would like to become in spite of the trauma. As part of this process we will discern each participant's own unique gifts and talents, who you were created to be, and who you are called to become. And we explore ways you can use your gifts and talents as a part of your healing journey.

This directed retreat introduces you to the steps necessary to begin to  transform woundedness into strength and embrace life with a renewed sense of confidence. In other words, the goal is to explore what is essential to becoming a resilient person who has an accurate understanding of self in terms of  who God has created and called you to become; to begin to set realistic and appropriate priorities and boundaries, and invite and embrace healthy relationships. Participants will asked to prepare their own personal map -- their plan for the future -- so even after the retreat ends they can continue, step-by-step, to embrace a future filled with possibility and hope.

Questions? Please contact Lynda Ward at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To register and reserve this individual, one-on-one directed retreat, please click on the "register" button below. To make a payment, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the payment icon or click on "payments" from the menu at the top of the page. Thank you!

This “Gap Time Retreat” is a unique support and healing retreat for women who are partners and spouses of sex addicts who want to 1) get grounded and create stability in their life no matter what is going on with their partner, 2) focus on the future and not stay stuck in trauma, an unpredictable present, or the past, 3) identify and address whatever obstacles are in the way, 4) deepen their healing and strengthen their self-knowledge in order to become creative agents for change in their relationships and lives, 5) explore where they are being called and the meaning and purpose of their lives, and 6) embrace what lies ahead with plans (and hope) in place.

Together retreat members will accomplish these goals: 1) through a process of discussion and discernment, 2) through a regular practice of prayer, 3) by identifying and understanding their relationship and attachment style, 4) by examining what makes for healthy vs. unhealthy relationships (and assessing whether or not yours has the potential to become healthy!), 5) through discovering their unique "stuckness" and how to unstick it, 6) by clarifying their needs and goals and exploring the options of how to meet them (which will help bring predictability into your life!), 7) by focusing on how the brain operates in Gap Time (get to know your amygdala!), and 8) by keeping a journal (I promise, it won't be your typical journal!).

One of our resources will be the book Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay by Mira Kirshenbaum.

We will go beyond the traditional phone group style format with an online, private and secure, room --- where phone and video chats will still be an option --- but where together participants can work through the weekly topics and exercises, gather additional resources, and stay connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the entire time our group meets. Note: This can also be taken individually as a one-on-one non-group offering.

Questions? Please contact Lynda Ward at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To register and reserve your place in the workshop, please click on the "register" button below. To make a payment, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the payment icon or click on "payments" from the menu at the top of the page. Thank you!

In this workshop, you will identify your relationship style (attachment and bonding style) as well as your relationship strengths and vulnerabilities (and how to manage both). You will pinpoint what your relationship needs are and how to work with your partner to get those needs met in healthy ways. And you will come to understand the science and theology behind attachment and connection as well as how past and present relationships, and any trauma you’ve experienced, affects your ability to bond and connect with others.

If your partner suffers from “Intimacy Anorexia” or some form of attachment injury or relational trauma, or you, yourself, struggle with these issues, this workshop can help you better understand the obstacles to intimacy, what created the obstacles, and how to overcome them.

Stan Tatkin’sWired for Love book will be our guide, but we will also draw from other resources, such as the wisdom offered from the EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) model and from Christian theology with its assertion that we are created for connection.

Exercises will be designed so no matter where you are in your relationship, married or separated, they will be beneficial to you.

All participants will have access to an online private and secure workshop room, where together participants can work through the weekly topics and exercises, gather additional resources, and stay connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the entire time our group meets.

Note: This can also be taken by an individual couple as a non-group offering.

Questions? Please contact Lynda Ward at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To register and reserve your place in the workshop, please click on the "register" button below. To make a payment, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the payment icon or click on "payments" from the menu at the top of the page. Thank you!

[Disclaimer: If you are in a relationship where there is violence, abuse, or crippling mental illness or addiction that hasn't been addressed, or you feel you are in danger, please seek professional help. This workshop is not a substitute for professional help.] 

From my own experience as a “trauma mama” --- I adopted a child with a trauma background --- and from learning how to address her needs, working alongside other parents who struggle to address trauma in children, and from my studies in attachment and building resilience in children, I have learned so much about how to address the needs of trauma children as well as what’s necessary to help to “trauma proof” children so they can grow up healthy, safe, and strong.

In this facilitated and interactive workshop, we’ll use “The Whole Brain Child” by Dan Siegel, a neuropsychiatrist and Tina Payne Bryson, a parenting expert as our guide, but I encourage all participants to bring in examples from their own lives, issues with which they are currently struggling, so that together we can address the very real needs of all participants.

We will go beyond the traditional phone group style format with an online, private and secure, room --- where phone and video chats will still be an option --- but where together participants can work through the weekly topics and exercises, gather additional resources, and stay connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the entire time our group meets. Note: This can also be taken individually as a one-on-one non-group offering.

Questions? Please contact Lynda Ward at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To register and reserve your place in the workshop, please click on the "register" button below. To make a payment, please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the payment icon or click on "payments" from the menu at the top of the page. Thank you!

[Disclaimer: If your child suffers from alcohol or drug exposure, mental disorders, or severe attachment disorder such as RADS, or is violent or at risk for self harm, please seek help from your family doctor and/or a mental health professional immediately. This workshop is not a substitute for treatment from a medical or mental health professional]