Week 1
IN THIS LESSON
You’ll explore how lifestyle foundations such as sleep, exercise, food, sunlight, and community directly shape emotional regulation and trauma recovery. You’ll learn how each pillar supports your nervous system, restores balance, and reduces hyperarousal or shutdown. This lesson helps you deepen your awareness of emotional dysregulation and practice grounding techniques that reconnect you to your body during stress. You also begin identifying triggers, tracking emotional patterns, and building a personalized regulation toolkit. By the end, you gain a clearer understanding of how to expand your window of tolerance and integrate habits that create long-term stability and healing.
Key skills and insights gained include:
Understanding how sleep, movement, nutrition, sunlight, and connection support trauma recovery
Recognizing signs of emotional dysregulation and learning tools to regulate the nervous system
Practicing grounding techniques such as sensory grounding, breathwork, and temperature change
Tracking triggers through emotions, body sensations, and survival responses
Identifying underlying needs beneath emotional reactions
Strengthening the window of tolerance through mindfulness, movement, and consistent regulation practices
