Healing From Childhood Trauma - Tools For Self Improvement

Name: Healing From Childhood Trauma - Tools For Self Improvement
Rating: 4.5 (18 reviews)

A Comprehensive Course To Help Rescue And Heal Your Inner Child-Topics Discussing EMDR, PTSD, Grief Healing and More

Created byUkay J. Ekong

Last updated 9/2022

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What you'll learn

How To Heal from Childhood Trauma
The Complexity Of Childhood Trauma Amongst Races And Genders
How Childhood Trauma Affects Adulthood
Dealing With Grief During The Holidays
Your Pets Influence On Mental Health
How Childhoood Trauma Affects The Brain
The Way Your Health Is Affected From Trauma

Course content

3 sections • 46 lectures • 3h 41m total length

Opening3:22
Leverage science and research-backed tools for self-improvement to transform mindsets around childhood trauma and improve physical wellbeing through actionable daily routine steps and reliable instructor support.
Introduction3:50
Explore the history of psychological trauma and learn how childhood experiences shape adult health, with practical tools like daily journaling, grounding practices, and compassionate self-care.
The History of Psychological Trauma3:40
Explore the history of psychological trauma, crisis, and intervention, from the 1980s PTSD classification to EMDR and other therapies, and the media’s role in shaping distress.
Introduction Quiz
What Is Childhood Trauma?2:42
Define childhood trauma as abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, or parental illness within the family. Recognize signs to diagnose it, and pursue healing as a journey toward emotional freedom.
Test Your Knowledge
Signs & Symptoms Of Childhood Trauma1:10
Identify signs and symptoms of childhood trauma in children and adolescents, including hypervigilance and hyperarousal. Explore avoidance, intrusive thoughts, distressing flashbacks, and nightmares linked to trauma.
Test Your Knowledge
Race, Gender, & Trauma5:26
Explore how race and gender shape childhood trauma across women, LGBTQ youth, and African-American communities, and apply cognitive behavioral therapy, group treatment, and inclusive policies to support healing.
Test Your Knowledge
Childhood Trauma While Adulting5:01
Explore how childhood trauma persists into adulthood, shaping emotions, self-esteem, and relationships, and contributing to anxiety, addiction, and long-term health challenges.
Test Your Knowledge
What Is Trauma Blocking?7:53
Explore how suppressing childhood trauma increases distress and sleep problems, review the White Bear study and ironic processes, and learn tools to heal without avoidance or suppression.
Time To Heal0:51
Explore the ACE childhood trauma test to quantify types of trauma before age 18 and understand its impact on adult mental health and lifespan, starting now.
Test Your Knowledge
Un-Common Questions2:09
Explore common questions about childhood trauma, including its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder, prevalence, links to adhd, and ways to release trapped emotions through journaling, shadow work, and mindfulness.
Test Your Knowledge
Support Systems2:07
Actively acknowledge childhood trauma and pursue diverse healing paths through online communities, peer support, and trauma-informed therapy, while exploring resources like AECOM and finding Black therapists.
Test Your Knowledge
Healthy Mind5:13
Calm anxiety by practicing breathing, meditation, yoga, prayer, and therapy while confronting automatic negative thoughts (ants) and replacing black-and-white thinking, generalization, and mind reading with evidence-based reframing.
Test Your Knowledge
Psychologist Ethan Kross2:31
chatter hijacks executive functions, jeopardizing performance, decision making, relationships, happiness, and health. the chatter toolkit teaches science-based practices like reframing, environmental order, and compassionate distance self-talk to regain control.
Test Your Knowledge
Mental Wellness Do’s and Don’ts4:37
Set a path toward healing by rejecting trauma rationalization, focusing on future goals and gratitude, and embracing movement, journaling, mindfulness, and creativity while avoiding recreational substances.
Test Your Knowledge
Social Media & Mental Health5:07
Explore how social media shapes mental health, balancing negative factors like anxiety and cyberbullying with positives such as creativity and networking, plus practical tips to protect well-being.
Test Your Knowledge
Psychedelic Research2:41
Examine medicinal options for mental health, including ketamine and esketamine for rapid mood relief, FDA-approved for treatment-resistant depression, and psychedelics like ayahuasca, psilocybin, and MDMA under licensed supervision.
Test Your Knowledge
A Pet Owners Advantage2:42
Explore how the relationship with pets supports healing from childhood trauma by boosting serotonin and dopamine, reducing depression, stress, and loneliness, and enhancing social connection and vitality.
Test Your Knowledge
Surviving Holiday Grief5:08
Plan ahead to reduce holiday stress and anxiety by budgeting, gift lists, and scheduling tasks. Choose wisely, set realistic expectations, build community, and lean on fitness and faith to heal.
Test Your Knowledge

Introduction5:15
Explore internal and external pathways to healing from childhood trauma through faith, facts, and practical tools, blending mental health, spiritual restoration, fitness insights, and healthy lifestyle habits.
Chapter One3:17
Heal from childhood trauma by becoming buck naked and blessed, embracing confidence, God's unconditional love, uprooting shame, doing the work, and observing what you take in and give out.
Chapter Two3:26
Commitment is presented as a workbook; take notes with notebooks, whiteboards, and colored markers, and color-code tasks to sort goals by importance, boosting focus and execution.
Chapter Three16:10
Explore how coveting hinders growth and why running your own race accelerates personal transformation, while examining genetics, health risks, and practical self-improvement strategies.
Chapter Four4:09
Engage in a no-equipment lower body routine targeting quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteus maximus, abductors, calves, and shins, with 3–5 weekly sessions and guided pre- and post-workout nutrition for all levels.
Chapter Five3:46
Learn chapter five workout instructions that guide wall sits, calf raises, squats, engine starters, and alphabet workout to engage the abdominals and legs.
Chapter Six1:07
Chapter six, identify three dry erase marker colors on whiteboard; clarify purpose and priority; note one fact about your family history genetics; and set lower leg workout goals with accountability.
Chapter Seven3:22
Explore transparency and inward work to build inner strength, examining prayer and meditation through a Christian lens while embracing compassion and nuanced faith.
Chapter Eight2:53
Explore how faith in Jesus guides healing from childhood trauma through love, accountability, and understanding beyond religious practices, with transparency and practical steps for mental health.
Chapter Nine18:19
Explore chapter nine on bullying, fear, and resilience, showing how faith, self-discipline, and practical steps—telling someone, taking breaks from online abuse, and joining supportive groups—aid healing.
Chapter Ten3:48
Reevaluate toxic relationships, spot red flags in communication and energy, and note CBD's emerging role in mental wellness with medical cautions.
Chapter Eleven5:06
Explore how prayer and meditation differ and serve healing and restoration, as the chapter examines faith, scripture, and liberation within a historical context and personal journey toward peace.
Chapter Twelve5:18
Explore how prayer, including the Lord's Prayer, serves as a personal dialogue with God, fosters presence and gratitude, and can reduce worry while offering guidance.
Chapter Thirteen8:19
Explore meditation as a tool for healing from childhood trauma, with mindfulness, types, beginner guidance, and the role of spiritual practices and faith in resilience.
Chapter Fourteen1:46
Heal childhood trauma by memorizing three new scriptures or quotes, setting one learning goal, testing guided meditation for three days, and evaluating your top ten social circle members.

Excercise- Wall Sits0:07
Wall Sits (4 Sets)
1. Make sure your back is flat against the wall.
2. Set your feet about shoulder-width apart and then about 2 ft out from the wall.
3. Slide your back down the wall, bending your legs until they’re in a 90-degree angle or as close as you can get! Your knees should be directly above your ankles, but no more forward.
4. HOLD your position, while contracting your abs.
5. Stand slowly, while leaning against the wall, when done.
Exercise- Wall Sits (Beginner)0:12
Practice beginner wall sits to improve body awareness, endurance, and self-regulation, supporting healing from childhood trauma and personal growth.
Excercise- Calf Raise0:22
Calf Raises (4 Sets)
1. Stand arm’s length from the wall.
2. Keep your abdominals pulled in, the balls of your feet firmly planted on the ground.
3. Rest your hands against a wall. For non-beginners lean into chair using elbows for balance.
4. Raise your heels all the way up till you end on your tiptoes.
5. Hold the position for a moment feeling the full contraction of the calf, and then lower your heels back to the ground
6. Repeat
Excercise- Calf Raise (Beginner)0:19
Practice calf raises for beginners within a healing from childhood trauma framework to support self-improvement and resilience.
Excercise-Double Squat0:20
Squats (5 Sets)
1. Stand with your head facing forward and your chest held up and out.
2. Place your feet shoulder-width apart or slightly wider. Extend your hands straight out in front of you to help keep your balance. You can also bend the elbows or clasp the fingers.
3. Sit back and down like you're sitting into an imaginary chair (or actually sit in the chair). Keep your head facing forward as your upper body bends forward a bit. Rather than allowing your back to round, let your lower back arch slightly as you descend.
4. Lower down so your thighs are as parallel to the floor as possible, with your knees over your ankles. Press your weight back into your heels.
5. Keep your body tight (controlled), as you bring yourself back to the starting position.
Exercise- Single Squat (Beginner)0:20
Explore a beginner-friendly single squat exercise to support healing from childhood trauma and tools for self-improvement through practical movement.
Excercise -Engine Starters0:19
Engine Starters (4 Sets)
1. Step one foot forward, tightening abdominal. Taking a wide stance with both feet pointing forward and your left heel lifted off the ground.
2. Bend your knees, lowering until both legs form a 90-degreeangle.
3. Do your set of reps on that leg.
4. Then repeat a new set with the other leg in the reverse position.
5. (Stay aware that you are keeping shoulders back and pushing upward)
Excersise- Engine Starters (Beginner)0:18
Start beginner exercises to jump-start healing from childhood trauma. Build self-improvement tools and practical steps for personal growth.
Excercise- Alphabet Workout0:17
Alphabet Workout (2 Sets)
1. Sit down with feet extended and palms down for balance
2. Set your feet about shoulder-width apart
3. Lift each leg independently, slightly leaning back to engage abs.
4. Make sure to mirror the other leg as perfect as possible so each gets an equal amount of work.
5. Limit rest or breaks till after each leg completes
PT.111:22
Explore buck naked and blessed authenticity as a path to healing childhood trauma, guided by grace and divinely protected living, with writing and personal growth.
PT.214:32
Explore how a challenging upbringing in a small two-bedroom apartment shaped resilience, through early football, parental sacrifice, and a coach's harsh lesson, guiding self-improvement with Buck Naked and Blessed.
PT. 311:44
Explore a personal journey through childhood trauma and mental health, framed by faith and community. See how buck naked and blessed offers steps and principles for inner healing and self-improvement.
PT. 429:33
An intimate memoir of childhood trauma and resilience in a Nigerian church and school, from field-day embarrassment to near-drowning and theft, highlighting discipline, perseverance, and mindful decisions.

Requirements

Journal or Electronic Notepad
Open Mind
Quiet Workspace With Little To No Distractions

Description

“Slow, deep breathing is important… It’s like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t get rid of the storm, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” -Russ Harris, 2008

Is it finally time to stop running from your broken childhood?

Are you still tormented from dark and abusive childhood memories?

Would you be open to restoring your peace again?

Healing From Childhood Trauma - Tools For Self Improvement, is a course created by best-selling author and veteran wellness coach, Ukay J. Ekong. Each lesson is designed with the intention to take learners through insightful studies on mental health topics. Curriculum follows Ukay's own personal experiences with childhood trauma growing up in Dallas, Texas and then couples it with researched scientific data that has been filtered out to provide learners only the most valuable and comprehensive information for daily practical use.

Anyone who feels like they may have been dealt a dysfunctional hand during childhood or who continues to struggle to trust others, should strongly consider this course. This is especially true for individuals currently wrestling with feelings of acceptance or self-doubt in adulthood, due to unspeakable or traumatic childhood events.

As a learner, look forward to being able to start the process of ridding the mind of negative voices which seem to only be focused on highlighting false narratives or past regrets. And instead, learn ways to adopt healthy routines and powerful tips lead by a built-in support system, of Mr. Ekong. Coach Ekong's main focus for learners will be safely guiding them carefully to transformation, and not leaving them without providing various tools to build from in future. If you're willing to acknowledge your in need of any level of healing, this is a perfect place to start.

This course provides clarity on critical question such as:

Is childhood trauma PTSD?
Is childhood trauma common?
What are childhood trauma responses?
How childhood trauma affects adulthood?
Why is my childhood trauma coming back?

Who can most benefit from this course?

This course is best suited for learners focused on a one-on-one, self-development styled education.

We sincerely encourage anyone who considers themselves having struggles with finding self worth, or tormented by abusive childhood memories as an adult.

· Approximately 9.5% of American adults ages 18 and over, will suffer from a depressive illness (major depression, bipolar disorder, or dysthymia) each year.

While major depression can develop at any age, the average age at onset is the mid-20s.
With bipolar disorder, which affects approximately 2.6% of Americans age 18 and older in a given year -- the average age at onset for a first manic episode is during the early 20s.

Who this course is for:

Individuals with irregular sleep habits due to negative thoughts.
People who frequently feel emotionally overwhelmed or have experienced serious trauma.
Individuals who unknowingly choose violent or abusive partners consistently.
People more likely to withdraw from social situations and friends or isolate themselves often.
Very familiar with feelings of depression or hopelessness.
Struggle with emotional stability.
Poor eating habits or unhealthy dieting.

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