Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to The Hypervigilant Trauma Personality From Eggshell Parents & Partners

    • Welcome to The Hypervigilant Trauma Personality From Eggshell Parents and Partners

    • CASE EXAMPLE: MILK

    • How this Course Works

    • A Little About Me

    • PART 1 OF THE E-WORKBOOK (BEST PDF TO PRINT FILE) THE HYPERVIGILANT TRAUMA PERSONALITY FROM EGGSHELL PARENTS & PARTNERS BY DR. KIM SAGE

    • PART 2 OF THE E-WORKBOOK (BEST PDF TO PRINT FILE) THE HYPERVIGILANT TRAUMA PERSONALITY FROM EGGSHELL PARENTS & PARTNERS BY DR. KIM SAGE
  • 2

    Chapter #1 Identifying and Assessing The Hypervigilant Trauma Personality and Eggshell Parents and Partners

  • 3

    Chapter #2 The 5 Core Trauma Responses of Hypervigilance & Eggshell Relationships

  • 4

    Chapter #3 The Trauma Cycles of Hypervigilance, The Brain and Eggshell Relationships

    • CASE EXAMPLE: INVISIBLE

    • The Trauma Cycle of Hypervigilance: CPTSD and PTSD

    • CPTSD VS PTSD (AND BOTH!)

    • Eggshell Relationships: The Brain and Trauma Map
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    Chapter 4: How Chronic Hypervigilance Impacts Your Brain: Fear

    • Hypervigilance and The Brain

    • The Brain, Hypervigilance and Trauma

    • EQ and Trauma: Hyper-vigilance
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    Chapter 5: Polyvagal Theory and How To Regulate Your Nervous System

    • Hypervigilance and The Nervous System in Poly-Vagal Theory

    • 3 Nervous System States: Poly-Vagal Theory and Deb Dana's Work

    • Mapping Your Nervous System

    • Polyvagal Techniques (Ideas!)

    • Story Follows State and Video

    • What is the Story?

    • Story Follows State
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    Chapter 6: How Hypervigilance Shows Up in Your Life and Harnessing Your Window of Tolerance

    • Chronic Hypervigilance 4 Main Signs and Symptoms/Your Window of Tolerance

    • Types & Signs: Chronic Hypervigilance (Emotional/Behavioral/Physical/Interpersonal

    • Resourcing and Window of Tolerance
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    Chapter 7: Your Eggshell Parents and Partners: Deep Dive and Exercises

    • Your Eggshell Parents and Partners: Deep Dive and Exercises

    • Who Displays Eggshell Patterns Most Often? NPD and BPD, Emotionally Immature Parents/Partners

    • CASE EXAMPLE: THE TACOS
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    Chapter 8: Symptom Checklist/Exercises: Eggshell Relationships and Deep Dive Into Your Life

    • The Impact of Eggshell Relationships

    • Eggshell Checklist and Eggshell Experiences in Your Life

    • Identifying My Symptoms to Target
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    Chapter 9: Attachment Theory, Maternal Attachment Styles & Relationship Check In Exercises

    • Attachment

    • Mothering Styles In Attachment

    • Attachment Styles & Relational Check Up

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    Chapter 10: Identifying Emotional Abuse and Exercises

    • CASE EXAMPLE: ALWAYS BE BUSY

    • Emotional Abuse

    • Emotional Abuse Exercises
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    Chapter 11: Building Your Identity and Emotional Skills & Exercises

    • Emotions and Identity

    • Emotions Exercises (2)

    • Identity

    • The Tree of Life Identity Exercise
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    Chapter 12: Hypervigilance & The Shame Pipeline/Trauma Bonding Exercises

    • Hypervigilance and Trauma Bonding

    • The Mood Pipeline: The Need to Read to Shame Pipeline

    • Trauma Bonding Exercises
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    Chapter 13: Compulsive Caretaking and Fawning/People Pleasing: Exercises

    • Compulsive Caretaking and Fawning

    • Compulsive Caretaking & Fawning Exercises
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    Chapter 14: Enmeshment, Parentification and Boundaries: Exercises

    • Enmeshment, Parentification, Boundaries: Exercises

    • Boundaries and Psychological Separation Exercises: Eggshell Relationships

    • Enmeshment/Parentification & Boundaries Exercises
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    Chapter 15: Dealing with Your Conflict Avoidance and Anger Issues: Exercises/Techniques

    • Conflict Avoidance and Anger Issues

    • Conflict Avoidance vs Anger

    • How to Stop Yelling

    • Mentalizing and Personalizing: Learning to Separate and Self Reflect Exercises

    • Mentalizing Exercises
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    Chapter 17: Isolating and Collapsing From Socializing/Exhaustion & Grieving: Exercises

    • Grieving

    • Grieving Exercises

    • Hypervigilance and Isolating, Collapsing

    • Isolating/Collapsing Exercises
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    Chapter 16: Complex PTSD & Identifying Your Trauma Triggers Exercises

    • CAST EXAMPLE: INVISIBLE FIGHT DETECTOR

    • Complex PTSD & Trauma Triggers Exercise

    • Complex PTSD & Trauma Triggers Exercise
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    Chapter 18: Healing the Inner Child and Inner Parent: Exercises

    • Inner Child and Reparenting, Re-Mothering

    • Reparenting/Remothering/Inner Child Work
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    Chapter 19: Dialectical Behavior Skills/Techniques (DBT): Distress, Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation

    • DBT SKILLS

    • DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) Skills and Container Exercise
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    Journal, Guided Meditations

    • With love, the end:)

    • Journal Prompts

    • Side to Side Eye Movement Technique

    • The Safe Place Guided Meditation with Progressive Muscle Relaxation (SCRIPT TO SELF RECORD)

    • Emotions Without Judgment Exercise

    • The Container Exercise Guided Meditation

Video

Course Includes:

  • 80 Page Workbook (PDF)

    Every page of your workbook has been designed to help you understand yourself and your relationships, and to help you transform the experience of chronic scanning for threat in everyone and everything. Living in chronic hyper-vigilance and living with the trauma of shame, compulsive caretaking, meaning making and even isolating - are all responses to trying to manage a mind and body on constant active duty. We being with identifying and assessing your hyper-vigilant trauma personality traits and symptoms, then move into Complex PTSD, the science behind fear and hyper-viglance. Next, we move into attachment theory, trauma bonds, boundaries, emotional abuse, identity development and emotions -- alongside Poly-Vagal Theory, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mentalization based skills. Every aspect of chronic hypervigilance and eggshell relationships are explored and explained to understand yourself and your "Hypervigilant Trauma Personality."

  • 43 Video Lessons

    Your online course includes 43 individual videos --designed to help you identify and heal your chronic hyper-vigilance and hyper-sensitivity-- as a result of relational trauma from your Eggshell Parents or Partners. Through warm, open support and education, we explore every element of your life that has been impacted by "need to read" the adults and people in your life. You have often learned to identify emotions, behaviors and relationship patterns that feel unpredictable, unstable or even unsafe, and as a result you can feel exhausted, anxious, and chronically stressed and sensitive to everything and everyone. Each video will help you transform your life and symptoms and to create a personalized plan to understand yourself and your life, as well as to experience a deeper sense of peace and self-compassion. Videos range from a few minutes to approximately 15 minutes. Each lesson is targeted toward understanding the exercises and material so you can create your own learning handbook.

  • Guided Meditations & Journal Prompts

    Course includes guided meditations and journal prompts: Guided Meditations include The Container Exercise (an audio version and shorter written version in course), The Safe Place Guided Meditation, Side to Side Eye Movement Technique (an EMDR type exercise), and the Exploring Emotions without Judgment Exercise. Additionally, the Safe Place Exercise can also be recorded in your own voice- which can help to increase meditation and focus for many people. A script is also provided. Each meditation is designed to help you primarily manage overwhelming emotions and thoughts often driven by chronic hypervigilance and hyper-sensitivity. The meditations provided have been primarily chosen to help you manage emotional dysregulation- and the chronic over-thinking, over-feeling and over-analyzing which accompany hyper vigilance-- and which tend to drive a desire to off load those emotions and thoughts by people pleasing, avoiding conflict, isolating, etc.

Instructor(s)

Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Kim Sage

I'm a licensed psychologist specializing in helping people heal childhood trauma, anxiety and relationships, and I work in private practice in Laguna Beach, CA. I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and a Master's Degree in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy.