🌿 Tender Resilience: Healing After Betrayal Trauma (6-Week Zoom Group)

Start 2026 with intention, connection, and creative healing 🌟

If you’re navigating the heartbreak, confusion, or deep nervous-system impact of betrayal trauma, you’re not alone. This gentle 6-week live Zoom group offers a safe space to understand your body’s responses, rebuild trust in yourself, and connect with others who “get it.”

Rooted in Rick Hanson’s Resilient and guided by trauma-informed practices, each week we explore a theme — recognizing, resourcing, regulating, and relating — while integrating simple art exercises 🎨 to support grounding, expression, and reflection.

🎨 You’ll use art exercises during class and take home your creations — all designed for accessible, at-home materials.

Weekly Flow & Art Exercises

• 🌀 Week 1 — Reclaiming Your Ground
  Theme: Safety, grounding, self-compassion
  Art Exercise: “Inner Safety Map” — draw or paint a safe space, real or imagined.
  

• 👀 Week 2 — Recognizing the Wounds
  Theme: Identifying triggers, naming emotional impact
  Art Exercise: “Emotional Mandala” — color sections with feelings or bodily sensations linked to betrayal.
  

• 🌿 Week 3 — Resourcing Yourself Again
  Theme: Rebuilding internal and external supports
  Art Exercise: “Strength Cards” — small pieces of paper or cardstock with affirmations, strengths, or supportive images.
  

• 🌊 Week 4 — Regulating the Storm
  Theme: Nervous system regulation, calming practices
  Art Exercise: “Calm Pattern Painting” — repetitive brush strokes, lines, or dots to create rhythm and focus.
  

• 💛 Week 5 — Relating After Betrayal
  Theme: Boundaries, trust, relational clarity
  Art Exercise: “Letting Go / Stepping Toward” Collage — one side for what you release, the other for what you are moving toward.
  

• ✨ Week 6 — Reclaiming Your Story
  Theme: Integration, celebration, post-traumatic growth
  Art Exercise: “My Next Chapter” Mixed-Media Piece — combine painting, collage, or writing to symbolize your journey forward.
  

At-Home Art Supplies (Accessible & Affordable)

• Paper: printer paper, sketchbook, or notebook
  

• Drawing/writing tools: pencil, pen, colored pencils, markers, or crayons
  

• Optional: watercolors or acrylic paints
  

• Brush or any tool for paint (spoon, cotton swab, fingers!)
  

• Scissors & glue (for collage)
  

• Magazines, newspapers, old greeting cards, tissue paper
  

• Optional: small found objects (leaves, fabric scraps, string)
  

💡 No fancy supplies needed — use what feels safe and available to you.📞 Questions? Contact me at 479.236.2963 or art@bethwoessner.com

🌟 Registration now open! 🌟
(No refunds. With 48+ hours’ notice, registration can be transferred to a future class.)

Wishing wellness and wonder,
Beth 💛