She Almost Didn’t Apply to the Trauma Training Program
One of the women in our last cohort told me she almost didn't apply.
She said she looked at the other therapists in the room... women who'd been doing this for 15, 20 years... and thought, "Is this really for me? Am I just being an imposter even thinking about joining?"
She joined anyway. Did it afraid.
Here's what she told me shifted.
At her group practice, she's the one everyone comes to with questions. Which sounds like a compliment until you realize what it actually means... she has no one to learn from. No one challenging her. No room to be a student.
"I felt like I was at the ceiling at my job. I was just there figuring it out."
Inside the cohort, something different happened.
She said the biggest shift wasn't a technique. It was learning to slow down.
Not the kind of slowing down where you drop the client. The kind where you stop throwing intervention books at them and realize... trauma doesn't need speed. Speed creates panic.
She used to hate silence in session. Now she holds it differently.
"I'm not scrambling to fill the space. I'm not doubting myself mid-session wondering if I can hold what's happening. I'm anchored."
People asked her about the investment. She said yeah, it was a lot. And then she said this...
"In the long run, you make that back tenfold. I got resources. I got meaningful connections. I got a new mentor. That's priceless."
If you've been the one everyone comes to for answers... but secretly you're at the ceiling and you know it... there might be something here for you.
Warmly,
Esther