Trauma-Informed Groups
Small, guided group experiences grounded in nervous-system safety, compassion, and steady growth. See Current GroupGroups That Help You Heal, Grow, and Move Forward Together.
At Created To Move, groups are designed with the nervous system in mind ~
These are spaces that prioritize regulation, clarity, and connection from the inside out—because lasting change doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from creating the conditions that help us feel grounded, connected, and able to move forward.
In our groups, we recognize that different parts of us may want different things. Some parts long for change, while others are working hard to protect us. Together, we slow down, listen inward, and gently befriend what’s happening inside—creating room to breathe, reflect, and reconnect with yourself without judgment or pressure.
Sharing is always invitational. Silence is welcome. You’re encouraged to stay connected to your body and move at your own pace.
These groups are:
- Trauma-informed and consent-based
- Relational and co-regulating
- Grounded in compassion and curiosity
- Gently faith-aware and spiritually sensitive
- Designed to complement personal or therapeutic healing work
These groups are not a replacement for therapy. They are guided, relational spaces designed to support integration, regulation, connection, and growth alongside your personal or therapeutic healing work.
Current Group Offering ~
Post-Traumatic Growth
A 6-Week Trauma-Informed Guided Group for Women
An experiential journey toward healing, resilience, connection, and what comes next.
** Registration is securely hosted by my co-facilitator.
Maybe you’re ready for what’s next.
Maybe you’re tired of surviving, managing, pushing through, or simply feeling like you’re carrying more than you want to carry.
Maybe you know exactly what brought you here. You’ve lived through something difficult, done a lot of healing, and you’re beginning to wonder what comes next.
Or maybe you can’t point to one particular thing at all. You just know you don’t quite feel like yourself—or that there’s more of your life you’d like to be able to inhabit.
You’re ready to feel more like yourself.
Ready to live again.
Ready to discover what might be possible from here.
This six-week guided group, based on Arielle Schwartz’s The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, creates space to explore that next part of the journey—not by pretending the hard things didn’t happen, rushing yourself toward a better ending, or asking you to simply “move on,” but by becoming curious about what healing, growth, and greater freedom might look like from here.
This Isn’t a Book Study
The book gives us a framework. The group is where we experience it together.
Each week, we’ll draw from The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook as a starting place for understanding how the experiences we’ve lived through—and the ways we’ve learned to adapt to them— can shape the mind, body, emotions, relationships, and sense of self, and how healing and growth can continue to unfold.
But we won’t simply gather to discuss what we read.
Our time together will weave together:
- accessible psychoeducation and guided conversation
- gentle somatic and nervous-system practices
- personal reflection and integration
- shared exploration with other women
- opportunities to practice new ways of relating to yourself and your experience
There is something different about exploring these things in the company of other women who are also finding their way forward.
You may arrive with very different stories, different responses, and at different places along the journey—and still discover the relief of being understood, witnessed, and reminded:
You don’t have to do this part alone.
This Group Is For You If…
You may know exactly what you’ve been through—and have already done significant healing work—but find yourself wondering:
What comes next?
Or maybe you can’t point to one particular experience at all. You simply know that something feels harder than it should.
You may find yourself:
- reacting more strongly than you want to
- feeling exhausted, numb, disconnected, or unable to slow down
- overfunctioning, overthinking, or constantly taking care of everyone else
- circling the same thoughts, emotions, or patterns despite everything you already know
- wondering why something from years ago still seems to affect you
- feeling like you’ve lost touch with yourself somewhere along the way
- ready to move beyond simply surviving and begin discovering what growth could look like now
You don’t have to be certain you would describe what you’ve experienced as trauma to belong here.
Difficult experiences, chronic stress, loss, relational wounds, unmet needs, major life transitions, and patterns that developed slowly over time can all leave their mark.
And if you do know your story as trauma—and you’ve already spent significant time healing—this isn’t asking you to start over.
It may be an opportunity to ask a different question:
What becomes possible from here?
What We’ll Explore Together
Using Arielle Schwartz’s The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook as our framework, we’ll explore practical mind-body approaches that can help you better understand yourself, build greater capacity, and support continued healing and growth.
Across six weeks, we’ll explore:
- how stress and difficult experiences can continue to show up in the mind and body
- patterns of activation, shutdown, protection, and adaptation
- practical tools for nervous-system regulation and greater emotional capacity
- relating to yourself with greater curiosity and compassion rather than criticism
- reconnecting with internal resources, strengths, and resilience
- creating more room for presence, connection, choice, and possibility
- what growth can mean without minimizing, bypassing, or making meaning out of what should never have happened
This isn’t about becoming grateful for what hurt you.
It’s about discovering that what happened—or what you’ve carried—doesn’t have to contain the whole story of who you are or what your life can become.
A Different Kind of Strength
Post-traumatic growth doesn’t mean that everything gets tied up neatly, that painful experiences become “worth it,” or that you reach some final destination called healed.
And it isn’t something you force by trying harder.
Sometimes growth looks quieter than that.
It can look like understanding yourself differently. Having more choice in how you respond. Feeling more at home in your own body. Discovering capacities and resources that were difficult to access before.
It can look like becoming curious again.
Not only:
“What happened to me?”
but increasingly:
“Who am I now—and what might I want to do with the life in front of me?”
What Makes This Group Different
This is a small, guided, experiential group—not psychotherapy and not a space where you’ll be expected to tell your whole story.
Sharing is always invitational. You are welcome to participate at the level that feels right for you, honor your own boundaries, and move at your own pace.
Heather and Melissa see themselves as guides by the side—bringing training, experience, structure, and support while honoring that your journey belongs to you.
Our hope is to create the conditions for curiosity, connection, greater internal safety, and meaningful exploration—not to fix you or hand you a formula.
This is a trauma-informed educational and experiential group, not psychotherapy or mental health treatment. It is designed to complement, rather than replace, individual therapeutic or mental health care when that level of support is needed.
What’s Included
6 weekly 90-minute live gatherings
A small group of no more than 8 women
Guided exploration of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook
Gentle somatic and nervous-system practices
Reflection and integration exercises
Supportive group conversation and relational connection
A trauma-informed, invitational environment that honors your pace and boundaries
What We Hope You’ll Carry Forward
Six weeks isn’t a finish line, and we’re not promising that you’ll leave with everything resolved.
We hope you leave with:
- greater understanding of yourself and your responses
- practical tools you can continue using beyond the group
- more capacity to stay present with yourself and your life
- greater compassion for the ways you’ve learned to adapt
- a deeper sense of your own resilience, agency, and internal resources
- meaningful connection with women who understand what it means to be on a healing journey
- renewed curiosity about who you are becoming and what might be possible next
Maybe you breathe a little more deeply.
Maybe you feel a little more like yourself.
Maybe the question begins shifting from:
“Why am I still here?”
to:
“What could come next?”
Group Details
Post-Traumatic Growth
6 consecutive weeks
Wednesdays, October 14–November 18, 2026
9:00–10:30 a.m. Pacific
12:00–1:30 p.m. Eastern
90-minute weekly live gatherings
Online via secure video platform
Maximum of 8 women
Investment: $347
Pay in full: $347
Registration and payment are securely hosted by co-facilitator Melissa Short.
or
Hold your place with a $99 deposit
Remaining balance of $248 due before the group begins.
Registration and payment are securely hosted by co-facilitator Melissa Short.
The Book
We’ll be using:
The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience and Awaken Your Potential
by Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Participants purchase their own copy of the book.
Held by Experienced, Trauma-Informed Facilitators:
Heather Berg
Heather Berg is a trauma-trained coach and graduate-level mental health counselor in training who walks alongside women and couples healing from betrayal trauma, complex PTSD, religious trauma, attachment wounds, and stuck relational patterns.
She is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner and integrates somatic and polyvagal-informed practices, attachment-based work, and the Enneagram to support greater internal safety, emotional clarity, and self-trust.
Married for nearly 30 years and a mom to three young adult sons, Heather brings both lived experience and advanced training—especially in betrayal trauma and relationship repair—offering steady, compassionate guidance that honors each person’s pace and next right step toward healing.
Melissa Short
Melissa Short is a Trauma Recovery Coach and Certified Trauma Support Specialist who helps women heal from the lasting impact of complex trauma (C-PTSD), attachment wounds, religious trauma, and painful relational patterns.
She integrates IFS (parts work), somatic and nervous system regulation practices, and mindfulness to support greater internal safety, clarity, and self-trust.
Married 15 years and a mom of one son, Melissa offers compassionate, steady guidance so women feel seen, empowered, and equipped to move toward healing, without pressure, perfection, or rushing the process—one gentle step at a time.
A Gentle Invitation
You don’t need to have everything figured out.
You don’t need the “right” trauma story.
And you don’t need to be finished healing.
You may simply know that you’re ready for more freedom, more capacity, more connection—and more room to inhabit the life in front of you.
If you’re ready to become curious about what comes next, we’d love to walk alongside you.
** Registration is securely hosted by our co-facilitator.
Hold your spot below for $99 and pay the rest later!
** Registration is securely hosted by our co-facilitator.
“We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”
— Dr. Harville Hendrix
Not sure if this group is the right fit?
You’re welcome to book a free clarity call to explore whether this group — or another form of support — would best serve you right now.
Stay Connected for Upcoming Groups
Groups at Created To Move are offered throughout the year around themes of healing, identity, emotional and relational health, nervous-system awareness, and post-traumatic growth.
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