Healing Beyond Trauma

12/21/2025

Hello Soulful Seekers,

I want to take a moment to reconnect.

Over the past season, I’ve been working quietly behind the scenes—organizing, integrating, and listening deeply to what wants to emerge next. I’m now actively shaping our 2026 meetups, workshops, classes, meditations, and healing circles, and your voice matters in this process.

This community exists to support healing beyond trauma—not just individually, but collectively. As we look ahead to 2026, I’d love to hear what you are working through and working toward for yourself, your family, and your life.

What kind of support would serve you most in the coming year?

{The more specific you feel comfortable being, the more intentionally I can create spaces that offer genuine support, safety, and meaningful connection. If something is coming up for you, chances are you’re not alone—and this community may be longing for that same kind of support.}

Healing Beyond Trauma is about creating environments where the nervous system can soften, the body can feel safe, and real connection can happen. We also explore spiritual and metaphysical practices together in grounded, trauma-informed ways.

Please comment/reply with what you’d love more of—or something new you’re curious about. Or things you are ready to release and resolve for good!

Your feedback will directly shape what we create together next.💛

In gratitude and light,
Amanda

PS: Catch every upcoming Meetup event by joining the group.

Healing Beyond Trauma helps you break free from perfectionism, people-pleasing, and past trauma through hypnotherapy, coaching, and IEMT—online and in Ohio.

12/21/2025

2025 was a good time! Let’s grow even more in 2026 🙌✨ with new events, more laughs and community 💜☺️

12/12/2025

When two of my life long passions converge!

Have you explored gaming while self healing? I'd love to hear more about it.

Video games can help people through anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, stress, and burnout.More and more research is showing that gaming can support emotional ...

12/07/2025

My weekend read 😍🙌💜 Guzalia is a masterful wordsmith and dynamic creator!

What are you doing to relax, unwind and self care today?

12/02/2025

11/26/2025

In the From Survival to Thrival: Trauma Support Circle, you’ll discover how to calm your mind and body using simple nervous system regulation tools, so you can feel grounded no matter what life brings.

Through focused group coaching and journal prompts, you’ll gain clarity on your goals, take meaningful action, and build the confidence to trust yourself again.

You’ll be part of a safe, uplifting community where you’re truly seen and heard, while step by step rebuilding a sense of safety in your body and mind.

As you celebrate small wins, you’ll replace self-doubt with self-trust and begin to believe in your ability to create change.

Along the way, you’ll also receive trauma-informed education to help you understand, navigate, and respond to your emotions in healthy, empowering ways. This is more than a monthly meeting — it’s a space for growth, connection, and transformation.

Learn more: https://www.healingbeyondtrauma.com/trauma-support

Video call link: From Survival to Thrival: Trauma Support Circle

Wednesday, December 3 · 7:00 – 8:30pm
Time zone: America/New_York

Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/fda-jsfm-tta

11/24/2025

Finally making time to watch this!! Tune in when you can :) Would love to hear what you think :D

It's such a pleasure to do this work in so many different ways, via QHHT like Dolores trained me to do, as well as through Between Lives like Michael Newton and Alan Chips used to, and then of course the way I was taught from Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in the almost 4 years that I worked through their programs. Even as I went on to practice SCHH with Laura Whitworth, one thing is clear....

It doesn't matter what lineage or technique is used, you have all of your answers, healing, insights, resources inside you! And this work of Past Life Regression is one of a few powerful ways to access the depths of your soul's essence.

Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? These questions echo within each of us. Yet, they often arise too late—after a burnout, or following a...

11/23/2025

Why Trauma Survivors Rub Their Feet Together While Resting

If you've ever noticed someone gently rubbing their feet together while lying down, you might be seeing something deeper than a habit. It's called "cricketing," and it's a subconscious way the body soothes itself atter trauma.

When someone experiences trauma, their nervous system can become stuck in a constant state of alert.

Even when they're safe, their body still searches for signals of comfort. The repetitive motion of rubbing the feet together creates rhythm and grounding, a quiet message to the brain that says, "You're safe now."

This movement activates the parasympathetic nervous system, the part responsible for calming and regulating the body. It lowers heart rate, releases tension, and slowly helps the nervous system settle after being on high alert for too long.
Cricketing isn't something a person chooses to do consciously, it's the body's natural intelligence at work.

The same instinct that makes us shiver when cold or yawn when tired helps trauma survivors find physical relief when words or logic can't.

It's a small, remarkable reminder that the body remembers pain but also knows how to heal.
Sometimes, healing starts with something as simple as the soft brush of your own feet finding peace.

-Mind’s Canvas
Aware America

11/22/2025

This weeks episode of Trauma & Transcendence

https://youtu.be/OFWUnVtXBG0?si=SAl9naXN67A2jIxV

Episode 63 | November 20th, 2025In this episode of Trauma and Transcendence, Amanda M Dodd welcomes Rev Sandra L Gelinas, a founding member of the Akashic Al...

11/20/2025

Why EMDR Helped—But IEMT Freed Me: A Clinician’s Personal Trauma Story

Discover how EMDR helped but didn’t fully heal me—and how IEMT changed everything. A raw, personal journey through trauma, survival, and real transformation.

11/19/2025