Toxic Family Survival School

12-week Somatic Neural Repatterning Lab for Adult Children of Narcissistic, Emotionally Immature & Authoritarian Parents

Unlock your potential ✨ learn by doing, with the leader in the neuroscience of narcissistic abuse and childhood trauma

I'm ready - sign me up!

💡 What You’ll Learn & Practice:

You’ll gain tools to:

Heal your nervous system from chronic dysregulation (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) to a state of safety, presence, and self-trust
Recognize and rewire internalized beliefs that came from living with manipulation, criticism, emotional enmeshment, or neglect and so much more.
Release stored trauma on a somatic and molecular level, through interoceptive, body-based methods
Strengthen your prefrontal cortex, build emotional regulation capacity, and foster a grounded, compassionate inner dialogue that will change the way you see yourself and the world
Reclaim your sense of self beyond the role you had to play in your family of origin

If you grew up in a narcissistic or authoritarian family, you were shaped by intense relational environments from an early age.

You adapted and had to abandon yourself in order to survive.

This is where you finally get the framework, the language, and the support you should have had from the beginning.

This is an immersive, skills-based nervous system and relational training: deep, structured, and transformative, while still being highly supportive.

As a neuroscientist, trauma-informed coach, and licensed therapist, I help adult children of narcissistic or emotionally neglectful parents understand and rewire the impact of trauma at the level of the brain, body, and immune system through a deeply integrative, science-rooted process.

Adult children of narcissistic parents carry invisible but deeply embedded neurobiological imprints from chronic emotional abuse, neglect, and relational trauma.

Are you ready to rewire your brain and body, release old trauma patterns, and build a life rooted in resilience, regulation, and meaningful connection?

This is what I need!

🧬 What This Group Helps You Rewire:

In this container, we’re rewiring the way a toxic upbringing lives in your body. My approach blends:
- Neuroplasticity-based coaching to shift entrenched thought and behavior patterns.
- Somatic awareness practices to regulate and retrain your autonomic nervous system through interoceptive training, a primary issue in many mental and physical issues.
- Embodied parts work to integrate wounded places inside of you that developed in response to narcissistic dynamics.
- Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) education to support overall immune and emotional resilience because trauma lives in your body at the cellular level in your immune, inflammatory and neurotransmitter systems. These cannot be ignored if you want to fully heal from these dynamics.
- Embodied neuroeducation so you understand exactly what’s happening inside your brain and body, and how to change it without talking about it for another decade.
This isn’t mindset work that skips over the body. It’s not spiritual bypassing or toxic positivity.

This is scientifically grounded, embodied, trauma-informed work designed for people who are ready to stop managing symptoms and start transforming systems.

Neuroscience shows that your brain and body are in constant conversation, and by working holistically, we can begin to heal slowly over time.
Neuroplasticity: Peer-reviewed evidence from molecular neuroscience shows that your brain is capable of rewiring itself even in adulthood. Together, we will create new neural pathways that help you shift patterns of thinking, behavior, and emotional regulation, opening the door to greater resilience and well-being.
Mind-Body Integration: Understanding the connection between your nervous system, immune system, and brain chemistry is key to trauma recovery. Our work will help you access a state of safety and balance, so you can release trauma stored in your body and create new, healthier physiological patterns.

⚙️ The Science-Backed Process:

Each session is tailored to your individual neurobiology and nervous system through live coaching sessions and demos, blending science-backed coaching with nervous system literacy and somatic integration. With the support of recorded lectures in between each live coaching call, you'll learn:

Bottom-up regulation tools (from the body to the brain) to shift you out of survival mode and into a felt sense of safety that's always available no matter what happens.
Bottom up and top down neurocognitive coaching to change limiting beliefs and create new internal blueprints for moving through the world that you don't have to think about- the change happens from the inside out.
Somatic parts work and reparenting in the here and now to connect with the parts of you that had to survive emotional manipulation, abuse, enmeshment, or neglect.
Embodied education on how trauma impacts your neuroendocrine system, immune system, and brain and how to repair it.

I'm ready to heal for GOOD!

🌱 If You’re Asking Questions Like:

Why do I feel so anxious, numb, or emotionally volatile around people I love?
Why do I keep attracting controlling or emotionally unavailable partners?
Why do I feel like I’m not allowed to have needs, take up space, or trust myself?
Why do I look fine on the outside but feel empty, exhausted, or disconnected inside?

…this work is for you. These are not character flaws, they are neurobiological adaptations that once kept you safe, and now need support to be re-patterned.

🔓 This Work Is For You If You’re Ready To:

Release the physiological and emotional imprint of emotional abuse and neglect.
Reconnect with a safe, attuned relationship to your body, boundaries, and truth.
Build real self-trust, not performance-based worth.
Shift your relationships, career, and creativity from a place of authenticity, not survival.

🧬 **Science (and my 15 years of clinical experience) shows that you can change if you commit to the right process:**

The beauty of neuroplasticity is that your brain is always capable of rewiring. Emotional abuse may have shaped your early brain development, but it does not have to define your future.

In Toxic Family Survival Schoo, we'll work together to:

Restore your nervous system’s capacity for safety, connection, and joy
Rebuild your sense of self from a neuroscience-based foundation of compassion, curiosity, and coherence
Create molecular-level change that ripples into your mind, immune system, and entire being

Sounds good, sign me up!

🔬 Neuroscience and Somatic Foundations (Woven Throughout)

Throughout all 12 weeks, we’ll be grounding our work in cutting-edge findings from:

Interoception Research (Kearney & Lanius 2022; Khalsa et al., 2018; Critchley & Garfinkel, 2017). My research indicates that impaired interoceptive processes underlie most mental and physical health disorders. Improved interoceptive functioning will change your life.
Applied Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges).
Psychoneuroimmunology – how inflammation, immune function, and trauma intersect (Danese & Baldwin, 2017; Slavich & Irwin, 2014)
Embodied Trauma Healing (van der Kolk, Ogden, Levine, Fisher, Dana)

You’ll walk away not just with insight—but with an updated nervous system, embodied tools, and the inner capacity to live, love, and lead from your center.

Let’s begin.

Coaching Curriculum

🌱 Month 1: Reconnecting to What Was Lost

Theme: “How You Were Left”

In this foundational month, we bring the nervous system out of survival and into safety. You’ll begin to build the neurobiological foundation for change by strengthening interoceptive awareness—your capacity to notice internal bodily signals and sensations.

What we’ll cover:
- Understanding Developmental Deficits
  We’ll explore how unmet core needs (attunement, mirroring, emotional safety) during childhood impact adult neurobiology—especially in the insula (interoception), anterior cingulate cortex (emotional regulation), and vagus nerve (social engagement system).
- Creating Safety in the Body
  Before insight can land, the nervous system must feel safe. You’ll learn practical techniques (like pendulation, orienting, and co-regulated breathing) to down-regulate chronic sympathetic (fight/flight) or dorsal vagal (freeze) states.
- Healing from Freeze and Numbness
  If you often feel foggy, shut down, or "flat," this is your nervous system protecting you. We’ll gently begin thawing from freeze through embodied practices that increase heart rate variability and wake up your vagal tone.
- Discernment Without Shame
  Learn the difference between emotional immaturity and narcissism—not as a diagnostic label, but to re-pattern your expectations and reduce re-traumatization in your current relationships.
- Why Disconnection Was a Survival Skill
  We’ll explore how it was once dangerous to feel and how your body adapted. Through somatic coaching, you’ll begin safely reconnecting to your body and building the capacity to be with what you once had to leave.
- From Empathy Overdrive to Balanced Compassion
  Learn how your default empathy for others may be neurobiologically wired from childhood and how to redirect some of that relational capacity inward using interoceptive tracking and boundary sensing.

🧠 Month 2: Rewiring Patterns of Self-Abandonment

Theme: “How You Leave Yourself”

This month is all about integration: understanding how your nervous system internalized dysfunction—and then compassionately rewiring those implicit patterns with more aligned and embodied strategies.

What we’ll cover:

How Childhood Survival Strategies Become Adult Stuckness

We’ll explore how people-pleasing, fawning, or self-abandonment aren’t character flaws—but adaptive responses to childhood environments. You’ll learn to track when these are happening in real time through interoceptive cues.
Becoming Gaslight-Proof (Even From Yourself)

Learn how chronic dysregulation distorts perception, memory, and self-trust—and how to rebuild your internal GPS with practices that increase ventral vagal tone and cortical integration.
The Conflict Mind and Codependency

Understand the neuroscience of codependency as a dysregulation between empathy circuits and self-other differentiation (temporoparietal junction and medial prefrontal cortex). Then, learn how to shift out of fusion and into healthy relational clarity.
Reparenting Through the Body

You’ll learn bottom-up methods to connect with and care for your inner child—not through mental storytelling but through felt-sense practices that increase oxytocin and soothe the stress response.
How to Set Boundaries Without Explaining Yourself

You’ll embody what it feels like to set and hold boundaries somatically—without the post-boundary guilt spiral. True boundary work starts in your nervous system, not in your mouth.
Releasing Chronic Stress and Overwhelm

You’ll learn how chronic cortisol and adrenal fatigue affect your gut-brain axis and how to re-regulate your HPA axis using body-based recovery tools like fascia unwinding, vagus nerve toning, and embodied micro-movements.

🧠 Month 3: Returning to Wholeness

Theme: “Coming Home to Yourself”

In our final month, we shift from survival into thriving. You’ll learn how to build resilience, foster emotional presence, and deepen your connection to your authentic self through neuroplastic practices that grow capacity—not just coping.

What we’ll cover:

Reclaiming Self-Esteem at the Biological Level
Learn how early neglect and shame encoded negative self-appraisals into your default network mode—and how to rewire those beliefs using embodied affirmations and somatic self-validation.
Healing the Objectified Self
If you were praised for performance but not personhood, you may feel like a "human doing." Learn to reconnect with intrinsic worth through limbic repair and nervous system repatterning.
Grieving the Unrealized Childhood
We’ll hold space for the somatic grief that arises when we acknowledge what we needed but didn’t get. Learn to metabolize grief through breath, voice, movement, and presence—not bypass it.
Green and Red Flags in Relationships—Embodied Edition
Learn how your body already knows who is safe and who isn’t—before your mind catches up. You’ll practice interoceptive discernment to track safety cues in others.
Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis
Explore the role of the microbiome in mood, trauma recovery, and inflammation. You’ll learn about the gut’s impact on mental health and how trauma-sensitive nutrition supports emotional resilience.
Conscious Communication for Nervous System Safety
Practice language and tone that reduce nervous system threat in conflict situations. Learn how to speak your truth in ways that keep you grounded and resourced.
How to Rest When Hypervigilance Has Been Your Normal
Learn what "true rest" feels like in the body. We'll use Yoga Nidra, somatic resourcing, and polyvagal-informed practices to drop out of doing mode and into being—safely.
Living with Flexibility and Resilience
A regulated nervous system isn't always calm—it’s adaptive. You’ll close the program with practices to support long-term nervous system flexibility, so you can meet life on life’s terms without collapsing or overreacting.

Ready to rewire your nervous system, redefine your sense of self, and reclaim your emotional freedom—through science, not guesswork?

I'm ready!

FAQs

What's the call schedule?

How long will I have access to the recorded content?

What if I want to continue attending live calls after my 12 week period?

Is this therapy or group coaching?

What's the cancellation policy?

INSTALLMENT PLANS

To make the groups available to a wider audience, we provide 3 payment options:

Pay in 3 monthly payments of $1200.
Pay in 2 monthly installments of $1700.
Pay in full $3200

If you decide to pay in installments, you authorize us to charge your card in the amounts listed above, charged one month apart. Monthly payments are processed on the same calendar date you enroll. Please ensure this date works for you, as payment dates cannot be changed once the plan is active.

If your credit card expires or fails to authorize payments, you agree to provide a new payment method. If you do not provide a new payment method, you agree to no longer participate in the group or use the course materials. You are still responsible for the entire cost of the course.

LATE PAYMENTS
If a fee balance has not been paid for 30 days, you agree to payment of a late-payment fee of 3% of the total overdue amount, to be charged monthly (and prorated for periods of less than one month). You might not be allowed to participate in your group until your balance has been paid. We also reserve the right to use a credit card on file to make payment on past due invoices. If your account becomes seriously delinquent, we will have no choice but to resort to collection proceedings, and you agree to be responsible for our attorney's fees and costs incurred in those proceedings. If your card fails, you are still responsible for the full cost of the course.

REFUNDS
Upon joining, you commit to the full payment of the group, unless Jenna determines you are not a good clinical fit for the group, in which case you will not be held responsible for the remainder of the fees for the group.

You agree that you will need to make your first payment or pay in full in order to secure your spot. You will not be refunded if you decide not to join or complete the group for any reason. That fee is refundable however, if Jenna determines you are not a good clinical fit for this group. You are responsible for the full 12 weeks of group payments regardless of the payment plan.

This is a 12-week commitment. You are responsible for all months of fees regardless of your continued participation, how engaged you are, your attendance, utilization of the materials, or the results achieved.

Toxic Family Survival School

12-week Somatic Neural Repatterning Lab for Adult Children of Narcissistic, Emotionally Immature & Authoritarian Parents

Unlock your potential ✨ learn by doing, with the leader in the neuroscience of narcissistic abuse and childhood trauma

💡 What You’ll Learn & Practice:

You’ll gain tools to:

Heal your nervous system from chronic dysregulation (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) to a state of safety, presence, and self-trust

Recognize and rewire internalized beliefs that came from living with manipulation, criticism, emotional enmeshment, or neglect and so much more.

Release stored trauma on a somatic and molecular level, through interoceptive, body-based methods

Strengthen your prefrontal cortex, build emotional regulation capacity, and foster a grounded, compassionate inner dialogue that will change the way you see yourself and the world

Reclaim your sense of self beyond the role you had to play in your family of origin

If you grew up in a narcissistic or authoritarian family, you were shaped by intense relational environments from an early age.

You adapted and had to abandon yourself in order to survive.

This is where you finally get the framework, the language, and the support you should have had from the beginning.

This is an immersive, skills-based nervous system and relational training: deep, structured, and transformative, while still being highly supportive.

As a neuroscientist, trauma-informed coach, and licensed therapist, I help adult children of narcissistic or emotionally neglectful parents understand and rewire the impact of trauma at the level of the brain, body, and immune system through a deeply integrative, science-rooted process.

Adult children of narcissistic parents carry invisible but deeply embedded neurobiological imprints from chronic emotional abuse, neglect, and relational trauma.

Are you ready to rewire your brain and body, release old trauma patterns, and build a life rooted in resilience, regulation, and meaningful connection?

🧬 What This Group Helps You Rewire:

In this container, we’re rewiring the way a toxic upbringing lives in your body. My approach blends:

Neuroplasticity-based coaching to shift entrenched thought and behavior patterns.

Somatic awareness practices to regulate and retrain your autonomic nervous system through interoceptive training, a primary issue in many mental and physical issues.

Embodied parts work to integrate wounded places inside of you that developed in response to narcissistic dynamics.

Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) education to support overall immune and emotional resilience because trauma lives in your body at the cellular level in your immune, inflammatory and neurotransmitter systems. These cannot be ignored if you want to fully heal from these dynamics.

Embodied neuroeducation so you understand exactly what’s happening inside your brain and body, and how to change it without talking about it for another decade.

This isn’t mindset work that skips over the body. It’s not spiritual bypassing or toxic positivity.

This is scientifically grounded, embodied, trauma-informed work designed for people who are ready to stop managing symptoms and start transforming systems.

Neuroscience shows that your brain and body are in constant conversation, and by working holistically, we can begin to heal slowly over time.

Mind-Body Integration: Understanding the connection between your nervous system, immune system, and brain chemistry is key to trauma recovery. Our work will help you access a state of safety and balance, so you can release trauma stored in your body and create new, healthier physiological patterns.

⚙️ The Science-Backed Process:

Each session is tailored to your individual neurobiology and nervous system through live coaching sessions and demos, blending science-backed coaching with nervous system literacy and somatic integration. With the support of recorded lectures in between each live coaching call, you'll learn:

Bottom-up regulation tools (from the body to the brain) to shift you out of survival mode and into a felt sense of safety that's always available no matter what happens.

Bottom up and top down neurocognitive coaching to change limiting beliefs and create new internal blueprints for moving through the world that you don't have to think about- the change happens from the inside out.

Somatic parts work and reparenting in the here and now to connect with the parts of you that had to survive emotional manipulation, abuse, enmeshment, or neglect.

Embodied education on how trauma impacts your neuroendocrine system, immune system, and brain and how to repair it.

🌱 If You’re Asking Questions Like:

Why do I feel so anxious, numb, or emotionally volatile around people I love?

Why do I keep attracting controlling or emotionally unavailable partners?

Why do I feel like I’m not allowed to have needs, take up space, or trust myself?

Why do I look fine on the outside but feel empty, exhausted, or disconnected inside?

…this work is for you. These are not character flaws, they are neurobiological adaptations that once kept you safe, and now need support to be re-patterned.

🔓 This Work Is For You If You’re Ready To:

Release the physiological and emotional imprint of emotional abuse and neglect.

Reconnect with a safe, attuned relationship to your body, boundaries, and truth.

Build real self-trust, not performance-based worth.

Shift your relationships, career, and creativity from a place of authenticity, not survival.

🧬 Science (and my 15 years of clinical experience) shows that you can change if you commit to the right process:

The beauty of neuroplasticity is that your brain is always capable of rewiring. Emotional abuse may have shaped your early brain development, but it does not have to define your future.

In Toxic Family Survival Schoo, we'll work together to:

Restore your nervous system’s capacity for safety, connection, and joy

Rebuild your sense of self from a neuroscience-based foundation of compassion, curiosity, and coherence

Create molecular-level change that ripples into your mind, immune system, and entire being

🔬 Neuroscience and Somatic Foundations (Woven Throughout)

Throughout all 12 weeks, we’ll be grounding our work in cutting-edge findings from:

Interoception Research (Kearney & Lanius 2022; Khalsa et al., 2018; Critchley & Garfinkel, 2017). My research indicates that impaired interoceptive processes underlie most mental and physical health disorders. Improved interoceptive functioning will change your life.

Applied Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges).

Psychoneuroimmunology – how inflammation, immune function, and trauma intersect (Danese & Baldwin, 2017; Slavich & Irwin, 2014)

Embodied Trauma Healing (van der Kolk, Ogden, Levine, Fisher, Dana)

You’ll walk away not just with insight—but with an updated nervous system, embodied tools, and the inner capacity to live, love, and lead from your center.

Let’s begin.

Coaching Curriculum

🌱 Month 1: Reconnecting to What Was Lost

Theme: “How You Were Left”

In this foundational month, we bring the nervous system out of survival and into safety. You’ll begin to build the neurobiological foundation for change by strengthening interoceptive awareness—your capacity to notice internal bodily signals and sensations.

What we’ll cover:

Understanding Developmental DeficitsWe’ll explore how unmet core needs (attunement, mirroring, emotional safety) during childhood impact adult neurobiology—especially in the insula (interoception), anterior cingulate cortex (emotional regulation), and vagus nerve (social engagement system).

Creating Safety in the BodyBefore insight can land, the nervous system must feel safe. You’ll learn practical techniques (like pendulation, orienting, and co-regulated breathing) to down-regulate chronic sympathetic (fight/flight) or dorsal vagal (freeze) states.

Healing from Freeze and NumbnessIf you often feel foggy, shut down, or "flat," this is your nervous system protecting you. We’ll gently begin thawing from freeze through embodied practices that increase heart rate variability and wake up your vagal tone.

Discernment Without ShameLearn the difference between emotional immaturity and narcissism—not as a diagnostic label, but to re-pattern your expectations and reduce re-traumatization in your current relationships.

Why Disconnection Was a Survival SkillWe’ll explore how it was once dangerous to feel and how your body adapted. Through somatic coaching, you’ll begin safely reconnecting to your body and building the capacity to be with what you once had to leave.

From Empathy Overdrive to Balanced CompassionLearn how your default empathy for others may be neurobiologically wired from childhood and how to redirect some of that relational capacity inward using interoceptive tracking and boundary sensing.

🧠 Month 2: Rewiring Patterns of Self-Abandonment

Theme: “How You Leave Yourself”

This month is all about integration: understanding how your nervous system internalized dysfunction—and then compassionately rewiring those implicit patterns with more aligned and embodied strategies.

What we’ll cover:

How Childhood Survival Strategies Become Adult Stuckness

We’ll explore how people-pleasing, fawning, or self-abandonment aren’t character flaws—but adaptive responses to childhood environments. You’ll learn to track when these are happening in real time through interoceptive cues.

Becoming Gaslight-Proof (Even From Yourself)

Learn how chronic dysregulation distorts perception, memory, and self-trust—and how to rebuild your internal GPS with practices that increase ventral vagal tone and cortical integration.

The Conflict Mind and Codependency

Understand the neuroscience of codependency as a dysregulation between empathy circuits and self-other differentiation (temporoparietal junction and medial prefrontal cortex). Then, learn how to shift out of fusion and into healthy relational clarity.

🧬 **Science (and my 15 years of clinical experience) shows that you can change if you commit to the right process:**

Understanding Developmental Deficits
We’ll explore how unmet core needs (attunement, mirroring, emotional safety) during childhood impact adult neurobiology—especially in the insula (interoception), anterior cingulate cortex (emotional regulation), and vagus nerve (social engagement system).

Creating Safety in the Body
Before insight can land, the nervous system must feel safe. You’ll learn practical techniques (like pendulation, orienting, and co-regulated breathing) to down-regulate chronic sympathetic (fight/flight) or dorsal vagal (freeze) states.

Healing from Freeze and Numbness
If you often feel foggy, shut down, or "flat," this is your nervous system protecting you. We’ll gently begin thawing from freeze through embodied practices that increase heart rate variability and wake up your vagal tone.

Discernment Without Shame
Learn the difference between emotional immaturity and narcissism—not as a diagnostic label, but to re-pattern your expectations and reduce re-traumatization in your current relationships.

Why Disconnection Was a Survival Skill
We’ll explore how it was once dangerous to feel and how your body adapted. Through somatic coaching, you’ll begin safely reconnecting to your body and building the capacity to be with what you once had to leave.

From Empathy Overdrive to Balanced Compassion
Learn how your default empathy for others may be neurobiologically wired from childhood and how to redirect some of that relational capacity inward using interoceptive tracking and boundary sensing.

Reclaiming Self-Esteem at the Biological Level
Learn how early neglect and shame encoded negative self-appraisals into your default network mode—and how to rewire those beliefs using embodied affirmations and somatic self-validation.

Healing the Objectified Self
If you were praised for performance but not personhood, you may feel like a "human doing." Learn to reconnect with intrinsic worth through limbic repair and nervous system repatterning.

Grieving the Unrealized Childhood
We’ll hold space for the somatic grief that arises when we acknowledge what we needed but didn’t get. Learn to metabolize grief through breath, voice, movement, and presence—not bypass it.

Green and Red Flags in Relationships—Embodied Edition
Learn how your body already knows who is safe and who isn’t—before your mind catches up. You’ll practice interoceptive discernment to track safety cues in others.

Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis
Explore the role of the microbiome in mood, trauma recovery, and inflammation. You’ll learn about the gut’s impact on mental health and how trauma-sensitive nutrition supports emotional resilience.

Conscious Communication for Nervous System Safety
Practice language and tone that reduce nervous system threat in conflict situations. Learn how to speak your truth in ways that keep you grounded and resourced.

How to Rest When Hypervigilance Has Been Your Normal
Learn what "true rest" feels like in the body. We'll use Yoga Nidra, somatic resourcing, and polyvagal-informed practices to drop out of doing mode and into being—safely.

Living with Flexibility and Resilience
A regulated nervous system isn't always calm—it’s adaptive. You’ll close the program with practices to support long-term nervous system flexibility, so you can meet life on life’s terms without collapsing or overreacting.

You will have access to all recorded calls within your 12-week group period for 1 year, starting from March 2026.

You will lose access to the live calls after your 12-week period is up.

REFUNDS
Upon joining, you commit to the full payment of the group, unless Jenna determines you are not a good clinical fit for the group, in which case you will not be held responsible for the remainder of the fees for the group.