"Working with Jenna in this group was more effective than the FIFTEEN years of talk therapy I had done prior." -LP

🧠 12-Week Neuroscience-Informed Coaching for Healing from Relational Trauma, Emotional Neglect & Narcissistic Abuse

If you grew up with a narcissistic, emotionally immature, unavailable, abusive or controlling parent, you may be walking through life with wounds that are hard to name—but deeply felt.

Your nervous system learned to survive, not thrive. And now, even in adulthood, you may struggle with chronic self-doubt, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, dissociation, or shutdown. These aren't just "bad habits" or personality traits—they're are neurobiological adaptations rooted in early relational trauma.

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 coaching 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 to release old patterns, trauma, and stress, and create a life of resilience, ease, and connection?

🔬 The Neuroscience of Narcissistic Abuse & Emotional Neglect

Emotional abuse and neglect—especially when experienced in childhood—can have long-lasting effects on your neurobiology, immune response, and even your gene expression. When a child’s nervous system develops in an environment where love is conditional, empathy is absent, and emotional needs are unmet, the body responds as if it is under chronic threat.

Here’s what we know from neuroscience:

• Chronic emotional invalidation activates the amygdala (fear center), increasing emotional reactivity and creating hypervigilance.

• Relational trauma disrupts the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, leading to persistent cortisol release, fatigue, inflammation, and mood swings.

• Emotional neglect impairs development of the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for emotional regulation, executive function, and a stable sense of self.

• Insecure or disorganized attachment alters the functioning of oxytocin and dopamine systems, reducing your capacity to trust, bond, and feel safe in relationships.

On a molecular level, these experiences influence:

• Epigenetic expression of genes related to stress, immunity, and emotional processing

• Neuroinflammatory pathways, contributing to anxiety, depression, autoimmune dysfunction, and chronic illness

• Synaptic pruning and neural wiring that prioritize survival strategies (fawning, freezing, people-pleasing) over self-expression, authenticity, and joy

Trauma is not just an emotional experience—it physically rewires your brain and body. Chronic stress, trauma, and unresolved emotions can lead to neurochemical imbalances, dysregulated immune responses, and a nervous system in fight/flight/freeze. Over time, these changes can disrupt your mental and physical health, and overall well-being.

🧬 What This Group Helps You Rewire:

• In this container, we’re not just talking about trauma—we’re rewiring it. My approach blends:

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

  • Somatic awareness practices to regulate and retrain your autonomic nervous system

  • Embodied parts work to integrate the inner child, protector parts, and exiles that developed in response to narcissistic dynamics

  • Psychoneuroimmunology principles to support overall immune and emotional resilience

  • Embodied neuroeducation so you understand exactly what’s happening inside your brain and body—and how to change it

  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.

  Psychoneuroimmunology: Understanding how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence your nervous system and immune system, and vice versa. This science shows that your brain and body are in constant conversation, and by shifting one, we can heal the other. The emotional abuse and neglect that adult children of toxic and personality disordered parents causes

• Neuroplasticity: Your brain is capable of rewiring itself—even in adulthood. Together, we can 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.

💡 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

⚙️ 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 in the world that's always available no matter what happens. 

• 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. 

• Parts-work and reparenting 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 define your future.

Let’s 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

🧠 12-Week Coaching Curriculum: Rewiring Your Nervous System After Narcissistic and Emotionally Immature Parenting

🌱 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?

🔬 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.