The
HEAL
Workbook
The
HEAL
Workbook
The
HEAL
Workbook
Is building
your favorite daydream?
healthy relationships and trusting others
Is building
your favorite daydream?
go of shame and embracing your worth
Is letting
your favorite daydream?
your voice to speak your truth
Is using
your favorite daydream?
a nurturing relationship with your children
Is building
your favorite daydream?
fully seen, heard, and loved as you are
Is feeling
your favorite daydream?
confident in your choices
Is feeling
If that truth makes your heart sink because you know you are one of those who are ‘stuck,’ you are not alone.
I have heard survivors say that they don't believe healing is possible or don’t believe those who say they are free from their past.
But I am here to tell you healing is possible! And you can achieve freedom from your past!
Quick question (that might not have a comfortable answer)
Do you feel you are living a life where you are your authentic self?
Most survivors never heal or get the help they need.
And that path - is right here.
You might not believe me, but healing is action. It is a choice [underline the word choice]. Most survivors think healing is an abstract process too hard to obtain, but there is a step-by-step path to follow.
The HEAL Workbook reveals a step-by-step process that will show you a path to healing that will show you how to find freedom from your past.
Now it’s your turn —
Are you open to new possibilities?
Psst…that doesn’t mean you can’t get the help you need. And if you are a survivor - get help. It’s time to stop listening to all those voices telling you-you can’t heal and start listening to those who say you can.
The HEAL Workbook is a Step-by-Step Process for Helping Survivors
Overcome Your Past
The HEAL Workbook was created for survivors of sexual abuse to have a path to heal and take control of their lives. The workbook was created to help survivors overcome living with the effects of abuse that can leave them debilitated and feeling broken.
The HEAL Workbook distinguishes itself through its educational approach. It offers survivors a structured framework within its 5 stages that include 14 core sessions, each addressing specific aspects of the healing process.
The HEAL Workbook is authored by Wendy M. Johnson, a survivor herself, dedicated to providing survivors with tools, education, and support to overcome their past.
The HEAL Workbook contains the Spectrum of Healing, which divides the healing journey into 5 stages. The stages include:
Stage 1: Build Mindset.
Stage 2: Build Knowledge.
Stage 3: Build Life Skills.
Stage 4. Build Inner Belief.
Stage 5. Build Purpose.
In these pages you will find strategies necessary to step into your power as a survivor (even if you are just starting out or starting up again), including:
Each session focuses on key truths or topics relevant to survivors’ experiences, providing insights, strategies, and exercises to support healing and growth.
The workbook aims to reveal the potential for growth, self-empowerment, and a renewed sense of purpose.
The HEAL Workbook supports survivors in their healing journey by offering a step-by-step roadmap for transformation. The workbook structures approach guides survivors through a process of self-discovery, helping them break free from the cycle of abuse and building a better future for themselves and their family.
So it’s time to toss out the thoughts you have about healing and set yourself apart from the myths that bind you.
In this stage, you will start to understand that healing is possible, and that healing is a choice. People in this stage may or may not have already started on a path to healing and were unable to finish the journey or they do not know how to finish the journey. All they know is that they want to heal, are learning it is possible, and are willing to reach out for help.
In this stage you are learning what abuse is, the types of abuse you experienced and the negative effects it has had on your life. You are learning about the culture of abuse and victim blaming as well as understanding the importance of believing in your own perceptions and listening to your inner voice. You may or may not still be in denial but are understanding its destructive power. You are also learning about the grooming process of the abuser and starting to have a clearer understanding that the abuse was not your fault.
In this stage, you are learning the abuse was not your fault. You are experiencing a lessening of the shame, self-blame and self-guilt and how breaking the silence is a powerful healing force. You are learning your worth is not predicated on the abuse and are overcoming feeling broken or damaged and that you are worthy of self-love and love from others.
In this stage, you are learning how to express your anger appropriately after abuse and how to stop suppressing your emotions. You are learning how to trust again and who to trust and how to set healthy boundaries. You are also learning that the sexual abuse has affected your understanding of sexuality and intimacy. You are learning how to overcome and regain control of your body and how to set healthy intimacy boundaries.
LET'S BREAK it DOWN
In this stage you are exploring reestablishing a relationship with your higher power or discovering a new one. You are gaining a clear understanding of what forgiveness is and that it is to free you of your past. You are learning that better possibilities are within your grasp, gaining a higher sense of inner belief, and learning that you have a purpose and how to tap into your potential.
The HEAL Course consists of 5 stages that include 14 sessions covering core topics specific to survivors.
Be clear on what gives you hope and that healing is a choice as well as learning how to manage being emotionally overwhelmed and fearful of healing.
Know what abuse/trauma is, the type of abuse/trauma you experienced and be able to identify how you reacted and what your triggers are.
Understand the characteristics of a victim-blaming and understand the difference between learned helplessness and the power to change.
Get clear on why survivors doubt their own perceptions, the effects of denial, and how denial keeps you from taking action.
Educated on the grooming process, the cycle of abuse and ff you have children, how to protect them.
Identify your anger patterns, whether you shutdown or rage. Learn about the relationship between anger and pain, what triggers your anger and how to track your responses.
Learn skills on how to trust again and who to trust. You will get clear on the different types of boundaries, the different ways people express boundaries and how to set healthy boundaries.
Learn the impacts of sexual abuse on current sexual relationships and gain knowledge of positive coping strategies for regaining control of your body.
What characteristics of a healthy relationship are.
Learn the many forms of breaking the silence, why survivors do not tell and how confronting can be potentially empowering or potentially destructive. Get clear on where shame, blame, and self-guilt are rooted, how it affects you and how to overcome them.
Learn the difference between self-esteem versus self-worth, how abuse/trauma affects your self-concept, and how to overcome feeling broken or damaged.
How to reestablish a relationship with your Higher Power, and how to replace pain with healing.
Learn about the life-changing benefits of forgiveness, how to overcome the pressure to forgive before you are ready, and how to forgive yourself.
Understand your new sense of inner power and how doing the work brings purpose to your life and how to tape into your potential.
Since 2018, I’ve been working intimately with survivors.
As the founder of the first online, exclusive HEAL Membership for survivors of sexual abuse, Author of the HEAL Workbook - the course used inside the HEAL Membership, and HEAL Coaching, I’ve been supporting, helping, and guiding survivors of all different ages and stages in their healing journey.
From just beginning to starting up again, to not believing that someone can really heal to getting stuck in the shame stage, I have helped them all and so many more!
Hey There!
I suffered enough. I was robbed enough. And I knew only I could fill the void I felt. The problem was I couldn’t find the right path. After searching for a few years, I finally found a therapist specializing in sexual abuse, and my life changed. I promised to do the work, even when it hurt, and eventually, I took control of my life and found my voice. I no longer lived with shame. I no longer lived feeling damaged. I finally felt whole.
Now, I'm fulfilling a promise I made long ago—to create a place for survivors to heal. Through my online membership (HEAL), podcast (The Wendy M. Johnson Show), and coaching (HEAL Coaching), as well as other courses, I'm here to support others on their healing journey because I understand what it's like and I also know what it feels like to be on the other side of healing and I want you to experience the same freedom!
So, if you are ready to overcome your past, stop the abuse from continuing, and tap into your potential, I’m here for you. I promise the journey is worth it!
But it wasn’t always this way.
- Wendy
Full disclosure, I was scared when I first started my healing journey. I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to find the answers. I was scared of my overwhelming emotions, too. So that fear you may be feeling? It’s normal.
But that doesn’t mean all your fears are based in reality - deep inside, so many of us believe we are less than, damaged, plagued with self-doubt in our abilities…the list of ‘your not enough’ could go on and on.
Take a deep breath…
There is no right time in your life to start the healing journey. You might say, ‘after the holidays, when the kids go to school, when work gets less busy, my life is hard right now, I’m too old, it’s a private matter. Sound Familiar?
Instead, do you want your life to look the same ONE YEAR FROM NOW?
Try calling on your future ‘potential’ self. You know that woman who doesn’t feel less than or any shame because of her abuse. Can you imagine? That woman who sets healthy boundaries and has meaningful relationships. That woman who is confident, has a voice, feels whole, and has taken control of her life? Yes, that future ‘potential’ self!
Helping you to understand what really happened to you. Helping you to identify it and correctly define it.
It’s about being educated on triggers and how to overcome them with real strategies so you are not bound by their powerful, debilitating effects.
Helping you to believe in your own perceptions and truth about what happened and identifying how it has affected your life.
Learning how to set boundaries and learn how to trust again and who to trust.
…But here is what it is ‘really’ about.
It’s about learning how to manage your emotions from being shut down to raging anger.
Learning to overcome self-sabotaging behaviors.
It’s about learning how to overcome intimacy issues and being in the present with those closest to you.
Learning how to set boundaries and learn how to trust again and who to trust.
On the surface, this is a book about providing a step-by-step healing process for survivors…