Introducing- Rewired: A 14-Week Series for Complex PTSD Recovery
Education, neuroscience, survivor stories, and step-by-step support to help you heal at your own pace.
No matter where you are in your healing — just beginning, starting over, or circling back again — this space was created to meet you there.❤️
We’re so excited to invite you into the Rewired Healing Series — a 14-week, step-by-step experience to help you:
Discover how past experiences have lived in your body
Gently unwind old patterns that no longer serve you
Build a sense of safety in both your body and your mind
Move forward with more clarity, self-awareness, and compassion
Through education, personal survivor stories, trauma-informed tools and practices, worksheets, and more — this series offers a structured and compassionate space to begin (or deepen) your healing.
💡 What You’ll Get Each Week
🆓 Free Substack Post (Tuesdays):
✏️ Education grounded in trauma neuroscience
We break down key trauma healing concepts in clear, relatable language — so you can finally understand what’s happening inside your brain and body.
💬 Paid Substack Post (Thursdays):
Personal stories from both of us — Kristin (a Complex PTSD survivor) and husband Travis (partner perspective)
A trauma-informed worksheet that matches that weeks theme to help you reflect, explore, and integrate
A nervous system practice you can actually use when things feel hard
A small, doable step you can try that week
🆓 Substack Blog (Fridays):
🗣️ Different perspectives on the healing journey
Each Friday, you'll receive a personal blog post from either Kristin or Travis — alternating weekly — filled with reflections, stories, and insights about the topic we’ve been exploring that week.
📖 What We’ll Explore Together
Each week focuses on a core concept in trauma recovery — helping you gently understand and apply it in your own life.
Here’s the full Rewired series lineup - begins next week on Tuesday, June 10th
Week 1: 🧩 Creating Safety — What to Avoid in Early Healing
Before we dive in, we’ll get clear on what not to do —so you can feel safe, supported & not rushed.
Week 2: 🕊️ How to Find a Trauma-Informed Therapist
Learn what safe, supportive care actually feels like —and how to protect yourself from what isn’t.
Week 3: 🌬️ Regulation Tools That Actually Work
Rewire the way you regulate — using the exact tools that helped me move out of survival mode.
Week 4: 🧸 Meet Your Inner Child
Gently open the door to inner child work — a foundational part of healing that helps you understand your past & feel safer in the present.
Week 5: 🌱 The Reparenting Process
Start reparenting your inner child with simple, daily practices that help them feel seen, safe, and supported.
Week 6: 🪞 Shame, Self-Worth & the Inner Critic
Now that safety is forming, begin shifting the inner dialogue from self-blame to self-worth.
Week 7: 🧠 Rewiring the Thought Patterns Trauma Left Behind
Start noticing the stories you tell yourself — and how old beliefs from trauma still shape the way you think, feel, and respond.
Week 8: 🚨 Triggers & Protective Parts
Understand what’s driving your reactions — and learn how to support yourself when your system gets overwhelmed.
Week 9: 🛑 Boundaries & Building Safety in Relationships
Start noticing the small signs of safety in connection —and how to trust yourself in those moments.
Week 10: 💔 Relational Trauma & Attachment Wounds
Explore how past relationships shaped the way you show up now — and how to begin gently shifting those patterns.
Week 11: 🌀 Integration — What Makes Healing Stick
It’s the space where your nervous system catches up with your growth —and your healing becomes something you can feel.
Week 12: 🌧️ Navigating Setbacks Without Losing Yourself
Learn how to hold space for the hard days — and trust that they don’t erase how far you’ve come.
Week 13: 🌟 Becoming Who You Were Always Meant to Be
You’ve done the deep work to get here — now it’s time to own your story, take up space, and step into the most awesome, authentic version of you.
Week 14: 🛤️ Moving Forward with Self-Trust & Compassion
This final week helps you bring it all together — using habit stacking and simple routines to make your healing something you live, not just something you learn.
Each theme includes:
✔️ Trauma-Informed Guidance
✔️ Reflection & Grounding Tools
✔️ A Nervous System Practice You Can Use Right Away
✔️ A Guided Worksheet to Help You Reflect & Integrate
🔁 How It Works
You prefer healing at your own pace — and so do we.
That’s why this series is built to support you without pressure or timelines.
Each weekly post builds on the last, but you can start anytime and move through it in a way that feels safe for your nervous system.
You’ll be able to return to the beginning, catch up when it feels right, and revisit each part again and again.
At the end of every paid post, you’ll find a companion worksheet — a printable guide to help you apply that week’s lesson in your own life.
By the end of the series, you’ll have a full 14-part trauma-informed workbook — created piece by piece, at your own pace, that you can return to again and again.
🧠 Why We Created This
We’ve lived this.
The shutdowns. The emotional flashbacks. The arguments.
The survival patterns that shaped how we showed up — as partners, as parents, as people.
And we’ve also lived the rebuilding.
The regulating. The repairing.
The small shifts that created real healing.
This series brings together everything that helped us — not just what we researched, but the tools and practices that actually worked.
We wanted to create something that blends:
✔️ Neuroscience and lived experience
✔️ Personal stories and practical tools
✔️ Survivor and partner perspectives
✔️ Reflection and regulation
✔️ Education and real-life application
So instead of feeling overwhelmed by healing…
You can feel supported — step by step.
📚 This Week: Reviewing the Foundations
We’re starting this journey by revisiting the foundations we’ve already covered — because real healing isn’t about rushing forward. It’s about letting things land, layer by layer.
Here’s what we’ve explored so far —click on the links below to go back to reflect, catch up, or dive deeper:
✅ Already Covered:
🧠 Complex PTSD
🔗 What Is Complex PTSD — and Why It’s So Often Missed
🔗 Growing Up With Complex PTSD
🚨 Emotional Flashbacks
🔗 I Didn’t Mean To React Like That
🔗 The Anatomy of an Emotional Flashback
🧊 Survival Mode in Adulthood (Freeze, Fawn & Shutdown)
🔗 5 Hidden Signs You’re in Survival Mode
🔗 3 Hidden Habits Keeping You in Survival Mode
📝 Paid subscribers can find the downloadable worksheets at the end of each Thursday post.
This week is your chance to slow down, revisit these three essential lessons, and reconnect with the tools that are already here to support you.
💛 Who This Is For
This is for you if:
You’ve been diagnosed with Complex PTSD or believe you may have it
You’re healing from Complex PTSD or childhood trauma
You’re just beginning to explore what healing could look like — and need simple, supportive steps to start.
You’ve done a lot of healing work, but still feel stuck in patterns
You want support that’s trauma-informed, compassionate, and real
You’re a partner, friend, or supporter trying to understand how to show up
You want something that helps you go slow — but steady - at your own pace.
Whether you follow along weekly or return when you're ready — you’ll have access to every story, every worksheet, and every tool, whenever you need them most.
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally giving yourself what you never got: safety, support, and space to grow.
Let’s get rewired — together.
The Rewired Healing Series is just getting started.
If you’ve been thinking about going paid, now’s a great time — rates go up to $9.99 on June 10th, and you’ll get access to every bonus tool, practice, reflection, and worksheet along the way. 💛
This is your invitation to begin.
One week, one practice, one shift at a time.
💫 Start here
Week 1 begins Tuesday, June 10th.
❤️ With so much love,
Kristin & Travis
📌 About Us:
We’re Kristin & Travis Francis — founders of Complex PTSD Warrior.
We provide trauma-informed education and support for healing your nervous system, repairing relationships, and breaking generational cycles — using curated tools rooted in neuroscience and lived Complex PTSD experience.
Our mission is to spread Complex PTSD Awareness, Education & Tools around the world.
If this post helped you feel seen, understood, or less alone — we’d be so grateful if you shared it with someone who might need it too.
It might be the message they’ve been waiting their whole life to hear.
Disclaimer: The content shared here is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional mental health care, diagnosis, or treatment. Please go at your own pace, and always prioritize what feels safe for your body and nervous system. If you’re in crisis or need immediate support, please reach out to a licensed mental health provider or crisis resource in your area.
I’m new to Substack. Is subscribe mandatory for this 14 weeks program ? Thanks ? Very interested !
Sounds great!