🌿 Healing After the Hurt

Grief, Guilt, and the Journey Back to Yourself

A confidential support circle for adult daughters navigating
family wounds

Women standing in a circle with arms around each other, embodying compassionate support

A one-time Spring Healing Circle for women navigating the emotional weight of Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and the unspoken pressures that build into summer.

Limited to carefully selected participants to foster a safe, confidential environment

🗓 Session Details 🌸

🗓 Wednesdays at 12:00 PM EST

📆. May 21 – June 11 or June 18, 2025

⏱️ Live, 75-minute Zoom sessions (5 weeks)

👥 Closed, confidential small group support circle limited to carefully chosen participants to ensure deep trust and safety = no drop-ins, no recordings

💲 $350 flat fee for the full 5-week circle

🌱 The Why Behind This Circle

You don’t have to carry it all.

If you’ve been feeling dread, guilt, sadness, or emotional pressure as Mother’s Day, Father’s and as summer approaches - or if interactions with your parent leave you feeling small, responsible, or emotionally depleted - you are not alone.

This is a Healing Circle for the invisible daughters - the ones who kept the peace, held the weight, and stayed quiet to protect the connection.
Even when it hurt.
Even when it cost them something.

This 5-week Healing Circle is for women processing the emotional impact of unavailable, self-involved, or emotionally immature parents - especially during seasons when “family” is supposed to feel close, but doesn’t.

Whether you're just beginning to name your experience or have been walking this path for a while, this group offers space to pause, reconnect, and begin the journey back to yourself. 🌿

✨ Session Experience

Each week, you’ll step into a warm, non-judgemental, supportive space. 💗

You can expect:

Grounding Beginnings: We open with a gentle somatic or mindfulness practice - hands-on, breath-focused, and designed to help you arrive in your body with ease.

Compassionate Sharing: A safe space to speak - or simply listen - where every voice is honoured.

Deep Witnessing: Through mindful check-ins and reflective prompts, you’ll both offer and receive the gift of being truly seen.

Heart-Centered Boundaries: Guided exercises to name and honour your needs with kindness, clarity and warmth.

Soothing Integration: Brief closing reflections and simple take-home practices to anchor your learning.

🧘🏾‍♀️ All you need is a quiet, private space and a willingness to show up for yourself.

🌼 This Healing Circle may be for you if you:

✔️ Feel unseen, guilty, or emotionally off-balance after family time
✔️ Struggle with people-pleasing, boundary-setting, or over-responsibility
✔️ Dread family events or holidays - even when you “do everything right”
✔️ Carry quiet grief about unmet childhood needs and what you didn’t and don’t receive
✔️ Want to heal emotional patterns with clarity and compassion not blame

🌟 Healing Outcomes

Participants frequently describe emerging from this circle with:

  • Gentle Self-Acceptance: A kinder, more nurturing inner voice that eases self-judgment and fosters self-worth

  • Boundary Confidence: Clearer insight into personal limits and increased comfort in honouring them

  • Relief from Guilt: A palpable easing of the burden of over-responsibility and self-sacrifice

  • Emotional Grounding: Moments of calm and steadiness when old family patterns arise

  • True Validation: Deep reassurance in being truly seen, heard, and understood by fellow group members

  • Practical Self-Care Skills: Simple, compassionate practices you can weave into daily life to support ongoing resilience

🤲 Join the Circle

🧘🏾‍♀️ All you need is a quiet, private space and the willingness to show up for yourself.

✨ You don’t have to keep abandoning yourself to stay connected to your parent.
You’re allowed to take up space.
You’re allowed to heal. ✨

📣 Please share this with someone who may need this kind of support. 💌

✨ No prior group experience necessary ✨

🙏 Meet Your Facilitator

Facilitated by Lynne Protain MACP, CPP, ELI-MP, PCC, RP

Professional Certified Coach | Registered Psychotherapist | Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor

Lynne specializes in trauma-informed, compassionate, somatic and mindfulness-based therapy for women navigating burnout, trauma, chronic illness, menopause, and emotionally complex family relationships. 🌾

Read more about Lynne here

 FAQs

  • No - this circle meets you exactly where you are. You’ll receive gentle guidance and simple practices suitable for all levels.

  • The group is closed and confidential, so we do not record. We don’t take formal notes for absentees, but I’ll share weekly insights and reflections to keep you connected - either posted on a program page or sent directly via email.

  • Everything shared stays within the group. We begin with a shared agreement to honour each person’s privacy.

  • How do I pay?
    Once you register, you’ll receive an email with a secure payment link. Payment is processed through Jane, our therapy platform, and receipts are issued for insurance purposes.

  • Your registration secures your place in a closed, cumulative 5-session therapy group.
    Due to the nature of this group, where each member's consistent participation is vital, no refunds will be issued once registration is complete, regardless of attendance.
    By registering, you confirm your understanding and agreement to these terms.

  • You only need a quiet, private space, a stable internet connection, and something to write with.

    A journal or notebook is helpful but optional - bring whatever feels comfortable.

  • You’ll receive the Zoom link and session details by email 24 hours before each gathering, plus a reminder beforehand.

  • You’re free to mute your mic or turn off your camera to take care of yourself. If you need extra support, you can send me a private chat message during the session.

  • If you arrive late to register, you can join the waitlist.

    Any open spots are offered first to waitlisted participants up to 48 hours before the first session.

  • To maintain trust and confidentiality, each participant joins individually.

    If your friend is interested, please have them register separately.

  • Any weekly insights or reflection prompts will remain posted on the program page or sent by email for the duration of the circle and for one week after our final session.

  • or any questions—logistical, technical, or otherwise - email me at info@lynneprotain.com, and I’ll get back to you within 24-48 hours.

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