Developmental Trauma Training Institute

What happens when the healer is still carrying unhealed relational wounds?

In this week’s Trauma Responsive Tuesday, Steve explores how childhood developmental trauma can shape relational survival responses such as fawning and appeasement. While these patterns may have once protected us, they can leave us seeking worth through doing rather than being, making it difficult to experience peace when we’re simply with ourselves.

In the helping professions, boundaries are often emphasized. Yet many practitioners continue to feel easily hijacked by the needs of others, drawn toward overwork, and vulnerable to burnout—not because they lack knowledge, but because these patterns often live deeply within the body.

Join Steve as he examines how these embodied survival responses develop, why they persist, and how healing developmental trauma can create space for greater authenticity, balance, and a deeper sense of peace.

Shame is often talked about as an emotion.

But what if it’s much more than that?

What if it shapes the way we see ourselves, connect with others, experience our bodies, and move through the world?

This short series offers a glimpse into the many ways shame can influence our lives—and why understanding it matters for healing.

Join Steve Sawyer, LCSW, and Josh Delahan, LCSW, for Shame: The Land Between Living & Dying, a three-day online training exploring shame through the lenses of developmental trauma, attachment, neuroscience, and the body.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/shame-the-land-between-living-and-dying--online-training-event-2138672869

Most people think of shame as an emotion. But shame is much more than that.

It shapes the way we enter relationships.
The way we experience our bodies.
The way we receive love.
The way we protect ourselves.
The way we believe we deserve—or don’t deserve—to exist.

For many clients, shame isn’t the presenting problem.

It’s the hidden thread connecting anxiety, depression, addiction, perfectionism, people-pleasing, chronic self-criticism, relational struggles, and developmental trauma.

In this three-day online training, Steve Sawyer, LCSW, and Josh Delahan, LCSW, explore shame through the lenses of attachment, developmental trauma, neuroscience, and the body—offering clinicians a deeper understanding of one of the most powerful forces shaping human experience.

Because when we only treat the symptoms, shame often remains untouched.

And when shame begins to soften…
everything else has room to change.

Join us for Shame: The Land Between Living and Dying and deepen your understanding of the role shame plays in healing.

🔗 Register here: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/shame-the-land-between-living-and-dying–online-training-event-2138672869