In the past 25 years, I've helped an estimated 1250 individuals and 441 couples transition from perpetual emotional swings of sadness, anger, depression, even shame, into having a remarkable life.
As I coached these fellow souls, I noticed patterns that shifted things permanently. I was relentless in finding my own joy and transmitting the solution to others. It's been a long journey and with your permission I'd like to share with you my discoveries.
My promise is this, starting today, you can repair any "glitch" in your own nervous system without years of therapy, spending a fortune, or needing to announce your history to anyone.
My name is Ed Ferrigan, M.A., CPCC, SEP and I am certified by some of the best trauma healing research organizations on the planet. And, like I mentioned, I've been in the trenches helping people navigate trauma for 25 years. I was also my own best client in the journey to healing my own developmental trauma.
My goal in creating this report, is to help you to see that there is an accessible way to gain immediate traction to healing your own past trauma(s) by practicing exercises I discovered that get to the root cause of why people stay stuck in life. I still use many of these tools every day to maintain good habits and to quickly move me out of the trajectory of pain and suffering back to focusing on what I want to create in my life.
You will see a lot of program's today promoting how to have your best possible life. Yet, I have not seen one of them address how underlying past trauma affects your ability to sustain the practices they recommend. Their approach is to ignore the past and focus on what you want. Good up to a point... Yet, I firmly stand behind the belief that they are clearly uninformed how the safety brain works and how trauma stays locked in the body until you release it.
To find real answers, I had to go to organizations that train therapist with programs that actually deal with the root cause. I want you to get access to what I discovered. I want to make these simple processes or exercises available to anyone. One of the goals of this report is to make this wisdom available to you, so you feel empowered to do something about your own challenges.While there are lots of forms of trauma, my focus in this report is developmental trauma.
The effects of developmental trauma is not always easy to see. We have often repeated moment-by-moment decision making patterns for so long, we see our behaviors or ways of thinking as "normal." Yet, even now, as you reflect back on your life, you may get a vibe something is not quite right. You may even get daily feedback that others reactions are evidence of it. It took me years to finally admit this to myself, so my encouragement to you is to face these "demons" squarely now so you can access the magic on how to get past it. I'm about to show you how.
Let's start with a 4-step process so you get proof of what I'm claiming, so the wonky behaviors and ways of thinking become easier to see. As an important, first step, we must admit to ourselves what the behavior is before we can change it. Ready?
Step 1: Simply ask yourself: Am I happy with my current results in life? "Reflect on how excited you feel day-to-day?(Write down your answers in a place to access later.)
Are you excited about your current relationship or have you settled for less? Have you normalized your needs not getting met? (remind you of anything? 🧐 )
When you look in each others eyes do you still see love, passion, or a dullness and disappointment?• Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror?
Are you motivated to take care of your body?
How about your financial well being? Do you struggle year-after-year, even when you work really hard?• Are you in a career that you are passionate about?
Are you making the money that you had hoped for?• Is there a niggly urning in your soul that something needs to be different?
Maybe there always a back drop of "I'm not sure I'll make it?"
Step 2: Bookmark your answers then reflect on them.
If you have been traumatized, then you have a story for most of the issues you listed. Your stories hold the keys to the solution that you'll learn about later in this report. For now, try to remember that repeating your story (be it out loud or in your head) is like a recording device. If you repeat it enough times, - you will form a belief around it. In a moment, you will learn what to do with these stories and how they're critical for changing beliefs and accessing the new life you are wanting. Treat these stories like gems in a treasure chest. Never make them wrong. Within each of them are the golden keys to releasing any trauma that still affects you today.
Step 3: The Big "Gem" That Changed Everything And You Will Benefit.
Never underestimate the power of an experience. A few years ago I went through a breakup. It was a very short 3 week dating relationship but it was exactly the experience I needed to get the big aha moment that change my entire life trajectory. After a week or so talking every day to this woman, I noticed she started comparing me to her x. I also noticed when she brought it up it didn't feel good in my body. One Sunday evening I decided to sit with the feelings and use my breath to loosen the grip of the anxiety that was getting triggered around it.
As I sat with the feelings and did a few exercises I will show you how to access later, it became clear to me what to do next. Sure enough, the following day she stopped by for dinner before we headed to a Tango lesson. As we were talking, within minutes, we somehow got back on the subject and she started comparing me again.
I looked at her and smiled and said that "I noticed you are comparing me a lot and maybe she was not yet finished with him." I suggested she go back to him. She didn't like that and of course I paid the price for the remainder of the evening!
She did not connect with me the following day and I suspected she met with her x. That was confirmed when she came over on Wednesday. It was obvious she was uncomfortable being in my presence. To make a long story short, I assured her that while I thought we had great potential as a couple, she absolutely had my blessing to go back with her x, and that she did not need to feel guilty. And I meant it. While I may be sad things didn't work out, I assured her I always want the people I care about to have the joy they want in life. I've learned over the years when things are incomplete with people the best thing to do is create space for things to naturally resolve themeselves rather than resist.
Yet, here is where things get interesting and I hope you'll benefit from my story. When she left I felt a ping-pressure in my heart. Our conversation sparked some belief or memory in me. By that time in my life, I had been there hundreds of times before so I understood not to ignore when my body is speaking to me and when to pay attention to it!
After an hour or so I could not get to the underlying issue on what the ping meant. "Meant" is the key word here. You see one of the big "aha's" I want you to get today is it's the meaning we assign to EVERY experience since birth that causng us happiness or pain and suffering.
And each and every experience in life is an opportunity to practice noticing where in the past we may have assigned meaning to something that is causing us grief or happiness today. (Hint: Your list above are clues as to what to focus on.) Your body will tell you the meanings that need to be challenged, if you learn to dial in it's messages.
After some time, I called a friend of mine who used to be my old therapist 20 years earlier. Maybe 15-20 minutes into the conversation I still could not access what the "ping" was about. After we hung up I remember the next moment vividly. I sat in my favorite chair and turned on an episode of Designated Survivor. Keifer Sutherland said something and I felt a shift in my chest. I immediately paused the TV laid on the floor and laid my arms out to the side. Within a breath or two I began to convulse into deep sobs. I'm sure my neighbors heard it a block away! The trick when this happens is to not let the mind get in the way. So I did my best to go with the flow.
It was then I got my big aha. In the blink of an eye I could see and feel throughout my entire body in slow motion how the meaning I have assiged to everything since birth was at the root of all my pain. I saw in slow-motion how shortly after birth, I decided I was flawed or broken. For the next hour, memory after memory came flooding back and layers of grief moved through me. Again, I went with the flow of it.
For the next few days I lived in a chronic state of PTSD. Crying and shaking on and off. Wave after wave of grief from the past. How being neglected as a new born and young child had affected me. How I had cut myself off from these feeling my entire life until now!
My intuition told me to sit and breathe into these memories. I had had a couple of other episodes of severe PTSD in the past related to birth wounds and other preverbal wounding so felt confident in my ability to handle it. I was also familiar with the process of Somatic Experiencing, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), the Hendricks Method of Body Centered Psychotherapy, and Dr. Daniel Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology research, so I felt confident in how to navigate this emotional challenge.
By Sunday, I was wrung out. I made the decision to sit on my meditation pillow and not move until this energy shifted. It took 3 hours of slow breathing and feeling all of my emotions that continued to come in waves. Suddenly, at around the 3-hour mark, bliss started to creep in. The pain lifted. I stayed with it and allowed it to expand. The painful memories and waves of angst disappeared and I experienced more bliss than I can possibly imagine or even describe to you.
And it didn't stop there. The bliss lasted for nearly a month.
Step 4: The move to liberate yourself is to learn about healthy responsibility.
After this experience, it is very clear to me that each of us is responsible for the meaning of everything we have ever experienced good or bad. I recommend you pause and feel into that claim. Even if we were a week old when tragedy struck, we are still responsible for changing the meaning that is still influencing us in a negative way.
What someone may have done to you is absolutely a tragic thing. No one can ever deny that. AND no one will EVER know what it was like for you. (Really grock that one!) But that is a separate issue from my main point. Learn to take responsibility for the meaning you have assigned to anything since conception and you will be on the fast-path to healing ANYTHING. I'll show you how in a moment...
Rarely, have I found a person that didn't have some kind of developmental trauma. And I'll be bold enough to say, most people who don't think they have, are in denial. Countless times I've had people say to me in my coaching practice, "I had amazing parents and a great childhood!" only to comment a few minutes later that confirmed my suspicion. Like "Well when I was 5 my dad left us, but he was always good to me and stayed in touch." 🤦♂️
Here are clues to having developmental trauma in case you are curious to explore further:
Low self worth (You get nauseated when you think of public speaking, get anxious before you try new things, negative self talk when you look in the mirror, or even feel disgust about your body or looks, depression)
Sense of not belonging anywhere (Feel lost, have none or only a few friends, no one reaches out to you to do stuff, one sided friendships, insatiable desire for some place to feel like home)
Addictions (Work, over eating, drugs, sex-pornography, alcohol, binge watching Netflix)
Feelings of shame when things don’t go right (a sick feeling in your gut)
Fear of being seen (You avoid experiences that might expose you or draws attention to you)
Afraid to speak up (Shut down, get quiet, or even shrink when you disagree)
Regular bouts of feeling victimized (Negative conversations laced with a helpless tone)
Fear of intimacy (Push people away when they get too close, sabotage relationships, pick people where you know it won’t work)
Fear of sexuality (Inhibited, frigid, avoid the conversation, avoid the situation, or the extreme opposite behavior)
Financial issues (Struggle with jobs or self employment, Poor spending habits, Debt)
Regular bouts of arguing and fighting with partner (Blame, Indulging the Victim, Resentfulness)
Discounting your talents (Negative self talk, shun or deflect appreciation from others)
The bigger question here is how do you get to a place where it feels effortless to experience consistent amounts of joy and excitement about life. To have a sense of what you are here for and to be motivated to make that happen. To be excited about making the effort!
What I have found is the recommended solutions by the “guru’s” doesn't address an underlying issue that causes you to return to your old ways - causing you to wonder why nothing seems to work. This is a mindset issues and it stems from past trauma as I've illustrated to you above. (In a minute you'll see why it's also not your fault)
You start with good intentions. You do everything they tell you to do. You create a "system" with the intention to follow through.
Then suddenly, some impulse or distraction redirects you. It could be another method or framework that you imagine might get you there faster. So you ping over to another program, and the story continues...
Nothing gets done. You never get the traction necessary to accomplish what you picture you are wanting. Maybe you never go deep enough or stay with something long enough to thoroughly test it. The truth is, your unconscious mind has a grip on you outside of your awareness and keeps dominating your impulses and influencing your decisions.
As you look back over the years, it's easy to see something has gone wrong and regret sinks in. The challenge though, after so many trial runs, is to believe anything can help you. "Is this just another "program or framework" to entice me?" Now you don't even trust yourself to know the difference.
Like a dog chasing its tail, it rarely get's what it wants.
I finally learned how to put a stop to the madness (In myself and most of my entrepreneurial clients) and I want to share that with you today.
Over 10 years years ago, I went back and reviewed hundreds of sessions I had with clients. After highlighting and cataloguing hundreds of remarks and role plays we practiced, I identified common threads amongst the sessions where clients reported breakthrough success. The result was a list of over 25 principles and practices.
A couple years ago I began to film lessons for each of the practices and principles I discovered. You can now access this information below.
The goal of the program is to give you the essential tools to make you aware of any developmental trauma that is still interfering with your success today (most of the time outside of your awareness).
As you practice the lessons, you will begin to see the habits, patterns, and beliefs that have always been there, right under your nose. You will learn how to identify them and what to do to change them to get a better result.
And I won't sugar coat this report for marketing reasons. Your coping mechanisms and beliefs get modified the more you practice. Yes, habits (good or bad) get formed only through repetition.
Feel free to send me an email at [email protected] if you have any questions.
The Trauma Repair Accelerator is a unique program to help you to shed the bondage of past trauma. This program was designed to give you simple practices that will heal and unravel patterns that are causing bad results in your life. The program will walk you through each layer to consider, as you shift unconscious beliefs and patterns into empowering ones.
Apply all the tools you'll learn in the TRA program live with Ed.
Precision coaching from a skilled intuit and trained shaman who senses the underlying issue in minutes. Not weeks, months or years.
Personalized homework so each week you make cumulative gains that will last forever.
Pull wisdom from a deep well of over 5000 sessions including over 900 family constellation sessions. It is nearly impossible to dial in what is needed uniquely for you, without a skilled observer that can shed light on what we can never see ourselves.
Learn when you are feeding trauma energy versus releasing it to free up your nervous system. When this happens your beliefs automatically begin to change and the underlying pressure to stay stuck in trauma begin to disappear and your life begins a new.
The Activation-Regulation Cycle Explained - you'll learn how to self regulate better so life get's much much easier!
The 4 F’s of Flight, Flight, Freeze, Faint - You must know the difference between fear based behavior and consciously choosing so you are more in control of your choices in life. The alternative is to let the unconscious mind run the show based on the past.
Stimulus or Cue, Routine, Reward Model - Enables you to more easily see your patterns and what triggers you so you can purposefully redirect yourself on demand.
Orienting - Witnessing what you are doing and redirect yourself moment-by-moment instead of defaulting to unconscious decision making or feeding intense emotions. Orienting is the ideal practice to move out of a "freeze" state that can get triggered.
Discharging - Releasing stuck energy so you get back into current reality. Think of it as releasing memories that the brain thinks are still happening. These are the memories I keep referring to that are unconsciously motivating your choices outside of your awareness.
Grounding - Establishing a baseline of calmness so it's easier to see your derailing patterns. Once you see your own patterns you can change them to what you actually want consciously!
Being the Witness Observer
How to Resource Yourself
Become Skilled at Attunement
Learn how to Track Your Breath
The Value of Tracking Sensations
How Pendulating Creates Immediate Change in Your Brain
The Extraordinary Value of Using One Breath "What is True" Statements
Notice What is Positive & Different
Power of Meditation
12 Personal Virtual Sessions with Ed ($1500 Value)
$25 per hour reduced price for any future coaching after the 3 month of 12 sessions ($300+ Value)
25+ Step-By-Step Video Lessons For Learning Self Regulation ($595 Value)
Advanced E-Learning via Email Lessons ($100 Value)
Worksheets to supplement the lessons ($20 Value)
Private Discussion-Support Group - 3 Month Access ($60 Value)
Weekly Live Group Coaching - First 3 months is free. $20 a month after that. ($60 VALUE)
Lifetime Lesson Access and Updates ($300 Value)
100% 30 Day Money Back Guarantee for the TRA program (0 risk to try it out $199 Value)
How Does TRA Differ From Other Programs?
First, Ed is a highly sensitive empath so gets to the root issue in minutes not weeks or months or years. His coaching process and The Trauma Repair Accelerator program that has been refined over 25 years that eliminates you continuing to go through the trial and error method most people rely on. The program reflects Ed's ability to see the common patterns that inhibit most people. Most people’s issues in life, especially unconscious blocks, are related to their early life experiences that caused trauma, certain beliefs about how life works, and just plain old bad habits. These patterns need to be updated. The TRA Process cuts through the chase of doing years of therapy and purchasing books or programs in this endless quest to stop the madness. Practice the principles over and over again, ask your questions in the private group and watch what happens as you refine it for yourself.
What If It Wont Work For My Situation?
See how your brain works? If this is a question that interest you then you are witnessing first hand how your brain uses fear to motivate itself. Whether it be the Trauma Repair Accelerator Process or any other program, until you actually give it a good try you will never know.
What actually matters is a person's commitment to making it work and practice. There is no magic pill when it comes to trauma. The brain needs help integrating and that is what the TRA process was designed to do.
Like anything in life, everyone learns in slightly different ways. I also know the brain has a way of finding flaws in everything. Neuroscience calls it negativity bias.
After 25 years of witnessing how my mind works, I no longer trust it about thoughts that seem to be motivated by fear. What I do trust is my witness.
The witness is the part of yourself you will learn about in the TRA Process. When you really get acquainted with your own “Witness” part of yourself you’ll see the magnitude of how you can jump to conclusions so fast that’s it’s pretty scary. If you are anything like me, I now wonder how I have gotten as far as I have in life. 😀
Why Did I Price It The Way I Did?
Most "good" and experienced coaches and therapist charge well over $150 per hour because not only do they know it will motivate you to change but also because you are gaining a lifetime skill that probably took well over 10,000 hours of deep inner work and study to enable for themselves. There is value in working with someone who has done their own inner work. Transformation rarely happens with coaches-therapist who are great at book knowledge but have not done the personal work themselves.
Like anyhting in life Im constantly evolving the process. I make videos available to speed the process. Having a place to go to to ask questions about the tool uses my time and energy. I need to make a living as well.
Because of my skill level and proven results from very complex cases, people doing using the TRA process will accelerate their learning so there is a savings there as well. The current price is a gift when you think long term how you will benefit from it.
Again, until you experience it, you wont know. If it saves your relationship someday, what price is that worth to you? If it saves a friendship or your job or helps you to remove a block you cannot see that’s been stopping you from growing your business, what is that worth to you?
Hopefully, you get my point. Look beyond the price, use the tools, and watch. Remove resistance. Stay committed to using the tools until they are integrated.
Are The Steps Easy To Learn?
Yes and no. Like anything in life, everyone learns in slightly different ways. I also know the brain has a way of finding flaws in everything. Neuroscience calls it negativity bias.After 25 years of witnessing how my mind works, I no longer trust it about thoughts that seem to be motivated by fear. What I do trust is my witness.The witness is the part of yourself you will learn about in the TRA Process. When you really get acquainted with your own “Witness” part of yourself you’ll see the magnitude of how you can jump to conclusions so fast that’s it’s pretty scary. If you are anything like me, I now wonder how I have gotten as far as I have in life. 😀