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LEAD > Your Family

Healing Together Starts Here

This 10-week, trauma-informed family program is designed for real life, not theory. Parents and youth learn side by side, practicing tools that rebuild trust, repair communication, and create safer emotional spaces at home.

Step by step, you’ll uncover the patterns that keep repeating and replace them with healthier ways of connecting. The goal isn’t perfection; it’s progress, resilience, and the confidence to write a new story for your family, together.

 

You’ll Learn

Over 8 weeks, you and your child will:

  • Build a shared emotional language

  • Develop better communication and conflict repair skills

  • Understand each other’s perspectives and lived experiences

  • Learn how to stop generational patterns before they repeat

 
 

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Family Reset Series 

Gives you the flexibility to learn at your own pace while keeping the power of connection alive.

Whether you choose to:

  • Complete it entirely as independent study

  • Join our weekly parent-child connection sessions

  • Or participate in group sessions with other families

…this course provides all the tools, guidance, and structure you need for real change.

Add tools to your parenting toolbag

Daily Format

Can be done in 1 sitting 1-2 hours.
Videos: with Pause and Prompt for reflection & exercises.
Each Lesson: under 10 min. 
Perfect for short attention span...

Weekly Format

  • Reset Starts Now - Certification
    (Supports in person counseling - weekly curriculum)
  • Core Online Lesson: 
    10 - 20 min (videos + activities)
  • Independent Practice:
    10 min (reflection/journaling)
  • Weekly Facilitated Session: 
    60 min (20/20/20 model)
Trustwork Series

Family Reset Series

Steady in Storm Say it Anyway Reset Starts Now Before it Spills Real Talk

Family Reset Series: Before It Spills - Limited Access

Equips parents and caregivers with strategies to raise emotionally healthy children while addressing their own healing journey. 

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Family Reset Series: Real Talk

Real Talk is designed to guide young people through the real-life challenges they face every day, with honesty, empathy, and practical tools for self-expression. 

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Steady in the Storm

Equip caregivers with trauma-responsive strategies that help children manage emotions and build resilience during tough times.

Free

TrustWx: Say It Anyway

Give foster youth the tools to express themselves, rebuild trust, and start healing. 

Free

Reset Starts Now - limited access

A Facilitator’s Guide to Leading the Family Reset SeriesEmpower families to reconnect, communicate, and heal with this 8-week program. 

Free
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How It Works

Independent Study

Work through the online lessons at your own pace.

Each week includes videos, reading, and interactive exercises.

Downloadable tools, worksheets, and sentence starters.

Optional Weekly Get-Togethers

Parent-Child: Private guided session just for you two.

 

Group: Join other families for facilitated breakout discussions, shared reflection, and connection time.

Ministry Ready: Turnkey opportunity overlays existing programs.

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$49

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Before It Spills for parents, Real Talk for teens - build one emotional language at home

Parent/Child
Core Online Lesson: 20–25 min (videos + activities) 

Independent Practice: 15–20 min (reflection/journaling)

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What’s Included

  • Full 8-week online course - or a couple days... (video lessons + readings)

  • Digital copies of Before It Spills and Real Talk

  • Downloadable worksheets, tools, and reflection prompts

  • Optional live/virtual weekly connection sessions

  • End-of-course Family Reset Certificate

Family Reset Series: Real Talk:

  1. Introduction

    2 lessons
    1. This Book Is for You, Because I Was You
    2. My Brave Words Page – Real Talk

  2. Week 1 - Part I: YOU’RE NOT BROKEN. YOU’RE BECOMING.

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 1: What’s In Your Cup?
    2. Chapter 1 Quiz: What’s in Your Cup?
    3. Chapter 2: Sponges and Spills
    4. Chapter 2 Quiz: Sponges and Spills

  3. Week 2 - YOU’RE NOT BROKEN. YOU’RE BECOMING II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 3: You’re Allowed to Be Angry
    2. Chapter 3 Quiz: You’re Allowed to Be Angry
    3. Chapter 4: Who’s Driving the Car?
    4. Chapter 4 Quiz: Who’s Driving the Car?

  4. Week 3 - Part II: YOU CAN FEEL DIFFERENT WITHOUT BEING DIFFERENT

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 5: The Respect Reset
    2. Chapter 5 Quiz: The Respect Reset
    3. Chapter 6: Don’t Let the Old Stuff Write the New Story
    4. Chapter 6 Quiz: Don’t Let the Old Stuff Write the New Story

  5. Week 4 - Part II: YOU CAN FEEL DIFFERENT WITHOUT BEING DIFFERENT II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 7: How to Be Heard (Even When They’re Not Listening)
    2. Chapter 7 Quiz: How to Be Heard (Even When They’re Not Listening)
    3. Chapter 8: Apologizing Doesn’t Make You Weak
    4. Chapter 8 Quiz: Apologizing Doesn’t Make You Weak

  6. Week 5 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 9: It’s Not Just Attitude, It’s Overload
    2. Chapter 9 Quiz: It’s Not Just Attitude, It’s Overload
    3. Chapter 10: Staying Present When You Wanna Dip
    4. Chapter 10: Staying Present When You Wanna Dip

  7. Week 6 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 11: When They Hurt You and You Can’t Say It
    2. Chapter 11 Quiz: When They Hurt You and You Can’t Say It
    3. Chapter 12: Forgiveness Isn’t Fake
    4. Chapter 12 Quiz: Forgiveness Isn’t Fake

  8. Week 7 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS III

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 13: Boundaries Aren’t Drama
    2. Chapter 13 Quiz: Boundaries Aren’t Drama
    3. Chapter 14: Healing Isn’t a Solo Sport
    4. Chapter 14 Quiz: Healing Isn’t a Solo Sport

  9. Week 8 - Part III: WHO YOU’RE BECOMING MATTERS IV

    2 lessons
    1. Chapter 15: You’re the Author Now
    2. Chapter 15 Quiz: You’re the Author Now

  10. Final

    3 lessons
    1. Teen Tool: Legacy Letter – Teen Edition
    2. From My Heart to Yours
    3. Final Quiz for the Real Talk course

Before It Spills

  1. Seeing the Cycle

    1 lesson
    1. INTRODUCTION

  2. Week 1 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 1: What’s In Your Glass? How What Filled You Is What Spills From You
    2. What’s In Your Glass? – End of Lesson Quiz
    3. Chapter 2: Sponges and Spills How Children Absorb More Than What We Say
    4. Sponges and Spills – End of Lesson Quiz

  3. Week 2 - Seeing the Cycle II

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 3: What Wasn’t Yours to Carry Healing from Sexual Abuse, Boundary Trauma, and Generational Silence
    2. What Wasn’t Yours to Carry – End of Lesson Quiz
    3. Chapter 4: Yelling Is a Leak Why We Explode, and How to Catch It Before It Spills
    4. Yelling Is a Leak – End of Lesson Quiz

  4. Week 3 - Recognizing the Patterns

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 5: Don’t Pass Down the Mask How Hiding Your Feelings Can Hurt Your Family
    2. Chapter 5 Quiz: Don’t Pass Down the Mask
    3. Chapter 6: The Voice in Their Head Might Be Yours How Kids Inherit the Way You Speak to Them, and Yourself
    4. Chapter 6 Quiz – Boundaries & Follow-Through

  5. Week 4 - Building the Shift

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 7: Trigger Translation Understanding Why Certain Moments Hit So Deep
    2. Chapter 7: Trigger Translation Understanding Why Certain Moments Hit So Deep
    3. Chapter 8: Apologizing Without Fear: Why Accountability Builds Trust, Not Weakness
    4. Chapter 8 Quiz – Parenting Under Stress

  6. Week 5 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 9: They’re Not Giving You Attitude, They’re Giving You Fear
    2. Chapter 9 Quiz – Triggers & Old Wounds
    3. Chapter 10: How to Stay When You Want to Run Being Present Even When It’s Hard
    4. Chapter 10 Quiz – Modeling Emotional Regulation

  7. week 6 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 11: When You’re Hurting Because of Them
    2. Chapter 11 Quiz – Building Connection
    3. Chapter 12: Forgiveness Isn’t Forgetting, It’s Releasing
    4. Chapter 12 Quiz – Discipline vs. Punishment

  8. Week 7 -

    4 lessons
    1. Chapter 13: Boundaries Are Not Betrayal
    2. Chapter 13 Quiz – Parenting Styles & Flexibility
    3. Chapter 14: Reparenting Yourself Without Abandoning Them
    4. Chapter 14 Quiz – Generational Healing

  9. Living the Legacy

    3 lessons
    1. Chapter 15: Parenting the Healed Version of You
    2. Chapter 15 Quiz – Raising Kids With Resilience
    3. Appendix A: Reset Tools, Reflection Practices, and Key Definitions
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