Overcoming the Toxic Family System
A course for healing unfinished family trauma and creating safety, identity, and values on your own terms.
Overcoming the Toxic Family System
A course for healing unfinished family trauma and creating safety, identity, and values on your own terms.
- 2-hour video course with Patrick Teahan, LICSW
- 11-page worksheet with guided exercises for finishing unfinished business, creating new values, and forging a new identity
- 38-slide reference deck
In this course, you will learn
How toxic family systems shape survivors — Understand why survivors aren't seen or supported, how living two lives becomes the norm, and how the pull of the family keeps you on a tightrope between safety and toxic engagement
Finishing unfinished business — Learn to track your triggers, write accountability letters to parents, shift self-blame back to where it belongs, and practice rage work and empowered living
Separating from toxic values and creating your own — Identify your family's unspoken behavioral values and myths, flip the script, and define the values you actually want to live by
Forging a new identity and security foundation — Reconnect with who you were before trauma, build three core beliefs (I'm a good person, the world is benevolent, we'll be okay), and reclaim the identity your family never got to know
Overview
Childhood trauma survivors often live two lives — the presentable self and the one shaped by a toxic family membership they never asked for. This course walks you through the full arc of separating from an abusive family system: understanding the dynamics that kept you trapped, finishing the unfinished business that still runs in the background, and starting the work of reclaiming who you are outside of your family's framework.
Patrick guides you through three core stages of recovery — finishing unfinished business through letter-writing, accountability shifts, and rage work; creating new values by identifying your family's myths and building your own; and forging a new identity grounded in three foundational beliefs about your goodness, safety, and resilience. The 11-page worksheet provides structured exercises including a guided letter to a parent, family myth-versus-truth mapping, and a core beliefs inventory to help you build the internal security your childhood never provided.
What's included?
2-hour video course on overcoming the toxic family system
11-page worksheet with guided exercises for each stage of recovery
38-slide reference deck covering all course material
Why This Matters
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