Weight lifting programs and education to heal trauma
Trauma is the harm we hold in our bodies. We help transform trauma through education and fitness programs for trainers, promoting an inclusive, safe, and nontoxic culture.
Start Here: Foundations in Trauma Informed Weight Lifting
A self-paced, accessible introduction to the TIWL framework. Learn at your own pace, wherever you are in your professional journey.
Explore the Foundations Program
I’m a Coach or Trainer
Learn to coach clients with a trauma-informed approach – become a leader in the fitness industry.
I’m a Mental Health Professional
Integrate strength training into trauma recovery – enhance outcomes as a mental health professional.
Why Trauma Care?
Approximately 70% of the world’s population have been exposed to a traumatic life event. The resulting mental health problems represent a major challenge to public mental health services, globally.
Experiences of trauma profoundly change our relationship to our body. Yet few treatments exist for complex trauma survivors, making healing exponentially more difficult for them.
Why Weight Lifting?
Weight lifting, when approached in a trauma-informed manner, can foster resilience, increase a felt sense of agency and empowerment, cultivate healthy nervous system functioning, and facilitate a positive relationship with self and others.
Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting combats the isolating and dividing nature of trauma. How?

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