Triggered to Together

Triggers are an inevitable part of life. Yet, the way we deal with them can negatively affect communication and connection with colleagues, friends, or loved ones.

Without the skills to meet triggers, our reactivity can quickly derail conversations, destroy the day or the vacation, and slowly dismantle the sense of “us” in relationships.

The good news? It doesn’t have to be this way.

Embodiment Educator and Trauma Recovery Specialist, Gemini Adams, has helped thousands learn to Resource, Reduce, Regulate, and Respond – a somatic approach that cultivates shared emotional and relational safety, even when it feels impossible.

Triggers arise constantly. We can’t avoid them: noise, traffic, access to money, sleep, food,  the way others behave – a tone of voice, a look, their absence, or the way they engage with their phone, laptop, or a particular person. 

One minute we’re calm, focused, and content, then ‘bing’ we flip into stress or survival:  

Flight – anxiety takes over 

Fight – anger erupts 

Freeze – we shut down quietly 

Fawn – we slip into shame 

Unfortunately, in all of these states, our capacity to relate well disappears.  

Especially when unresolved wounds from the past hijack the present — flooding our adult self with the vulnerability and emotional unpredictability of our inner child.  

If there’s a history of an overbearing, violent, or absent parent, triggers often switch on unhealthy coping strategies, like people-pleasing or bullying. As we attempt to maintain the power, we abandon needs and lose connection to our authentic selves and others.  

An intense flood of fear rises inside, twisting our tummy and crushing our ability to speak up for our rights, boundaries, or innermost desires.  

We shout and say things we shouldn’t because Mom or Dad didn’t know how to de-escalate the sense of threat, and we simply inherited their approach.  

Few of us learned the specific skills to respond well to triggers. 

No one explained that bodily sensations are the powerful clues to what’s bubbling beneath the surface, or that we might be numb to our felt sense; yet it’s this interoceptive awareness that is key to becoming relationally safe. 

So we just get stuck, feeling frustrated. Until we learn to do things differently. 

Like how to rewire our reactivity and reduce relational rupture. And this is exactly what you’ll develop in the 12-week program From ‘Triggered’ to Together. 

Delivered in three modules with 90-minute live online classes each week, we begin by exploring the felt sense and embodied safety – expanding interoceptive awareness so you can notice the sensations of stress and survival much faster. Next, we try on the somatic practices that effectively de-escalate each of these states and begin to apply them in real time to reduce our reactivity.  

In the final module, we will be mastering the art of noticing sensation, state, and applying the appropriate somatic practice – so that even when triggered, we can shift gears quickly, easily reclaiming our ability to communicate calmly and clearly, so we can sustain emotional safety and harmony in relationships.

The Program Format: 

In order to get the change you desire, you’ll need to join all of the 90 min weekly live online classes, but if you have to miss one, you can watch the recording. 

When: Every Monday from April 6th – June 29th, 2026 *No call May 25, 2026*

Time: 8am – 9:30am PST / 11am – 12:30pm EST 

In addition, you’ll get a 30 min weekly self-paced homework exercise to do, which will either be watching a video, listening to an audio recording, or a self-observation and writing practice.  

 As we are working to rewire your reactivity, you’ll also be engaging in a 15 min practice every day. These will help to gently shift your system over the time we work together,  really rooting it in, so it becomes second nature.  

 That’s a total of 3.5 hours of your time each week: 

* 90 min live online group classes 

* 30 min weekly homework prompts 

* 15 mins daily practices – repetition is essential 

Receive Lifetime Access: 

But it doesn’t end there. After the 12-week program completes, you’ll get to keep all of  these materials so you can stay supported, for life: 

* 12 x Video recordings of the Previously Live Group Classes 

* Trigger & Resource Map Worksheets for You and Your Family 

* The Developing Relational Emotional Wellbeing Model (DREW)  

* 90 Daily Practice Prompts for Developing Body Sense & Emotional Wellbeing * Nervous System First Aid: Reclaiming a Felt Sense of Safety (Audio Guide) * Nervous System First Aid: Lift the Heaviness (Audio Guide) 

* Nervous System First Aid: Rage It Out (Audio Guide) 

* Nervous System First Aid: Soothe the Stress (Audio Guide)

Your Program Facilitator: 

Gemini Adams is a Winston Churchill Fellow, dedicated to helping survivors cultivate the relational and emotional well-being needed to repair the damaging legacy of C-PTSD that stems from early childhood relational trauma – including bullying, betrayal, emotional neglect, abandonment, and all forms of abuse. 

In her private practice, Gemini has transformed countless lives, offering a safe space for individuals and families to heal their fractured parts, resolving painful events of the past, and cultivating the potential for harmonious and healthy relationships as the new norm. 

Thousands of students from over sixty countries have graduated from her programs,  including The Trauma Awareness Training: Becoming a Safer Space Holder – an essential certification for anyone in the business of helping others. 

With more than 25 years of experience in social change and mental healthcare, Gemini has worked with international charities, addiction-recovery centers, NGOs, and has been working with the Center for Relational Healing and Helping Couples Heal since 2015.