Over three days of deep individual and group work, you'll explore how your early experiences shaped the strategies that once protected you—but now keep you stuck. With care and integrity, we'll help you reconnect with the parts of your story that need attention, repair, and grace.

Offering much more than psycho-education, each participant will be invited to work with their story in experiential ways, including somatic and other integrative interventions  designed to guide the participant in cultivating a deeper connection to their authentic self. This work, completed in a group setting has the potential to be deeply transformative.

You’ll gain clarity on:

• How your early life experiences shaped your emotional world

• The coping strategies you developed to survive—and how they may be limiting you now

• The relational impact of your story, in the context of marriage, partnership, and recovery from addiction 

Day 3

On our final day, participants will use experiential and somatic processes to begin to complete emotional cycles, releasing shame and other carried emotions that have left them stuck in childhood responses and coping mechanisms. These allow participants to develop skills to live more freely and authentically as adults.

This part of the process allows participants to begin to create new responses, based in adult reality, instead of recreating old patterns based on childhood.

Meet the Team

Cat Etherington is the Director of Recovery for Naked Truth Project, she lives in Durham in the North East of England and is married with two daughters. Cat is a certified professional life coach and integrative counselling practitioner, working with individuals and couples impacted by problematic sexual behaviour and betrayal. Cat was the first ever European practitioner to be certified by the Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS) and now serves on their Board of Directors. With personal experience of both addiction and betrayal, Cat has unique insight into the journey of recovery and healing.

Cindy is a certified APSATS Partner Coach (ICF/PCC, CPC) & ERCEM Specialist (CES) who integrates trauma-informed, mindfulness based (MBRC-S), IFS, Family of Origin (HOCI) & somatic disciplines into her client work. Focused training with Carol Sheets (ERCEM), Jake Porter (CCR), Terry Real (RLT) and the Gottman's inform her work with couples. She brings valuable life experience of families with addiction, along with a depth of compassion to her work. She is the Head of Recovery & lives in Washington, USA.