Dr. Carol Peters-Tanksley: Healing from sexual trauma for women
Online Coaching Intensives are for women and men who are seeking help on a specific issue and are looking for their next step.
Description: Taught live by licensed OB-Gyn physician and ordained minister Dr. Carol Tanksley, this 7-week master class is for women who have experienced sexual harm recently or at any time in the past. Dr. Carol brings both academic expertise and years of experience as a practitioner to this sensitive topic. She incorporates neurobiology, inner healing, and spiritual formation into this experience in which you will:
- Develop a deeper understanding of trauma’s impact on your body, mind, and soul
- Experience caring connection with others in the group
- Feel less crazy as you explore your own sexual story with honesty and compassion
- Discover tools to experience healing from Jesus where you need it most
- Learn the path to rebuilding intimacy in your future regardless of your relationship status
Online Coaching Intensive Outline
Week 1: Lies, Wounds, and Empty Places in Your Soul Around Sex
- Identifying how you’ve been sexually harmed
- How the assault on your sexuality impacts your body, mind, and soul
- How sexual trauma impacts your ability to be in relationships (marriage and others)
- The power of your sexual story
- What to do if you get emotionally triggered during this coaching intensive
- Q&A
Week 2: The Brain, Trauma, and Sex
- What neurobiology tells us about trauma
- What healing from trauma looks like
- The role of other human beings in healing from trauma
- Honoring your “gut” while not letting feelings rule you
- Telling your sexual story
- Q&A
Week 3: Making the Choice for Healing
- What you may have already done in moving toward healing
- Dealing gently with the internal resistance
- What are you saying YES to when saying Yes to healing?
- Common emotional responses along the road to healing, and what to do about them
- Q&A
Week 4: God and Your Sexual Story
- How trauma, especially sexual trauma, affects your view of God
- How inviting Jesus into your sexual story can change its meaning and change your brain
- How to begin inviting Jesus into your sexual story, and tools to do so
- Caution against over-spiritualizing trauma healing
- Q&A
Week 5: Triggers, Slips, and Setbacks
- The uneven journey of healing and finding wholeness
- Being prepared for setbacks
- Learning from slips and setbacks
- Tools for dealing with triggers
- Rebuilding new brain pathways
- Q&A
Week 6: Relearning God’s Design for Sex and Sexuality
- Patience, honesty, compassion, and grace
- God’s design for intimacy – more than sex
- Sex as the picture of the intimacy God desires to have between us and Him
- The ongoing process of letting who God is heal and reframe your sexual story
- Q&A
Week 7: Rebuilding Intimacy (not just sex!)
- Periodic rounds of healing needed
- Choosing safety after you’ve experienced trauma
- Married? How to handle married sex during healing
- Not married? How to know when you’re ready to consider relationship/marriage
- Non-sexual intimacy regardless of relationship status
- Q&A
Learn from an Expert
Connect with Others in Similar Situations
Gather Resources
Online Coaching Intensives Details
Guided Materials
- Live weekly Zoom meetings
- PDF of resources from the expert
Safe & Confidential Groups
- Private online group
- 11 people max, 8 people minimum
- Available to anyone over the age of 18
- Authentic Intimacy is committed to creating an environment where people can grow in their faith in Jesus Christ and pursue wholeness and healing. To keep this God-honoring space safe and welcoming to our community, Authentic Intimacy, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to cancel a membership or remove someone from a group if they exhibit behavior or language deemed inappropriate.
Pricing
- Price: $350 per person
- AI members receive a 10% discount (Be sure to use your member code at check-out.)
- Sales of Online Coaching
Intensives are final and not refundable unless the group does not reach the minimum number of participants.