Emily Colligan Therapy.
Self-Love Unlocking
Program
your ticket to freedom from toxic
relationships!
break the cycle!
Get to the root cause of your trauma bond & learn how to let go of the emotional attachment in 5 rapid transformational stages. You've probably tried EVERYTHING, yet still feel stuck. This program gives you the missing link you've been searching for through using the magic of somatic therapy!
why you can't let go
Your body unconsciously looks to heal your wounds through people that feel similar to your parents, which is referred to as "repetition compulsion." It's your inner child that causes you to cling onto them to get the love you never received in childhood, not your adult self.
The narcissist mirrors these familiar feelings back to you, and this is what creates the "intense chemistry." Your brain is also wired to bring you towards what's familiar even if it's "bad" for you. This is because it associates familiarity with safety and comfort. This program teaches you how to REWIRE it.
Your mind will always choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven.
this is why you're stuck
Conscious mind:
-Drives ONLY 5% of your behavior
-Responsible for logic
-Problem solving
-Analyzing
-Thinking/planning
Subconscious mind:
-Drives 95% of your behavior (inner child)
-Suppressed emotions
-Unmet needs
-Attachment style
-Childhood wounds
Your childhood wounds & attachments reside within your SUBCONSCIOUS mind, and why talk therapy alone is NOT enough to heal because it doesn’t access this deeper part of the brain. Somatic therapy is the only way to target this area needed to break the trauma bond. It's the missing link I see for so many people who have all the knowledge, but still can't seem to break out of the cycle, even after 20+ years.
inner child healing
Self-love is achieved through the reparenting process
Inner child healing allows you to access these subconscious body memories to go back and reparent your younger self: giving them the love, connection & safety they were missing. Transforming these insecure attachment experiences into secure ones is what reprograms their baseline for love & what they feel deserving of. Doing this process reformats these memories & imprints a new childhood = upgrades your relationship blueprint
So now, when you’re looking for a partner, your subconscious is no longer looking to that abusive or chaotic childhood. It’s now looking to the love that you’ve given your inner child - therefore drawing you towards people who reflect this self-love.
root cause resolution
Here’s an example of how my client went from stuck in an abusive relationship to finally getting to the root cause, feeling worthy & setting herself free!
Every time she would try & leave her narcissistic partner, she would feel extreme panic & anxiety. These intense feelings would pull her back to him each time, even if she logically knew he was bad for her.
Throughout the program, I helped her trace back to the origin of where these feelings were coming from that were keeping her bonded to him. We were able to retrieve an early memory of when she was alone in the dark, crying out for her mom to be soothed. Her mom would leave her alone every night because back then, using the “cry-it-out-method” was supposed to be effective for sleep training. Because a baby has no sense of time or ability to self-regulate, this felt like terror to her system, causing attachment trauma.
emotional flashbacks
Stuck in time
Trauma = memories are stuck in the present tense
What you have to understand is, traumatic earlier experiences like this are stored very differently by your brain. It gets encoded into implicit memory - meaning that it gets held in your body as a strong feeling, but with no conscious memory connected to it. This is what creates the “invisible force” that keeps pulling you back to them.
These memories remain STUCK in the present tense & when triggered to the surface, it causes you to relive it as if it were happening right now. Your nervous system then determines its level of safety based on this unresolved trauma, not on the current situation. To put things into context, it’s like asking a 3 year old, “why don’t you just leave?” They CAN’T because that would be a life or death situation. This causes you to stay & why you feel this big fear of being alone.
When trauma is activated, it shuts off access to your logical adult mind. This is why you can’t just “talk” yourself out of these responses.
fear of being alone
It felt too DANGEROUS to leave and like she would “die without him,” because the separation would remind her system of this childhood abandonment. The feelings would take the steering wheel & she would default to the same survival strategies she used back then as a child to prioritize keeping the attachment, such as:
Fantasy thinking
Reminiscing on all the good times & holding onto false hope that they will change.
People-pleasing
Abandoning her own needs & feelings to please them & get them to stay.
Self-doubt
Doubting her gut instincts & rationalizing away the red flags.
When wounds are healed, your mind can now see the full picture instead of focusing on only the good parts of who they were.
internal battle
I helped her safely process through these feelings trapped in her body & reparent her inner child. The moment the emotional pain was healed, the fantasy thinking & self-doubt that were keeping her stuck vanished because it no longer had a wound left to protect her from.
In a way, it broke the “spell,” and she was able to finally see him for who he truly was instead of through “rose colored glasses.” This also resolved the internal battle between her adult self wanting to leave & her inner child wanting to stay because they were now integrated with each other - giving her CHOICE again over her life, where she could make the decision to leave him for good this time.
transformational therapy
I help you achieve this through:
hypnotherapy
helps you access the deeper root cause of your trauma bond & what they symbolize for you & to reprogram your version of love.
inner child work
heals your inner child through a powerful reparenting process to feel good enough from within & let go of external validation
brainspotting
processes your childhood trauma that’s causing your fear of abandonment & inability to let go of the attachment.
parts work
helps you let go of self-doubt, rumination, addiction & fantasy thinking that are keeping you stuck.
set yourself free!
Getting the narcissist’s attention is perceived & felt the same way as gaining that closeness back to your parent - which was linked with your survival. This is why they feel like you’re only way out & getting a text from them feels like “relief” to your system.
Your brain now has them linked with pain relief & wanting that “high” feeling again from their lovebombing. They essentially become your emotional painkiller. As long as the emotional dysregulation is taking over you from these abandonment fears, the addiction will continue its course.
The good news is that you have the ability to cultivate that sense of safety for yourself & give this to these activated younger parts of you. YOU become your own source of relief from these anxieties. This program teaches you exactly how to achieve this to remain no contact successfully and break free from the addiction through powerful emotional soothing skills!
heal your nervous system
guidebook
*Learn all the tools you need to regulate your nervous system from separation anxiety & become SECURELY ATTACHED!
a complete roadmap to self-love
break the addiction
Willpower alone is NOT enough to break the addiction. Somatic therapy helps you instantly calm the abandonment anxiety in your body so that you STOP running back.
heal your core wounds
Think of your wounds like the glue that keeps you stuck. Learn how to heal at a deep subconscious level so that your wounded inner child is no longer driving your behavior.
rewire your love coding
Remove the subconscious beliefs that are causing your attraction towards abuse & conditional love. Make healthy love your NEW FAMILIAR so you stop accepting bad behavior.
rebuild your confidence
Learn how to become emotionally available to yourself & gain back your self-esteem & self-trust. Build confidence in your ability to set boundaries & protect yourself from toxic people!
release emotional blocks
healing cards
*These Internal family systems therapy cards help you resolve the internal mental battle that’s keeping you hung up on this person!
Become a magnet for healthy love!
No more band-aid therapy!
8-Week Rapid
healing system
Week 1: Breaking the addiction - Learn how to calm the withdrawals
Week 2: Nervous system healing (somatic exercises to release trauma)
Week 3: Clinical hypnotherapy: get to the root cause of the attachment
Week 4-6: Inner child healing & Parts work: letting go of self-doubt & fantasy thinking
Week 7-8: Brainspotting & Flash EMDR to heal your abandonment wound
*Uses the TOP therapies for healing trauma!
Meditations & worksheets included
Certified Narcissistic Abuse & Trauma Recovery
Specialist
hello beautiful soul!
I'm so happy you're here! I know exactly what it's like to suffer from the extreme symptoms of being trauma bonded. When I left an abusive relationship a couple of years ago, I was a complete shell of myself. I was depressed, lost and full of anxiety. I couldn't understand what was happening to me, and why I stayed in a relationship for so long when I KNEW that it was hurting me.
I wish back then that I had someone that could of explained to me what I was experiencing, and the brain changes that took place from going through the abuse cycles & how feeling helpless to leave is NOT your fault or a sign of weakness. Instead, it's a physiological response happening in your body that you're not consciously choosing nor can you just willpower your way out of it.
That's why I'm so passionate about the work I do & created this program for you. If you've been through or are currently going through a toxic relationship, this will give you all the clarity you need to step out of all the confusion. Sending love!
-Emily xo
client transformation results
Somatic therapy helps you move through YEARS of trauma sometimes just in 1 single session!
what's included
8 x 90 min 1:1 somatic therapy sessions
healing accelerator toolkit
daily message support & guidance
my top secrets to embodied self-love
fast track
your healing!
Gain access to ALL the tools & my proven healing process to become toxic relationship free!