This course invites you on a deep and compassionate journey into how childhood experiences shape the ways we understand, seek, and accept love. When early caregiving relationships involve emotional neglect, inconsistency, abandonment, or abuse, the lessons learned about love can become profoundly confusing. Love becomes associated not with safety, but with fear, unpredictability, or emotional pain. As adults, many people unconsciously repeat these emotional blueprints, seeking familiar but unhealthy patterns in relationships, unsure why healthy love feels so foreign or uncomfortable.
Through seven carefully structured lessons, you will explore how emotional survival strategies developed during childhood — such as hypervigilance, emotional withdrawal, or clinging to unstable partners — continue to influence adult attachment and relational choices. You will learn how trauma shapes the nervous system, emotional expectations, and even the unconscious pull toward relational chaos. Importantly, you will also discover how these patterns can be interrupted, healed, and transformed.
The course provides a clear framework for recognizing old patterns without shame, while offering practical strategies for healing and building a new, healthier relationship with love. Topics include understanding attachment styles, identifying repeated emotional patterns, re-learning emotional safety, seeking support through trauma-informed therapy, and ultimately reclaiming love as something safe, steady, and joyful.
Each lesson offers in-depth instructional content, a gentle quiz for reflection, and an open-ended assignment that invites personal exploration. The course balances education with emotional integration, allowing learners to move at their own pace and process in ways that honor their healing journey.
Above all, this course teaches a powerful truth: confusing trauma with love is not a personal failure — it is a survival response to emotional pain. Healing is possible. You are not broken. You are learning to love, to trust, and to connect on your own terms — guided not by old wounds, but by new choices rooted in self-respect, compassion, and hope.
Understand how trauma rewires emotional and physical responses to love, creating survival strategies that can continue to influence your relationships today.
Learn how familiar emotional chaos can feel safer than calmness, and why recognizing repeated patterns is the first step toward choosing healthier love.
Discover how attachment styles such as anxious, avoidant, or disorganized form, and how they impact your ability to trust, connect, and feel secure in relationships.
See how healing involves creating new emotional experiences, learning to trust safety, and building relationships based on respect, steadiness, and mutual care.
Healing Doesn’t Have to Happen Alone
Relational trauma is deep — but so is your capacity to heal. Whether through therapy, community, or guided reflection, you deserve support that meets you with compassion. Reaching out isn’t weakness; it’s wisdom. You are worthy of care, connection, and love — just as you are.
You Are Not Broken
The ways you’ve loved were shaped by survival, not failure. Now, you get to rewrite the script. Love doesn't have to hurt to be real. You deserve connection that feels steady, kind, and true — and healing that honors your strength, not your wounds.
Because 1 in 5 kids struggles with mental health, and most won’t get help without you: fuel workshops, trauma support, and real hope.
Important Notice:
Mental Health Code is not a mental health treatment center. The tools, strategies, and resources we provide are for educational purposes and are not a substitute for professional mental health treatment.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please reach out for immediate help by contacting the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Trained counselors are available 24/7 to provide free and confidential support.
Your well-being matters. Take the step to connect with the support you need.
Refund Policy:
At Mental Health Code, we are committed to providing a seamless experience while maintaining fairness for all participants. Please review the following policy carefully.
Refund Policy
No Refunds: We do not offer refunds for canceled sessions. However, we strive to accommodate your needs through our rescheduling policy (detailed below).
Reschedule Policy
Rescheduling Opportunities: If you need to cancel your session, you may reschedule for the next available session of equal or lesser value.
72-Hour Notice Required: Rescheduling is available only for cancellations made at least 72 hours before your scheduled session.
Requests to reschedule can be made via [online booking system/contact method].
Cancellation Policy
72-Hour Cancellation Requirement: Cancellations must be made at least 72 hours in advance to qualify for rescheduling.
Late Cancellations or No-Shows: Cancellations made within 72 hours of the scheduled session, or missed sessions without notice, are not eligible for rescheduling.
Exceptions
We understand that emergencies happen. If unforeseen circumstances prevent you from attending, please contact us at [contact email/phone number]. Exceptions may be made at our discretion on a case-by-case basis.
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