WHERE THE HEALING BEGINS™
$37$67
WHERE THE HEALING BEGINS™
A Self-Guided Soul Surgery™ Workbook
For Healing Complex PTSD — Gently, Safely, and at Your Own Pace
The book you could never find — because no one had written it yet.
Not a course. Not a program. Not a checklist of coping skills that leaves you feeling more broken than when you started.
A workbook. Something you hold. Something you write in. Something you put down when your body says enough — and come back to when it doesn’t.
I am a licensed clinical social worker with 32 years of experience. I have sat with people in their darkest moments for over three decades — not as someone who studied this from a safe distance, but as someone who has been living inside it her entire life.
I wrote this because the book I needed didn’t exist.
Who this is for:
This workbook is for you if you:
— Keep trying to get difficult people to be kind to you, and cannot seem to stop
— Feel safer alone than in most rooms
— Say I’m fine before the sentence is even finished
— Have been told you’re too sensitive your whole life
— Freeze, fawn, or go blank in hard conversations
— Feel a constant low hum of shame you cannot explain
— Have tried therapy, journaling, meditation, breathwork — and still feel something stuck inside yourself that none of it reached
This is Complex PTSD.
And this workbook is written for it specifically — not anxiety in general, not “stress,” not vague overwhelm.
The actual wound.
In plain language. Without flinching.
What makes this different:
Most trauma resources ask you to think your way through healing.
This one asks your body.
The Soul Surgery™ Method is a five-step process for identifying the survival imprints formed in childhood —
the body-level beliefs still running your nervous system —
and gently, slowly loosening their grip. Not forcing. Not pushing. Not reopening wounds without a way through.
I also name something almost no other trauma resource names:
The Words That Kept You Safe.
The survival speech you learned as a child.
The I’m fine and they did their best and it’s okay that kept you safe for decades — and slowly erased you.
This workbook goes there. Into the fawning. Into the self you lost saying what the room needed to hear. Into the quiet, decades-long grief of not knowing who you actually are.
And then it helps you find your way back.
What’s inside:
✦ 9 sections of plain, honest, clinical-yet-human prose on Complex PTSD — written from inside the experience, not about it
✦ 20 worksheets — real ones, with real questions. Not fluff. Not fill-in-the-blank affirmations. Worksheets that ask what no one has asked you before and give you room to answer honestly
✦ The Five Survival Imprints™ — the five body-level conclusions your nervous system drew in childhood that are still shaping every relationship, every room, every moment of connection you enter
✦ The Love Loop™ — the cycle of trying, hoping, fawning, getting hurt, and trying again with people who cannot give you what you need. Mapped. Named. Made visible on paper
✦ The Soul Surgery™ Process — a reusable, 5-step method for working with one imprint at a time, at your own pace, in your own body
✦ A 14-day tracker. A 30-day practice log. Crisis cards you can cut out and carry. A five-sense safety map. Three witness letter templates — to your younger self, your current self, your future self
✦ Window of Tolerance guidance — so you know when to go in and when to close the book
✦ 7 Soul Surgery™ Reflections — one at the close of each major section, asking the three questions your body is ready to begin sitting with
✦ My story — the full account of the night Soul Surgery™ was born, including what I had buried, what moved through me, and what I have never been the same since.
With a content warning and a note that you can come back to it when you’re ready
✦ A Worksheet Index — all 20, with the five to start marked for when your capacity is limited
What you will NOT find here:
A six-week cure.
A promise that you will feel better by the end.
Toxic positivity dressed up as trauma work.
The word journey used loosely.
What you will find is honesty. Clinical expertise delivered in plain language.
A woman who has lived what she is teaching. And a workbook that respects your nervous system enough to let you go at whatever pace is actually true.
What you get:
✔ Instant PDF download — 444 pages
✔ Works on your phone, iPad, laptop, or desktop
✔ Fully printable
✔ Yours to keep and return to
Launch price: $37 through June. Then $67.
A note before you buy:
This workbook does not replace therapy. If you are in crisis, the resources page at the back of the book has what you need — including 988, the US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7.
Due to the digital nature of this product, all sales are final.
This is a soft place to begin. In the body. At your own pace.
That is what it has always been.
“You are not broken. You are surviving. There is a profound, sacred difference between those two things.”
With love and light and radical healing, 🤍🌿✨🕊️❤️🩹
— Andrea E. Greenberg, LCSW