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Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Evidence-Informed Nervous System Healing for Emotional & Physical Restoration
About Healing My Heart
Our Mission
Healing My Heart integrates nervous system regulation, trauma education, and gut–brain support to help survivors of narcissistic abuse restore safety, clarity, and resilience.
Rooted in neuroscience and trauma psychology, our mission is to help you feel regulated in your body, clear in your mind, and empowered in your life — so you can return to yourself fully.
Our Healing Practice
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
Our Healing Practice
Healing begins with reconnecting to your body and learning to regulate your nervous system. Trauma is not only remembered cognitively — it is encoded in the nervous system.
We use a bottom-up approach, working from the body to the brain, because research shows that restoring physiological safety is the foundation for lasting change.
By gently processing emotions through the body, you can rebuild a sense of safety, balance, and resilience.
OUR TREATMENT FOCUS
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
Our Healing Practice
Our approach combines trauma education with body-based regulation strategies to support recovery after psychological and emotional abuse.
We help you understand what happened, calm chronic stress patterns, safely process stored trauma, reduce anxiety and fatigue, rebuild emotional resilience, and restore clarity and energy.
All work is compassionate and paced appropriately, honoring your safety, autonomy, and lived experience.
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
This was not a healthy relationship — it involved patterns of psychological and emotional abuse.
These dynamics may include manipulation, gaslighting, love bombing, devaluation, triangulation, future faking, smear campaigns, and emotional invalidation.
Learning to recognize these patterns is not about blame. It is about validation, clarity, and reclaiming your power.
reclaim your health
Mind-Body Connection
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
Chronic stress and unresolved trauma are associated with both emotional and physical symptoms over time.
Depression, anxiety, C-PTSD, insomnia, nightmares, fatigue, chronic pain, inflammation, elevated cortisol, hair loss, IBS and digestive distress are common after prolonged stress and abuse.
Through somatic trauma healing and nervous system regulation, we support stress recovery, restore energy, and help your body move out of survival mode and back toward balance.
Mind-Body Connection
Mind-Body Connection
Mind-Body Connection
Trauma affects both the brain and the body.
Body-based practices such as somatic exercises, breathwork, grounding techniques, trauma-informed yoga, EFT, EMDR-informed bilateral stimulation, vagus nerve regulation, and mindfulness help regulate the nervous system and strengthen neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to rewire and adapt.
As regulation improves, emotional stability, resilience, and self-trust begin to return.
Meals That Heal™
Mind-Body Connection
Mind-Body Connection
Nutrition plays a powerful role in trauma recovery.
The gut and brain communicate through the gut–brain axis, primarily via the vagus nerve, and chronic stress can disrupt this connection.
A nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory approach supports microbiome diversity, stabilizes cortisol and glucose, reduces systemic inflammation, and strengthens the biological foundation for nervous system healing.
Every meal becomes an opportunity to nourish your brain, hormones, and recovery from the inside out.
Ways to Work With me
Trauma Healing 101
1:1 Nervous System Regulation + Trauma Release
1:1 Nervous System Regulation + Trauma Release
Healing narcissistic abuse starts with reconnecting to your body, regulating your nervous system, and gently releasing stored trauma.
This one-time trauma healing course gives you the tools and education you can use for a lifetime. Return to them anytime you feel stressed, triggered, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself.
Price: $250
This course combines nervous system regulation with gut-brain nutrition to support healing from the inside out.
1:1 Nervous System Regulation + Trauma Release
1:1 Nervous System Regulation + Trauma Release
1:1 Nervous System Regulation + Trauma Release
Private, trauma-informed sessions to help your body feel safe again, reduce anxiety, and release stored stress.
We use evidence-based nervous system practices to support regulation, helping you experience deep healing and shift out of survival mode so your body can return to balance and resilience.
Session options: $140 / 50-min. | 4 sessions: $540 | 8 sessions: $1040
Many clients start with 4 sessions to feel immediate relief and regulation.
Trauma-Informed Coaching + Nutrition Support
1:1 Nervous System Regulation + Trauma Release
Trauma-Informed Coaching + Nutrition Support
Personalized guidance for emotional eating, hormone balance, IBS, reducing inflammation, gut–brain axis support, nervous system healing, and whole-body recovery.
By supporting digestion, blood sugar stability, gut and brain health, we strengthen brain plasticity — the brain’s ability to adapt and rewire — creating a biological foundation for trauma recovery.
Includes meal plans, tailored strategies, and ongoing support between sessions.
Session options: $140 / 50-min. | 4 sessions: $540 | 8 sessions: $1040
Meet Your Guide
Healing My Heart was founded by April Deweese,
a trauma-informed nervous system educator specializing in recovery from narcissistic abuse.
Her work integrates principles from polyvagal theory, somatic trauma healing, and gut-brain science.
Through nervous-system regulation, body-based practices, and whole-body wellness, April supports emotional recovery, physical restoration, and nervous system resilience — so you can feel grounded, regulated, and safe in yourself again.
You're not alone
Healing can feel overwhelming, but I'm here to support you.
Send me a message, and I'll personally guide you to the next gentle step on your journey.
HEALING MY HEART
Laguna Beach, CA
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