Membership to the main site
is FREE as of May 1st 2012!!!
As a member you will have access to several rooms in the sanctuary and the forum. Post discussions, ask questions, share your story, share your healing art, upload healing blog posts (no salesy posts please), join in on healing projects, work through healing prompts and share your art journal pages, sculptures, poems, etc in a safe supportive space. All forms of art are welcome!
Rooms include:
Inner Child Room
Survivor Sanctuary
Truth Room
SOS Room
Wounded Healers
Healing the Mother Wound Room
The Letters Project
Reclaiming our Bodies
Click here to join:
or copy and paste this link
http://healingtruthsanctuary.com
For Full Name please put the name you would like to be known by in the sanctuary
memberships will get approved on May 1st.
If you choose a pseudonym, please let me know at sgagos@aol.com I will need to know who you are.
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Members Plus Package includes the basic membership PLUS:
12 coaching/art videos, 12 content pdfs, quarterly meditations, monthly themes, support from myself. You will have access to a private group called the Members Only room where you will have access to previous themes/videos and content when you sign up. (this is not a yearly membership)
Email me at sgagos@aol.com to register
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What is the Healing Truth Sanctuary?
The Healing Truth Sanctuary is an online creative community for women who are healing from childhood wounding and are on a healing path. This is an art healing community, a place where we heal through all forms of art…writing, art journaling, mixed media and other creative forms and crafts. Although all art is healing..at the healing truth sanctuary we are specific about what we are healing, we purposely and consciously use art to heal a particular wound or wounds. Here we tell our stories of childhood pain and heal particular aspects/layers of them in community with others.
Members are free to create in whatever way they choose, to tell their stories and to heal their stories in creative ways. This is not an art instruction community (although eventually I would love to have guest instructors at some point)..the focus is on healing through art and other healing paths which address the mind, body and spirit.
As part of the basic membership you will have access to the community, the forum and specific rooms which are free to access. Should you choose the paid membership, you will have access to monthly themes, support from myself, coaching and art videos and meditations, and will be part of a members only group as part of your paid membership as well as the free access rooms. Should you choose to take a paid course (see calendar, we have some good ones coming up!), you will automatically be a member of the community and have access to the free access rooms, should you choose to participate in them as well as the private room for your course. There is something for everyone who is on a childhood healing path.
You do not need to be a part of the community to take my ecourses, they are available as stand alones and will be available as self study e-courses once they go live. Participate in the way YOU want to participate, no pressure. Of course taking a course or choosing a paid membership allows the site to continue and thrive.
Mostly this is all about you and your relationship with yourself and your own healing process. I’ve created options for people who prefer to do things on their own, for those who love to be in community, for those who need extra support and want to go deeper. Another important piece is that you can sign up anonymously, you can use a pseudonym for those requiring strict privacy (only I will know who you are). Regardless of whether you use a pseudonym or not, all work, discussions in the sanctuary stay in the sanctuary.
Strict confidentiality is a must.
What do you mean by childhood wounding?
Childhood wounding includes but is not limited to (verbal, emotional, physical, sexual abuse or neglect and any other kind of trauma be it the loss of a parent, divorce, bullying etc.) Any wound that altered the way you looked at the world or yourself. My courses and this community are geared toward women who have done some healing work over the years and are looking to add to their healing toolbox. This is not just a space for survivors but you will probably find many survivors here. There will be rooms that are specific to certain kinds of abuse/trauma and other rooms that are more general. Many of the rooms will come out of the needs of the community.This space will be sacred space honoring and respecting each other, holding confidentiality and allowing for anonymity if needed by any member.
What is the “healing work” we will be doing?
The tools we will be using to do our “healing work” in the sanctuary are art journaling, writing, body centered processes. guided meditations and some rituals to revisit, uncover and heal childhood wounds. You do not have to consider yourself an artist, in fact many of the women who come here, may not have painted since they were children. I was one of them almost 2 years ago. Not to worry, there will be beginner videos! These are just a few tools on the healing journey and should be added on to the in person work you are doing such as therapy and/or group therapy.
A note on therapy:
I cannot stress this enough: As a result of the nature of the work we are doing, it is highly suggested that you be under the care of a licensed therapist while participating in this community. I am not a therapist and the work we do here should not be used in place of therapy. If you choose to participate without being under the supervision of a therapist, you do so at your own risk.
You will be provided with guidance on how to take good care of yourself during this process. There will be some support content and videos around what to do when you are triggered, how to unplug when you need to, how to know when to step back and take a break, and the rhythm of contracting and expanding in the Getting Started section of the sanctuary.
Purpose of the Community
The reason for the community is to offer support, witnessing, mirroring…being witnessed, being seen and heard and being able to speak our truth in the presence of others even online helps to heal our shame, our misconceptions and distortions. Normally a wound causes a distorted sense of self and we often need others to help us see beyond our misconceptions.
As the community grows I hope this will be a space you can come to when you need support, when things are “up” for you in your life (triggers, boundary issues, shame, fear). I have found so much healing in community and I hope you will too.
Why I opened up this healing space…
Opening up an online healing community has been a dream of mine for years. Being able to reach as many women as I can with a message of hope and healing on a mind, body and spiritual level is so near and dear to my heart. On my healing journey, I longed for a place such as this. I wanted a place that was uplifting and allowed me to also face the darkest corners of my being with some guidance and some support. I wanted a safe space I could speak my truth. I wanted a place that where I could explore the healing of my mind, body and spirit. For me, the one hour a week of therapy, I needed to be able to add on to the work I was doing with my therapist. I needed to have ways to heal myself beyond talk therapy (note this meant I needed more not that I replaced therapy).
The Healing Truth Sanctuary came out of a longing I had years ago of an online space that was colorful, vibrant, personal and accessible. I needed to be a part of something that inspired me. I needed a place I could go to whenever things were up for me, but I didn’t just want to go there and share on a message board..I wanted a little more. I wanted the option of going on healing journey with other women and have dialogues about healing, about what works, about how we lose ourselves in our wounds, about how we can reclaim ourselves again, about what it is like to be undeniably hurt and still fully love and live.I also needed to express myself creatively and to be able to share my creations with others, others who understood the pain in my art and writing.
Before I came to art journaling…I would doodle and use color to decorate my world. I didn’t realize then that I was healing myself through art just not in the traditional sense. Art and writing for me were the missing pieces of the puzzle. Today, art journaling has become a way for me to revisit my past and make sense of it, to embrace the beauty of who I am beneath my story and I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing right now than to be here now opening up a space such as the one I imagined out of my own longing.
I do not have all the answers as I am woman on her own healing quest, but I learned so much throughout the years and perhaps one of the biggest most important things I’ve learned is that people just need space and opportunities to heal. They just need someone to hold the space, to prompt them with something that zooms right to the core and gets them truly engaging with themselves and FEELING.
It is the NOT FEELING which cuts us off from the the joy and love we all truly deserve. It is the stifling, the cutting off, the burying and pushing down of our feelings which keeps us from fully living. And so this space is about facilitating those opportunities to FEEL, to gently guide you down the path of FEELING that which you have suppressed and kept buried, so that you can step into what is good, and true and delightful in your life. This sanctuary is geared toward helping help you reclaim the parts of you that were buried in the wounding.
It will not be easy. Some days you may want to retreat, to give up, to run or engage in old patterns of numbing out. Just ask anyone who has taken a course like this. We all have days where the last thing on earth we want to do is feel anything. Take breaks when you need to, your community will be there when you return.
Free Sample
Get a taste of the my e-courses and membership at the sanctuary. Sign up your free sample lesson here!!!!!
(you get a coaching video, an art video, 2 meditations and a pdf)
Intro Video Short
The Healing Truth Sanctuary Short from Stephanie Gagos on Vimeo.
Announcing the opening of the Healing Truth Sanctuary.
The Details, aka The Skinny
Basic Membership to the Healing Truth Sanctuary FREE
Members Plus Package
Membership entitles you to a year’s worth of materials:
Monthly Healing Themes/Topics (stories, self love, shame, fear, reclaiming our minds and bodies etc.)
12 coaching videos (one per month)
12 art videos (one per month)
12 PDF’s with art prompt and other related content (one per month)
meditations (number may vary between 4-6)
as a member you only pay $40 per e-course
Support from myself (I am very hands on) and other members of the community as well as the community ANGELS (if you’d like to be an Angel contact me and I will send you the criteria for Sanctuary Angels)
Options and Calendar of E-Courses:
(payment plans available)
Level 1: I want to be part of the members only group. Woot! $55 for 12 art videos/coaching videos, 12 healing lessons in pdf form and 4-5 meditations (You will have access to the previous month’s materials once you join) I know I can take courses for $40 when I am ready.
$55
Level 2: I would love to be a member AND take 1 course of my choosing (see calendar). I am ready to go deeper. $95 ( 55 plus 40 for a course)
$95
Level 3: I would love to be a member and take 2 courses of my choosing (see calendar). I am really looking forward to focusing a few months on my healing process.
$135
Level 4: I would love to be a member and take 3 courses of my choosing (see calendar) This is a time of healing for me and I am committed to really being present and focusing on my own healing for several months.
$175
Individual courses without membership are $65 and you will have access to a private room for your course in the sanctuary.
How do I sign up?
Please send an email to sgagos@aol.com with the level you are choosing or the course you are choosing to take individually and your paypal email address. You will receive an invoice within 24 hours. If you choose a membership with a course or courses, it is best if you specify the courses now. If you are unsure please include that in your invoice and it is your responsibility to contact me with the specific courses you are choosing for the year of your membership.
As a member you are entitled to a year’s worth of materials. If you sign up mid year for example you will access to the materials from previous months.
If you are choosing to act under a pseudonym, please include that name in the message/memo section of your invoice as well, so that I know to match up your paypal address with your name.
You will receive an invitation to the community a few days before Feb 15th or whenever you register, if you register after the 15th of February 2012. Usually within 24 hours. If you are taking an individual course you will receive an invite to the ning and then an invite into the room for your course only.
Calendar of Courses
February 15th 2012 to February 15th 2013
(these are the dates for the live classes, all courses can be taken
as self study courses after they have run live)
Truth Project I: Uncovering Your Truth
(testimonials below)
this is now a self study course,
work at your own pace
Truth Project II: Healing Your Truth
May 8th- June 19th
Details HERE
Inner Child Adventure
Reclaiming the Wonder Child
Summer of 2012
July/August (exact dates to be announced)
Healing the Mother Wound
September 20th-November 8th
REclaiming Our Bodies I
January 3rd-February 15th
Full description of courses will be available shortly.
Note: Within each course there will also be options..for example, if you prefer to just send me your pages and communicate with me via email instead of sharing in the group..there will be small extra fee for this but we can make this possible. Some people prefer this. There is also the option of purchasing an email or 30 min phone or chat session with me. As a member of a course of mine, these sessions are more than half off for you.
Testimonials for Truth Project I
I took Stephanies’ course, “The Truth Project 1” and it was amazing.
I expected to do some art journaling but I didn’t expect that her course would reach so deeply into my emotions.
I had feelings come out that I didn’t know that I had buried. I feel so much lighter after taking her course.
Stephanie is one of the most loving people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting online. You can actually feel her compassion and kindness coming out of the computer monitor. When she replies to you it’s as though she’s there in person, wrapping her arms around you, showing you that it’s okay to be who you are and that you are a wonderful, loveable human being.
This is a course that will have you making the most heartfelt art you’ve ever made. You will feel things you haven’t felt in ages and you’ll come out on the other side feeling so much better. I am so thankful to Stephanie and this course. Without her I would have spent the rest of my life hating myself. Instead she managed to crack open the door to show me that I am worth so much more than I thought I was.
If you have any childhood wounds, then please, take this course. You won’t regret it and Stephanie will help you through whatever you face. You couldn’t be in better hands.
Raeven
When I signed up for the Truth Project, I expected that I might find fellowship and learn some new art techniques and I hoped that I might tap into my creativity and find some healing. It has only been six weeks, but I can honestly say that I have found fellowship, a creative outlet, healing and so much more! Life coach and Truth Project founder, Stephanie Gagos brings a genuine warmth and enthusiasm not commonly found in many online experiences. From the first time I encountered Stephanie and watched her introduction video I just KNEW that I needed to be a part of this journey with her. I have had the absolute privilege of sharing this journey with a diverse group of survivor sisters who have shown compassion, pain and love every step of the way. I am so glad I took a chance on The Truth Project and I know that you will be too!
GC
Participating in the first part of The Truth Workshop led by Stephanie Gagos was truly a life changing experience for me. Stephanie led the group through a series of projects and discussions which helped uncover truths that I have kept hidden away throughout my entire life. As the facilitator Stephanie created a safe, supportive and nurturing environment that encouraged us to share and explore these memories and to begin the healing process. Stephanie created projects that were thought provoking and enabled each individual to work through their issues privately as well as giving us the opportunity to be supported in safe and respectful group setting. I am looking forward to the second part of this workshop.
Maria
“Since this course is called The Truth Project – let’s be honest -
uncovering the truth can be painful, hurtful, and icky. Revisiting those dark moments in our past is not something most of us choose to do. But here is more honesty for you – The Truth Project can set you free. The Truth Project has led me down a path of discovery and healing through writing and art making. The lessons are straightforward and thought provoking. Stephanie Gagos is a passionate, inspiring, caring and involved facilitator. Her videos will move you and allow you to feel safe digging into those dark places. Stephanie’s art videos will inspire you to put your emotions down on the page. I am so grateful that I took The Truth Project
course so Stephanie could help me find the light into my life.”
Robyn
“The Truth Project has been a deeply soulful journey, full of twists and turns & delightful discoveries about myself and my own capacity to explore my truth. Stephanie is so encouraging, open, and supportive in the way she leads the group and the connections and support I’ve felt within the community are real and unhindered…I am honored and blessed to be a part of it.” Jozette Rodriguez ~ www.Angeliqueawakening.com
“The material is ‘therapist grade’. I don’t know how else to explain it. I feel like I am talking to a therapist, left to do some homework on my own & then report back at the next session to get feedback before moving on. Stephanie’s feedback was critical to my healing, her ability to see the whole picture, almost read our deepest emotions, feelings & identify with some of our issues made this course so real for me.
The content of the videos has been excellent. The videos & PDFs were far more than I expected. Many videos had me in tears..they really hit home. I would take the course again. Stephanie did a magnificent job, her dedication was exceptional, feedback was well thought out. Stephanie was made to be a facilitator. I highly recommend the Truth Project I. “
Judy
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