Grounding Strategies for Recovery: Embodied Practices for Resilience
Kristin Cary
Founder
Living Truth & Women in the Battle
Chronic stress deeply impacts the nervous system, especially for men and women navigating betrayal trauma and the work of healing from unwanted sexual behaviors. In this experiential session, participants will engage in simple grounding and presencing practices designed to support regulation, safety, and clarity. We will practice together and notice how these tools affect the body, emotions, and awareness in real time—skills that can be applied personally and professionally in recovery and helping contexts.
Professional Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe how God designed the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems to respond to threat, and how dysregulation manifests in both betrayed partners and individuals struggling with unwanted sexual behavior.
Through guided group experiences, participants will practice and evaluate multiple grounding strategies—sensory, breath-based, vagal, and movement-based—and identify how to adapt them for use in individual or group settings.
Participants will learn how grounding techniques can be used to restore connection with God, self, and others, fostering co-regulation and spiritual attunement as part of a trauma-informed recovery model.
About: Kristin Cary is the founder of Living Truth and the creator of Women in the Battle®, a community supporting women impacted by sexual betrayal. With nearly three decades of experience cultivating transformational communities, her work integrates applied brain science, attachment-informed care, and Christian spirituality to support healing from complex relational trauma.
Kristin’s work is shaped by both professional training and lived experience. Following profound betrayal and subsequent relational loss, she has pursued a deepening understanding of trauma, its impact on the body, and the neurobiological effects of sexual betrayal. Kristin is a Certified Pastoral Sex Addiction Specialist and has completed APSATS and ADOH Peer Facilitator trainings.
Kristin also hosts The Living Truth Podcast, where she helps men and women learn how to heal from sexual betrayal trauma and unwanted sexual behavior. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her family.
Hours: M-F 8:30 am-5 pm (Central Time)
Telephone: (920) 389-1871
Email: [email protected]
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Hours: M-F 8:30 am-5 pm (Central Time)
Telephone: (920) 389-1871
Email: [email protected]
Thanks to QuestionPro for providing us free survey templates for running multiple types of surveys, helping to strengthen our nonprofit family.