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Family Trauma & Toxicity Support: Outgrowing The Family Tree
HeyPeers Certified Meeting
Sunday, Nov 22, 2026 | 02:00pm - 03:00pm PST
$6.99
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About this meeting
If you grew up walking on eggshells or questioning your reality, you are not alone. This is a peer-led support group for those who are living with or healing from painful family-of-origin or caregiver experiences, including:
Emotionally immature parents
Toxic family members or systems
Emotional neglect
Enmeshment, parentification, or role pressure
Narcissistic traits or dynamics
Physical or emotional harm
Scapegoating
Whether you've known something was wrong for years or you’re just beginning to realize that what happened wasn't normal, you’ll be understood here.
We meet once a week. Come as you are, share what you want.
This group also makes room for family trauma shaped by addiction, mental illness, high-control religion, estrangement, or chronic invalidation.
“Outgrowing the family tree” here means your roots don’t have to keep you stuck.
About the host
My brain's… a lot. If yours is too, you're in good company!
At my core, I'm a punkish creative & introspective nerd type. Hence why I get along with misfits so well. But I've spent most of my life feeling out of step—too much, not enough, and under a dark cloud I couldn't name. In my 30s I discovered I'm autistic with a side helping of ADHD. That was on top of a long history of anxiety, anorexia, trauma, and depression telling me I'm garbage. Footnote: I'm not, and you're probably not either.
Life's thrown me its share of UGH and I've spent a lot of time learning to stop hating my brain. Still kind of a love/hate relationship, actually. But progress is progress.
On paper, I’m a Certified Peer Support Specialist with ongoing training and all that. In practice, I’m just someone who’s been through a lot of the same mental health mess and sits in it with you.
Motivation for help
I needed support once, and no one was there. I never want anyone to feel as alone as I was. That's it. I want to shrink down the scariness we all face and remind people they're not as isolated in those feelings as they think.
All the years I lost to depression and self-destruction—I can't get those back. But I can make them mean something by showing up for people going through their own version of it.
I'm in your corner. Because, damn, somebody has to be.
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HeyPeers Certified meetings are facilitated by Group Leaders who have lived experience with the topic of the meeting they are facilitating. They have completed training, passed exams and have met other requirements in their state to become cerified. Some of our CPSs are also nationally certified and most have other credentials as well. Most HeyPeers Certifed meetings are 60 minutes in length and include a discussion of helpful tips and techniques.