A Course by Annie Wright, LMFT

Parenting Past the Pattern

You are not your parents. And some nights, at 6 PM, that fact is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to hold.

4 Modules10 Lessons78-Page Workbook$197

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Self-paced · Lifetime access · Trauma-informed psychoeducation

The transformation

The parents who damage their children don’t take courses about it. You do.

Before

Loving your children and still losing it in ways that scare you
Feeling the old house inside your body at 6 PM
Trying not to become your parents while parenting without a map
Waking up at 3 AM replaying what you said or did
Wanting repair scripts, not more shame

After

Understanding why your body reacts before your values can
Using repair scripts in real parenting moments
Parenting from reflection instead of inherited panic
Building narrative coherence around your own childhood
Changing the legacy without needing to be perfectly healed first

Does this sound familiar?

The guilt that wakes you at 3 AM isn’t a failure. It’s evidence that you already know what’s at stake — and that you’re the person in your family line who decided to stop.

Loving your children and still losing it in ways that scare you

Feeling the old house inside your body at 6 PM

Trying not to become your parents while parenting without a map

Waking up at 3 AM replaying what you said or did

Wanting repair scripts, not more shame

You grew up with dangerous, dismissed, or unpredictable emotions.

Why this course exists

What happened has a specific pattern. Your recovery map should match the terrain.

In 10 clinically grounded lessons and a 78-page companion workbook, you’ll get neuroscience, attachment frameworks, repair scripts, and a nervous system reset designed for the parenting moment.

This mini-course gives you a contained, clinically grounded framework so you can stop trying to solve the same loop alone and begin rebuilding clarity, agency, and internal authority.

What you’ll walk away with

Three outcomes that make the course concrete, not vague.

Why Your Body Reacts Before Your Values Can

Understand what happens in your nervous system at 6 PM and learn the Parent Pause for the moment you feel it happening.

The Repair Script You Were Never Given

Learn age-adapted repair scripts for toddlers, school-age children, and teenagers and practice them before you need them.

A Different Legacy. Starting Now.

Build coherent, reflective understanding of your childhood so you do not have to be finished healing to parent differently.

The curriculum

A smaller sibling to Fixing the Foundations: fewer phases, still a complete arc.

Module OneLessons 1–3

The Pattern You Didn’t Choose

The 3 AM guilt, four pathways of intergenerational trauma, narrative coherence, and the childhood role casting a shadow today.

Module TwoLessons 4–5

Your Nervous System in the Parent Seat

Polyvagal theory, evening danger zones, Parent Pause, and dual awareness.

Module ThreeLessons 6–8

What Actually Matters

Good-enough parenting, rupture and repair, age-adapted scripts, and Siegel’s Four S’s in concrete daily moments.

Module FourLessons 9–10

The Both/And and the Legacy

Parenting while healing, epigenetic research, post-traumatic growth, and what comes next.

What’s included

A focused course you can move through privately, at your own pace.

Your investment

$197

10 Lessons
4 Modules clinical recovery arc
78-Page Workbook
Reflection prompts and integration practices
Lifetime access

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This is for you if…

You grew up with dangerous, dismissed, or unpredictable emotions.
You love your children and lose it in ways that frighten you.
You cannot tolerate your child’s distress.
Parenting is where your competence falls apart.

This may not be for you if…

You are in acute mental health crisis.
You want a gentle parenting or discipline course.
You want a script that makes hard moments disappear.

Your guide

Annie Wright, LMFT

Annie Wright is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, relational trauma specialist, executive coach, and W.W. Norton author with more than 15,000 clinical hours. These courses translate clinically grounded frameworks into structured, self-paced education for driven women doing serious recovery work.

Licensed MFT15,000+ Clinical HoursRelational Trauma SpecialistW.W. Norton Author

Common questions

Before you join the waitlist

Was my childhood bad enough?

If your childhood left you hypervigilant, reactive to your children’s emotions, or afraid of becoming your parents, this course was built for you.

My kids are teenagers. Is it too late?

No. Repair, earned security, and reflective parenting do not expire.

Will this make me feel worse?

No. There is no shame here. Clarity can bring grief, but it is more workable than ambient anxiety.

How long do I have access?

Lifetime.

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