Welcome
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 body and 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 body-based practices, you can rebuild a sense of safety, balance, and resilience, supporting both emotional and physical well-being.
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 while supporting overall mind-body health.
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse is a pattern of psychological and emotional harm that occurs within relational dynamics characterized by control, manipulation and instability.
These patterns may include mirroring, love bombing, future-faking, triangulation, breadcrumbing, gaslighting, devaluation, emotional invalidation, withholding, the use of flying monkeys, smear campaigns, and exploitive, coercive, or predatory relational behaviors.
Understanding these behaviors is not about assigning blame but about developing awareness, validating lived experience, and restoring a sense of personal agency. This awareness is a critical step in both emotional and physical healing.
reclaim your health
Mind-Body Connection
UNDERSTANDING Narcissistic Abuse
Chronic stress and unresolved trauma affect 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 or trauma. Many of these symptoms are linked to the gut-brain connection, showing how deeply stress impacts both mind and body.
Through somatic (body-based) healing, nervous system regulation and targeted, anti-inflammatory, nutrient-rich foods that support your gut and brain, we help restore energy, reduce stress, and guide your body out of survival mode toward balance and resilience.
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, mindfulness, and other trauma-informed techniques help regulate the nervous system and strengthen neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to rewire and adapt. Combined with nutrition that supports the gut-brain connection, these practices enhance emotional stability, resilience, and self-trust.
As regulation improves, overall well-being, energy, and a sense of balance 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 — a connection that chronic stress can disrupt.
Meals designed to balance hormones, reduce inflammation, and support recovery — rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and seeds — support this connection by promoting microbiome diversity, balancing cortisol and blood sugar, reducing systemic inflammation, and supporting hormonal and nervous system health.
Every meal becomes an opportunity to nourish your brain, regulate hormones, and strengthen trauma 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 health, and nervous system regulation, supporting whole-body recovery.
By supporting digestion, blood sugar stability, and gut- brain communication, we strengthen neuroplasticity — 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 practitioner 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 mind-body wellness, April supports emotional recovery, physical restoration, and resilience — helping you can feel grounded, regulated, and safe in your body.
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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