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Trust & Triggers Toolkit
A trauma-informed emotional healing resource for young women in the justice system, care, or recovery.
You are not broken — you are remembering.
And this toolkit is your first step toward reclaiming trust, understanding emotional triggers, and healing from the inside out.
This isn’t just a workbook. It’s a soft place to land — and a powerful place to begin.
The Trust & Triggers Toolkit is a fully realised, trauma-informed healing resource designed to support young women navigating life in custody, care, or recovery. Created by Ana Lima, a former prison officer with lived experience supporting vulnerable girls in the justice system, this toolkit speaks directly to the reader — with real language, emotional safety, and deep respect.
Across six reflective, empowering modules, this guide helps young women build self-trust, understand their emotional triggers, set healthy boundaries, develop coping tools, and imagine new futures — even in the harshest systems.
This final edition is emotionally-scripted, beautifully structured, and ready for direct use in 1:1 support, group workshops, or self-led healing.
💜 What’s Inside (Fully Complete Edition)
🔹 MODULE 1: What Is Trust?
Explore why trust is hard after trauma
🔹 MODULE 2: Recognising Triggers
Unpack how emotional triggers work
🔹 MODULE 3: Coping & Calming Tools
Includes five trauma-informed, real-world tools
🔹 MODULE 4: Boundaries & Behaviour
A gentle but real talk on boundaries
🔹 MODULE 5: Healing in the System
Messages of hope for young women in restrictive environments
🔹 MODULE 6: Vision & Growth
A closing section on resilience, emotional goals, power pledges, and creating a vision for your healing.
✨ Reflection Pages Throughout
Includes self-awareness check-ins, mood tracking, written prompts, and exercises that feel personal, not clinical.
📥What You’ll Receive
A fully formatted, downloadable PDF toolkit (instant access)
Designed for individual or group use
Suitable for prisons, care homes, schools, or mentoring programmes
Editable Canva version available on request for professional use
🧠 Who It’s For
Young women in prison, care, or recovery
Youth workers, prison staff, and trauma-informed mentors
Charities working with at-risk girls
Secure units, education providers, and emotional support teams
💬 From the Creator
"I made this toolkit for the girls I worked with every day — the ones who weren’t just ‘offenders’, but survivors. The ones still trying, even when the world gave up on them. This is for them — and for the people who see them."
– Ana Lima, Creator of Within Reach Project