TRAUMA RESILIENCE

Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners

Resources & Featured Offerings

 For bosses, freelancers, and CEOs seeking sustainable tools and business strategies to support recovery from trauma or burnout.

Three Things About Your Business & Career...

  1. I believe your business doesn't have to feel triggering, overwhelming, and scary.

  2. I believe your business can support and empower your continued recovery from trauma. 

  3. I've seen and believe that commerce (not capitalism) is a tool with the power to dismantle systems of oppression & cycles of trauma.  

Dear Fellow Business Owner

On this page are some of the self-hosted and outside resources that I frequently reference while working with entrepreneurs like you. 

Everything on this page is freely available because:

  1. Trauma suuuuuuucks, doesn't it?! Let's make it suck less.

  2. You're my kinda people! (I'm a trauma survivor too.)

  3. I am always down to vent about "I can't believe how sneaky my trauma is!" because, I'm right there with you. 

I don't do "sales calls," but if you ever want to schedule a coffee/tea chat, I'd absolutely be down for something like that, click here for the scheduling link.

Emily Ann Peterson

PS - Feel free to share this page with whomever you'd like or connect with me on LinkedIn!

Business + Trauma?!

Trauma comes with mental, physical, emotional, and financial effects that are often long-term or even permanent. It can take an extremely long time for a survivor to acknowledge that they experienced trauma and even longer to understand or repair the damage. 

In the meantime, how is a survivor supposed to keep the lights on and pay the bills?!

Entrepreneurs are *already* at risk for:

  • depression 
  • self-worth issues
  • chronic anxiety & panic attacks
  • addiction 
  • ADHD
  • bi-polar disorder
  • hypertension/heart disease
  • joint & circulation problems
  • sleep disorders, insomnia
  • vision-related problems
  • migraines
  • sexual or erectile dysfunction
  • hormone suppression

Trauma can *increase* an entrepreneur's risk for:

  • "kindling" (exponentially escalating mental health crises with progressively less extreme triggers and shorter periods of time between crises... uh, yikes.)
  • hypertension/heart disease, diabetes, obesity
  • stroke, cancer, autoimmune diseases 
  • addiction, self-medicating, self-numbing
  • chronic anxiety & panic attacks
  • sleep disorders, night terrors, insomnia, hyper-arousal
  • easily agitated or angered, extreme startle reflex
  • disassociation, over intellectualizing, monotonous voice, spacey
  • cognitive disfunction, poor memory, trouble speaking 
  • excessive or inappropriate guilt
  • intrusive thoughts or memories, flashbacks
  • obsessive and/or compulsive tendencies
  • self-injury, self-harm, high-risk behaviors

Your business problems might be trauma symptoms: 

Note: Everyone's trauma is unique. Everyone's business is unique. Your symptoms will show up differently. Here are some I see frequently with new clients:

  • marketing avoidance

  • impressive feats of procrastination

  • frequent pivots or new products

  • self-sabotaging strategic decisions

  • feast & famine bank accounts

  • constant hustle at the speed of survival

  • bashful self-promotion

  • clients that "walk all over" your boundaries

  • frozen with indecision (aka analysis paralysis)

  • panic attacks at very inopportune times

  • and so much more

Featured Consulting Offerings

for Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

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Sessions À La Mode
Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting

Consulting is like ice cream; we want what we want how we want it—occasional support on the side, sessions scheduled under a big project, a special calendar container, or a cherry on top of your recur…

$200
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Recurring Sessions
Trauma-Informed Coaching & Consulting

Build your bravery and resilience one step at a time with regular check-ins and accountability! This option is good for clients working on a longer-term project or those seeking ongoing support from a…

$185
$185 per month for 12 months
then $185 every 30 days
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Tidying Session
You get brave clarity & I get to clean!

You've got questions to clear up about your life, career, and creativity? Maybe you've got some marketing questions? Or you'd like to know the best way to automate a certain piece of your life. Well, …

$150

Featured Business Tools & Themed-Sessions

for Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
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If you've always wanted to write a book or somehow the creative muse has magically gifted you with a manuscript idea, then let's talk. Self-publishing is the single most effective way for you to get y…

$1,200
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Piece Of Cake Writing Session
Sweet Words for Your Sweet Self!

Got a website that reads a little too boring? Does your artist bio make even your *mom* want to fall asleep? Don't want to re-write the words for that thing? Stuck with a blinking cursor and a blank p…

$300
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Client Calculator
A Digital Tool for Evidence-Proven & Value-Based Pricing Decisions

This worksheet bundle is for client-based business owners who value their time and want to make smarter money choices. Consider this your rinse-and-repeat strategy sandbox and financial planning sidek…

$400
in 3 payments
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Marketing Map
A Digital Tool to Navigate Your Business & the Marketplace

A Digital Tool to Navigate Your Business & the Marketplace—This auto-calculated worksheet bundle is for business owners who want more confidence to set boundaries, make strategic marketing decisions, …

$750
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Website Checkup
Because First Impressions Count!

Do you have a website? Do you (secretly) worry that it sucks? Or maybe you know it doesn’t do you and your awesome work justice?

Easy! You'll walk away from your 45-min Website Audit with a tangible list of tiny improvements and the confidence to put yourself out there!

$250
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Press Kit Audit & Consult
Be Seen the Way You Want to Be Seen

First impressions matter. Make it easy for promoters, members of the press, publicists, and content creators to feature you the way you want to be featured! Spend an hour with Emily Ann Peterson, and …

$75

Business Software & Online Resources

for Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners

to help your business operations feel as easy as possible!

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Email Marketing & CRM Platforms

  • Simplero—This is what I use, very versatile if you're willing to put in some time for a learning curve, I'm happy to answer questions about it too.
  • HubSpot—lots of tools for CRM, email marketing, lead generation; they have a free version too
  • Drip—really good integrations for e-commerce (like Shopify)
  • Weave—two-way texting, helps boost online reviews, team chat, email, and analytics
  • BombBomb—video messaging for email and text

Accounting Apps & Sites

The market "standard" is Intuit-based products. However, I have a big beef with how they run their business in a coercive and domineering manner. (Boo!) So here are some alternatives to Quickbooks:

  • Freshbooks—has lots of API integrations, very popular

  • Wave Accounting—mostly free! They make their profit elsewhere, like through offering hourly appointments with a bookkeeper or their bank accounts

  • Sunrise—a product of Lendio, so everything is geared toward offering business loans

  • Capterra has a great short list with methods of comparing platforms

Scheduling Platforms

ADA & Accessibility

SEO & Website Analytics

 Still Not Sure? Book a Meet-N-Greet

Schedule a super-chill chat via Google Meet! 

Online Resources & Scholarly Articles

Business Ethics + Compliance

Affiliate Marketing + Ethics

Ethical Marketing

Moral Capitalism vs. Anti-Capitalism

Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (JEDI)

Professional Organizations

Scholarly Journals

B-Corps

Finance & Accounting

Human Resources

Entrepreneurship + Startups

Branding 

  • Affixes.org—great site to help with creating new trademarkable words