The Village — Adam Young Counseling

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You belong here if…

  • You suspect your past is shaping your present in ways you haven't fully seen yet.

  • You're curious about your own story and want to take steps to explore it in more depth.

  • You want to find a community of like-minded people so that you are doing this work with others rather than alone.

  • You want to feel connected—to yourself, to others, to something larger than your wounds.

Information alone doesn't heal us.

  • What heals is engaging your actual story—and doing it alongside others.
  • The unexamined story doesn't go away. It gets buried in your body—and keeps running your life from there.
  • Another year with the same pain is too high a price.

Everything is designed to take you somewhere, not just teach you something

25 Teaching Videos

The best of Adam's best teaching. Topics covered include: the neuroscience of trauma, how healing happens, listening to your body, spiritual trauma, sexual abuse, marriage, parenting, engaging God, and navigating difficult relationships.

12 Self-Directed Exercises

Guided practices to help you apply the teaching to your particular life and story. This is how things start to shift.

Monthly Live Sessions with Adam

2-hour Zoom gatherings where Adam provides direction on next steps and answers your questions. Every month, so that you can keep moving forward.

Connection With Others

A primary purpose of The Village is to connect you with like-minded others in your geographic region.

Getting started is simple

1

Join The Village

Sign up for $27/month and get immediate access to everything.

2

Grow at Your Own Pace

Listen to the 25 Teaching Lessons and work on the 12 Exercises; attend the monthly live sessions with Adam.

3

Experience Healing

As your story becomes clearer, your brain heals. Feel the release, the vitality, the wholeness.

Life can look (and feel) different.

  • You understand why you do what you do.
  • You feel the weight begin to lift—not all at once, but steadily, as your story becomes clearer.
  • You show up more fully for the people you love.
  • You experience the vitality that comes from living from your true self, not your defended one.
Adam Young
  • Licensed Therapist
  • Host of The Place We Find Ourselves podcast
  • Author of Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past With Kindness Changes Everything

Inside Every Lesson

A closer look at what each teaching covers and what you can expect to walk away with.

1

What's Actually Happening Inside: Introduction to the Neurobiology of Your Brain

What You'll Learn

How your brain is wired for survival, connection, and meaning—and why understanding its basic architecture changes how you see yourself and your reactions.

2

Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Shut Down: Understanding Your Nervous System's Reactions

What You'll Learn

Why your nervous system responds the way it does under stress or threat—and how to recognize these survival responses playing out in your everyday life.

3

You're Not Broken, You're Dysregulated: Understanding Affect Regulation

What You'll Learn

What it means to regulate your emotional experience, why some of us never learned how, and practical ways to begin developing this essential capacity.

4

Truth Alone Does Not Change Us: How Kindness Changes the Brain

What You'll Learn

The neuroscience behind self-compassion—and why treating yourself with kindness isn't indulgent but one of the most powerful agents of genuine change.

5

You Have Many Parts (And They're All Good): Introduction to Internal Family Systems

What You'll Learn

An introduction to the idea that we are made up of many inner parts—and how curiosity toward those parts, rather than war against them, opens the door to healing.

6

What Your Anxiety Is Trying To Tell You (and How to Respond To It)

What You'll Learn

A new way of understanding anxiety—not as a problem to eliminate, but as a signal with something important to say—and how to listen to it without being overwhelmed.

7

Sadness Will Not Sink You: The Healing Power of Grief

What You'll Learn

Why grief is not a sign of weakness but a necessary passage—and how allowing yourself to mourn what has been lost is one of the most courageous things you can do.

8

The Way Up Is Down: How Healing Happens

What You'll Learn

The actual process of healing—what it looks like, why it's rarely linear, and what conditions need to be in place for real, lasting change to take root.

9

"Notice That" - How To Listen To The Brilliant Wisdom Of Your Body

What You'll Learn

How your body holds your story—and how developing the ability to pay attention to physical sensations gives you access to wisdom your mind alone cannot reach.

10

Keys to Listening to Your Body: Affect Dysregulation and Bodily Impulses

What You'll Learn

The specific skills and practices for tuning into your body's signals—including how to work with emotional flooding and the impulses that arise in your body.

11

The Setup: How Developmental Trauma Makes You Vulnerable to Spiritual Abuse

What You'll Learn

The relational conditions that make people vulnerable to spiritual abuse—and how understanding the setup helps make sense of what happened to you.

12

Healing From Spiritual Abuse: Restoring Trust in Your Knower

What You'll Learn

How abuse and trauma erode our ability to trust our own perceptions—and how to begin reclaiming confidence in your own inner knowing.

13

Neither of You Is Crazy: The Attachment Wounds Behind Every Marital Fight

What You'll Learn

How your early attachment experiences shape the way you move toward or away from intimacy—and what it looks like to bring more awareness to the dance you do with your partner.

14

The Goal Is Not To Do It Right: The Goal Is Repair

What You'll Learn

Why the impulses you've judged most harshly in yourself are often survival strategies in disguise—and how meeting them with understanding changes everything.

15

Delight Is the North Star: What Neuroscience Tells Us About What Children Really Need

What You'll Learn

What children are most deeply wired to need—and how the presence or absence of delight in early life shapes the adult we become.

16

Help, I Realize I'm Hurting My Kids

What You'll Learn

What to do with the painful recognition that your own unhealed wounds may be affecting your children—and how to hold that without collapsing under shame.

17

It's Not Too Late: How to Repair Harm with Your Children

What You'll Learn

The research on repair—why returning to ruptures with honesty and care is one of the most healing things a parent can do, and how to actually do it.

18

The Trauma Before the Trauma: How Our Family of Origin Sets Us Up for Sexual Abuse

What You'll Learn

The "Big Six" things every child needs from their parents—and how the lack of these six things sets you up for sexual abuse.

19

What Felt Like Love Wasn't: Triangulation and Covert Sexual Abuse

What You'll Learn

What triangulation is, why it's so important to name it in your family of origin, and how to heal from the bondage it creates.

20

"I Wanted It": Dismantling the Accusation of Complicity in Sexual Abuse

What You'll Learn

Why survivors often blame themselves for their own abuse—and how to dismantle the lies that have kept you carrying a weight that was never yours to bear.

21

How Can God Meet You Face to Face Till You Have a Face? Exploring Your Story With God

What You'll Learn

An invitation to bring your story—including the painful parts—into your relationship with God, and what it might mean to let God meet you in the messiness of that. 

22

The Healing Power Of Writing Your Own Psalm

What You'll Learn

How the ancient practice of lament—the honest and raw expression of unedited feelings—can become a vehicle for your own healing, and how to write your way into it.

23

You Relate to God the Way You Learned to Relate to Your Parents: Attachment and God

What You'll Learn

How the relational patterns formed in childhood shape the way you experience and relate to God—and how healing in one arena opens doors in the other.

24

How To Love Someone Who Has Harmed You

What You'll Learn

What it actually means to love someone who has hurt you—a nuanced look at forgiveness, limits, and what love does and does not require of you.

25

When They Won't See It: Engaging with Someone Who Has Harmed You

What You'll Learn

How to navigate ongoing relationships with people who refuse to acknowledge the harm they've caused—and what faithful, grounded engagement can look like.

Words from the community

Adam has the gift of clarity. He is able to explain  complex and confusing subjects in a way that makes the material simple and understandable.
I wish there were words in our language to describe how much your teaching has helped me.
Your ability to simplify, combined with the kindness in your voice, has allowed me to stay engaged longer, hold the truth with more courage, and take one more step toward freedom.

Simple, accessible, real.

Try it for 3 months - For less than $100 you can see if participating in this community gives you breakthrough in your life.

The Village

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  • Teaching videos that make complex topics understandable
  • Self-directed exercises to help you apply the material to your particular life and story
  • Community space to connect with like-minded others
  • Monthly Live sessions with Adam
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A few things people ask

Do I need to be in therapy to benefit from this?

No. The Village can be a complement to therapy for those who have a therapist, but this is deeply valuable by itself.

How much time does it take?

As much or as little as you have. The videos are meant to be watched at your own pace. There's no schedule to keep, no pressure to be "caught up." This is your journey.

What if I join and it's not what I expected?

You can cancel anytime with one click. No fine print, no guilt. We want you here because it's genuinely useful—not because you're locked in.

How is this different from Adam's podcast?

The podcast opens a door. The Village is a "next step" that might be helpful for you. You'll go deeper here—into your own story, your own body—with content designed for that purpose.

You don't have to figure this out alone.

Join The Village — $27 / month