Trust & Triggers Toolkit complete guide

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)

💬 Welcome Message
Written in Ana’s voice — honest, warm, and affirming. A real connection.

🔹 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