If you want to know how feel the warmth of connection and feeling seen, known, and cared for by yourself and others, I can help.
Expert In Transforming Codependency Into A Satisfying Life
Neglect is what didn’t happen that should have. It is the invisible trauma we don’t know is there until we encounter experiences that show us what we didn’t get, yet so deeply needed.
You can quickly assess if you’ve been neglected. Ask yourself these questions:
Do you have a sense of being “real” and having importance in other people’s lives?
Do you believe others think about you during their day in warm, loving ways?
Do you have a strong sense of your emotions and what they’re telling you?
Are you able to identify what you are in need of and ask for it?
Was there frequent play and rest in your childhood?
Or…
Were you shamed for having needs, wants, and feelings?
Were you told to “grow up” when you were in pain?
Were you told to “figure it out” when you had problems?
Did you feel alone, isolated, and not included by others?
Did you crave attention, to be seen and heard?
Do you feel numb and lost when you’re asked, “do you know who you are?”
Do you find yourself trying to be independent and not need anyone else?
Do you find yourself craving others and hoping they’ll take care of you?
If you relate to the second set of questions – you were neglected.
You were not given consistent, reliable nurture emotionally, mentally, and relationally.
This leads you to feeling numb, burned out, overwhelmed by emotions, craving others and their attention, affection, and love. You struggle to identify your needs and feel safe asking for them and being seen, valued, and loved.
This is the impact of neglect.
I’ve helped hundreds of survivors reclaim their belonging, connection, and learn to nurture their needs, soothing the emptiness and loneliness they walk with.
How did they do this?
A PROVEN PROCESS TO FOLLOW: Neglect requires experience and somatic (felt-sense) experience to heal. You need a step-by-step process that helps you reconnect with yr needs and begin nurturing them within yourself and within healthy, safe connection with others.
THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE: Survivors of narcissistic abuse and codependency comes from a different world than those who haven’t been through that hell.
This means you need the correct knowledge at the right time to make the correct changes and choices that result in lasting healing for yourself.
THE TOOLS & PRACTICES THAT ADDRESS THE CORE CAUSES: Survivors that heal need the right practices that help them develop a healthy relationship with themselves and helps them tap into their value as a human being, rather than an object.
Survivors learn how to calm their pain and distress, tap into their core worth, and build warmth and connection with themselves and others.
THE CORRECT EXPERIENCE & TIMING: Understanding your experiences helps you make wiser choices. To have that right understanding, you need to have the correct experiences in the correct time. Survivors build confidence and clarity fast when they know how to respond to the milestones in relationships as well as how to walk the path to those milestones.
ON-GOING RELIABLE RESOURCES & REINFORCEMENT: Most survivors I’ve worked with needed consistent access to support, feedback, cheer-leading, and celebration as they ventured into the world and experienced life. Knowing someone has your back makes adventure and risk so much safer.
NURTURE™ is built specifically for codependents, people-pleasers, and perfectionists struggling to feel connected to themselves and others, like they are real, and nourished emotionally. They wrestle with deep loneliness, emptiness, and a sense of being on the “outside”.
Through specialized practices, NURTURE™ helps them connect again with their core belonging and begin healing the emptiness and disconnection that they’ve lived with for so long.
NURTURE™ has one objective: Help You Enjoy A Sense Of Warmth And Connection To Yourself And Others
Hi, I’m Marshall. And My Loneliness & Emptiness Nearly Killed Me
You See, Loneliness & Emptiness Are Not The Problem. They’re The Symptom
We are born with ten specific core needs that have to be actively nurtured by caregivers when we’re in childhood to produce an abiding sense of belonging, inclusion, and emotional nourishment.
When these are chronically neglected, we develop loneliness, emptiness, numbness, a strong sense of “independence” and needlessness to cope.
Loneliness becomes the background noise of one’s life when we’re chronically neglected and ignored. This becomes deeply painful, creating a sense of being “outside” of the group and not being able to recognize connection and belonging.
You will learn how to identify, connect to, and soothe this loneliness in a way that produces a sense of warmth and belonging within yourself. You no longer will be dominated by your loneliness.
Neglect leaves us walking with a massive deficit emotionally and relationally, creating a lingering, persistent sense of emptiness within ourselves. We know something is missing, but we’re not sure what it is or what to do about it.
You will learn how to know this emptiness and discover what is *actually* in that emptiness that you need to know, nurture, and integrate into your life.
Your emptiness heals as you come to know it.
Nurturing our needs requires structure, routine, and practice. The Nurture Process™ helps students:
This is where students experience re-connection, care, and belonging again in their lives.
The curriculum is broken down into sections. Each builds on the one previous to it creating lasting results.
CORE TRAININGS
Module One:
Topic: Neglect, Belonging, & Attachment
Module Two:
Topic: Building Attunement to Self
Module Three:
Topic: Capacity & Needs
Module Four:
Topic: Intranurture Part One: Emotional Connection
Module Five:
Topic: Intranurture Part Two: Autonomous Worth
Module Six:
Topic: Intranurture Part Three: Building Warmth With Self
Module Seven:
Topic: Intranurture Part Four: Inquiry & Internal Nurture
Module Eight:
Topic: Internurture Part One: Safe People, Resources, & Community Building
Module Nine:
Topic: Internurture Part Two: Receiving
Module Ten:
Topic: Internurture Part Three: Contributing & Boundaries
Taking the leap on your own healing is scary. I know it was for me. What made the difference is a warm, supportive community that I could turn to with my questions, my needs for understanding and support, and guidance.
I provide you with this support through:
The chaos, crazy-making, and roller-coaster of emotions and intensity is why you feel anxiety. The BE CALM System empowers you with tools that calm your mind and body quickly. They help you have power and have a say in what you feel
These tools are built on Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing trainings. You will feel more calm and grounded.
This library of over 40+ tools and meditations will assist you in deepening your peace, freedom, and well-being post-codependency.
My courses are designed to be used from the smart phone and the desktop computer or laptop.
This means:
Each course is broken down into a series of small trainings. These trainings build on each other (think legos). As you advance through each training, you place another block in your healing, freedom, and peace.
You will exit each training and each course with a new skill-set and the understanding of how to apply it to your life.
My courses are self-paced regardless of they’re the live edition or the recorded edition. They’re designed to adapt to your lifestyle and needs. This is achieved with my Building-block™ course design (means they work like following a recipe).
This means:
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KNOWING YOUR NEEDS ARE REAL AND LEGITIMATE: You’ll know how to identify and fulfill your core needs and who you can rely on them for that.
GREATER PEACE: You’ll know how to calm your mind, your body, and your pain using tools designed specifically for your journey. You’ll feel more empowered in being able to care for yourself and feel more safe and at peace.
REAL SAFETY: You’ll know what safety feels like, what you need it in, and how to determine if you’re getting that. You’ll be able to foster and reinforce a deep, body-felt sense of safety in your space, healing loneliness and isolation.
WHOLENESS: You’ll feel more complete, more fulfilled, and more real to yourself as you nurture your needs and connection with self and others.
CONNECTION: Instead of feeling like an outsider, excluded and unwanted, you’ll experience a sense of belonging and connection with others as you build healthy connections with yourself and them.
YOURSELF: You’ll know how to connect with yourself, nurture your intra-connection and your inner world with you, how to keep yourself (aka sobriety), and how to build safe, secure attachment with you.
This Is Designed For Individuals That:
Not A Good Fit For Individuals That:
Hi! I’m Marshall Burtcher.
Before I found my freedom from codependency, I was suffering in a nightmare of cyclical abuse with my parents, stuck in a dead-end marriage, and barely coping with my shame, panic, and trauma.
I found myself on the edge of suicide, trying to run from the monsters in my head and the voices that told me I was worthless, harmful, and I deserved all the crazy-making, emotionally harmful behavior I’d lived with for over 30 years.
My codependency had led me to destroy my marriage, my financial security, and my friendships because I felt so entirely unworthy and so desperately needed others to validate me so I could feel worthy.
I believed that to be lovable, I must be loved first. Without being loved, I was not lovable.
This changed when I took a leap of faith and decided that codependency and my toxic behaviors were a result of my experience, not the expression of who I am.
The healing that occurred within a year of that choice was so profound that I became an advocate for a new point of view: that codependency was a survival response to the threat of being discarded. I call it “The Discard Trauma”.
Fast-forward from 2008 to today and I have helped over 750+ people find happiness with my unique, effective approach to healing.
Today I’m a proud father of 2, a fun boyfriend, and a mentor that is obsessed with eliminating codependency from your world and making happiness a day-to-day reality for you.
Is There A Test Drive Of The Class?
You can watch a 18-minute sample from a live class below. It includes a content section, then homework descriptions. It has been edited to preserve the privacy of the students in the class.
Video below:
Is There A Sample Of The Homework?
Yes, I do. You can download the homework sample by clicking below:
Will This Interfere With Therapy?
The trainings and practices in FOUNDATION are designed with personal therapy in mind. It is built around the principles that the student leads their therapy.
The courses involve tools that are oriented to the somatic, or felt-sense part of reality and experience, and included cognitive reframing practices using questions, exploration, and experience.
Will I Be Required To Complete Everything In A Specific Amount Of Time (or, Is it REALLY Go At Your Own Pace?)
All trainings and courses are go-at-your-own-pace, so you can go as slow as you want.
Is There A Refund Or Guarantee Period?
No refunds are granted for any reason.
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