Become the One Who Changes the Story
A 6-week guided Circle for women ready to understand the patterns they've inherited, change the ones keeping them stuck, and create a different path forward with more self-trust, connection, and choice.
Join the Founding CircleFounding Circle enrollment is $397 through September 10. Regular tuition is $497.
You might recognize yourself here
Maybe you're carrying more than your share of the emotional and practical load, and it's been that way for so long you barely notice anymore. Or maybe you notice it every single day.
What the Cycle-Breaker Circle is
The Cycle-Breaker Circle is a live, experiential psychoeducational group. Each week brings together education, guided reflection, and meaningful conversation, bringing our practices together to help you notice your patterns as they happen and begin responding to them differently.
This isn't a Circle where you'll sit and listen for 90 minutes. You'll have real opportunities to explore your own patterns and practice what you're learning, in the room, with support.
The Circle brings understanding and experience together. You'll learn about inherited family patterns, protective responses, and the nervous system. You'll also have chances to notice how those patterns show up in your own body and life, practice new ways of responding, and connect with other women doing similar work.
This isn't about sharing every detail of your history. Participation and sharing are always your choice, and paced to what you have capacity for that day.
How the experiential work happens
Each week includes a mix of experiential exercises, tapping, somatic practices, guided reflection, and parts work among them. At times, Gina may invite a participant to volunteer for a guided exercise. While she works with one woman, the rest of the Circle can follow along, notice what resonates, and connect it back to their own experience.
You don't have to be the one being guided to get something from it. Hearing another woman put words to a familiar pattern, or watching her work through it, can bring awareness to something you've been carrying too. You may notice your own body responding, settling, or making a connection you hadn't quite named before.
There's something to doing this work together. We learn through our own experience, and we also learn through witnessing one another, and recognizing we aren't the only ones carrying these patterns.
This could be the perfect time
The timing of this Circle is intentional.
We'll spend 6 weeks understanding the family patterns, protective reactions, and emotional roles that can get in the way of feeling connected to ourselves and the people we love. The Circle ends on November 6, just before the holiday season begins.
You'll enter the season with more awareness of what tends to activate you, practical ways to work with your nervous system, and more choice in how you respond when familiar family dynamics show up.
Inside the 6-week Circle
Here's the shape the six weeks will take together. Each week builds on the one before it.
Recognizing What You've Been Carrying
Explore the inherited patterns, roles, beliefs, and stories you've been carrying.
Understanding the Patterns That Learned to Protect You
Explore overfunctioning, perfectionism, people-pleasing, reactivity, and emotional shutdown.
When the Body Responds Before the Mind Can Catch Up
Learn how protective patterns live in the nervous system and the body.
How Old Patterns Show Up in Present Relationships
Explore the effects on parenting, partnerships, boundaries, and communication.
Releasing What No Longer Belongs in Your Story
Use tapping, somatic practices, and parts work to loosen old beliefs.
Becoming More Intentional About What Comes Next
Create your personal Cycle-Breaker Plan.
Six weeks won't resolve every pattern. What it will give you is real awareness, practical tools, more capacity, a supportive circle of women, and a clear plan for continuing the work on your own.
What you'll walk away with
What's included
- 6 live 90-minute Circle sessions, October 2 – November 6
- A workbook for reflection and practice
- Recorded practice audios for ongoing use
- Community support throughout
- A personal Cycle-Breaker Plan, built across six weeks
The education portion of each session is recorded and sent to the Circle afterward. The participation portion isn't recorded, to honor everyone's privacy.
What you can expect to gain
- A clearer understanding of where your patterns began
- Greater awareness of your triggers and protective responses
- Tools for working with your nervous system
- Somatic and tapping practices you can use daily
- More self-compassion for the parts of you that were protecting you
- Support building healthier boundaries
- Practice recognizing activation earlier
- Connection with women doing similar work
This Circle is for women who are ready to
- Look honestly and kindly at recurring patterns
- Understand how family shaped their reactions
- Take part in a respectful Circle setting
- Learn through education, reflection, and body-based practice
- Try tapping and nervous-system tools with no prior experience needed
- Practice between sessions
- Become more intentional about what they carry forward
- Create change for themselves, their relationships, and their families
The Cycle-Breaker Circle is for all women. Whether you're a mom or not, this Circle is for all women ready to change what they carry forward.
This may not be the right fit if you
- Are in acute mental health crisis
- Are looking for emergency support
- Need a higher level of individualized care
- Are looking for a passive class without reflection or practice
If any of this is true for you right now, please reach out and we can talk about what kind of support makes the most sense.
Why I created this Circle
I created this Circle because I believe something with my whole heart: every family carries patterns. Some bring us closer together. Some protect us. And some keep us stuck.
Whether your relationship with your family has been loving, complicated, painful, or somewhere in between, we all inherit ways of thinking, feeling, coping, and relating that were shaped long before we arrived.
Some of those patterns serve us. Some don't.
I've experienced this in my own life, not only as a therapist, but as a woman and a mom. I learned that love alone doesn't automatically change old patterns. The things we haven't worked through have a way of showing up in our reactions, relationships, parenting, and the stories we tell ourselves.
My kids are a big part of why I do this work. They're the reason I kept going deeper into understanding these patterns, and why I've come to believe this matters in every relationship, not only in parenting, but in how we show up for everyone we love.
It means we're human. And it also means we have a choice.
I created this Circle because women deserve a place to grow, learn, and find themselves again. A place to understand these patterns, work with what their bodies and nervous systems have been carrying, and practice something different, so they can build the life they actually want and deserve. We shouldn't have to figure all of this out alone.
This isn't about blaming our parents or trying to become perfect. It's about awareness, repair, and choice.
This Circle has been a long time in the making, and it's taken on a few different iterations along the way. I'm genuinely excited to finally offer it, and to be part of building this community with you.
An invitation to the Founding Circle
This first Cycle-Breaker Circle has been a long time in the making. I want the women who step into it first to feel like founding members of something meaningful. This is more than a 6-week program. It's the beginning of a growing community of women choosing to change the story.
As a thank-you for helping bring this first Circle to life, enrollment is $397 through September 10. That's $100 less than the regular $497 tuition.
There's no pressure to rush into a decision. I want you to read through the details, listen to yourself, and decide whether this feels like the right next step. If it does, I'd be honored to have you with us.
Join the Founding Circle for $397Everything you need to know
| Program | The Cycle-Breaker Circle — a live, experiential psychoeducational group |
| Length | 6 consecutive Fridays |
| Dates | October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & November 6, 2026 |
| Time | 10:00–11:30am Pacific (90 minutes) |
| Format | Live online via Zoom |
| Circle size | Up to 10 participants |
| Eligibility | Open to all women, regardless of location |
| Facilitator | Gina Watkins, LICSW |
| Founding tuition | $397 through September 10, 2026 |
| Regular tuition | $497 beginning September 11, 2026 |
| Payment plan | Available on request — reach out directly |
Frequently asked questions
What kind of experience is the Cycle-Breaker Circle?
Do I need to be a mother to join?
Do I need previous experience with tapping, somatic work, or parts work?
Will I have to share personal experiences with the Circle?
What happens if I miss a live session?
Do past participants get a discount on future Circles?
Will sessions be recorded?
How much time should I plan for between sessions?
Can I participate while I'm also in individual therapy?
How will privacy be handled?
Who is this Circle not designed for?
Are payment plans available?
What is the refund or cancellation policy?
When does the Founding Circle rate end?
What happens after I enroll?
You don't have to keep carrying every pattern simply because it was handed to you.
Changing the story doesn't require perfection. It begins with awareness, support, practice, and the willingness to choose something different. When women do this work together, the effects reach beyond the individual. They shape our relationships, our families, and our communities.
Join the Founding CircleCome as you are. You don't need to have everything figured out before you begin.