Poy De Lara : Coach and Consultant

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

You are not broken.

Many of the behaviors we judge in ourselves began as ways to survive.

Trauma-Informed Recovery Coaching is not about fixing people—it’s about understanding what survival did, honoring the adaptations that helped us endure, and building the capacity to move forward.

Survival got you here.
Recovery helps you expand.

Your nervous system learned to protect you.

Long before you had the words to explain what was happening, your body was already adapting. It learned when to stay alert. When to shut down. When to fight. When to flee. When to please. When to disappear.

These responses were not signs of weakness.

They were signs of survival.

The good news is that the nervous system is capable of learning more than protection. It can also learn safety. It can learn connection. It can learn rest. It can learn trust.

Healing is not about forcing yourself to "get over it."

Healing is helping your body discover that the danger is no longer here.

Recovery begins when survival is honored and safety becomes possible.

Your nervous system protected you then.

It can learn to feel safe again now.

Honoring Survival. Expanding Capacity. Building Recovery since 2016.

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Before you judge your coping, honor the pain it once helped you survive. 🌱

Not every coping strategy began as self-destruction.
Some were survival.
Some were protection.
Some were the best your nervous system could do when safety, support, or regulation were unavailable.

The shutdown.
The overworking.
The anger.
The numbness.
The people-pleasing.
The escape.

Before shame tells you who you are, remember: many patterns were born from pain, not weakness.

Healing does not begin with condemnation.
It begins with compassion, curiosity, and understanding.

You can outgrow what once protected you—without hating the version of you that needed it.

Honor your survival.
Then build your recovery.

Honoring Survival. Expanding Capacity. Building Recovery since 2016.

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Rebel gently. Heal loudly.

Survival shaped me. Recovery became my mission.

I’m Poy de Lara — Trauma-Informed Recovery & Resilience Coach, Consultant, Founder of UDRiVe Group Philippines, and a pioneer for Trauma-Informed Philippines 2030.

My work is rooted in one belief: survival should be honored—but people also deserve the opportunity to expand beyond it.

Through trauma-informed coaching, resilience education, addiction recovery support, burnout and compassion fatigue care, empowerment self-defense, and religious trauma recovery, I help individuals, professionals, and communities build sustainable recovery—not just survival.

If you’ve been carrying what survival taught you, but you’re ready to build capacity, resilience, and a new way forward—I’m here to help.

Honoring Survival. Expanding Capacity. Building Recovery.

📩 Discovery Calls & Inquiries: [email protected]

Survival is not your shame. It is proof that you adapted when you had to. 🌱

So many of the ways we protected ourselves were never meant to define us forever—they were strategies that helped us endure what felt unbearable.

Your hypervigilance, your numbness, your people-pleasing, your shutdown, your fight… these may have been survival responses, not personal failures.

Today, we honor survival—not to stay there, but to recognize the strength it took to get here.

Healing begins when shame gives way to understanding.
Recovery grows when survival is honored, and capacity is expanded.

You survived.
Now we build what’s next.

Honoring Survival. Expanding Capacity. Building Recovery since 2016.

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📣 MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK — Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) is arriving this September!

Are you ready to build practical skills, powerful mindset, and stronger community connections?

Join us for a 5-week trauma-informed Empowerment Self Defense program designed to help participants strengthen:
✨ Awareness
✨ Confidence
✨ Choice
✨ Safety

This is more than self-defense — it’s empowerment through trauma-informed, inclusive, and evidence-based education.

🤝 CALLING ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITY LEADERS & PARTNERS:
We are actively seeking local partnerships and collaborations to help bring safer, stronger, and more empowered spaces to Moncton.

📍 Program Details:
• Begins September
• 5 Weeks | 2 Hours/Week
• Venue & Schedule TBA

📧 Partnership & Collaboration Inquiries:
[email protected]

Proudly supported by ESD Canada and the International Association of ESD Professionals.

Because everyone deserves to feel safe, strong, and empowered.
TOGETHER, WE EMPOWER. 💜

Survey link: https://forms.gle/giCYnPRnjxsvZSbk9

📣 JOIN THE SURVEY — YOUR VOICE MATTERS! 💜

Helping professionals in Moncton—this is for YOU.
Are you a social worker, counsellor, healthcare provider, educator, caregiver, or someone in the helping profession navigating compassion fatigue, burnout, or emotional exhaustion?

We’re building something meaningful this summer—and your input can help shape it.

The upcoming Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience Workshop is designed to support the people who spend their lives supporting others. Before we launch, we want to hear from YOU.

✨ Take a few minutes to complete our interest survey and help us create a workshop that is:
✔ Relevant to your real challenges
✔ Grounded in resilience and recovery
✔ Focused on compassion fatigue & burnout
✔ Built for helping professionals in our community

Your voice helps us create a stronger, healthier, more resilient Moncton.

🗳 Join the survey today.
💪 Help shape the future of professional resilience.
💜 Because those who care for others deserve care too.



https://forms.gle/giCYnPRnjxsvZSbk9

You don’t have to navigate healing alone.

Trauma-Informed Recovery Coaching offers a safe, supportive, and empowering space to understand how past experiences impact your present—and to gently rebuild from there with clarity, choice, and compassion.

Whether you are an individual in recovery, a professional seeking deeper understanding, or an organization wanting to create more trauma-responsive spaces, this work is designed to meet you where you are.

In a Discovery Call, we explore what support could look like for you or your team, at your pace and in your context.

📩 Let’s connect: [email protected]