Gravity Point® Anthology

At its heart, Gravity Point® Anthology Volume 1: A Method to Transmute Stress & Trauma Before They Make You Sick offers up a step-by-step formula for alchemy, a way to transform stress and trauma and turn it into something that serves you and the world around you.

You’ll learn this alchemical process by better understanding stress and how to transmute it before it turns into trauma.

Many of us have been told that fight, flight, and freeze are the fundamental responses to stress. But trauma specialist and neurocounselor Atlas Anne, PhD, has discovered a more complex stress model, one composed of 20 distinct stress responses that, when left unresolved, create the dysregulation that can lead to disease, disorder, and discord.

For sensitive systems especially, this dysregulation runs deeper and shows up sooner, making the right model essential to being happy, healthy, and whole.

Most people who find this work are already well-versed in wellness. They've tried therapy, meditation, supplements, boundary setting, and every corner of self-care. And they still feel stuck.

That's because self-care, sickness, and self-regulation are not the same thing.

Self-care is a maintenance practice. It centers routine, rest, and well-being. It's essential, but it doesn't necessarily address stress, trauma, or burnout.

Sickness is a specific threshold treated by medicine. It centers certain symptoms experienced over certain periods of time that are diagnosed and treated in very specific ways.

Self-regulation is a management practice, a system in between self-care and sickness.

It’s the active practice of keeping your body-mind-relationship system in balance as stress puts pressure on it every single day. It recognizes the impact of stress and gives you tools to complete the stress response cycle, so unresolved stress doesn't accumulate into something worse.

Self-regulation is a form of transmutation, or alchemy. Taking the energy that comes to you and turning into something that works for you. 

Most wellness resources are built around self-care, and you need to see a licensed professional to address sickness. 

Gravity Point® Anthology Volume 1 lives in between and helps you master a practice of self-regulation. 

The book is the product of original research and 15+ years of direct work with sensitive people and trauma survivors, and of a personal search that began long before that. It doesn't borrow from existing models. It builds an entirely new model from the ground up, rooted in research and translated into steps anyone can immediately follow without doing the research themselves.

As a neurocounselor, it’s Dr. Anne’s job to look at complex neuroscience research (neuro-) and turn it into tools folks can actually use (counselor). This book gives you a straightforward system for understanding the science of stress so you can better transmute it into something beautiful.

In Part I: Gravity Point® Model, you'll learn the foundational framework you need to understand how stress actually works:

• Why a self-care practice has nothing to do with stress and what to do instead

• Why stress responses that kept you safe as a child might be replaying now

• How your system, especially a sensitive one, automatically determines how you feel, think, and act in different situations

• The difference between stress that resolves and stress that gets stuck to form a trauma response

• What you can do to heal present stress and past trauma at the very same time

This part bridges complex research with practical application, giving you the "why" behind the Method for Stress Transmutation you'll learn to use.

Most people think stress responses are limited to fight, flight, and freeze. If you’re lucky, you’ve also heard of fawn, tend, and befriend. 

But through Dr. Anne's research, she discovered there are actually 20 distinct stress responses that cultivate different feelings, thoughts, and actions.

Each response has a name starting with F making them easy to remember - like FOSTER, FAVOR, and FANTASIZE.

For each of the 20 responses, you'll learn:

• What it does and why it matters

• How it shows up in your body, mind, and relationships

• How to resolve it during every single stressful situation

This is particularly helpful for sensitive systems who have lived their life without words for their experiences.

Then you’ll learn the Gravity Point® Method for Stress Transmutation, a step-by-step, easy to follow process you can use to transmute the stress triggered by various situations, whether you're dealing with:

• Workplace pressure and conflict

• Relationship dynamics

• Family stress

• Health issues

• Financial worry

• Any other triggering situation

Each step in the Method includes clear instructions and journaling prompts so you can apply the process immediately to real situations in your life.

This Method is a practical tool Dr. Anne developed based on 15 years of experience as a trauma therapist, supervisor, and educator. It’s what she used to pull herself out of burnout and teaches every single student so they can do the same. This book gives you access to that exact process so you can turn every Triggering Situation into an Aspirational one.

Atlas Anne, PhD, LPC, is a licensed trauma therapist, and before founding the Institute, spent most of her career as a university professor, administrator, and clinical supervisor specializing in trauma and burnout prevention frameworks.

Her credentials include:

• Bachelor of Arts in Communication

• Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology

• Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education

• Two-Year Fellowship in Marriage and Family Therapy

• Doctoral research in assessment tools for dysregulation

• Certifications in yoga, Reiki, and neurofeedback

• Roles as a curriculum developer, clinical administrator, and university educator specializing in trauma, practitioner skill and curriculum development, and innovations in online education

She built the Gravity Point® Paradigm because nothing she encountered in her training or practice gave her clients — or herself — a method that was both research-grounded and easy to implement in everyday life. And it wasn’t because she wasn’t looking.

After a lifetime of struggling with her own stress and health, she entered the field of trauma therapy hoping that the answers she hadn't been able to find as a patient might be accessible to her as a clinician. In some ways they were, but the deeper she went into the work, the clearer it became that the existing tools, however valuable, weren’t straightforward enough to be practiced every day. 

There was no single, systematized framework that could reliably take someone from a triggering situation all the way through to resolution every single time. And she really needed one.

As someone who had spent a lifetime absorbing the stress of the people and environments around her, the weight of holding space for trauma survivors all day compounded her dysregulation that was already there, and the existing tools weren't built to address stress picked up from someone else.

Being a helper just made her sicker, but having invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in education, leaving the field wasn't a realistic option. So she turned her training as a researcher toward the problem itself.

She built what didn't exist: a unified, step-by-step system for resolving stress and trauma that was rigorous enough to satisfy a doctoral researcher, practical enough for burnt-out practitioners to use themselves, and simple enough to hand to a client on their very first visit. 

That system is the Gravity Point® Paradigm and it details the art and science of alchemy anyone can use to create their world.