The First Interruption is a free starter kit and email series from Tressa L. Bell—registered nurse, former forensic nurse examiner, survivor, and author—for anyone trying to understand what they’ve carried from childhood into their relationships and parenting.

Maybe you grew up scanning moods, keeping the peace, or putting your own needs last. Those responses may have helped you get through difficult or unsafe situations. Years later, you might still find yourself doing them, even when you want to respond differently.

Recognizing a pattern doesn’t mean you automatically know how to change it. The First Interruption gives you a place to begin, with plain-language explanations and a small practice you can try in everyday life.

What’s inside

• Understanding your nervous system responses: How early experiences can shape the ways you react, protect yourself, and relate to others.

• The Interruption Model™: Notice, name, regulate, interrupt, repair, repeat—a framework for practicing a different response.

• Your first interruption: One small practice to try this week.

This is about understanding your own responses and choices. You are not responsible for another person’s abusive behavior, and changing your reactions cannot make an unsafe relationship safe.

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A little about me

I’m Tressa L. Bell, MBA, BSN, RN—a registered nurse, former forensic nurse examiner, author, and survivor of childhood abuse and domestic violence. My work brings together clinical understanding and lived experience to explore inherited trauma, relationship safety, parenting, and accountability.

I’m still doing this work in my own life, too.

This didn’t start with you…but you can interrupt it. 🪟