Healing & Relationships Blogs; Trauma-Informed Insights
Gentle, trauma-informed insights on healing, boundaries and emotional safety.
These articles explore the impact of trauma, family violence, estrangement and relational wounds, offering clarity and support for people rebuilding trust in themselves and their relationships. If something here resonates, you’re welcome to reach out for a compassionate, grounding consultation.
When You’ve Had to Mother Without a Map - Parenting after a painful childhood
When you grew up without a model of safe, nurturing mothering, parenting can awaken both love and fear. This post explores how to mother without a map, grieving what you didn’t receive while learning to trust that your care is enough.
Mother Wounds: How Emotional Neglect Shapes Women
The mother-daughter relationship shapes our first sense of love and safety. When it’s marked by neglect, criticism, or absence, it can leave deep “mother wounds” that echo into adulthood as self-doubt and shame. This post explores how those wounds show up and offers compassionate ways to heal and reclaim your voice.
They're Using the Kids to Hurt You - When Co-Parenting Becomes Abuse
What if healthy co-parenting isn’t possible? This article explores post-separation abuse, when parenting is used as a tool of control, and offers trauma-informed strategies to help you reduce harm, protect your children, and reclaim a sense of safety.
When Silence Is Safer Than Co-Parenting (A Guide to Parallel Parenting)
When co-parenting creates more harm than safety, distance can be protective. This article explains parallel parenting, a low-contact approach for high-conflict or abusive dynamics, and offers trauma-informed guidance to help you protect your children and regain stability.
When Emotions Run High: Emotional Immaturity in Action
Do you often feel blamed, dismissed, or confused after expressing a need or setting a boundary? This post explores what emotional immaturity looks like in everyday interactions and offers grounded ways to protect your peace.
What Is Parentification? Understanding Childhood Role Reversal
Parentification is a hidden form of childhood role reversal that leaves lasting emotional wounds. This post explores how it happens, how it shapes adult relationships, and gentle ways to begin healing.
Emotionally Immature Parents: Their Impact and Breaking the Cycle
Do you often feel like the parent in your relationship with your parents? This post explores the traits of emotionally immature parents, how they affect your self-worth and relationships, and gentle ways to heal and move forward.
You Left to Protect Them But They’re Still Struggling; Supporting Your Child After Abuse
Supporting a child after an abusive relationship is deeply challenging, especially when you’re healing too. This article offers trauma-informed guidance to help children make sense of their emotions, understand their coping responses, and begin to feel safe again.
Tag Cloud
- attachment wounds
- Coercive Control
- Emotional Abuse
- Boundaries
- nervous system
- trauma bonding
- Gaslighting
- Nervous System Regulation
- Shame
- Trauma Recovery
- trauma responses
- Emotional regulation
- Self-worth
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- emotional abuse
- relational trauma
- trauma recovery
- Hypervigilance
- attachment trauma
- Childhood trauma
- emotional safety
- Emotional Neglect
- trauma bonds
- People-pleasing
- family estrangement
- relationship dynamics
- anxious attachment
- Domestic Violence
- avoidant attachment
- Relationship Patterns