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.
Shame Archetypes in Toxic Relationships: 4 Ways Your Nervous System Tries to Protect You
Shame doesn’t just live in your thoughts; it shapes how you react, relate, and protect yourself. This blog explores the four common shame archetypes that develop after trauma or emotionally unsafe relationships.
You're Not Too Sensitive, You're Wired for Depth
Being told you’re “too sensitive” can leave lasting shame. This piece explores why feeling deeply is often a form of intelligence, not a flaw, and what sensitive nervous systems need to feel safe.
Why Always Being the Strong One Leaves You Exhausted and Alone
When strength becomes armour, it hides exhaustion, loneliness, and the shame of never feeling allowed to need anyone. This post explores the hidden cost of always being the “strong one” and how to soften without losing yourself.
Understanding Toxic Shame: Healing the Wounds of Childhood
Toxic shame often begins in childhood, shaping how you see yourself and what you believe you deserve. This piece explores how early experiences create lasting wounds and how healing becomes possible.
I Am Broken. When You Feel Beyond Repair
When abuse makes you feel beyond repair, healing can feel impossible. But you are not broken, you are in the process of reclaiming yourself. Learn how to rebuild self-trust, heal from trauma, and rediscover your inner strength.
When Feeling Empty Inside Makes You Question Your Worth
Emotional emptiness can feel like a quiet void, a disconnection from your own feelings and from others. This article explores why it develops and how therapy can gently support reconnection.
Why we accept the love we think we deserve
Healthy love can feel unsettling after abuse. When your nervous system has learned to associate chaos with connection, calm can feel foreign, even unsafe. This blog explores why kind, stable partners feel “boring” and how your body can relearn what real safety feels like.
Toxic Shame in Relationships and How to Find Your Way Back to Yourself
Explore how shame affects those in emotionally abusive relationships. Learn about the cycle of shame, its impact, and steps toward healing and recovery.
Was It My Fault? When Love Becomes Confusing
Trauma bonding is a psychological response to prolonged abuse, where victims form emotional attachments to their abusers. Learn how trauma bonds develop, why they happen, and how therapy can help break the cycle of abuse and foster healing.
Tag Cloud
- attachment wounds
- Boundaries
- Emotional Abuse
- Coercive Control
- Nervous System Regulation
- nervous system
- trauma bonding
- Gaslighting
- Shame
- Trauma Recovery
- trauma responses
- Self-worth
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- Emotional regulation
- emotional safety
- emotional abuse
- Childhood trauma
- Hypervigilance
- relational trauma
- attachment trauma
- relationship dynamics
- anxious attachment
- Emotional Neglect
- People-pleasing
- trauma healing
- inner child
- avoidant attachment
- Rebuilding Trust
- trauma recovery
- Relationship Patterns