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 Your Body Forgets How to Feel Safe
When life feels like constant overdrive or shutdown, your body may have forgotten what safety feels like. This article explores how trauma shapes the nervous system and how “glimmers”, small cues of safety, can help you move out of survival mode. With gentle, practical strategies, learn how to recognise your states and find your way back to calm, connection, and balance.
Why Adult Children of Alcoholics Struggle to Feel Safe, A Trauma-Informed Perspective
Safety feels dangerous. Calm feels suspicious. Your nervous system keeps bracing for impact, even in healthy relationships. For Adult Children of Alcoholics, growing up in chaos shapes the body in profound ways that can echo long into adulthood.
What Is Trauma-Informed Therapy? A Guide to Healing at Your Own Pace
Trauma-informed therapy recognises that healing starts with safety, not pressure. This approach helps you understand how trauma affects your mind and body, and supports recovery at your own pace. Learn what to expect from compassionate, trauma-informed counselling in Melbourne, online or in person.
Why You React Differently on Different Days: Your Window of Tolerance Explained
Why do the same stressors feel manageable one day and overwhelming the next? Your nervous system holds the answer. Explore the window of tolerance and gentle ways to return to safety and regulation.
Online vs. Face-to-Face Therapy: Which Is Right for You?
Online and in-room therapy offer different forms of safety, grounding, and connection. Learn how to choose the setting where your nervous system feels most supported.
Why You Miss Them (Even Though They Hurt You): Understanding Trauma Bonds
Trauma bonds make it feel impossible to leave someone who hurts you. This article explains the cycle, the nervous-system wiring behind the attachment, and gentle steps toward breaking free.
Hijacked by Anxiety; When Your Body Reacts Faster Than Your Mind
Anxiety often feels like it comes out of nowhere, but your body is responding to old patterns of danger. This post explains why and offers grounded, compassionate tools to help you steady your nervous system.
Memory and Trauma, Why Your Mind Forgets What Your Body Never Does
Traumatic memories can surface suddenly, leaving you feeling flooded or numb. This post explores why that happens and offers gentle, practical tools to help you stay present and begin healing.
Why Do People Avoid Therapy? Understanding the Nervous System Behind the Hesitation
Most people don’t avoid therapy because they’re uninterested in healing; they avoid it because their nervous system learned long ago that vulnerability is dangerous. Here’s why hesitation makes sense, and why seeking help can feel so frightening.
Tag Cloud
- Boundaries
- attachment wounds
- Emotional Abuse
- nervous system
- Gaslighting
- Trauma Recovery
- Shame
- Nervous System Regulation
- trauma bonding
- trauma responses
- Coercive Control
- Self-worth
- Emotional regulation
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- Trauma-informed therapy Melbourne
- Counselling Melbourne
- Childhood trauma
- Hypervigilance
- emotional safety
- trauma healing
- inner child
- relationship dynamics
- People-pleasing
- Rebuilding Trust
- anxious attachment
- Emotional Neglect
- avoidant attachment
- Emotional Manipulation
- codependency
- trauma recovery