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.
Why Does Healthy Love Feel Uncomfortable After Abuse?
When your nervous system has adapted to chaos, healthy love can feel strangely unsafe. This post explores why safety feels uncomfortable and how healing rebuilds trust.
Rebuilding After Abuse: Steps to Finding Closure
Healing after a dysfunctional relationship is hard, but with self-compassion, therapy, and understanding the grief process, you can move toward closure and a healthier future.
Rebuilding Self-Esteem After Leaving a Toxic Relationship
Recovering from a toxic relationship includes recognising the pain, removing negative influences from your life, and finding happiness on your own. Toxic relationships can damage your self-esteem and sense of self, so it's important to practice self-love to heal and find yourself again after a breakup.
Break Free from Toxicity, Rebuilding Self-Worth After an Abusive Relationship
Toxic relationships can quietly erode your confidence and sense of self. This blog explores how abuse impacts self-esteem and how to rebuild your identity with compassion and support.
Trusting Your Instincts: Dating Again After Abuse
Dating after leaving a difficult relationship can feel daunting for many reasons: emotional vulnerability, fear of repeating old patterns, lowered self-esteem, and shifting priorities. Rebuilding trust in yourself is essential. It’s what helps you make informed, self-protective choices. But learning to trust others again? That can feel risky, and that’s completely understandable.
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