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.
Gaslighting or Miscommunication? How to Tell the Difference
Have you ever left a conversation wondering if you misunderstood or if your reality was quietly rewritten? This post explores the difference between gaslighting and genuine miscommunication, and why the distinction matters for your safety and self-trust.
Vulnerable Narcissism in Relationships
Have you ever felt drained by a relationship where one person’s insecurity always takes centre stage?
Vulnerable narcissism doesn’t look like boasting or grandiosity; it often shows up as hypersensitivity, emotional fragility, and a constant need for reassurance. This post explores the emotional push–pull of these dynamics, and why they can leave you feeling confused, exhausted, and doubting yourself.
Relationship Red Flags: When Love Feels Confusing
Discover key relationship red flags that can quietly erode your sense of safety and self-worth. From inconsistency and lack of accountability to emotional manipulation and control, this trauma-aware guide helps you recognise concerning patterns and listen to what your body is telling you.
Breadcrumbing: Why Mixed Signals Feel So Hooking Especially If You Have Attachment Wounds
Mixed signals in dating are more than frustrating, they can echo old attachment wounds. This trauma-informed guide unpacks why breadcrumbing feels so powerful and how to recognise when it’s pulling you into a familiar cycle of hope, confusion, and self-doubt.
How to Tell If They've Really Changed (Or If It's Just Another Promise)
How can you tell whether an abusive partner has genuinely changed or is simply making another promise? This article explores the cycle of abuse, empty apologies, and subtle manipulation tactics, offering clarity to help you prioritise your safety, self-trust, and wellbeing.
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
- 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