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.
The Truth About "Mutual Abuse". Why Your Reactions Don't Make You Abusive
Many people blame themselves for “mutual abuse,” but reactive responses aren’t the same as being abusive. Learn how trauma, power dynamics, and the nervous system shape your reactions and why your responses were survival, not cruelty.
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