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 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.
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.
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.
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.
When Emotions Run High: Emotional Immaturity in Action
Do you often feel blamed, dismissed, or confused after expressing a need or setting a boundary? This post explores what emotional immaturity looks like in everyday interactions and offers grounded ways to protect your peace.
Exploring Micro-Cheating: When Is It Harmless and When Is It Hurting You?
Micro-cheating is a subtle but increasingly common issue in modern relationships. From flirtatious messages to emotional secrecy, these small behaviours can quietly undermine trust and leave you feeling on edge. But do they always signal betrayal? This piece explores the signs, the psychology behind them, and how to navigate these moments with clarity and emotional safety.
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.
Setting Healthy Boundaries: A Guide to Respectful Relationships
Struggling to say “no”? This trauma-informed guide explains why boundaries feel so hard, how childhood conditioning shapes your ability to set limits, and how to protect your energy without guilt. Learn how to create relationships where you feel respected, valued, and at peace.
When Love Feels Scary: Understanding & Healing Relationship Anxiety
Relationship anxiety is often mistaken for falling out of love, but they’re very different. Anxiety comes from fear and nervous-system activation, while falling out of love comes from emotional disconnection.
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