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.
You’re Not Imagining It: Emotional Abuse Explained
Emotional abuse is often subtle, slow, and easy to minimise, especially when you still care about the person hurting you. If you’ve been doubting your memory, questioning your reactions, or wondering whether something feels “off,” this guide helps you recognise the signs, understand the impact on your nervous system, and begin trusting yourself again.
Understanding Coercive Control, When Control Doesn’t Look Like Violence
Coercive control doesn’t always look like violence.
It shows up as shrinking, self-doubt, isolation, and fear. This piece explores how subtle patterns erode your freedom and how your body often recognises what’s happening long before your mind can name it.
When Money Becomes a Weapon - Recognising Financial Control
Financial abuse is a hidden form of control that can leave you anxious, dependent, and trapped, even when the money is technically “yours.” This post explains how financial control works and how to recognise it.
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