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.
The Cost of Always Being the 'Strong One': Trauma and Hyper-Independence
When strength becomes armour, it hides exhaustion, loneliness, and the shame of never feeling allowed to need anyone. This post explores the hidden cost of always being the ‘strong one’ and how to soften without losing yourself.
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