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.
Shame Archetypes in Toxic Relationships: 4 Ways Your Nervous System Tries to Protect You
Shame doesn’t just live in your thoughts; it shapes how you react, relate, and protect yourself. This blog explores the four common shame archetypes that develop after trauma or emotionally unsafe relationships.
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.
Understanding Toxic Shame: Healing the Wounds of Childhood
Toxic shame often begins in childhood, shaping how you see yourself and what you believe you deserve. This piece explores how early experiences create lasting wounds and how healing becomes possible.
Toxic Shame in Relationships and How to Find Your Way Back to Yourself
Explore how shame affects those in emotionally abusive relationships. Learn about the cycle of shame, its impact, and steps toward healing and recovery.
Recognising Childhood Trauma (When the Past Won't Stay in the Past)
Childhood trauma doesn’t always look dramatic or obvious. Often, it shows up in adulthood through attachment patterns, emotional overwhelm or numbness, chronic self-doubt, and difficulty feeling safe in relationships. This article explores how early experiences shape the nervous system, self-worth, and our capacity for connection and why recognition is the first step toward 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