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 You Can't Feel Joy: Trauma, Shutdown, and the Numbing That Looks Like Depression
Feeling flat, numb, or disconnected doesn’t mean you’re broken. When joy disappears, your nervous system may be in shutdown. This piece explores why emotional numbing happens after trauma and how your body can slowly learn to feel again.
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