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.
They're Using the Kids to Hurt You - When Co-Parenting Becomes Abuse
What if healthy co-parenting isn’t possible? This article explores post-separation abuse, when parenting is used as a tool of control, and offers trauma-informed strategies to help you reduce harm, protect your children, and reclaim a sense of safety.
When Silence Is Safer Than Co-Parenting (A Guide to Parallel Parenting)
When co-parenting creates more harm than safety, distance can be protective. This article explains parallel parenting, a low-contact approach for high-conflict or abusive dynamics, and offers trauma-informed guidance to help you protect your children and regain stability.
Recognising Coercive Control Through Gabby Petito’s Story
You watched the bodycam footage and something stirred in you. Maybe you recognised the way Gabby apologised, taking all the blame. This article explores the warning signs of coercive control that often remain invisible, even when distress is plain to see, and what understanding these patterns can offer when you're seeking clarity or 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.
You Left, But the Abuse Didn't Stop - Post-Separation Control
After separation, abuse often doesn’t end; it changes. Many survivors face ongoing control through legal systems, children, finances, and reputation, leaving them exhausted, isolated, and doubting their reality.
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