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.
Part 1: Why Your Partner Shuts Down: The Freeze Response
When a partner shuts down, it can feel confusing and lonely. Often, this withdrawal comes from overwhelm or anxiety, not a lack of love. Learn how to understand the freeze response, offer space without losing connection, and rebuild emotional safety together.
Stonewalling or Why Silence Can Hurt More Than Words
When one partner shuts down, silence can feel more painful than conflict. This article explores stonewalling, why it happens, how it affects the nervous system and attachment, and what supports safety, repair, and reconnection.
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