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.
Why Leaving Abuse Isn't About Courage, It's About Survival
Why survivors stay isn’t about weakness; it’s about survival. Learn how trauma, coercive control, attachment, and practical barriers make leaving abuse profoundly complex, and what actually helps.
Breaking the Chains: Understanding Coercive Control
Coercive control doesn’t begin with bruises; it begins with self-doubt. This trauma-informed guide helps you recognise the signs, understand why it’s so hard to leave, and begin reclaiming your sense of self.
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