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 Estrangement Feels Like Grief
Estrangement is a hidden kind of grief; the person is alive, yet the relationship feels lost. This post explores why it hurts so deeply, why it’s often unseen, and how to move forward with compassion and hope.
Writing a Letter to an Estranged Family Member
Writing to someone you’re estranged from can be both powerful and painful. Before reaching out, it can help to pause and reflect. These five steps are designed to support you in deciding if, when, and how to make contact in a way that honours your safety, your boundaries, and your emotional wellbeing.
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