When life feels like constant overdrive or shutdown, your body may have forgotten what safety feels like. This article explores how trauma shapes the nervous system and how “glimmers”, small cues of safety, can help you move out of survival mode. With gentle, practical strategies, learn how to recognise your states and find your way back to calm, connection, and balance.

Safety feels dangerous. Calm feels suspicious. Your nervous system keeps bracing for impact, even in healthy relationships. For Adult Children of Alcoholics, growing up in chaos shapes the body in profound ways that can echo long into adulthood.

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.

Healing after a dysfunctional relationship is hard, but with self-compassion, therapy, and understanding the grief process, you can move toward closure and a healthier future.

Healthy love can feel unsettling after abuse. When your nervous system has learned to associate chaos with connection, calm can feel foreign, even unsafe. This blog explores why kind, stable partners feel “boring” and how your body can relearn what real safety feels like.

Recovering from a toxic relationship includes recognising the pain, removing negative influences from your life, and finding happiness on your own. Toxic relationships can damage your self-esteem and sense of self, so it's important to practice self-love to heal and find yourself again after a breakup.

Toxic relationships can quietly erode your confidence and sense of self. This blog explores how abuse impacts self-esteem and how to rebuild your identity with compassion and support.