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 You Can’t Just “Calm Down”
You’re not overreacting; your nervous system is responding to a threat.
When trauma pushes your body outside its window of tolerance, logic and willpower stop working. This article explains why “just calming down” isn’t possible when you’re dysregulated, and how nervous system–informed healing actually helps.
When Your Body Forgets How to Feel Safe
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.
Why You React Differently on Different Days: Your Window of Tolerance Explained
Why do the same stressors feel manageable one day and overwhelming the next? Your nervous system holds the answer. Explore the window of tolerance and gentle ways to return to safety and regulation.
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