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.
Gaslighting or Miscommunication? How to Tell the Difference
Have you ever left a conversation wondering if you misunderstood or if your reality was quietly rewritten? This post explores the difference between gaslighting and genuine miscommunication, and why the distinction matters for your safety and self-trust.
Limerence or When You Can’t Stop Thinking About Them
When thoughts about someone take over your mind, it can feel like love, but it may be limerence. This article explores the nervous-system roots of obsessive longing and how to find steadier ground.
You’re Not Imagining It: Emotional Abuse Explained
Emotional abuse is often subtle, slow, and easy to minimise, especially when you still care about the person hurting you. If you’ve been doubting your memory, questioning your reactions, or wondering whether something feels “off,” this guide helps you recognise the signs, understand the impact on your nervous system, and begin trusting yourself again.
Part 2: How to Repair the Pursue–Withdraw Cycle
When a partner pulls away, it often comes from overwhelm, not lack of love. This guide helps you understand the pursue–withdraw cycle and learn how to give space, reconnect gently, and rebuild emotional safety.
When Abuse Doesn’t Leave Bruises: Understanding Emotional Abuse
Emotional and psychological abuse don’t leave bruises, but they change your body, mind, and sense of self. Learn why it’s so hard to name, how it rewires your nervous system, and what healing can look like.
Trauma Bonding or Why Letting Go Feels So Hard
Trauma bonds make it feel impossible to leave someone who hurts you. This article explains the cycle, the nervous-system wiring behind the attachment, and gentle steps toward breaking free.
When Your Aging Parent Is Still a Narcissist: Guilt, Exhaustion and Survival
Caring for an aging parent with strong narcissistic traits can bring intense guilt, exhaustion, and impossible choices. This article explores why narcissistic dynamics often intensify with age and how adult children are left caught between duty and self-preservation.
Your Abusive Ex Is Dating Again. Should You Say Something?
When your abusive ex enters a new relationship, it can stir up fear, guilt, and moral questions. This article explores how to protect others without risking your own safety.
Vulnerable Narcissism in Relationships
Have you ever felt drained by a relationship where one person’s insecurity always takes centre stage?
Vulnerable narcissism doesn’t look like boasting or grandiosity; it often shows up as hypersensitivity, emotional fragility, and a constant need for reassurance. This post explores the emotional push–pull of these dynamics, and why they can leave you feeling confused, exhausted, and doubting yourself.
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