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.
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.
Why Loving a Narcissist Feels So Lonely (And How to Reclaim Yourself)
Being in a toxic relationship can leave you feeling drained, isolated, and unseen. Emotional abuse and manipulation quietly breed loneliness that’s hard to name and even harder to escape.
When People You Trust Become Weapons - Understanding Flying Monkeys
If you’ve ever wondered why people you trust defend or enable someone who’s hurt you, this article explores the role of “flying monkeys” in narcissistic abuse and how their involvement can leave you feeling confused, isolated, and doubting yourself.
Understanding Coercive Control, When Control Doesn’t Look Like Violence
Coercive control doesn’t always look like violence.
It shows up as shrinking, self-doubt, isolation, and fear. This piece explores how subtle patterns erode your freedom and how your body often recognises what’s happening long before your mind can name it.
When Money Becomes Control: Recognising Financial Abuse
Financial and emotional abuse often intertwine, leaving survivors feeling isolated, uncertain, and trapped. This blog helps you recognise the signs of financial abuse, understand its impact, and explore practical steps toward reclaiming your independence.
When Your Relationship Becomes the Source of Stress. Protecting Your Mental Health
Is your relationship adding stress to your life? Discover signs that your partnership might be affecting your well-being and learn how to navigate emotional challenges.
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