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 the Court Becomes a Weapon - Legal Abuse After Leaving
When the legal system is used to punish, control, or exhaust you after leaving, the harm doesn’t end , it changes form. This article explains legal abuse, how it operates after separation, and how to protect your wellbeing while navigating an unsafe system.
Rebuilding Self-Esteem After Leaving a Toxic Relationship
After leaving a toxic relationship, many people don’t feel free, they feel hollow, disoriented, and unsure of who they are. This article explores how abuse erodes self-esteem and identity, and offers a trauma-informed path toward rebuilding trust, voice, and self-worth at your own pace.
Reclaiming Self-Worth After an Abusive Relationship
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.
Trusting Your Instincts After Abuse
Dating after a difficult relationship can feel daunting. Fear of repeating old patterns, lowered self-trust, and emotional vulnerability often linger. This article explores how to rebuild trust in yourself first and why caution when trusting others can make sense after harm.
How to Recover from Gaslighting in a Toxic Relationship
Gaslighting makes you doubt your own mind. This post explains how manipulation distorts reality and offers trauma-informed steps to rebuild trust in yourself.
Recognising Childhood Trauma (When the Past Won't Stay in the Past)
Childhood trauma doesn’t always look dramatic or obvious. Often, it shows up in adulthood through attachment patterns, emotional overwhelm or numbness, chronic self-doubt, and difficulty feeling safe in relationships. This article explores how early experiences shape the nervous system, self-worth, and our capacity for connection and why recognition is the first step toward healing.
Tag Cloud
- attachment wounds
- Coercive Control
- Emotional Abuse
- Boundaries
- nervous system
- trauma bonding
- Gaslighting
- Nervous System Regulation
- Shame
- Trauma Recovery
- trauma responses
- Emotional regulation
- Self-worth
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- emotional abuse
- relational trauma
- trauma recovery
- Hypervigilance
- attachment trauma
- Childhood trauma
- emotional safety
- Emotional Neglect
- trauma bonds
- People-pleasing
- family estrangement
- relationship dynamics
- anxious attachment
- Domestic Violence
- avoidant attachment
- Relationship Patterns