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.
Unpacking Childhood Trauma: Impact on Adult Lives
Childhood trauma can leave lasting marks that influence how we relate, trust, and feel safe. Explore how early experiences shape adult attachment, self-worth, and healing.
When Control Doesn't Look Like Violence, The Quiet Abuse Your Body Feels Before Your Mind Can Name It
Coercive control doesn’t always look like violence. It shows up as shrinking, self-doubt, isolation, and fear. This piece explores the subtle ways control erodes your freedom and how to recognise what’s happening in your body long before your mind can name it.
When Growth Feels Like Pressure. Rethinking Post-Traumatic Growth
Growth after trauma isn’t about becoming tougher, it’s about rediscovering safety, softness, and self-trust after pain. Here’s what real post-traumatic growth looks like.
When Money Becomes Control: Recognising Financial Abuse
Financial and emotional abuse often intertwine, leaving survivors feeling isolated and trapped. This blog helps you recognise the signs of financial abuse, understand its impact, and explore practical steps to regain your independence.
When Caring Becomes Self-Abandonment, Understanding Codependency
If you’re always the one holding everything together, this article explains why and how to stop disappearing in your relationships.
Why You Still Love Them: Understanding Love, Trauma Bonds & Abusive Relationships
Why do you still love someone who hurt you? It’s not weakness—it’s a trauma bond shaped by your nervous system, attachment patterns, and the cycle of abuse. This post explores why the pull feels so strong and how healing begins.
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.
How to Trust Yourself Again After Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a manipulative form of emotional abuse where the victim's perception of reality is distorted, often leaving them doubting their sanity. This blog explores the techniques used by abusers, the psychological effects, and the steps to recover.
Tag Cloud
- Boundaries
- attachment wounds
- Emotional Abuse
- nervous system
- Gaslighting
- Trauma Recovery
- Shame
- Nervous System Regulation
- trauma bonding
- trauma responses
- Coercive Control
- Self-worth
- Emotional regulation
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- Trauma-informed therapy Melbourne
- Counselling Melbourne
- Childhood trauma
- Hypervigilance
- emotional safety
- trauma healing
- inner child
- relationship dynamics
- People-pleasing
- Rebuilding Trust
- anxious attachment
- Emotional Neglect
- avoidant attachment
- Emotional Manipulation
- codependency
- trauma recovery