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.
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.
Was It My Fault? When Love Becomes Confusing
Trauma bonding is a psychological response to prolonged abuse, where victims form emotional attachments to their abusers. Learn how trauma bonds develop, why they happen, and how therapy can help break the cycle of abuse and foster healing.
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.
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 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, 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 Caring Becomes Self-Abandonment
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.
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