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.

Gaslighting makes you doubt your own mind. This post explains how manipulation distorts reality and offers trauma-informed steps to rebuild trust in yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Financial abuse is a hidden form of control that can leave you anxious, dependent, and trapped, even when the money is technically “yours.” This post explains how financial control works and how to recognise it.

If you’re always the one holding everything together, this article explains why and how to stop disappearing in your 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.