Posts
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So many people move through life believing their survival strategies are simply their personality. In this piece, I explore how traits like perfectionism, people-pleasing, or “being anxious for as long as I remember” often trace back to unnoticed trauma, and how understanding that link can become the first step toward real healing.
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Many of us are quietly doing the invisible work of holding our relationships together; soothing, fixing, managing. But when love turns into labour, connection begins to fray. Here’s how to notice the imbalance and start finding your way back to mutuality.
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So many of us fall into black and white thinking: we’re either good or bad, successful or a failure, strong or weak. This way of seeing the world feels safe, but it comes at a cost, leaving us stuck in shame, fragile in relationships, and cut off from growth. What if, instead, we learned to…
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There’s a kind of loneliness that hides in plain sight, in crowded rooms, long-term relationships, even within families. It isn’t about being alone, but about not feeling truly seen or met. This post explores why disconnection runs so deep, how relational trauma shapes the way we reach for (or avoid) closeness, and why loneliness isn’t…
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Healing isn’t something you finish and cross off your to-do list. It’s not a project with a clear end point, but a lifelong process of becoming. As long as you’re alive, you’re evolving, softening in some places, growing in others, reshaping like water. Instead of waiting to be ‘done’ so you can start living, what…
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Grief doesn’t always come in the forms we expect or behave the way we think it should. It can be quiet, messy, unspoken. We grieve people who left, and those who stayed but couldn’t show up. We grieve what never happened, and who we never got to be. This piece explores the complex, nonlinear nature…
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Trust can be difficult to rebuild after we’ve been hurt. Whether the wounds stem from childhood or adult relationships, healing begins with safety, first within ourselves, then with others. This is a tender, personal reflection on how we relearn to trust, one steady step at a time.
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Yoga wasn’t something I thought I needed until it cracked me open in ways I never expected. In this personal reflection, I explore how yoga became a powerful companion on my trauma healing journey, helping me reconnect with my body, release long-held emotions, and learn to let go, one breath, one pose at a time.
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Ever driven home and not remembered the journey? Dissociation is more than zoning out, it’s how the nervous system protects us from overwhelm. In this post, we explore what dissociation is, why it happens, and how to gently reconnect.
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That harsh inner voice isn’t just mean – it’s protective. Learn how the inner critic forms, why it shows up during healing, and how therapy can help you soften it into something wiser and kinder.
