Why You Over-Explain: A Trauma Therapist’s Guide to Reassurance-Seeking and Shame
If you over-explain in conversations, please know it’s from conditioning and an attachment based nervous system response rooted in shame and the need for safety. Here’s why it happens and how to begin healing!
When Peace Feels Threatening: Why Slowing Down & Good Things Make You Anxious
If slowing down makes you anxious or good things feel uncomfortable, it’s not self sabotage. It’s your nervous system! Here’s why peace feels threatening after trauma and how to begin feeling safe again.
Emotionally Immature Parents: How They Shape Us (And How to Heal)
Many adults minimize their lack childhoods unmet needs, yet still carry the impact of emotionally immature parents. Learn the signs, the lasting effects, and how to begin healing and building self-trust.
Why You're Addicted to Stress, Chaos, and Drama - and How to Heal
If stillness makes you uneasy, if urgency feels safer than rest, or if you’re always bracing for the next crisis - this blog unpacks how trauma can create an addiction to stress and chaos, and how to begin healing. You’re not “too much” - you’re just in survival mode.
Understanding Hypervigilance and Anxiety in Relationships: When You’re Always Waiting for Something to Go Wrong
If you’re always monitoring people’s moods, bracing for rejection, or needing constant reassurance - it’s not “just anxiety.” It may be hypervigilance rooted in relational trauma.
We know the fight-flight-freeze-response, but what is the fawn response?
Fawning is a trauma response that often gets overlooked. It shows up as people pleasing, over-apologizing, and putting others needs above your own to stay safe and “keep the peace.” In this blog, we will explore what the fawn response is and looks like, how it develops, and steps to take to heal from it.