Journaling is really helpful for healing because it is a way to explore your thoughts and feelings, and it can feel like a huge release to get them out onto paper- it can feel like the same thoughts continually repeat
In this article I will talk about five symptoms you may experience that you may not have associated with trauma.
What is shadow work? Carl Jung was the first psychologist to propose the idea of a “shadow self”- those parts of us such as personality traits and core wounds that we deny and hide from. Everyone has a shadow self,
Childhood trauma has many physical, emotional and social consequences that can follow us into adulthood. In this article I will talk about 5 of those consequences, and some ways we can heal ourselves and move on with our lives in a healthier way.
In this article I will outline the various responses, before doing a deep dive into the “freeze response” including what exactly it is, how to recognise when we are freezing, and what we can do to pull ourselves out of it.