Trauma & therapy
Healing from trauma is a journey that requires support and guidance. Our contributors explore the impact of trauma and grief, as well as various therapeutic approaches available to aid recovery. Learn about different types of trauma, signs and symptoms, and effective therapy options.
Becoming Your Own Loving Parent, Four Simple Ways to Know and Nurture Your Inner Child
If you work, self-sabotage, control, scroll, shop, abandon yourself or others, seek approval, rage, drink or drug too much, if you feel guilty when you stand up for yourself, if you confuse love with rescue...
Challenging the Limits of Standardised Mental Health Therapy with a Human-Centred AINT Model
After years of research, clinical practice, and personal experience with trauma, Dr. Trish Avery, Founder, Clinical Lead, and CEO of AINT Foundation CIC, is calling for a more honest...
Could Irlen Syndrome Be the Hidden Cause of Your Reading Difficulties and Light Sensitivity?
Millions of people struggle with symptoms that are often dismissed, misunderstood, or attributed to other causes. What if the missing piece isn't your eyesight, your effort, or your ability, but the way...
How Chronic Disease Builds Long Before You Get the Diagnosis
By the time you are handed a diagnosis, the disease is not new. It has often been living inside you for ten, fifteen, sometimes twenty years. Quietly, patiently, and entirely visible to anyone who knew how...
Children, Regulation, and the Nervous System
Children are not born knowing how to regulate their emotions. Intuitively, I always knew they were feeding off my energy. At least that was the language I had for it. I knew that when they were babies...
The Future of Care or the Automation of Inequality? Part 1
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare delivery, promising earlier diagnoses, increased efficiency, reduced administrative burdens, and expanded access to care. Yet...
Why Understanding Your Nervous System Changes Everything
For many years, trauma was viewed primarily through the lens of psychology. It was something that happened in the mind, and therefore something that needed to be understood through thoughts, memories...
Healing Generational Trauma Through Somatic Awareness
Generational trauma isn’t just psychological, it lives in the body. Through somatic awareness, you can release inherited tension, reparent your inner child, and set boundaries that break family cycles.
What If Cancer Begins Long Before the Tumour?
Most people believe cancer begins the day a tumour is discovered. A doctor walks into the room, confirms the diagnosis, and in a single moment, life changes forever. From that point on, everything...
Is Your Child Struggling to Focus? Five Simple Observations That Reveal What is Really Going On
You know your child better than anyone. And if something has been telling you that the difficulty they have with focus, attention, or learning is more than just a phase, you are probably right...
Learning What Safety Looks Like as an FGM Survivor
For many FGM survivors, the word safety can feel unfamiliar. It may seem simple to others, but when you have lived through trauma, safety is not something you automatically recognise. It is something you...
Why Healing Alone Is Not Enough and the Work Most People Skip
Before I begin, a brief note on what I mean by healing, because the term has become wide enough to mean almost anything, and the distinction matters. Throughout this piece, I am speaking...
Why and How the For-Profit Treatment Industry Is Perpetuating More Harm Than Good
Ah, the American treatment industry. As a treater in private practice, I work parallel to it. I’ve even worked directly within it, in three different clinics over the span of 14 years. I often have clients who...
My Journey with Chronic Illness
Chronic illness is something I have lived with since I was a teenager, and gosh, it annoys me. It is inconvenient, frustrating, and disabling at times. There are days when I feel like I can take on the...
Should I Seek Professional Hypnotherapy for Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
Grief is, unfortunately, inevitable and prevalent. What if there was an alternative way to heal from grief, loss, and bereavement? I have heard from others that hypnotherapy works, so why does professional...
