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.
The Psychosomatic Roots of Anxiety and How RTT® Rewrites the Pattern
A panic attack can feel like an ambush. Your heart pounds without warning. Your chest tightens. Your breathing shortens. A surge of fear rises so intensely it feels catastrophic. Many people are convinced...
What is Holistic Health? And How It Took Me From Bedbound to Rebuilding My Life
I received my first diagnosis at 22. I did not realise at the time that it would mark the beginning of an adulthood shaped not by career progression or personal expansion, but by survival.
Letting Go of Hypervigilance and Finding Calm – An Interview with Hypnotherapist Vicci O'Reilly
Many high-functioning women appear steady on the outside while silently navigating hypervigilance and emotional overwhelm. In this feature, Vicci O'Reilly explores how trauma shapes identity and how integrating hypnotherapy, somatic work, and spiritual practice creates lasting emotional safety and resilience.
Why Holistic Birth Work is About Nervous System Regulation
Doulas provide information, emotional support, advocacy, and physical comfort measures during times of infertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and loss. Perhaps the most important role a doula can...
Beyond Survival and Healing From Trauma After FGM
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is often discussed in terms of human rights and legality, but far less attention is given to what happens after. For survivors, FGM is not a past event; it can be a...
Autoimmune Disorders, A Deeper Look at Healing Beyond “Incurable”
Auto-immune disorders are typically described as lifelong, incurable illnesses that must be medically managed rather than resolved. Yet emerging research is beginning to challenge this assumption.
Maximizing Recovery by Reframing F.E.A.R
When we think about recovery from devastating injuries, surgeries, or chronic conditions, we often focus on surgery, physical therapy, or sheer grit. But science is showing us that the most powerful...
Healing Generational and Past Life Trauma Through the Stories of Our Lives
The premise for this work lies in the strong belief that we are all challenged by the need to be fully ourselves. When we can step into the vastness of worlds that aid us, carry us, nurture us...
The Overlooked Foundation of Health Through a Foot Care Nurse’s Clinical Perspective
When we think about preventive healthcare, we talk about blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar, weight management, and mental well-being. Rarely do we begin with the feet. Yet clinically...
Why Traditional Wellness Solutions Often Fall Short
When yoga classes, mindfulness apps, and spa days can’t soothe a nervous system that never gets to rest. Wellness has become a language of modern life. We speak it fluently now, through yoga studios...
The Face as a Gateway to Healing, Presence, and Vitality
Have you ever stopped to think about how much tension you hold in your face? In your furrowed brows, your clenched jaw, your squinting eyes, or your pursed lips? We spend so much time focusing on...
Why Advice Feels Like Pressure When You’re Already Carrying Too Much
Advice is often offered with good intentions. It sounds helpful, logical, and efficient, usually wrapped in concern or care. But for many people, advice doesn’t land as support, it lands as pressure. Not...
A Loving and Grounded Understanding of Quantum Healing
Before speaking about Quantum Healing, it is important to begin with a gentle clarification. Not all practices that carry the name Quantum Healing are held in the same way. The words themselves do...
How to Heal Trauma and Transform Your Life
Deeply traumatised people see the world through distorted lenses, which bias their thinking, feelings, and actions in the present. A profound shift in our identity, life, authenticity, and connection...
Why Home Feels So Hard and What Truly Helps
Life at home with a neurodiverse child can feel exhausting in ways that are hard to explain. Many parents find themselves asking the same quiet questions late at night: Why does everything feel harder...
