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Signpost pointing in two directions labelled "Calm" and "Panic", symbolising emotional states and nervous system responses.

A Survivor’s Guide to Panic Attacks: Understanding PTSD, Anxiety and Trauma-Related Panic Responses

A compassionate survivor’s guide to panic attacks, exploring PTSD and anxiety-related panic responses, symptoms, triggers, and trauma-informed strategies to help manage and reduce panic.

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Close-up illustration of wide, startled eyes symbolising hypervigilance, fear, and nervous system activation commonly experienced by survivors of trauma and PTSD.

Recovery From Sexual Trauma: Trauma Recovery Symptoms and the Fight Flight Freeze Response Trauma

Recovery from sexual trauma can bring up ongoing emotional, physical, and nervous system responses that may feel confusing or unexpected. This article explores why these reactions continue and how they relate to trauma recovery and healing.

Illustration of a distressed person clutching their head against a yellow background filled with “Me too” speech bubbles, representing emotional overwhelm, trauma activation, and the impact of triggering social narratives on survivors.

Illustration of a distressed person clutching their head against a yellow background filled with “Me too” speech bubbles, representing emotional overwhelm, trauma activation, and the impact of triggering social narratives on survivors.

14 Trauma Self-Care Strategies During Times of Emotional Triggers

This blog offers 14 trauma-informed self-care strategies to support emotional safety and nervous system regulation during times of triggering media, memories, or trauma activation. These practical tools are designed to help you ground, reduce overwhelm, and reconnect with a sense of calm when trauma responses feel heightened.

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Man and woman showing different emotional responses, representing the importance of communication, emotional safety, and support when working through relationship difficulties in counselling.

Why Do I Struggle with Trust, Boundaries or Saying No? Understanding Trauma, Relationships and Self-Protection

Illustration of a woman comforting a sad family member, representing how partners, parents, and loved ones can support someone after trauma with empathy and emotional safety.

Illustration of a woman comforting a sad family member, representing how partners, parents, and loved ones can support someone after trauma with empathy and emotional safety.

How to Support Someone After Sexual Trauma: A Guide for Partners and Families

Trauma therapist and client talking in a calm counselling office, representing EMDR therapy, trauma-informed counselling, and a safe therapeutic space for trauma recovery.

Trauma therapist and client talking in a calm counselling office, representing EMDR therapy, trauma-informed counselling, and a safe therapeutic space for trauma recovery.

How EMDR Helps with Trauma and PTSD: Understanding EMDR Therapy for Trauma Recovery

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Therapist and client sitting in chairs connected by a line, with tangled red thought and yarn-like heads symbolising processing of trauma in a calm therapeutic setting.

What Happens in Trauma Counselling? A Step-by-Step Guide

Cartoon illustration of a person experiencing physical pain, representing somatic trauma symptoms and how emotional neglect and PTSD can manifest in the body.

Cartoon illustration of a person experiencing physical pain, representing somatic trauma symptoms and how emotional neglect and PTSD can manifest in the body.

Emotional Neglect: The Childhood Trauma Nobody Sees

Woman with hand on forehead appearing stressed, with a curled-up figure inside her head silhouette, illustrating how memories of childhood sexual abuse can continue to affect adult thoughts, emotions, and nervous system responses.

Woman with hand on forehead appearing stressed, with a curled-up figure inside her head silhouette, illustrating how memories of childhood sexual abuse can continue to affect adult thoughts, emotions, and nervous system responses.

Why Am I Still Affected by Childhood Sexual Abuse as an Adult?

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Distressed man holding his head with exclamation marks, labeled PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on a blue background

Signs of PTSD That People Often Miss or Misunderstand

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Child appearing upset and withdrawn next to an emotionally unresponsive caregiver, representing how childhood trauma and attachment wounds can influence adult attachment styles, trust, and relationships

Why Do Childhood Trauma Survivors Struggle with Attachment Styles?

Artwork representing freeze response trauma, dissociation during stress, emotional shutdown, and nervous system overwhelm

Artwork representing freeze response trauma, dissociation during stress, emotional shutdown, and nervous system overwhelm

Why Do I Freeze, Shut Down or Go Numb During Stress?

Illustration of a distressed person sitting curled up on the floor while red abstract hands reach toward them from multiple directions, symbolising emotional overwhelm, trauma triggers, and nervous system activation.

Illustration of a distressed person sitting curled up on the floor while red abstract hands reach toward them from multiple directions, symbolising emotional overwhelm, trauma triggers, and nervous system activation.

Why Am I So Easily Triggered? Trauma Responses and Emotional Activation

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Why Do I Struggle with Trust, Boundaries or Saying No? Understanding Trauma, Relationships and Self-Protection

How to Support Someone After Sexual Trauma: A Guide for Partners and Families

How EMDR Helps with Trauma and PTSD: Understanding EMDR Therapy for Trauma Recovery

What Happens in Trauma Counselling? A Step-by-Step Guide

Emotional Neglect: The Childhood Trauma Nobody Sees

Why Am I Still Affected by Childhood Sexual Abuse as an Adult?

Signs of PTSD That People Often Miss or Misunderstand

Why Do Childhood Trauma Survivors Struggle with Attachment Styles?

Why Do I Freeze, Shut Down or Go Numb During Stress?

Why Am I So Easily Triggered? Trauma Responses and Emotional Activation

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