Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “emotional regulation”
Trauma can leave us constantly anticipating danger, even when life feels relatively calm. Islands of safety and glimmers offer two complementary ways to recognise moments of comfort, connection and regulation. Explore how simple daily practices can help you develop a greater capacity to experience and trust safety.
Dorsal collapse can leave us feeling exhausted, disconnected and unable to engage with life. Understanding this nervous system shutdown response can help us recognise why it happens and how to gently move back towards connection.
We say we want peace, yet when life finally becomes stable we can find ourselves restless, bored or searching for intensity. When chaos has become familiar, the nervous system can mistake activation for aliveness and predictability for emptiness.
Unprocessed trauma doesn’t just live inside us; it can be turned outward, into control, avoidance, or even performance. This piece explores the hidden ways pain becomes power, and how we begin to heal without letting trauma lead.