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Menopause: Understanding What’s Happening and How to Live Through It
Menopause is a natural stage of life that can affect the body, brain, emotions and sense of identity. Understanding these changes can reduce fear and self-criticism. Symptoms do not mean something is wrong with you. With information, self-care and support, you can navigate this transition with compassion, autonomy, dignity and confidence.
Understanding Trauma Through the Body and Mind: The Polyvagal Theory
Discover how trauma can affect the body and mind through the Polyvagal Theory. Learn how the nervous system responds to stress, threat and safety, why you may feel anxious or disconnected, and how understanding these responses can support greater self-compassion, emotional regulation and a sense of safety.
How attachment styles can shape your everyday life
Attachment develops through early relationships and shapes how we experience safety, trust and connection. Secure and insecure patterns influence adult relationships, particularly during stress, but are not fixed. Understanding attachment and developing mentalising skills can improve emotional regulation and relationships. Through supportive, emotionally safe connections, it is possible to develop greater security, self-awareness and trust.
Depression: understanding it from your own experience and what can help
Depression can feel like more than sadness: a heaviness, numbness or disconnection that makes everyday life feel difficult. You may feel exhausted, withdrawn or lose interest in things you once enjoyed. Whatever the cause, you are not to blame. With understanding, support and appropriate care, things can gradually feel lighter, and recovery is possible.
Life transitions: coping through the period of active invisibility
Life transitions are more than external changes; they involve an internal process of adapting, reshaping identity and finding new meaning. They often move through endings, uncertainty and new beginnings. Though the in-between period can feel unproductive or disorientating, it is a vital space for growth, reflection and renewal. Transitions ultimately invite transformation, patience and self-compassion.
Anxiety: what it is and what can help (a trauma-informed perspective)
Anxiety is not simply “in the mind” or something to eliminate. It can be a protective response shaped by experience, learning, and past events. The nervous system may learn to remain alert for safety. By noticing and understanding anxiety, we can gradually change our relationship with it.
Trauma: How it works and how we can deal with it
In this blog post we'll look at what trauma is, the way the body responds to trauma, why we need to work with the body when working with trauma, and how to recognise when we might need to use trauma-informed grounding techniques.