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Do You Keep the Peace at Your Own Expense?
The fawn response, also known as appeasing, is a trauma response where you stay safe by becoming agreeable, accommodating, and focused on other people's needs. What can look like kindness on the outside is often a nervous system strategy shaped by fear of conflict, rejection, or disapproval.
Do You Procrastinate?- Why It’s Rarely About Laziness
If you’ve ever found yourself avoiding something you genuinely want to do — a project, a conversation, a decision, a change — and then felt bad about yourself for avoiding it, this post is for you.
Because the story we tend to tell ourselves about procrastination — that we’re lazy, undisciplined, or somehow fundamentally bad at getting things done — is almost never the true one
Why Betrayal Trauma Is So Hard to Recognise in Yourself
If you asked most people whether they’d experienced trauma, many would say no.
But ask a slightly different question — has someone you deeply trusted and depended on ever significantly violated that trust — and the answer changes for almost everyone.
How Moral Injury Can Quietly Erode Your Confidence
You may have done everything “right” and still feel like something inside you never fully healed. Moral injury is not a diagnosis, but it is a real and deeply painful experience. It happens when something violates your sense of what is right, fair, safe, or true.
You Might Be Carrying Trauma That Isn’t Even Yours
Have you ever felt weighed down by something you couldn’t quite name? A persistent low-level anxiety. A deep sense of not being enough. A fear of loss or abandonment that seems disproportionate to your actual life experience?
There’s a possibility that many people never consider: it might not have started with you
You don’t need a trauma history for trauma-informed work to matter.
When people hear the word ‘trauma’ in the context of coaching or hypnotherapy, they often assume it doesn’t apply to them. They haven’t experienced anything ‘bad enough.’ They had a reasonably happy childhood. They’ve already done therapy.