Navigating a Healthy Relationship After Trauma
If you have experienced trauma, getting close to someone new can feel incredibly daunting. We build up walls for protection and will do anything to stop history repeating itself. If this resonates, know that it is normal and our body’s way of keeping us safe.
What is Sophrology? And How Can It Help You Find Resilience + Serenity
Over the years I have supported many clients to rebuild their lives after stressful or traumatic episodes using the mind body connection. I strongly believe that we all have the ability to connect to a place of healing inside us and with the right tools and guidance we can cultivate and access a state of calm and balance, transform our beliefs and build towards a positive future.
I Just Left An Abusive Relationship, And Here’s What I Did Next
The worst thing I did was pushing my trauma into the pits of my soul. I pushed it right down there- thinking that because I was away from my ex (and the 3rd abusive relationship in my 20s, cue unhelpful voice saying will you ever learn?) I was free from the worst.
Embracing A Healthy Relationship After Abuse
I never thought I would ever be in a healthy relationship, in all honesty I had no idea what that even meant. From 18, I was in and out of abusive relationships for 11 years. Ranging from physical abuse, sexual coercion, rape and emotional abuse and all through out this time watching my friends and people I knew having stable, healthy, normal relationships.
Lucy Spicer's Expert Advice: Why do I keep choosing the wrong partners in relationships?
A common theme that has come up with our I AM ARLA members is that they feel like they keep choosing the wrong partners in relationships. This may resonate with you reading this right now. Are you trapped in always ending up in a relationship with the same sort of person and you don’t know where to even begin to change this?