Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery

Understanding Trauma: How the Freeze Response Affects Healing and Recovery

When your survival brain interprets your experience as too much; when you can’t communicate or take action, this is known as the freeze state. Your survival responses (fight/flight/freeze) happen below the level of your conscious awareness, so in that moment you don’t...
What is Trauma?

What is Trauma?

If you regularly struggle with stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, there may be an underlying issue from your past that’s causing it. Trauma may be impacting you more than you realise. What is Trauma? Trauma has been described as a highly activated, incomplete...
What is Medical Trauma?

What is Medical Trauma?

Medical trauma can have lasting effects on the body and mind. Many years ago, before training to be a Psychotherapist, I worked as a Medical Secretary supporting various Consultants around the world and as a Fitness Professional helping people to rehab and recover...
A Guide to Self-Care: Why Taking Care of Yourself Benefits Everyone Around You

A Guide to Self-Care: Why Taking Care of Yourself Benefits Everyone Around You

Self-care is not selfish – it is an absolute necessity.  Self-care means taking care of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. Are you regularly setting aside enough “me time”? If your answer is no you may be feeling stressed, run-down or...