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💥 Love bombing isn’t love. It’s intensity that often hides control.

In trauma-informed terms, love bombing is a relational strategy — not grounded in safety, but in survival.

It creates a fast emotional high, followed by cycles of confusion, withdrawal, and distress.
The nervous system is left trying to make sense of emotional inconsistency, often blaming itself in the process.

Understanding this pattern can restore clarity.
And clarity can support boundaries, regulation, and self-trust.

🌿 For more trauma-informed insight, follow @trauma.insight

#TraumaRecovery
#NervousSystemRegulation
#TraumaHealing
#TraumaInformed
#MentalHealthMatters

💥 Love bombing isn’t love. It’s intensity that often hides control.

In trauma-informed terms, love bombing is a relational strategy — not grounded in safety, but in survival.

It creates a fast emotional high, followed by cycles of confusion, withdrawal, and distress.
The nervous system is left trying to make sense of emotional inconsistency, often blaming itself in the process.

Understanding this pattern can restore clarity.
And clarity can support boundaries, regulation, and self-trust.

🌿 For more trauma-informed insight, follow @trauma.insight

#TraumaRecovery
#NervousSystemRegulation
#TraumaHealing
#TraumaInformed
#MentalHealthMatters

A dysregulated nervous system isn’t faulty.
 It’s over-practised in survival.

When the body has been exposed to ongoing stress, trauma, or threat, the nervous system learns to prioritise protection over rest.
 States like hypervigilance, shutdown, or overwhelm are not signs of weakness — they are learned survival responses.

With safety, repetition, and support, the nervous system can be re-educated towards regulation.

Follow @trauma.insight for clear, trauma-informed psychoeducation on the nervous system, trauma, and healing.

#Psychoeducation
#PolyvagalTheory
#TraumaRecovery
#TraumaHealing
#TraumaTherapist

A dysregulated nervous system isn’t faulty.
 It’s over-practised in survival.

When the body has been exposed to ongoing stress, trauma, or threat, the nervous system learns to prioritise protection over rest.
 States like hypervigilance, shutdown, or overwhelm are not signs of weakness — they are learned survival responses.

With safety, repetition, and support, the nervous system can be re-educated towards regulation.

Follow @trauma.insight for clear, trauma-informed psychoeducation on the nervous system, trauma, and healing.

#Psychoeducation
#PolyvagalTheory
#TraumaRecovery
#TraumaHealing
#TraumaTherapist

What makes narcissistic abuse so hard to recognise — and even harder to recover from — is not just what happens, but how it happens.

The confusion. The emotional inconsistency. The nervous system toll.

This post outlines the relational patterns, psychological effects, and recovery needs often linked to narcissistic abuse. It’s not about blame — it’s about understanding impact, restoring clarity, and creating space for repair.

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 🌀 Follow @trauma.insight for psychoeducation on trauma and the nervous system

What makes narcissistic abuse so hard to recognise — and even harder to recover from — is not just what happens, but how it happens.

The confusion. The emotional inconsistency. The nervous system toll.

This post outlines the relational patterns, psychological effects, and recovery needs often linked to narcissistic abuse. It’s not about blame — it’s about understanding impact, restoring clarity, and creating space for repair.

📚 Save for later
 🌀 Follow @trauma.insight for psychoeducation on trauma and the nervous system

Trauma doesn’t just live in memory — it shapes perception.

The nervous system becomes sensitised, scanning the present through a filter shaped by the past.

What once kept you safe can now make safety feel unfamiliar.
This isn’t overreaction. It’s adaptation.

🌀 Understanding the filter is the first step toward softening it.

If this resonates, you’re not alone.
More nervous system insight @trauma.insight

#TraumaInformed
#TraumaEducation
#NervousSystemRegulation
#SomaticTherapy
#WindowOfTolerance

Trauma doesn’t just live in memory — it shapes perception.

The nervous system becomes sensitised, scanning the present through a filter shaped by the past.

What once kept you safe can now make safety feel unfamiliar.
This isn’t overreaction. It’s adaptation.

🌀 Understanding the filter is the first step toward softening it.

If this resonates, you’re not alone.
More nervous system insight @trauma.insight

#TraumaInformed
#TraumaEducation
#NervousSystemRegulation
#SomaticTherapy
#WindowOfTolerance

Trauma doesn’t just live in the body — it also shapes how the mind interprets the world.

Cognitive distortions are common patterns of thinking that can become rigid, biased, or inaccurate over time. They often form in response to overwhelming or unsafe experiences — not because of faulty logic, but as a way to stay safe, prepared, or in control.

From black-and-white thinking to self-blame and hypervigilant assumptions, these thought patterns can deeply influence how reality is processed.
They’re not signs of brokenness.
 They’re adaptations.
 And with insight, they can begin to shift.

🧠 This post explores how trauma can influence thought patterns — and how psychoeducation can support reflection and change.

🔎 Follow for more trauma-informed understanding: @trauma.insight

Trauma doesn’t just live in the body — it also shapes how the mind interprets the world.

Cognitive distortions are common patterns of thinking that can become rigid, biased, or inaccurate over time. They often form in response to overwhelming or unsafe experiences — not because of faulty logic, but as a way to stay safe, prepared, or in control.

From black-and-white thinking to self-blame and hypervigilant assumptions, these thought patterns can deeply influence how reality is processed.
They’re not signs of brokenness.
 They’re adaptations.
 And with insight, they can begin to shift.

🧠 This post explores how trauma can influence thought patterns — and how psychoeducation can support reflection and change.

🔎 Follow for more trauma-informed understanding: @trauma.insight

#TraumaInformed
#Psychoeducation
#MentalHealthAwareness
#Trauma.Insight
#SallyEdwardsTherapy

Trauma doesn’t just live in the body — it also shapes how the mind interprets the world.

Cognitive distortions are common patterns of thinking that can become rigid, biased, or inaccurate over time. They often form in response to overwhelming or unsafe experiences — not because of faulty logic, but as a way to stay safe, prepared, or in control.

From black-and-white thinking to self-blame and hypervigilant assumptions, these thought patterns can deeply influence how reality is processed.
They’re not signs of brokenness.
 They’re adaptations.
 And with insight, they can begin to shift.

🧠 This post explores how trauma can influence thought patterns — and how psychoeducation can support reflection and change.

🔎 Follow for more trauma-informed understanding: @trauma.insight

Trauma doesn’t just live in the body — it also shapes how the mind interprets the world.

Cognitive distortions are common patterns of thinking that can become rigid, biased, or inaccurate over time. They often form in response to overwhelming or unsafe experiences — not because of faulty logic, but as a way to stay safe, prepared, or in control.

From black-and-white thinking to self-blame and hypervigilant assumptions, these thought patterns can deeply influence how reality is processed.
They’re not signs of brokenness.
 They’re adaptations.
 And with insight, they can begin to shift.

🧠 This post explores how trauma can influence thought patterns — and how psychoeducation can support reflection and change.

🔎 Follow for more trauma-informed understanding: @trauma.insight

#TraumaInformed
#Psychoeducation
#MentalHealthAwareness
#Trauma.Insight
#SallyEdwardsTherapy

Trauma isn’t just remembered — it’s stored in the body and wired into the brain.

When overwhelming events happen without enough support, the nervous system shifts into survival mode.

This isn’t weakness. It’s adaptation.
It’s how the brain and body protect us when things feel too much.

#TraumaInsight
#TraumaEducation
#NervousSystem
#Neurobiology
#Psychoeducation
SomaticUnderstanding
IFS
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Repatterning
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EmbodiedHealing
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Trauma isn’t just remembered — it’s stored in the body and wired into the brain.

When overwhelming events happen without enough support, the nervous system shifts into survival mode.

This isn’t weakness. It’s adaptation.
It’s how the brain and body protect us when things feel too much.

#TraumaInsight
#TraumaEducation
#NervousSystem
#Neurobiology
#Psychoeducation
SomaticUnderstanding
IFS
TraumaIntegration
Repatterning
TraumaRepair
EmbodiedHealing
GentleChange
LayerByLayerHealing
NeuroplasticityInAction
SlowHealing
TraumaRecoveryEducation
DeepRepair
trauma.insight
sallyedwardstherapy

What if your trauma isn’t just in your mind — but in the way your body learned to protect you?

This post unpacks trauma through a nervous system lens:
* why it’s not about weakness
* how your body remembers
* and what healing actually involves

Understanding these patterns is the first step in shifting them.
Not by force — but by meeting your nervous system with respect.

Save to come back to.
Share if it resonates.

Follow @trauma.insight for more body-based psychoeducation.

#TraumaEducation #NervousSystemHealing #Psychoeducation #TraumaAwareness #SomaticPsychoeducation Trauma.Insight
TraumaInformedPractice NervousSystemLiteracy SomaticPsychoeducation PolyvagalInformed BodyMindConnection Neuroception NervousSystemRegulation TraumaResponses
UnderstandingTrauma sallyedwardstherapy

What if your trauma isn’t just in your mind — but in the way your body learned to protect you?

This post unpacks trauma through a nervous system lens:
* why it’s not about weakness
* how your body remembers
* and what healing actually involves

Understanding these patterns is the first step in shifting them.
Not by force — but by meeting your nervous system with respect.

Save to come back to.
Share if it resonates.

Follow @trauma.insight for more body-based psychoeducation.

#TraumaEducation #NervousSystemHealing #Psychoeducation #TraumaAwareness #SomaticPsychoeducation Trauma.Insight
TraumaInformedPractice NervousSystemLiteracy SomaticPsychoeducation PolyvagalInformed BodyMindConnection Neuroception NervousSystemRegulation TraumaResponses
UnderstandingTrauma sallyedwardstherapy

You can’t always see the pain someone is carrying — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

Healing begins when people stop minimising what they’ve been through and start meeting their pain with compassion.

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SomaticPsychoeducation
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BodyMindConnection
Neuroception
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TraumaResponses
UnderstandingTrauma
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You can’t always see the pain someone is carrying — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

Healing begins when people stop minimising what they’ve been through and start meeting their pain with compassion.

#TraumaHealing #TraumaTherapy #SomaticHealing #IFS #EMDR MentalHealthAwareness CompassionateHealing NervousSystemSupport
TraumaEducation
TraumaInformedPractice
NervousSystemLiteracy
SomaticPsychoeducation
PolyvagalInformed
BodyMindConnection
Neuroception
NervousSystemRegulation
TraumaResponses
UnderstandingTrauma
trauma.insight
sallyedwardstherapy

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