Trauma Survivors Blog

One of the most frustrating parts of healing is realizing that insight doesn’t always change how you feel. You can understand that what happened was abuse. You can name the manipulation. You can see the patterns clearly now. You can know that leaving was the right choice. And still, you miss them.

Many people have heard the term “trauma bonding,” but it is not well understood and there are a lot of misconceptions about it. I want to...

Is something wrong with me? Nothing is wrong with you if you love and/or miss your abuser. There are any number of reasons why you could...

Grooming is a form of abuse where a person is manipulated into isolation and dependence on the groomer, which allows them to be...

When it comes to people staying in abusive relationships, I have heard a lot of snap judgments about it.