When Progress Becomes Performance In recovery today, many people place a great deal of pressure on themselves.To move forward. To feel better. To reach a point where things finally make sense. There is often an expectation that healing should come with breakthroughs, moments of clarity, emotional release, or decisive change. But trauma recovery is notContinue reading “De-pressurising Recovery: When Breakthroughs Are No Longer the Goal”
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Why Late-Stage Recovery Can Feel Emotionally Flat
When Calm Feels Unfamiliar Many people expect healing to feel good. Relief, lightness, motivation, a sense of reward, instead, they reach a stage of recovery where things feel… neutral. Not distressed, not overwhelmed, just flat. This often causes concern. Shouldn’t I feel better than this by now? but emotional flatness in late-stage recovery is rarelyContinue reading “Why Late-Stage Recovery Can Feel Emotionally Flat”
When Healing Isn’t About Progress Anymore
When Progress Becomes the Wrong Measure In early recovery, movement matters. Survival depends on momentum, appointments, decisions, learning how to function again. But later-stage healing doesn’t look like acceleration. It looks like holding ground. This is where many people begin to doubt themselves. Nothing dramatic is happening. There are fewer breakthroughs. Fewer emotional releases. FewerContinue reading “When Healing Isn’t About Progress Anymore”
Why Your Body Remembers Even When You Want to Forget
Trauma lives in the nervous system, not just in memory Trauma is not stored as a story, it’s stored as sensation. Even when your mind tries to move on, your nervous system holds fragments of what happened: the tension, the freezing, the vigilance, the instinct to brace. This is why trauma feels like it “comesContinue reading “Why Your Body Remembers Even When You Want to Forget”
