Rehabilitation pathways frequently separate trauma-related psychological processes from pain-focused physical recovery. This separation is rarely explicit, but it is embedded in how services are structured, sequenced, and commissioned. Psychological input and pain management are often delivered in parallel or at different stages, rather than recognised as interacting components of post-acute recovery. The consequence is notContinue reading “Integrating Trauma Psychology and Pain Science into Rehabilitation Pathways: A Structural Issue”
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What Trauma Recovery Looks Like When It’s Working
When Healing Is Expected to Be Visible Recovery doesn’t always announce itself. There is rarely a moment where everything suddenly feels resolved or complete. In later stages, healing often becomes quieter, subtler, and easier to overlook, especially when expectations are shaped by dramatic stories of transformation, but recovery doesn’t need to look impressive to beContinue reading “What Trauma Recovery Looks Like When It’s Working”
What People Get Wrong About PTSD Recovery
It’s not about reliving the trauma, it’s about restoring safety PTSD recovery is often misunderstood. Many people think it’s simply about “talking through it” or revisiting the traumatic event until the fear disappears. But real recovery doesn’t begin with the story, it begins with the nervous system feeling safe enough to stop defending itself. TheContinue reading “What People Get Wrong About PTSD Recovery”
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”
The Psychology of Chronic Pain: What Survivors Wish People Knew
The unseen emotional weight behind long-term pain Living with chronic pain isn’t just physical, it becomes an emotional, cognitive, and relational load most people can’t see. Survivors often feel misunderstood not because others don’t care, but because the experience is invisible on the outside and relentless on the inside. What Survivors Wish People Knew PeopleContinue reading “The Psychology of Chronic Pain: What Survivors Wish People Knew”
The Myth of Bouncing Back: Why Healing Isn’t About Returning to Normal
Sometimes the real strength lies in accepting that life won’t look the same again, and that’s okay. Recovery often comes with an unspoken expectation: that we’ll “bounce back.” People say it kindly, but what if bouncing back isn’t the goal? After trauma, there’s no returning to who you were before. The body, mind, and spiritContinue reading “The Myth of Bouncing Back: Why Healing Isn’t About Returning to Normal”
When the World Moves On, but You’re Still Healing
The early days after trauma are often met with support, concern, and attention. But as time passes, the world moves on, and for many trauma survivors, this can be the most isolating part of recovery. You’re expected to “be better” while still quietly battling pain, anxiety, or fatigue that no one sees. This post exploresContinue reading “When the World Moves On, but You’re Still Healing”
Triggers Aren’t Setbacks – They’re Teachers
After a Breakthrough Comes Clarity In trauma recovery, triggers can feel like landmines, sudden, overwhelming, and discouraging. But what if we reframed them not as setbacks, but as messages from the body and mind, gently pointing us toward what still needs care? This post explores what triggers really are, why they show up when theyContinue reading “Triggers Aren’t Setbacks – They’re Teachers”
The Body Keeps the Score – But You Can Heal the Pattern
Trauma doesn’t just live in the mind, it settles into the body. Tight muscles, chronic pain, fatigue, flinching, numbness, these aren’t random. They’re messages. They’re patterns your body has held onto in an effort to protect you. In this post, we explore how trauma imprints itself physically, how those patterns show up long after theContinue reading “The Body Keeps the Score – But You Can Heal the Pattern”
Beyond the Injuries: Healing What No One Can See
Once the casts come off, the scars fade, and the limp improves — people assume you’re okay. But for many trauma survivors, the real pain begins after the injuries start to heal. The emotional weight, the shattered sense of safety, the invisible grief, none of that shows up on an X-ray. This post explores whatContinue reading “Beyond the Injuries: Healing What No One Can See”
