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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Addressing the Post-Acute Trauma Continuity Gap: A Systemic Challenge
Addressing The Post-Acute Trauma Continuity Gap In post-acute trauma care, responsibility for recovery frequently shifts from clinical services to individuals before clinical stability has been achieved. This premature transition creates a continuity gap within trauma pathways, exposing patients to avoidable clinical, psychological, and functional risks during a critical phase of recovery. These risks are notContinue reading “Addressing the Post-Acute Trauma Continuity Gap: A Systemic Challenge”
De-pressurising Recovery: When Breakthroughs Are No Longer the Goal
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”
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”
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”
Beyond Survival: Stepping Into Your New Life
Recovery is not the final destination, it’s the bridge to something greater. For many survivors, the focus is often on getting through the hardest days, managing the pain, and learning how to cope. But once you’ve made it this far, a new question begins to emerge: what comes after survival? This is where the journeyContinue reading “Beyond Survival: Stepping Into Your New Life”
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”
