When your nervous system learns that love must be earned, safety is fragile, and your needs are dangerous, you become overly helpful, endlessly agreeable, quietly resentful, and afraid to take up space.

You've probably heard of the fight or flight response to trauma but have you heard about the fawn response?

It’s hard enough working through the shock and hurt of betrayal trauma but wondering if it will happen again is almost unbearable.

There are some life events that cause indescribable pain, yet, due to either stigma or shame, there is no community support...