The threat lands before the laugh does. Your body already knows – it registered the move while your mind was still deciding if it counted.
⚠️ CW: coercive control, emotional abuse, sexual coercion, manipulation, suicide and threats of violence
The Embodied Practice
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Nervous system coach for people done carrying emotional loads that aren't theirs. No toxic positivity. No spiritual bypassing. Just trauma-informed practices that actually work.
There's a cage that doesn't have bars. It has geography. And finances. And a leverage point you can't cut because it's the most precious thing in your life.
⚠️ CW: coercive control, sexual coercion, depression, substance use
I thought if I tried hard enough, the systems would listen.
⚠️ Content warning: grief, family separation, coercive control, parentification, somatic effects of prolonged stress
https://theembodiedpractice.co/its-not-over/
⚠️ Content warning: grief, family separation, coercive control, parentification, somatic effects of prolonged stress
https://theembodiedpractice.co/its-not-over/
CW: trauma bonding, substance use, emotional abuse, gaslighting, addiction
I thought it was love. But my nervous system knew better.
If you've ever wondered why you can't just leave someone who's destroying you — this is why.
Full blog:
https://theembodiedpractice.co/was-it-love-or-mdma/
#TraumaBonding #NervousSystemHealing #AttachmentTrauma #Codependency #MentalHealth #Healing
Attachment Patterns Workshop - Tūrangi & Taupō
Ever wonder why you keep repeating the same patterns in relationships?
I'm running a 3-hour workshop on Attachment & Your Nervous System in two locations:
📍 March 8, 2-5pm - Kaimanawa Lodge, Tūrangi
📍 March 22, 2-5pm - Waiora House, Taupō
This is trauma-informed, educational (not therapy), and suitable for anyone curious about their relationship patterns.
$120 | Limited to 10 participants per session
Grateful for this feedback from Paul after completing Understanding Anger Month 🙏
Fear was planted in me like a seed. The world is dangerous. People can't be trusted. You're too fragile to survive alone.
I believed I needed protection from everything – except the person teaching me to be afraid.
About disorganised attachment, when survival becomes your relationship blueprint, and recognising when attachment patterns are weaponised.
CW: emotional abuse, manipulation, childhood trauma
https://theembodiedpractice.co/when-love-taught-me-to-disappear/
I spent my whole life being told that anger made me horrible. That having feelings made me a monster.
So I made myself smaller. Suppressed it all.
This is about the anger that cuts through denial and shows you the truth. The rage that finally showed me who I'd been protecting at my own expense.
If you've been taught anger makes you bad, you've been taught to ignore your alarm system.
CW: emotional abuse, manipulation
https://theembodiedpractice.co/the-anger-that-saved-my-life/
I used to think emotional regulation meant staying calm. Not making waves. Rising above it all.
I was wrong.
This is about the moment I finally named what had been happening for 16 years – and what happened when I stopped abandoning myself to manage someone else's feelings.
About learning your body holds the answers all along.
CW: emotional abuse, gaslighting, manipulation
https://theembodiedpractice.co/emotional-regulation-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/
I used to think boundaries were mean.
That if I just explained myself better, stayed longer, gave more – things would change.
They didn't.
16 years taught me everything about boundaries by showing me what happens when you have none.
About nervous system responses, trauma patterns, and the moment I finally chose myself.
CW: emtional abuse, manipulation, outing
https://theembodiedpractice.co/what-37-years-without-boundaries-taught-me-about-freedom/