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Healing Is a Journey: The Importance of Ongoing Support and Self-Care
Sustainable self-care isn’t about bubble baths or occasional treats (although those can be lovely too). It’s about weaving practices into your everyday life that help you feel more present, more resourced, and more like yourself.
Karen Law
8 hours ago3 min read
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Why Wait to Heal? A Different Way Through Birth Trauma
Birth trauma isn’t stored in the logical, thinking part of the brain. It’s held in the nervous system. The body remembers what happened, often long after your mind wants to move on.
Karen Law
May 123 min read
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Healing the Inheritance: Understanding and Releasing Intergenerational Trauma
Intergenerational trauma refers to the way unresolved trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. This can happen through behaviour, emotional patterns, nervous system imprinting, or the stories we do or don’t tell.
Karen Law
May 52 min read
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The Sound of Healing: How Music and Touch Calm the Nervous System
Have you ever noticed how music can touch you in a way that words never could?
The human body is wired for vibration. Deep within us, the vagus nerve, a key part of our nervous system, listens and responds to these subtle signals, helping to regulate our sense of safety, connection, and wellbeing.
Karen Law
Apr 284 min read
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Touch and Connection: How the Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets
For people who’ve experienced trauma, especially in early life, the body may have learned to expect threat or rejection even in safe situations. This can show up in chronic tension, a lack of ease in being touched, or even an absence of sensation in certain parts of the body.
Karen Law
Apr 213 min read
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The Nervous System and Relationships: Healing Attachment Wounds
As humans, we are biologically wired to seek connection, closeness, and safety with others. But for many of us, early experiences of trauma (especially in childhood) can leave imprints that make relationships feel confusing, overwhelming, or unsafe.
Karen Law
Apr 142 min read
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Why “Feeling Safe” Is the First Step to Healing Trauma
When we talk about safety in the context of trauma healing, we’re not just talking about physical safety, although that’s crucial.
Karen Law
Apr 73 min read
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Mothering Yourself: Reconnecting with Your Inner Child for Deep Healing
When our early experiences didn’t give us the safety, love, or attunement we needed, we often carry those wounds into adulthood.
Karen Law
Mar 314 min read
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From Survival to Thriving: Breaking Free from Childhood Trauma Responses
Many of the ways we respond to life as adults are shaped by what we experienced as children. If we grew up in environments that felt...
Karen Law
Mar 243 min read
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Soothing Beginnings: Helping Your Baby Feel Safe After a Difficult Birth
The most powerful way to help a baby recover from birth trauma is through gentle, attuned, and responsive care.
Karen Law
Mar 173 min read
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Birth Trauma and the Body: Finding Safety After a Difficult Start
When birth is traumatic, it can create deep-rooted patterns that influence how we respond to stress, connect with others, and feel at home
Karen Law
Mar 104 min read
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What Is Birth Trauma? Understanding Its Impact on Mind and Body
For many, birth is expected to be a beautiful and transformative experience. But when things don’t go as planned—when birth feels...
Karen Law
Feb 243 min read
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Rewiring the Mind-Body Connection: How QEC Supports Trauma Healing
Trauma isn’t just something that lives in the past. It lingers in the body, shaping how we feel, respond, and navigate the world. Even...
Karen Law
Feb 173 min read
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The Power of Safe Touch: How Trauma-Informed Massage Can Support Recovery
Touch is one of the most fundamental ways we connect with others and ourselves. However, for individuals who’ve experienced trauma, touch...
Karen Law
Feb 103 min read
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Healing from the Roots: How Early Trauma Shapes the Nervous System
The good news? Healing is possible. By understanding how early trauma affects the nervous system, we can begin to reclaim a sense of safety,
Karen Law
Feb 103 min read
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What Is Nervous System Regulation? Practical Tools to Begin Today
When life feels overwhelming, our ability to stay calm, focused, and resilient often comes down to the state of our nervous system
Karen Law
Feb 32 min read
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Understanding Trauma: How Your Body Holds the Key to Healing
Trauma is a word we hear often, yet its impact is deeply personal and unique to each of us. Whether it stems from childhood e...
Karen Law
Jan 274 min read
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Overcoming Procrastination and Finding Focus: My Personal Journey with ADHD
Let’s talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Living with undiagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has...
Karen Law
Jan 204 min read
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“Spanking? Never did me any harm”
Earlier this year, I had a confrontation with someone who claimed I was entirely at fault. I attempted to defend myself and apologized...
Karen Law
Dec 15, 20243 min read
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Understanding my Freeze Response: One Journey to Recognizing and Addressing a Dysregulated Nervous System
On Wednesday, several teams gathered for a day in Edinburgh with the senior leadership at the charity where I work. For a colleague and...
Karen Law
Dec 9, 20244 min read
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