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It Wasn’t What I Expected: Grieving the Birth You Didn’t Have
Whether your birth was traumatic, unexpectedly medicalised, or simply not what you’d hoped for, the grief can be quiet and heavy. It may not be visible to others. But it’s real.
Karen Law
52 minutes ago3 min read


Hidden in Plain Sight: When Trauma Masks Inattentive ADD in Women
For many women, especially those who’ve experienced trauma, these patterns are often chalked up to “being scatterbrained,” “anxious,” or “just overwhelmed.” But what if there’s more going on beneath the surface?
Karen Law
Jul 75 min read


From Caesarean to Confident: Supporting Yourself in Planning a VBAC
A caesarean birth can save lives, and still leave you feeling shaken, disempowered, or unsure about what comes next. Whether your caesarean was planned or an emergency, gentle or traumatic, straightforward or complicated, it may have left a lasting emotional imprint on your body and your confidence.
Karen Law
Jun 303 min read


When Birth Hurts: How Traumatic Birth Affects Parents Long After the Baby Arrives
IWe often hear that “a healthy baby is all that matters.” But for many parents, birth can leave deep emotional and physical wounds that don’t fade once they’re holding their baby in their arms.
Karen Law
Jun 233 min read


Healing Isn’t Linear: What to Expect When You Start Feeling Safe Again
In trauma recovery, we work with the nervous system in layers. Each time we create more capacity for safety, another layer of held experience may surface. This is natural, and often necessary. You might feel frustrated by this process: I thought I’d already dealt with this. But the truth is, you’re meeting it now with more support, more regulation, and more choice than you had before.
Karen Law
Jun 163 min read


Flashbacks, Nightmares, and a Constant State of Alert: Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Response After Birth Trauma
Trauma isn’t always about what happened medically during the birth, It’s about how you felt during the experience. Many women describe feeling ignored, frightened, powerless, or unheard. Sometimes birth trauma is linked to emergency situations or intense physical pain, but sometimes it’s the quieter absence of emotional support that leaves the deepest mark.
Karen Law
Jun 93 min read


Why It’s Not ‘All in Your Head’: The Body’s Role in Trauma Healing
Trauma isn't only about what happened. It’s about how your body responded in the moment and what it had to do to survive
Karen Law
May 263 min read


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
May 193 min read


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


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


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


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


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


Moving on as we emerge from lockdown
You have an incredible inbuilt, automatic, safety mechanism to alert you to danger and take steps to preserve life. All living beings...
Karen Law
Apr 23, 20213 min read


Attention seekers and time wasters?
She’s barely an adult. So what has she experienced to date? We are told she had a difficult upbringing. Yet she is pathologised and blamed
Karen Law
Apr 6, 20216 min read


Understanding why you've found 2020 so challenging!
In our modern societies we are spending a lot of time in stress through work, relationships, health concerns, politics, pandemics...
Karen Law
Dec 31, 20208 min read


A powerful new way to change your life
QEC is a wonderful way of supporting people to make lasting changes to their lives.
Karen Law
Oct 14, 20205 min read


Reflecting on the summer of 2020
Now that we’re into September, and the end of summer, I reflect on the year so far. It seems that we’d barely started 2020 and...
Karen Law
Sep 8, 20204 min read


Touch, Trauma & Today
...the significance of dealing directly with trauma through Touch had massive potential for improving mental and physical health...
Karen Law
May 14, 20203 min read


Soothing the Nervous System
Every single human being needs to know that they are: Not alone (even surrounded by people we can sometimes feel terribly alone) Safe In...
Karen Law
Mar 6, 20202 min read
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