Dandelion Therapy

25/12/2025

13/12/2025

Trauma isn’t just a memory - it’s an imprint your body carries long after the moment has passed.
The good news is that those imprints can shift.

With trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, somatic work, and safe connection, the nervous system can learn that the danger is over. Healing becomes possible in the present, not just the past.

If you’re ready to explore this work with support, you don’t have to do it alone.

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08/12/2025

Reactivity is fast because it is driven by fear. Vulnerability is slow because it is rooted in secure attachment and emotional safety. When you pause long enough to feel what is underneath the reaction, you make space for honesty instead of defensiveness and connection instead of more distance.

04/12/2025

If any helping professional promises fast transformation, they’re overlooking the slow pace of neuroplasticity and the complexity of autonomic states shaped by years of survival.

Complex trauma creates dense neural networks that link together memory, emotion, sensation, impulses, behaviours and perceptions of the self.

These networks can’t just be rewired with rapid cathartic practices, 3-min nervous system hacks or five sessions.

Hacks and trends may offer momentary relief by shifting states, but reorganization of the nervous system that leads to healing comes as a result of a longer-term consistent work that takes time.

Our biology depends on predictable signals of safety.

Overnight change isn’t real.

The nervous system updates through slow, layered experiences that shift patterns across the whole body including the vagus nerve, limbic system, and prefrontal cortex.

If you experience complex trauma, it’s important that you work with helping professionals who understand nervous system science, trauma pacing, rupture and repair, and the time required for neural repatterning.

The nervous system doesn’t heal with shortcuts and speed.

You deserve support that honours the neurobiology of trauma.

Effie 🦋

28/11/2025

Each attachment style has a different way of reaching for connection, especially when things feel tense. Anxious attachment sounds like Are you really there for me because deep down it fears being left alone with big feelings. It looks like checking, questioning, and trying to close the distance quickly so the relationship feels safe again.

Avoidant attachment is often misunderstood. It is not about not caring. It is about losing a sense of self when emotions get intense. When closeness feels overwhelming, avoidant partners cannot find their own internal grounding, so they pull back to feel steady again. It can look like distance, but underneath it is fear of being engulfed, not a lack of love.

Disorganized attachment carries both longings and fears at the same time. Come close feels comforting, and go away feels protective. The push pull is the nervous system trying to manage two opposite survival strategies at once.

Secure attachment says I am right here and you are right there. It is the calm confidence that we can stay connected without losing ourselves, even when things feel hard. It is independence and closeness working together instead of competing.

17/11/2025

09/11/2025