Recovery Trauma Ltd

23/11/2025

✨ When trauma gets triggered, it’s not your adult self reacting — it’s the younger part of you that first felt unsafe.
Healing means slowing down, meeting that inner child with compassion, and giving them the safety they never had.
You’re not “overreacting.” You’re remembering. And now, you’re learning to grow beyond what hurt you.
Be gentle with yourself. 💛
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23/11/2025

📚 My Top Trauma-Healing Book Recommendations

These are the books that shaped my own trauma healing, deepened my understanding of the nervous system, and helped me make sense of the patterns trauma creates in our lives.

1️⃣ Waking the Tiger — Peter Levine
A gentle introduction to somatic healing. Levine explains how trauma gets trapped in the body and how we can safely release it through sensation, not just thinking. It’s empowering, hopeful, and great for beginners.

2️⃣ The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
A deep dive into how trauma changes the brain, body, and nervous system. This book validates so much — why we freeze, dissociate, react, numb, or disconnect. It also explores body-based healing like EMDR, yoga, breathwork, and somatic therapies.

3️⃣ In an Unspoken Voice — Peter Levine
More in-depth than Waking the Tiger. Levine breaks down how trauma overwhelms the nervous system and how we can renegotiate it gently. If you want to understand fight/flight/freeze and the vagus nerve, this is a must-read.

4️⃣ Trauma and Recovery — Judith Herman
A classic. Herman outlines the stages of trauma healing: safety, remembrance, and reconnection. It explains complex trauma, abusive dynamics, and what true recovery looks like — especially for survivors of long-term trauma.

Each of these books offers a different doorway into understanding trauma, the body, and the healing journey. If you’re looking for validation, knowledge, or tools, these are powerful places to start. 💛

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22/11/2025

Understanding your attachment style isn’t about blame — it’s about awareness, healing, and reclaiming your inner safety.
Each style was formed in childhood as a survival strategy, not a flaw.
The good news? With compassion, support, and nervous system regulation, your attachment style can evolve.
You are worthy of secure love — both from others and within yourself. ❤️🎄

Save this for later & share with someone who might need it this holiday season.

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20/11/2025

Trauma doesn’t just live in your memories — it lives in your body.
When something overwhelming happens and your system can’t process it, the body stores the threat and signals danger long after the event is over.

That’s why you may experience symptoms that seem “random,” “weird,” or “unexplainable.”
They’re not random.
They’re survival responses.
Your body has been trying to protect you — even when you didn’t know it.

Healing is not about “thinking your way out.”
It’s about slowly teaching your body that the danger has passed, reconnecting with safety, and giving yourself the compassion you deserved back then.

You are not broken.
You are surviving something your nervous system never should have had to handle.
And you can heal.
I’m proud of you for even reading this. 💛

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19/11/2025

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19/11/2025

Just like a swan gliding across the water, healing can look effortless from the outside…
but below the surface, there is so much unseen effort, courage, and emotional labour.

People don’t always see the sleepless nights, the flashbacks, the triggers you navigate,
the boundaries you’re learning to set,
the parts of you you’re gently reparenting,
or the deep inner work it takes just to keep moving forward.

If this is you — if you’re paddling like hell beneath the surface while trying to look “okay” —
please know this:

✨ Your effort counts.
✨ Your progress is real, even if no one sees it.
✨ Healing from trauma is work, not weakness.
✨ You’re doing incredibly brave things every single day.

You deserve recognition for the inner battles you fight and the strength it takes to keep going.
I see you. 🦢💛


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18/11/2025

Feeling overwhelmed, dissociated, or stuck in looping thoughts?
Try the 1-2-3-4-5 Grounding Technique — a simple somatic tool to bring you back into your body and into the present moment.

Grounding is not about “fixing yourself.”
It’s about offering your nervous system something safe to anchor to.
A gentle reminder: you’re here, you’re safe enough, and you’re allowed to slow down.

Here’s a calming grounding exercise you can try today 👇

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🌱 Grounding Exercise (1–2 minutes)

1. Pause and take one slow breath in through your nose and gently out through your mouth.
Then notice:

1 thing you can taste

→ e.g., mint gum, tea, toothpaste

2 things you can smell

→ e.g., your candle, fresh air, your lotion

3 things you can hear

→ e.g., rain, birds outside, typing, distant voices

4 things you can feel

→ e.g., your feet on the ground, the chair supporting you, the fabric of your clothes

5 things you can see

→ e.g., shapes around you, colors, light, something comforting in the room

This technique helps your brain shift from threat to safety, reconnecting you with the present moment.

You deserve peace.
You deserve calm.
You deserve safety in your own body.
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18/11/2025

🌸🕯 Flower Candle Breathing
A simple grounding exercise to calm your nervous system — especially when anxiety, overwhelm, or flashbacks make your body feel out of control.

This technique helps you reconnect with safety, slow down your breath, and come back into the present moment.
It’s gentle. It’s soothing. And it works beautifully for both adults and children.

Try it anytime your body says “I’m not okay,” and offer it the soft reminder:
You are safe right now.

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17/11/2025

Trauma doesn’t just live in the mind — it lives in the body.
When something feels unsafe (even if the threat is long gone), our nervous system automatically chooses a survival response. None of these are “wrong.” They are learned strategies your body used to protect you.

Here’s what each trauma response means:

🧊 Fight
You become hyper-alert, tense, irritable, or reactive.
Your body prepares to defend itself.
Anger here is a protector — not a flaw.

🌬️ Flight
You feel the urge to escape, avoid, or keep busy.
Overworking, perfectionism, or staying constantly “on the move” can be a flight response.

❄️ Freeze
You shut down, feel stuck, numb, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
This is your system hitting “pause” when things feel too much.

🤍 Fawn
You try to appease, please, or fix to keep others regulated.
Boundaries feel hard. You prioritize safety through harmony.

Healing begins with awareness.
Your responses are not failures — they are survival codes.
With support, your body can learn safety again. 🫶