Creative Living Alliance LLC

Creative Living Alliance LLC Trauma Therapy; EMDR; Somatic-informed, Specializing in DID/OSDD, Complex PTSD, Neurodivergence

You can’t think your way into safety, but you can feel your way there.Your nervous system responds to warmth, rhythm, br...
11/21/2025

You can’t think your way into safety, but you can feel your way there.

Your nervous system responds to warmth, rhythm, breath, and connection far more than logic.

Healing begins in moments, not milestones:
🌼A steady exhale.
🌼The ground beneath your feet.
🌼The sound of someone’s voice who feels safe.

Your body knows the way home. It’s been waiting for your compassion to lead.

Read the full blog: “Why Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken.” Link in Bio

Regulation doesn’t mean staying calm all the time.It means being able to move between states from activation back into s...
11/20/2025

Regulation doesn’t mean staying calm all the time.

It means being able to move between states from activation back into safety and from chaos back into connection.

You don’t have to master stillness. You just have to notice your body’s rhythm and meet it with compassion.

Healing begins when you stop demanding peace and start practicing presence.

🌼 Read the Blog Post: “Why Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken.” 🔗 Link in Bio.

When you feel anxious, numb, or disconnected, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.It means your body remembers.These are not ...
11/19/2025

When you feel anxious, numb, or disconnected, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.

It means your body remembers.

These are not malfunctions to fix, but signals to understand.

Your nervous system has been trying to keep you alive even when it doesn’t look like it.

Healing isn’t about controlling your body. It’s about partnering with it.

Your system is wiser than you think.

✨ Read “Why Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken” on the blog.

Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s brilliant.Every heartbeat, every breath, every surge of energy or moment of still...
11/19/2025

Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s brilliant.

Every heartbeat, every breath, every surge of energy or moment of stillness is your body’s way of protecting you.

Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn aren’t character flaws. They’re survival modes.
When your body senses threat, it moves to protect. When it senses safety, it moves to connect.

You don’t need to control it. You only need to listen.

That’s where healing begins. ❤️‍🩹

💛 Read the full post: “Why Your Nervous System Isn’t Broken” on the Healing Thread blog. 🔗 Link in Bio

You can’t force yourself out of freeze and you don’t need to.The body doesn’t respond to pressure. It responds to safety...
11/14/2025

You can’t force yourself out of freeze and you don’t need to.

The body doesn’t respond to pressure. It responds to safety.

Warm light. Soft breath. A trusted presence.
That’s how the thaw begins.

❤️‍🩹 Read the full post: “The Freeze Response: When Your Body Hits Pause.” Link in Bio

For many with complex trauma or neurodivergence, safety isn’t a thought. It’s a slow, lived experience.Your body may liv...
11/13/2025

For many with complex trauma or neurodivergence, safety isn’t a thought. It’s a slow, lived experience.

Your body may live in “survival mode,” cycling between alertness and shutdown.

Healing isn’t about forcing calm; it’s about teaching your system that safety can exist without danger.

Small, gentle steps. Steady warmth. That’s how thaw begins.

❤️‍🩹 Learn more about how your nervous system protects you on The Healing Thread. Read “The Freeze Response: When Your Body Hits Pause.”
Link in Bio

Freeze isn’t weakness. It’s wisdom.When neither fight nor flight feels possible, your body activates a different kind of...
11/12/2025

Freeze isn’t weakness. It’s wisdom.

When neither fight nor flight feels possible, your body activates a different kind of safety, a pause.

This ancient reflex allows you to survive the unbearable.

You don’t need to push through it. You can listen to it.

Healing begins when you realize your body isn’t betraying you. It’s protecting you.

❤️‍🩹 Read more on the blog: “The Freeze Response: When Your Body Hits Pause.”

Sometimes, your body doesn’t shut down, it pauses.When life feels too heavy, your nervous system knows how to protect yo...
11/11/2025

Sometimes, your body doesn’t shut down, it pauses.

When life feels too heavy, your nervous system knows how to protect you. That stillness, fog, or numbness you feel isn’t laziness or weakness.

It’s your body saying, “I need safety before I can move again.”

When you stop judging that pause and start listening to it, healing begins.

❤️‍Read the full blog “The Freeze Response: When Your Body Hits Pause”

❤️Link in bio.

We often underestimate the grief of “what didn’t happen.” But naming those losses is powerful. It allows you to honor th...
09/30/2025

We often underestimate the grief of “what didn’t happen.” But naming those losses is powerful. It allows you to honor the child in you who deserved more.

We grieve not just what happened, but also what we longed for and never received. The comfort that never arrived, the pr...
09/29/2025

We grieve not just what happened, but also what we longed for and never received. The comfort that never arrived, the protection that wasn’t there, the attunement that could have changed everything. Naming what was missing is part of healing.

❤️‍🩹 Read more about wounds on the Blog. Link in Bio.

We often think of childhood wounds as the things that happened to us: the yelling, the rejection, the punishments. But m...
09/28/2025

We often think of childhood wounds as the things that happened to us: the yelling, the rejection, the punishments. But many wounds come from what didn’t happen. The hugs that never came. The safety that wasn’t there. The words of encouragement we needed but didn’t hear. Absence leaves marks, too.

When we think about childhood wounds, we often focus on the obvious, what happened. The moments of harm, conflict, negle...
09/23/2025

When we think about childhood wounds, we often focus on the obvious, what happened. The moments of harm, conflict, neglect, or trauma that left scars.

But wounding isn’t only about what was done. It’s also about what wasn’t done.

The hugs you didn’t get.
The encouragement that never came.
The safety and consistency that weren’t there.
The listening ear that was missing when you needed it most.

Absence leaves marks, too. Growing up without essential care, presence, or attunement shapes our nervous systems and our sense of self just as much as direct harm. Sometimes even more.

Healing begins when we can name both truths:

The pain of what happened.
The grief of what never did.

Both are real. Both matter. And neither means you are broken; They mean you were shaped by what you lived through and what you lived without.

If this resonates, you’re not alone. I write more about trauma, attachment, and healing on my blog. 🌿 Link in bio

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