Prolonged stress, trauma, or abuse can lead to constant exhaustion, driven by the brain’s hypervigilance and elevated stress hormones. This affects cognitive functions and keeps the body in survival mode, preventing relaxation. Healing begins as the nervous system balances, improving clarity and motivation, fostering self-compassion instead of self-blame.… Read More Your Brain Is Constantly Scanning for Danger
The content discusses how anger often masks deeper emotions stemming from trauma. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and understanding these underlying feelings to aid emotional regulation rather than suppression. Therapy offers support for both men and women over 40 in managing anger, improving relationships, and developing healthier emotional responses.… Read More Trauma, Anger & Emotional Regulation Therapy
The content discusses how anger can signal deeper issues rather than being solely negative. It highlights the emotional roots of anger, especially for individuals over 40, and emphasizes the importance of therapy for both men and women. Therapy can help individuals understand, regulate, and respond to their anger constructively, improving relationships and emotional wellbeing.… Read More Anger Management Therapy for Men & Women Over 40
Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a clinical diagnosis used to describe a persistent pattern of disregard for the rights, safety, and boundaries of others. It’s not about being “difficult” or having a bad temper. It’s about how someone relates to people, rules, and responsibility over time. Common features include: Importantly:Not everyone with antisocial traits has ASPD, and not… Read More What is ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder)?
Addiction, Trauma & the Brain Addiction can be difficult to understand — both for the person experiencing it and for the people around them. My approach looks at addiction through both neuroscience and psychology, recognising that addictive behaviour can involve changes in the brain’s reward, motivation, learning, stress and self-regulation systems. Addiction can involve alcohol, recreational drugs… Read More Addiction, Trauma & the Brain
The risks we don’t always think about Today, getting almost anything delivered to your door can take just a few taps on a phone. Food. Alcohol. Painkillers. Cold and flu remedies. Sleep aids. Allergy medication. Convenience can be wonderful — particularly when you’re unwell, exhausted or unable to get to a pharmacy or shop. But… Read More When Alcohol, Medication and Instant Delivery Become a Dangerous Combination
Understanding the hidden effects of trauma, stress and emotionally difficult relationships Have you ever said to yourself: “I know I’m safe. So why don’t I feel safe?” Perhaps the relationship has ended. You have moved away from the situation. The person who caused you distress is no longer part of your daily life. Logically, you… Read More Why Does Your Body Feel Anxious When Your Mind Knows You’re Safe?
Trauma-Informed Practitioner | Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Practitioner | Women’s Empowerment Specialist I specialise in helping women understand and recover from the emotional and psychological impact of difficult relationships, emotional abuse, coercive control, trauma and major life transitions. My approach combines trauma-informed practice, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, nervous-system regulation and personal empowerment, creating a space where women… Read More Linda CJ Turner
There is a very human instinct to feel compassion when someone tells us they are seriously unwell. Cancer, chronic illness and serious health difficulties naturally evoke concern, empathy and a desire to help. But what happens when illness becomes repeatedly used to gain sympathy, attention, forgiveness, financial assistance or exemption from accountability? This is where… Read More When Illness Becomes a Source of Sympathy: Be Careful What You Wish For
From a neuroscience perspective, abuse involves changes in the brain and nervous system of both the person being abused and, potentially, the person carrying out the abuse—but we have to be careful not to suggest that there is a single “abuser brain.” People become abusive through complex interactions among learning, personality, emotion regulation, beliefs, environment and… Read More What can happen in the abuser’s brain during abusive behaviour?
Trauma • Neuroscience • Emotional Intelligence • Women's Empowerment 