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What is a trauma response?
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When the wound is not visible.
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Meet the child you were.
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Closeness can feel safe again.
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Rebuild trust in yourself first.
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It shaped the roots.
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🌈 How are you feeling right now?
Use the Emotion Wheel to check in with yourself.
Sometimes you know something feels “off,” but you can't quite name it. The Emotion Wheel helps you slow down, put words to what you're feeling, and choose a supportive next step.
You don't need to find the “perfect” emotion. Simply choose the one that feels closest.
Tap the feeling closest to yours.
This is for education and self-reflection only. It isn't an assessment, a diagnosis or therapy, and it can't tell you why you feel something — only you can know that.
Self-awareness tool
Trauma Response Wheel
When something feels threatening, overwhelming or unsafe, your nervous system reacts before you have time to think. This wheel helps you recognise which protective pattern may be running — and what might help.
How is your nervous system responding?Tap a colour
You don't have one fixed response. You might fight in one situation, freeze in another and fawn in close relationships — and they often overlap or follow one another within minutes.
Choose a response on the wheel and we'll walk it through with you: what's happening, what you might notice in your body, thoughts and behaviour, what tends to set it off, and what may help right now.
These responses are automatic protective patterns of the nervous system. Experiencing them does not mean there is something wrong with you, and this tool is for self-reflection rather than diagnosis.
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Journal My Thoughts
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Feel More Grounded
Come back to the present moment, gently and safely.
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Improve Sleep
Soft rituals to rest a tired nervous system.
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Process My Emotions
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Connect With Others
You don't have to heal alone. Find people and support.
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Your Recovery Tools, Together in One Place
Recovery can mean searching through books, websites, videos, worksheets, apps and different therapeutic skills trying to find something that helps.
Recovery Trauma™ brings trauma education, guided exercises, journals, nervous-system practices and supportive resources together in one structured space.
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There is no programme you have to complete and no pressure to recover on a particular timeline.
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