Healing Together - Healing Reflectionshttps://www.healingtogether.life/blogsFri, 20 Feb 2026 09:24:15 +0100http://zoho.com/sites/https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/knowing-where-your-power-goesExplores how trauma, culture, and survival patterns shape power. Blending theory and lived experience, it invites reclaiming authorship, setting boundaries, and shining without apology in systems that encourage shrinking.]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:53:00 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/the-work-of-the-threshold-2025-2026A reflective essay exploring the transition from 2025 to 2026 through astrology, identity, power, and collective change—inviting personal and cultural reflection.]]>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:31:00 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/the-cost-of-being-good-people-pleasing-trauma-healingA longform Healing Reflections essay exploring people-pleasing as a trauma adaptation, a cultural inheritance, and a nervous-system survival strategy — and how truth, boundaries, and authenticity lead us back to belonging.]]>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:39:57 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/starlight-and-black-holes-the-balance-of-love-and-the-alchemy-of-healing-togetherIn this Healing Reflections essay, counsellor and facilitator Martyn Blacklock explores how relationships mirror the balance of Yin and Yang, how tension can create either collapse or starlight, and how we can turn triggers into opportunities for healing through the practice of rupture and repair.]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:24:44 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/WhatWeFeartoSeeIn this Healing Reflections essay, Martyn Blacklock explores society’s fear of suffering and difference—blending stories of trauma, sensitivity, and compassion with insights from Sanders, Eger, Brown, and van der Kolk. A meditation on how facing pain reveals our deepest light.]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:24:44 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/Love-Is-a-Practice-of-Healing-TogetherThis Healing Reflections essay explores why couples repeat familiar arguments, and how mis-seen wounds, neurospiciness, implicit memory, and childhood echoes shape conflict. Drawing on trauma theory and lived experience, Martyn Blacklock shows how love becomes a practice of healing together.]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:24:44 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/the-quiet-ache-how-a-generation-of-men-became-lonely-in-their-own-homes1A deeply reflective essay exploring the generational roots of men’s loneliness.]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:20:12 +0000https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/healing-reflectionsWelcome to Healing Reflections]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:57:01 +0000