Blog tagged as Jeff foster

A 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.

This 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.