<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><!-- generator=Zoho Sites --><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><atom:link href="https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/tag/vulnerability/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Healing Together - Healing Reflections #vulnerability</title><description>Healing Together - Healing Reflections #vulnerability</description><link>https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/tag/vulnerability</link><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:15:45 +0200</lastBuildDate><generator>http://zoho.com/sites/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing Where Your Power Goes]]></title><link>https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/knowing-where-your-power-goes</link><description><![CDATA[<img align="left" hspace="5" src="https://www.healingtogether.life/images/TT/ppref.png"/>Explores 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.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[Explores 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.]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Work of the Threshold 2025 - 2026]]></title><link>https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/the-work-of-the-threshold-2025-2026</link><description><![CDATA[<img align="left" hspace="5" src="https://www.healingtogether.life/images/TT/202520206.png"/>A reflective essay exploring the transition from 2025 to 2026 through astrology, identity, power, and collective change—inviting personal and cultural reflection.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[A reflective essay exploring the transition from 2025 to 2026 through astrology, identity, power, and collective change—inviting personal and cultural reflection.]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE COST OF BEING “GOOD"]]></title><link>https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/the-cost-of-being-good-people-pleasing-trauma-healing</link><description><![CDATA[<img align="left" hspace="5" src="https://www.healingtogether.life/images/TT/traume.webp"/>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.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:39:57 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What We Fear to See — On Suffering, Difference, and the Magic of the Human Spirit]]></title><link>https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/WhatWeFeartoSee</link><description><![CDATA[<img align="left" hspace="5" src="https://www.healingtogether.life/images/TT/tree_life.webp"/>In 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.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[In 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.]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love Is a Practice of Healing Together]]></title><link>https://www.healingtogether.life/blogs/post/Love-Is-a-Practice-of-Healing-Together</link><description><![CDATA[<img align="left" hspace="5" src="https://www.healingtogether.life/images/TT/love_is_practice.webp"/>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.]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[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.]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>