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Many people say they want healthy love. However, after trauma recovery begins, healthy love can feel unfamiliar. Peace, consistency, and kindness can feel strange when past relationships were shaped by chaos, inconsistency, or emotional instability. In this episode, Coach Liz explores why healthy love may feel uncomfortable at first and how trauma recovery helps rebuild the internal capacity to recognize and receive safe, respectful relationships.

In This Episode You Will Learn

• Why healthy love can feel unfamiliar after trauma
 • How past relationship patterns affect emotional trust
 • The six characteristics of healthy love
 • How your nervous system helps guide relationship discernment
 • Why recovery helps expand your capacity to receive healthy connection

What Healthy Love Looks Like

Healthy love does not create confusion or emotional chaos. Healthy love creates clarity, safety, and peace.

Healthy love includes:

 • Consistency. Words and actions match.
 • Emotional safety. Feelings can be expressed without fear.
 • Respect. Time, identity, and boundaries are honored.
 • Accountability. Mistakes are acknowledged and corrected.
 • Reciprocity. Both people give and receive.
 • Peace. The relationship allows your nervous system to rest.

When healthy love is present, the relationship supports growth rather than emotional survival.

Listening to Your Nervous System

One of the most powerful tools in trauma recovery is learning to listen to the body.

Your nervous system often recognizes safety before your thoughts do.

Signs of healthy connection may include:

 • breathing becoming slower
 • shoulders relaxing
 • a calm and steady mind

When something is unhealthy, the body often tightens, breathing becomes shallow, and the mind becomes restless.

Your body can provide important signals when emotions feel confusing.

Level Two Trauma Recovery Now Open

If you are ready to continue your recovery journey, the Level Two Trauma Recovery Program, One Breath at a Time is now open inside Oasis Wellness Academy.

This program helps participants develop the capacity to receive healthy love by learning:

 • emotional discernment
 • healthy boundary development
 • attachment pattern awareness
 • nervous system regulation

Call to Action

To learn more about the Level Two Trauma Recovery Program, visit Oasis Wellness Academy and explore the next step in your recovery journey.

Podcast Closing

 We are recovering one breath at a time.
 Give yourself grace and stay fearless.
 Bye for now.

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Remember, Trauma was not your fault, your were collateral damage on someone else's warpath.  Trauma was not your fault, however Recovery is your Responsibility.  I am your host, Wellness Coach Liz Blanding, and this is The Get Trauma Informed Podcast. 

Contact us at: 

info@oasiswellnessctrs.com

https://www.skool.com/oasis-wellness-academy-3841/about

Disclaimer:
This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not therapy or clinical treatment. Please seek licensed support where appropriate.