Blog - Aja Rutledge Coaching

admin
11/10/2024
Attachment Theory, Nervous System Regulation, Trauma

Sis, It’s Time to Heal: A Post-Election Guide to Self and Community Care

Where my girls at? Come and listen… I hear you loud and clear. I hear your frustration. I hear your hurt. I hear your grief. I see it and I get it. I know it deeply. You deserve to feel every feeling. You deserve to respond in what’s best for you. You deserve to pull...

admin
01/15/2024
Trauma

Trauma: Understanding The Basics And How It Impacts Daily Life

I talk a lot about trauma and I’m not sure people understand why. Many of us think trauma doesn’t impact us because we believe trauma to be huge things like plane crashes, kidnapping, living through natural disasters. We proceed like this even though we have been impacted by trauma. In this post, first I’m going...

admin
07/18/2024
Mental Health

Breaking the Cycle: Practical Steps to Avoid Repeating Past Mistakes

In our journey through life, many of us encounter recurring negative patterns. They seem to follow us no matter how hard we try to escape them. These cycles can stem from past trauma, learned behaviors, or unaddressed emotional wounds. Breaking free from these cycles requires a deep dive into self-awareness and proactive steps toward change....

admin
01/16/2024
Trauma

I Gained Freedom By Leaning Into My Body’s Bracing

This is a personal account blog post. I hope it helps you. Bracing or tensing is something trauma survivors do without even noticing it. In fact, I lived braced for most of my life and didn’t know until the last 5 years when I worked with a practitioner who taught me how to feel my...

admin
01/16/2024
Attachment Theory, Trauma

How Your Unaddressed Trauma Hinders Your Communication

There’s a (big) space where trauma and communication intersect. It’s interesting because before now I never really thought about it, although it’s so obvious to me now. I’ve always considered communication [period]. And then I’ve considered trauma [period]. In recent years, since doing a lot of healing work, I’ve had some interesting experiences around this....