Rewire Trauma Therapy

Rewire Trauma Therapy Trauma therapy platform offering 10-minute a day somatics & movement therapies. CE credits available.

07/25/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined our live. For many survivors, leaving doesn’t end the abuse—it changes its form.

💙 Believe women. Trauma changes how people think, remember, and communicate. A survivor’s distress is too often mistaken for instability, while an abuser’s calmness is mistaken for credibility.

💙 Enabling abusers perpetuates abuse. When coercive control is minimized, the abuse adapts through custody battles, financial abuse, legal systems, and ongoing intimidation.

💙 Children are often weaponized after separation. Visitation, loyalty conflicts, false allegations, financial manipulation, and repeated litigation can become ways to continue controlling the other parent—while deeply affecting children’s nervous systems and development.

The reality:
• Nearly 1 in 3 women worldwide experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime, most often by an intimate partner.
• Post-separation abuse frequently continues through child custody and family court.

Domestic abuse is about power and control—not just physical violence.

💙 We have free nervous system resources in our link in bio for anyone navigating these experiences: https://www.rewiretraumatherapy.com/polyvagal-opt-in

💙 Dr. Tracy offers one-on-one counseling as a psychologist, and Tanya offers one-on-one support as a nervous system trauma-informed coach for those wanting additional support.

Thank you for being part of this important conversation. 💙

07/22/2026

🎧INSTAGRAM LIVE…
How Abusers Weaponize Children After Separation

Many women believe the abuse ends when the relationship ends.

For countless survivors, especially women, it doesn’t.

The domestic violence simply changes form.

Join us LIVE with a psychologist who works with families affected by domestic violence to discuss what post-separation abuse really looks like, how it impacts children, and what we wish every professional—including family courts—understood about trauma.

💙 We’ll be discussing:

🔹 How children become part of coercive control after separation
• When visitation becomes a tool of control
• Last-minute schedule changes
• Financial manipulation
• False allegations
• Children caught in loyalty conflicts
• The difference between post-separation abuse and healthy co-parenting conflict

🔹 What this does to children—and why it’s often misunderstood
• How chronic stress shapes a child’s nervous system
• Why children may protect an abusive parent
• Why many children appear “fine” while silently struggling
• The lasting impact on attachment, emotions, and development

🔹 What psychologists wish family courts understood about trauma
• Why trauma changes memory, communication, and emotional expression
• Why distress should never automatically be mistaken for instability
• How trauma-informed care leads to better outcomes for children and families

This conversation is for survivors, therapists, parents, advocates, and anyone wanting to better understand the invisible impact of coercive control after separation.

💙 If you’re beginning your own healing journey, we also offer a free Childhood Trauma Webinar to help you understand how early experiences shape the nervous system—and how healing is possible.

🎓 Join here for free:
https://www.rewiretraumatherapy.com/www-rewiretraumatherapy-com

🗓️Save the date, invite someone who needs this conversation, and bring your questions for the live.

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Do therapists have cancellation policies that are... trauma-informed?Many clients with PTSD, complex trauma, ADHD, or di...
07/10/2026

Do therapists have cancellation policies that are... trauma-informed?

Many clients with PTSD, complex trauma, ADHD, or dissociation aren’t avoiding therapy—they may be navigating nervous system dysregulation that affects time, transitions, and attendance.

🎥 For more insight, here’s a short IG video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYVMjkrgYb3/?igsh=MTRyc3QybHk4cmdoYg==

If you’d like to learn how to bring more trauma-informed, somatic, dance therapy, music therapy and polyvagal-informed practices into your work, visit the link in our bio.

For a limited time, we’re offering up to 18 CE Credits AND every therapist receives one FREE client program to use with their clients between sessions.

Support your clients while earning your CE credits. 💙

07/07/2026

Link to the full instagram live here:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dafzcf0AMJ_/?igsh=NmtiZ2xoZmdldnNv

Thank you to everyone who joined our Instagram Live with 🤍

I was honored to be joined by Dr. Tracy King, psychologist and advocate for women experiencing domestic violence and coercive control, for an important conversation that too often goes unheard.

This conversation centered on the lived experience of motherhood in the context of domestic violence, coercive control, and child custody litigation.

We explored how many women experience family court not simply as a legal process, but as a continuation of trauma—within systems where mothers are often labelled as hysterical, unstable, or “crazy” for desperately trying to remain connected to their children.

We discussed the biology of maternal attachment. Across the natural world, when a mother is separated from her offspring, she searches, protects, and persists. Human mothers are no different. Pregnancy, birth, and caregiving fundamentally shape a mother’s brain, hormones, and nervous system. A child becomes part of her biology.

The body remembers.

This is why prolonged separation can be so profoundly traumatic. A mother doesn’t simply “move on.” Her nervous system continues searching for the child she carried, birthed, and loved.

We also explored ambiguous grief—the devastating experience of grieving someone who is still alive. Friends and family often respond with comments like, “At least they’re alive,” or “When they’re 18, they’ll come back.” While usually well-intended, these words can overlook the profound loss of a child’s entire childhood—and a mother’s lived experience of motherhood during those years.

Finally, we discussed how healing is possible. Not by forcing the body to forget, but by learning to work with the body that remembers through trauma-informed therapy, nervous system regulation, movement, and somatic approaches.

We also touched on:
✨ The psychological impact of prolonged separation from a child.
✨ Coercive control and post-separation abuse.
✨ The family court system and trauma.
✨ Supporting women without judgment.
✨ Practical pathways toward healing with trauma-informed professionals.

Thank you to Dr. Tracy King for bringing such compassion and expertise to this conversation, and thank you to every mother who shared her story. Your experience deserves to be seen, heard, and understood. 🤍




offers you a free somatic therapeutic exercise here: 🤍
https://www.rewiretraumatherapy.com/polyvagal-opt-in

Not when you've healed more.Not when you're less reactive.Not when you've figured it all out.Right now. As you are. You ...
07/07/2026

Not when you've healed more.
Not when you're less reactive.
Not when you've figured it all out.

Right now. As you are. You are enough.

Trauma has a way of convincing us otherwise — that we're too much, too broken, too far gone. But those are the nervous system's survival stories, not the truth of who you are.

You were enough before the trauma. You were enough through it. And you are enough now, in the middle of healing — even on the hard days.

At Rewire Trauma Therapy, we believe healing isn't about becoming someone new. It's about coming home to who you always were.

Healing from trauma is like crafting unique tiles — messy, intricate, and beautifully personal. At first, it feels overw...
07/05/2026

Healing from trauma is like crafting unique tiles — messy, intricate, and beautifully personal. At first, it feels overwhelming. Like broken shards scattered everywhere, and you don't even know where to begin.

But slowly, piece by piece, you start to gather what's salvageable. You reshape, repaint, and rearrange — finding new ways to make the fragments fit.

What emerges isn't the same as before. It's something new. Something that holds both the break and the beauty.

That's what healing looks like. Not erasing what happened — but creating something whole from what remains.

At Rewire Trauma Therapy, we walk alongside you through that process — with somatic tools, nervous system support, and over 45 expert clinicians to guide the way.

Most of us were never taught the language of our own nervous system.We were taught to push through, hold it together, an...
07/03/2026

Most of us were never taught the language of our own nervous system.

We were taught to push through, hold it together, and keep going — but nobody explained why our body freezes, shuts down, or stays on high alert even when the danger is long gone.

That's where Polyvagal Theory changes everything. Developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, it's a framework for understanding the three states your nervous system moves between — and how trauma keeps you stuck in survival mode. Learning it feels like finally being handed a map of yourself.It's the language of:

🌿 Self-compassion — understanding why you respond the way you do

🌿 Connection — feeling safe enough to let others in

🌿 Safety — learning what it actually feels like in your bodyAt Rewire Trauma Therapy, polyvagal theory is at the heart of everything we do — because healing starts when you understand what your nervous system has been trying to tell you all along.

🔗 Explore our free somatic exercise: https://www.rewiretraumatherapy.com/polyvagal-opt-in

Wanting help and actually getting it are two very different things.So many people who are struggling never make it to a ...
07/01/2026

Wanting help and actually getting it are two very different things.

So many people who are struggling never make it to a therapy room — not because they don't want to heal, but because the path there is full of real, valid barriers:

🔹 Cultural & family expectations — being told to handle things privately, or that everyone else comes first

🔹 Minimizing your own struggles — feeling like your pain "isn't bad enough" to deserve support

🔹 Cost & accessibility — therapy is expensive, and affordable options often come with long waitlists

🔹 Lack of support — partners, family, or friends actively discouraging you from seeking help

🔹 Stigma & judgment — the fear of being seen as "weak" or "crazy" for asking for help.

If any of these have stopped you, you're not alone — and you're not broken for feeling this way.

That's exactly why we built Rewire Trauma Therapy: somatic, nervous-system-informed healing that you can access in 10 minutes a day, from wherever you are.

Because you deserve support that meets you where you are.

06/30/2026

Legal abuse is the violence that continues after escaping the violence.

For many survivors of domestic violence, leaving is not the end of the abuse.

It becomes the beginning of another form of it — through custody battles, financial control, court narratives, character assassination, and the weaponization of motherhood.

So many women are punished for surviving.

Their trauma is called “hysteria.”

Their grief is called “instability.”

Their fear is used against them.

And the calm, emotionally detached abuser is too often seen as the “reasonable” parent.

I wrote this poem and essay for the mothers living inside that impossible grief—the women who are still called mothers while being stripped of safety, home, identity, and sometimes access to their own children.

This is for the women crawling forward while being dragged back.

💛 Read the full article here:

🌸 https://medium.com//childless-motherhood-how-legal-abuse-uses-child-custody-to-torture-women-eaef653edc32

🌿 If this resonates with your own journey, we’ve also created our Traumatic Motherhood & Reproductive Trauma Program for women healing from:

• coercive control
• legal abuse
• traumatic motherhood
• birth and reproductive trauma
• pregnancy loss
• infertility
• separation from children
• parenting after trauma

✨ Use coupon code: HEALINGJOURNEY to receive 50% off the program.

💛 Learn more here:

🌿 https://www.rewiretraumatherapy.com/healing-sexual-abuse-reproductive-trauma/

If you’re not quite ready for the program, that’s completely okay.

You can also begin with one of our free vagal toning exercises to help your nervous system experience a small moment of safety:

🌿 https://www.rewiretraumatherapy.com/polyvagal-opt-in

Please feel free to share this article with anyone who may need to hear that they are not alone. ❤️

With warmth,

Tanya Zajdel, RN
Founder, Rewire Trauma Therapy

The mental load isn't just about chores.It's the invisible weight of being the one who always remembers — the appointmen...
06/29/2026

The mental load isn't just about chores.

It's the invisible weight of being the one who always remembers — the appointments, the deadlines, the needs of everyone around you — while quietly carrying your own unprocessed pain underneath it all.

For many trauma survivors, this constant state of managing and monitoring is the nervous system's way of staying safe. When you've had to be "on" all the time just to survive, your body doesn't know how to switch off.

You're not just tired. Your nervous system is exhausted.
Healing the mental load starts with learning to regulate — not by doing less, but by giving your body the safety it never had.

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