Nightmares aren’t just distressing dreams they can be a critical warning sign. Frequent, distressing nightmares are a strong, independent risk factor for suicidal thoughts.

Explores how sleep disruption, trauma themes, and helplessness in dreams all heighten suicide risk and why clinicians must assess and treat nightmares directly. With insights from EMDR, IFS, and trauma-informed care, we offer hope and pathways to healing.

We understand legacy burdens as emotional, relational, and cultural debts carried by parts of the system that were simply trying to survive. Eating disorder behaviours often emerge as protectors, following these old rules to avoid pain, rejection, or perceived danger.

When we meet these parts with curiosity instead of control, and when we begin to name the inherited messages they carry, the system can begin to breathe. We don’t force healing; we make space for it.