Stella Stories

Insights on Trauma-Informed Inner Child Healing, Emotional Growth & Self-Reclamation

Welcome to Stella Stories - a living archive of trauma-informed reflections for the healing heart.

Here you’ll find essays on inner child healing, emotional recalibration, boundaries, and the psychology of self-reclamation. Each piece blends somatic insight with soulful storytelling — guiding you to understand not just what you feel, but why you feel it.

Begin with the foundations: discover why childhood trauma alters brain development, explore what it means to be a medicine woman, or reflect on what is gaslighting.

These are not quick fixes, but invitations to return home to yourself - with depth, compassion, and courage.

A man sitting with his head bowed and hand on his face, appearing emotionally overwhelmed. Soft light falls across his shoulders. What Is Toxic Empathy? — an in-depth trauma-informed blog by Stella Dove exploring how over-responsibility, people-pleasing, and attachment wounds create toxic empathy, and how somatic healing and emotional boundaries restore balance and self-respect.

WHAT IS TOXIC EMPATHY?

An in-depth blog exploring toxic empathy, its root causes in trauma and attachment, and how to heal through somatic awareness and emotional boundaries.

Jul 246 min read

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