Stephanie Underwood, RSW
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THE BLOG
At Authentic Living, every blog post is created with care to support your journey of self-awareness, healing, and emotional growth. Rooted in a trauma-informed and attachment-based perspective, our content is designed to help you make sense of your inner world, understand the impact of early experiences, and navigate relationships with greater clarity and compassion. Whether you're exploring attachment styles, core beliefs, or the healing process itself, this space is here to meet you with insight, depth, and heart.

Bridging cognition, attachment, and neurobiology into one coherent framework for relational trauma.

The Relational Safety Framework is an integrative, research-informed model exploring how safety, meaning-making, attachment strategies, and nervous system responses interact in relationships. This category documents the ongoing development of the framework and examines relational trauma, complex trauma, and repeating relationship patterns through a unified lens.