Nervous System Healing Isn't Linear: Why Your Abandonment Wound Keeps Coming Back

Found at 17 | Abandonment Wounds & Relationship Patterns · Jul 17, 2026 · 11m

You did the work. You felt better. And then it came back — the same old ache, the same trigger, the same pattern you thought you'd healed. So you ask yourself: did any of it even count?

This episode is for the woman who thinks getting triggered again means she failed. It doesn't. Healing is not a straight line and it's not a destination — it's a spiral. Every time the abandonment wound resurfaces, you're not starting over. You're going deeper, with a nervous system that knows more than it did last time.

We break down why emotional healing feels like regression when it isn't, what your body is…