Do you know the eleven commonalities typically shared by adults who have experienced childhood trauma? Due to suppressing your traumatized inner child and its reactions, you may not have even identified these issues as...
The whole idea of tackling one’s childhood trauma is incredibly daunting. Mostly because we think of it as one humongous, pulsing mass. For us, it is the monster under the bed. But truth be told, it’s just our inner child under there, shivering in the dark, wanting nothing more than to be loved, soothed and assured that they are significant, safe and—more than anything—WANTED.
The only way your inner child can ever receive those gifts is if YOU are willing to pull them gently from their hiding place and relent to intimate terms with them. Following is an excerpt from my book, under Little Monsters:
Life is a mystery. It always has been. It always will be. That’s why we need to learn to listen to our intuition, which is just another way of saying our ‘knowing without knowing...
When someone attempts to force forgiveness onto a person who has suffered deeply at the hands of another, they are audaciously assuming the role of a god. The only person You have any obligation...
As childhood trauma survivors, our formative years were spent in an unstable and unpredictable environment where we adopted a multitude of self-preservation techniques in order to survive. But those same techniques keep steering us...
Personal Boundary #3 I will not associate with people who treat me or speak to me in a way that makes me feel diminished Are you still associating with people who say and do...
One of the most debilitating burdens of our dysfunctional upbringing is the effect it continues to have on our level of clarity. Do we choose what’s behind door number one, two or three? Our...
When it comes to me discussing relationships, it will always come back to loving yourself. For survivors of chronic childhood trauma, that is our Mt. Everest. We reach the highest pinnacle of healing and...
As a survivor of chronic childhood trauma you grew up justifying the behavior of the crazymakers in your home — to yourself — in order to cope mentally and emotionally. That ongoing survival technique...
Immovable boundaries are the Gatekeepers to your mental and emotional well-being. Today you’re going to find out just how that works. Life is going to get a whole lot better for you—starting right now....
