The First Step in Overcoming Childhood Trauma
The feeling that was most pervasive for us as children and the one which is most insidious to us as adults with post childhood trauma symptoms is that we are somehow all ALONE. We learned...
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Emotions and the Middle Way
If you are wrestling with post childhood trauma symptoms in adulthood, right now you don’t even know how good your relationships have the potential to be. Most likely, you currently cannot accurately evaluate the...
Attachment–Disorganized By Chronic Childhood Trauma
In the beginning, there was attachment. In the 1960s a developmental psychologist named Mary Ainsworth conducted a study with 106 babies and their parents called The Strange Situation experiment. Her findings exposed two general...
Tricking Childhood Trauma–The Happy Memories Exercise
We are no longer victims. Although we most certainly suffered through childhood trauma we also had many positive experiences, sometimes even with those who caused us the most pain. We can get so...
Childhood Trauma Drives Us to Distraction
As children, in order to survive experiences of chronic childhood trauma, we dissociated, to whatever degree necessary, from our bodies. Without the help of emotionally healthy adults we could not discern a way...
