A sensitive, kind, empathic response is what you need. The little traumatized child that still lives inside you has to feel safe and seen. Yet, empathy is not everything. You also need someone with experience and knowledge about childhood trauma and how it affects your life. Someone who see...
As part of Children's Mental Health Week, we explored how parenting styles and a parent’s mental health impacts their children. This covers how a parent can pass down mental health disorders to children and which behavioral and emotional patterns can have a lasting impact on childhood developmen...
Attachment styles form during early childhood but stick with us through adolescence and adulthood. They affect the way we perceive ourselves as individuals as well as the way we view social bonds in general. Our attachment patterns predict (to a large extent) the way we approach and act in re...
This is because we carry our childhood lessons into adulthood, including how we deal with our feelings. So if we’ve never learned how to deal with our emotions constructively, we’ll struggle to express ourselves. However, overcoming the fear of expressing how you feel can be empowering. It...
Rachel, who had experienced caregiver addiction and abandonment during childhood, immigrated in adolescence with the hope of connection, identity and family care: “I was so excited but six months later I was in a new school in a new country, and I didn’t know anybody, am [pauses] and ...
In childhood, when compliments are given to a child’s physical appearance, it can ignore the beauty within. There is a higher chance of developing eating disorders, anxiety, depression, etc., as they enter adolescence and young adulthood. ...
and in the case of the fear of love oremotional connection, these experiences are usually based in attachment. If feelings of painful abandonment were present in the formative years (or later on in life), an aversion to closeness with others could result in adulthood for fear of revisiting th...
Most of it could have happened from childhood. I mean, there's not a single person out there that's a drug addict that didn't have some sort of traumatic thing happen. And just, you know, we just respond to it wrong just once. And it works for us just this one time. And then,...
fromdecision-makingprocesses to work experiences and everything in between. Trauma can take a major toll on one’s relationships, especially if the original trauma involved a betrayal of humanity or risk of harm by people who were supposed to be loving and nurturing.Childhoodtrauma, abus...
but it’s never too late to ask the Lord’s forgiveness for yourself and His healing for your child. The following article, I’ll have more sharing on how to pray for your inner child since you’ve ever got hurt by corporal punishment in the childhood. We’ll also talk about how the...