Research has shown that one of the most significant factors in overcoming childhood trauma is the presence of a caring, compassionate adult. These relationships can offer stability, safety, and a model for positive behavior and coping mechanisms. Here are actionable steps to estab...
Just as your childhood trauma may be a unique and individual experience, your path to healing from it will likely be specific to you. Recovering from childhood trauma can be a lengthy process that may leave you feeling worse before feeling better, but mental health is often an area that requ...
Lesson 2: The Long Reach of Childhood Trauma: Exploring its Impact on Adult Life Welcome to Lesson 2, where we’re going to take a fascinating journey into how the echoes of childhood trauma can ripple through our adult lives. Buckle up, because this is where we uncover just how impactful...
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse and neglect has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced...
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible ...
Because the developing brain organizes and internalizes new information in a use-dependent fashion, the more a child is in a state of hyperarousal or dissociation, the more likely they are to have neuropsychiatric symptoms fo...
You’d know it from some common triggers you may feel from time to time, with one example representing a chakra blockage: Childhood wounds or unprocessed trauma Chronic stress, burnout, and overwork Repressed emotions, like grief, anger, desire ...
How young children process trauma Jeanette Betancourt: First, it’s shifting our way of thinking about early childhood. We often look at the impact of trauma on school-age children. Once they get into school, yes, children can express their feelings more, and they are able to tell you m...
Other possible inducements of BDD could be childhood trauma, abuse or neglect. Researchers are attempting to determine whether frequent instances of abuse or neglect as children -- especially emotional neglect -- could be linked to the development of BDD. In one study, 78 percent of participants ...
“When we get to be adults, childhood trauma doesn’t go away,” Terr told the filmmakers. “In fact, some of it gets worse.” Terr went on to follow the Chowchilla children for five years, publishing landmark research that was among the first to focus on the experience of children wh...