Childhood Trauma

Trauma and its effects can feel like a never-ending storm, and there's no safe harbor in sight from the thoughts and emotions that toss and turn so violently and unpredictably in your head. But healing is possible. Your brain can actually rewire these thoughts and emotions. And you can direct that powerful healing process through journaling.

From a young age, Layla Salek has experienced some people as colors—her mother brown, her father green, her husband rainbow. As she notes, sometimes, when words fail, colors speak. Chaos in Color is the captivating story of Layla’s journey from childhood to adulthood with a mother who suffered from untreated bipolar disorder. Each chapter paints a vivid, heartbreaking picture of the abuse, neglect, and trauma that she experienced as she grew up at the mercy of her mother’s bipolar swings, an incompetent mental health system, and the strangers with whom she was often left.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy.

With poignant prose and a deeply authentic personal story, this harrowing account exposes the stark and painful realities of childhood abuse, painting a heart-breaking picture of the lasting pain and fear that it inflicts on its victims. Spanning 30 years, in this coming-of-age memoir, author Christina Vitagliano recounts in vivid detail the frightening nights spent when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom, along with the psychological toll that the relentless familial abuse took on her psyche.

In Inner Child Healing: Self Affirmations: Heal Deep Wounds and Free Yourself from Past Trauma. Enhance Meditation, Inner Work, and Therapy, you will be guided through a collection of over 200 self-affirmations specifically curated to enhance your inner work, inner bonding, shadow work, therapy, and meditation practices. Inner child healing is an essential component of the healing process for childhood trauma. Through the practice of self-affirmations, you will begin to rewrite the narrative of your inner child, infusing it with love, compassion, and empowerment.

Daily Gratitude: Inner Child Healing: A Guided Gratitude List of 300+ Things to be Grateful for During Your Journey to Recovery of Past Trauma and Wounds is designed specifically for your inner child healing journey to recovery. Congratulations on taking this courageous step towards healing and self-discovery. This book serves as a powerful tool to enhance your shadow work, inner work, and therapy, fostering a mindset of gratitude and positivity as you navigate the delicate process of healing childhood trauma.

Narcissistic Parents by In A Nutshell is written to show you how to end your lifelong struggle with parental narcissistic abuse and recover your self-esteem. Within this book, you’ll discover how to deal with the impacts of narcissistic abuse, heal from emotional abuse, and know how to move forward beyond self-doubt and fear to create a life of meaningful purpose.

In this insightful, emotional, and thought provoking memoir, fashion mogul Blake Martin bares his soul and guides his audience through his childhood trauma. Through entertaining stories and brutal honesty, Martin stands on the pedestal of his truth.

A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states, and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life, it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction—multiple personality—is more common than we think.

Each year at least a billion children around the world are victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that range from physical abuse to racial discrimination to neglect and food deprivation. The brain plasticity of our most vulnerable makes the adverse effects of trauma only that much more damaging to mental and physical development. Those dealt a hand of ACEs are more likely to drop out of school, have a shorter life, abuse substances, and suffer from myriad mental health and behavioral issues.

The depth or imaginal psychotherapy is highly effective in treating and assessing adult survivors of childhood abuse. Specifically, interventions that use dreams, symbols, and metaphor, as well as expressive art techniques, are deemed especially valuable as they address dissociative changes. By assessing specific depth psychological aspects of the individual’s shattered sense of self, a more focused and efficient treatment plan can be created sooner in the course of therapy. Discover more with Brain Healing and Trauma.

Are you tired of repeating the same unhealthy relationship patterns? Do you find yourself constantly seeking validation and approval from others? Look no further! In this groundbreaking book, you delve into the intricate relationship between childhood trauma and codependency, offering listeners a roadmap to healing and self-discovery.

Violet knows that time is a futile healer. When she thinks of her happily married grandfather—a predator lovingly referred to as Papa—the feelings of rage and betrayal still swell. Her younger sister, Lily, just discovered the numbing truth about him. Their mother, Rose? She can’t believe it. Not Papa. Leave it alone, Violet. Focus on the now.

In this recording, Jane gives an explanation of the healing cycle, including a personal account of her own journey into self-discovery and ultimate healing. Her soothing voice guides listeners through the complete healing process and to the gifts it will bring. With just one listening parts your life will be healed and transformed, but you will want to hear it again and again!

Verás, sanar del trauma infantil no tiene que ser complicado. Incluso si has intentado terapia, libros de autoayuda u otros métodos sin éxito. La verdad es que es mucho más simple de lo que piensas. La entusiasta del trauma y autora, Callie Parker, te proporciona un plan paso a paso para la sanación emocional sin retraumatizarte.

The path to healing begins by going inwards. The path forward, paradoxically, begins by going backward. Our early experiences shape and mold the person we become, and when those experiences are filled with fear, anxiety, shame, and misery, what becomes of the adult? Whether you endured parental abuse, neglect, a home filled with conflict, or a mentally ill parent, there's no denying you can't come out of such traumas unscathed

Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged, Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more effective at recognizing that trauma impacts everybody's health, from patient to practitioner.

Greatest Hits of My Childhood Trauma is the story of a boy fighting to exist in a world that would rather throw him away. A memoir of growing up gay in '90s Middle America, this shocking tale of a failed attempt at conversion therapy will make you laugh, cry, and want to burn everything to the ground. Known as "The Filthiest Gay Rapper Alive," the debut foray into the literary world of Alex Dark (better known as MC Crumbsnatcher) is not to be missed.

"Well, if you are not going to help around the house, you might as well get the hell out!" my mother yelled at the top of her lungs. She was throwing me out of the house when I was six years old! She had a frightening, aggressive posture. She was leaning forward and was stiff as a board. The world came to an end for me. I felt and emptiness in my chest; I felt powerless and absolutely forsaken.

Anxiety can escalate to another level. When a person is exposed to traumatic or negative events where they feel little or no control in the outcome, the anxiety can turn into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you have enough recurring events in your life that are traumatic, you may even be diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).