How To Heal From Emotional Trauma And Past Wounds?

Do you pull away before someone else can, anticipating their rejection? Relationship struggles like this can leave you feeling confused, baffled, and lonely.

You may wonder why the same patterns keep repeating themselves. And if there’s something wrong with you because you can’t find love like everyone else.

Maybe, instead of pulling away, you cling tightly to someone you should let go. That’s another sign of relationship struggles stemming from childhood.

Both these patterns are emblematic of insecure attachment. The first is avoidant and the second is

One of the many outcomes of childhood trauma is black and white thinking. This is the all or nothing mentality that leaves no room for two things to be true at once.

If your home life was chaotic and traumatic, black and white thinking may have given you a sense of control. It allowed you to organize things into distinct categories of good and bad or right and wrong with no room for overlap.

That’s why you found yourself holding someone on a pedestal when you met them. Then downgrading them to evil when they let you down or made a mistake.

Your immature inner child would not let you label them a good person who did a bad thing. It had to be all or nothing. This is how complex-PTSD has robbed yo

Catastrophizing means expecting the worst when something bad happens. It could be a coping mechanism learned in childhood to help you regulate your emotions.

No one taught you that failure is inevitable on the road to success. When you made mistakes you may have experienced punishment or rejection. So, you strive to be perfect and chastise yourself when you’re not.

Rather than a normal part of any growth journey, whether personal or business, you see failure as fatal. You assume that making one mistake at work, for example, means you’ll lose your livelihood.

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Have you ever felt that trauma has stolen your spontaneity and disrupted the flow of your everyday life? Do past traumatic events make the world seem unreachable? Learn how to heal from past trauma, and know you’re not alone in this struggle!

Healing from trauma is a journey that demands time, self-love, and patience. While the path to recovery may be challenging, the right mindset and strategies can help you move forward and find peace.

This guide will provide you with practical steps, insights, and strategies regarding how to help from past trauma and navigate the healing process to reclaim your life.

Let’s Understand Trauma and Its Types

Through my journey with Brown Girl Trauma, I have read stories from people worldwide sharing why they don’t feel comfortable talking about their emotional trauma.

Many people shared feeling reluctant to talk about their experiences because they worried about what other people would think or felt like they were burdening someone, making it difficult to talk about their feelings and thoughts with others.

However, talking about what you have been through can be helpful as it allows you to start making sense of what happened and a way to move forward.

Remember, having a safe and supportive environment to communicate openly and honestly about your experiences is essential.

Have you ever felt like you were the parent in your relationship with your mom and dad? That’s emotional parentification, and it’s a lot more common than you think.

What is Parentification?

Do you feel like you have been acting the role of a therapist for your parents, regulating their emotions and problem-solving for them? Maybe you may have taken on the part of a caregiver for your siblings?. If you are inclined to answer yes, you may relate to being a parentified child.

Parentification is when there is a role reversal between a parent and child. The child is expected to take on functional responsibilities or the emotional caring of the family members that are not developmentally appropriate for the child. Researcher’

Repetition compulsion is a common issue in relationships, leading many people to relive old hurts and conflicts. These recurring patterns and conflicts can feel frustration and bewildering. Explore how repetition compulsion works in the article below.

KEY POINTS

The “repetition compulsion” is a basic concept in psychotherapy.

Freud believed the repetition compulsion was a reflection of the death instinct—an unconscious drive toward self-destruction.

The repetition compulsion is acted out through processes such as displacement and projection.

The “repetition co