Healing childhood trauma

Sometimes it's hard to believe that small painful events of our childhood, the concept of merit - "Trauma". It is easier to look at events such as physical and sexual abuse, severe neglect, or death of a parent or sibling to be traumatic. But there are also smaller in childhood traumas that occur in everyday life circumstances ... How can you humiliate a mistake in a classroom and a teacher or medium will be a series of "off the popular crowd, and you feellonely and left out, or were teased and bullied by older siblings or classmates. Each of these events from childhood trauma may get stuck in your consciousness and have an impact, later to do in your adult life. Sometimes the more subtle experiences of how deals often overlooked, but well-meaning parents may be more difficult to treat because it is more difficult to discern, the experience as "traumatic".

If the memory is traumatic, it remains with you. With this memoryis the strong emotional feeling is painful at the time of the event with negative beliefs about themselves, they had to stop in time. These thoughts, images and feelings can get stuck in the body and mind and can influence the way an adult. negative beliefs, such as "It's my fault," or I'm not lovable "or" I'm not good enough, you can distort your reality. low self-esteem, shame, depression and anxiety are symptoms that may develop as a result of childhood trauma.

One of the firstSteps in the recovery of healing from childhood trauma is to recognize what happened. If the shock is large or small, there is a tendency to dismiss or minimize their impact on the feelings associated with it. We can keep the old ideas to cry for something in the past makes us weak, vulnerable, or that we will open a further humiliation. So it is easier stuff down, deny what has happened and say that our emotions play no role.

If this happens, these violations of childrenpossible with our historical perspective as a child to remain limited by the knowledge and experience. It 'hard to see that something good can relive and share memories of past traumas are painful to accept. However, it is through this first step towards the recognition of trauma, injury child inside, the ability to heal and a new and fresh perspective that is grounded in present reality to be developed.