Childhood Trauma
Do I even have *trauma*?
I remember the first time a therapist recommended that I work on healing my childhood trauma. My automatic thought was "That's a little dramatic."
If you are finding yourself on this page, maybe you received a similar recommendation. Or perhaps you've come to your own conclusion about your childhood wounds.
Whichever it is, working with a trauma therapist can help. At Wildflower Eating Disorder and Trauma Therapy, I specialize in supporting people who are healing from childhood trauma as adult survivors.
Nobody ever said that life would be easy, but it definitely isn't suppose to be this hard.
When you’ve experienced pain or instability growing up, it can shape how you see yourself, others, and the world around you. You might not even realize how much your past still echoes in your present — but those early experiences have a way of leaving deep roots that can show up in adulthood in surprising ways.
If the past is taking over your present, it doesn't have to keep impacting your future. It is possible to heal from childhood trauma, even as an adult survivor.
Signs that you could be an adult survivor of childhood trauma:
It's really hard to have healthy relationships. This could look like anything from fear of abandonment to avoidance of getting close to people altogether.
Emotions feel really big, all of the time. Happy, angry, sad, excited - you feel everything through a magnifying glass. And, once you do, it's hard to get back to baseline.
Shame and guilt are no strangers. You tend to be really hard on yourself. You might even feel "bad" or like you are constantly about to get in trouble.
Your coping skills aren't the healthiest. You might rely on something like an eating disorder, self-harm, or substance abuse to help you feel better.
How Therapy Can Help
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It can help your emotions feel more manageable. You can learn to identify triggers, utilize healthy coping skills, and stop feeling powerless to your emotional experience.
It can help you to heal parts of yourself that are still holding onto hurt from childhood. You can finally discover the love that your younger self always needed.
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It can help you improve your relationships. You can work through problematic attachment behaviors and change how you communicate, respond to conflict, and more.