Learning to Live in Your Body After Childhood Trauma
One of the most interesting side effects of childhood trauma is that many of us feel we are separated from our bodies. We acknowledge we have a body but view it as an inconvenient necessity that we prefer to ignore. In this piece, we will focus on learning...
The Lie That You Are Defective or Damaged Goods
Dissociative identity disorder is caused by severe and repetitive trauma in early childhood abuse, including sexual, physical, emotional, and verbal plus neglect or all of the above. One of the unfortunate consequences of childhood trauma is that children who are traumatized will often internalize the messages given to...
Learned Helplessness and Childhood Trauma
Learned helplessness is a term I had never experienced until recently. I had felt helpless and out of control of my life, but the words learned helplessness took me by surprise. In this article, we shall explore learned helplessness and what it means for survivors of childhood trauma....