Healing Childhood Trauma

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Healing Childhood Trauma

We can’t go back and change the past, but we can loosen the grip the past has on us. The following are some methods to help you begin the healing process:

1. Listen to yourself

What kinds of things are going on around you when you become angry, irritated, or experience emotional pain? Who are you talking to? You can make the connection between these triggers and childhood traumas by being aware of them.

There are other significant ways to listen to yourself. Taking care of oneself is a necessary step in being self-aware. Sometimes, as adults, we cling to the patterns we developed when our needs weren't satisfied as children. Taking care of your personal needs can be a really effective way to love yourself.

2. Meditate

Meditation has a lot of benefits, but one of the most powerful is that it teaches you to sit with difficult emotions. The greatest method to regulate your stress levels and improve emotional regulation abilities is to learn how to be present with your feelings.

3. Build a new set of caregivers

Parents are not flawless for everyone. Growing up is a weird thing because it makes you realize how ignorant your parents were when they were raising their children. Even when they’ve done the best they can, we all hold a few grudges against people that we grew up with.

You can’t go back and say the right things to yourself to make it all better, but you can practice self-care and compassion right now. Make the decision to raise yourself. When you feel your inner wounded child getting upset, step in the way you wish someone would have when you were young.

4. Try inner child therapy

There are mental health practitioners who specialize in inner child treatment if you believe that you would benefit from it. These clinicians draw from several modalities, like shadow work, attachment theory, psychoanalysis, and even art therapy.

Inner child therapists assist you in making the links between the events of your childhood and how they can still be quietly influencing your conduct as an adult. They might quiz you about certain experiences, your internal family dynamics, and the triggers that still have an impact on you.

5. Reimagine your childhood

A guided meditation is a common first step in many forms of inner child training. The purpose of these exercises is to facilitate your reconnection with your younger self. It has been demonstrated that visualization approaches enhance performance and stress management.

Working with a therapist educated in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment may be beneficial when addressing prior trauma. These therapists can assist you in recontextualizing the trauma by guiding you through tiny bite-sized reenactments of past events. This is particularly useful if thinking back on your experiences causes PTSD symptoms.

6. Talk to your loved ones

Many of us harbor resentment toward relatives or childhood acquaintances who have wronged us. We might swear to be nothing like them, or we might blame them for who we are today. However, we were most likely totally cut off from whatever problems they could have had as adults when we were kids.

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a family member who I love very much, but that I had always thought of as mean. When I was born, she was in her forties, so it never seemed like we had all that much in common. However, I learned tales about her early life and adulthood throughout this talk. I became much more understanding when I realized for the first time just how difficult her life had been.

Although the difficulties of others do not excuse abuse, you may find closure in your relationships with them if you view them from a different angle. It may even help you build — or repair — relationships with people you had written off.

7. Remember how to play

The fact that we cease playing as we get older is one of the saddest things. We believe that we must be serious if we are to succeed. We take ourselves seriously because it feels like the stakes are bigger and our futures are constantly in jeopardy. Above all, though, we take responsibility for our errors extremely seriously. We start to define ourselves by our fear of failing in ways that we never could have imagined as kids.

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You can release oxytocin as an adult and cope with your inner child in the following ways:

• Massage by yourself or someone else. For self massage.

• Yoga—This lowers blood pressure and reduces stress.

• Bath—Soak yourself in warm water and bubbles and let your thoughts drift away.

• Weighted Blanket—It will feel like a hug!

• Listen to or make music—Create a self-care playlist.

• Meditation—A great meditation you can do is Inner Child Healing Meditation on Youtube by Relax for a While.

• Foster Connection—A support system and social activity will help you heal.

• Intimacy—Hug, cuddles or sex or anything where you express physical closeness with someone.

• Pet animals—There’s a reason there are emotional support pets. Even if you don’t get one, you can still enjoy the presence of an animal.

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Be happy on purpose. Go outside. Stretch. Read a book. Call a friend. Meditate. Write in a journal. Drink water. Eat good food. Breathe. Learn something new. Express gratitude. Chase the sun. Dance. Create Magic.

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