Healing Your Wounded Inner Child: A CBT Workbook to Overcome Past Trauma, Face Abandonment and Regain Emotional Stability. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

Maintain an open mind.

Fear of being abandoned is one of the most damaging and common fears when you have had a traumatic childhood. It can give you a sense of insecurity in all relationships and you may act in an unhealthy or possessive way.

Without facing the past and the pain that was inflicted upon you, you will never move beyond that stage of your life and learn to trust and love enough to have truly meaningful relationships.

Your pain is as valid as anyone else’s and should not be compared.

Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive dissonance is a behavioral struggle that happens when your actions do not match your beliefs. This state of mind occurs when a person has a contradictory attitude, value, or belief about one particular thing. A good example of this is that people do not practice what they preach. Someone may speak vehemently about hel

People often feel they are not allowed to express their feelings when their distress does not meet extreme standards. You may feel your trauma isn’t that bad by comparison to others, but pain doesn’t have a limit.

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As an adult, you may still hold that feeling, that expressing how you feel is a sign of weakness and something to be ashamed of.

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