childhood trauma
observation on patterns of behaviour developed in difficult childhoods and their persistent effects throughout life
childhood trauma
We Are the (Neurodivergent) Mothers We Needed
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Clinical studies of such children reveal that a preponderance of them have parents who have related to them in either a helpless and fearful way or a hostile and self-referential one. The children of helpless and fearful parents, in particular, have a very difficult time later in life. Their parents tend to be sweet and fragile, not hostile or
... See moreMark Epstein • The Trauma of Everyday Life
Where parenting fails to communicate unconditional acceptance to the child, it is because of the fact that the child receives the parent’s love not as the parent wishes but as it is refracted through the parent’s personality.
Gabor Maté • When the Body Says No
Until you can accept who you are and value yourself deeply enough to bring your true, authentic self to others, you will experience an incongruence between your values and your actions.
Claire Jack • Women with Autism: Accepting and Embracing Autism Spectrum Disorder as You Move Towards an Authentic Life
When Crying Never Came: A Hypothesis for Neurocomplex Adults Living with Invisible Early Trauma
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“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow • LF:13 Family Futures
When Your Father Was There But Wasn't
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