Adult Child Trauma

Are you struggling with the pain of family estrangement? Do you want to find a path to healing and hope? If you're a parent grappling with the heartache of an estranged adult child, you're not alone. Family estrangement is a silent epidemic, affecting millions of people worldwide. This book offers a compassionate guide to navigating the complex emotions and challenges of family estrangement.Whether you're seeking reconciliation or learning to move forward without it, Healing the Rift With Your Adult Child: Finding Forgiveness and Building Resilience for a Promising Future provides practical...

Did you grow up with a parent who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), or you suspect they did? Was your parent's behavior unpredictable or scary? Did it seem like they were angry one minute and happy the next? Were your basic needs ignored? If so, it wasn't your fault. This compassionate guide offers a trauma-informed approach to help you recover from your toxic childhood and discover the person you were truly meant to be. You'll learn how to identify emotional and developmental wounds, and discover why interactions with your parents were so harmful to your sense of self.

The secret to healing emotional wounds from your past is reconnecting with your inner child. Discover how to nurture this essential relationship... If you've experienced persistent anxiety, self-doubt, struggles with intimacy, or harmful emotional patterns you can't break, you've probably wondered if your childhood experiences might be the cause. Perhaps you've tried various approaches to ease the lingering sadness or emptiness, yet find yourself longing for a solution that truly works. You might even think that carrying these emotional burdens is simply part of life, something you'll just ...

Two Transformative Books in One Powerful Guide! In How to Heal Trauma, you're getting the complete, full-length editions of both Heal Your Inner Child and Somatic Therapy Solution—seamlessly combined into one comprehensive healing resource. Whether you're beginning your healing journey or deepening the work you've already started, this 2-in-1 compilation offers practical tools, compassionate guidance, and step-by-step support to help you reclaim your emotional freedom, resilience, and joy. If you're carrying emotional wounds, persistent anxiety, chronic pain, or self-doubt, you've ...

Unlock Your Emotional Freedom with 41 Powerful Exercises and 3 EXCLUSIVE BONUSES! Includes Guided Meditations, Visualizations, and 365 Journal Prompts. Are You Tired of Being Held Back by Your Past? It’s Time to Break Free and Start Living the Life You Deserve! The hidden emotional scars from childhood trauma often linger far into adulthood, affecting your relationships, self-esteem, and overall happiness. If you're tired of feeling stuck in patterns of self-sabotage, fear, and anxiety, Healing Your Wounded Inner Child is your key to transformation. It’s Not Your Fault, But Now You Can ...

Growing up in a home where there is addiction or relationship trauma puts a child at great risk for long-term, post-traumatic stress effects that adversely compromise adult relationships. Best-selling author, psychologist, and psychodramatist Tian Dayton examines this trauma through an exploration of the way the brain and body process frightening or painful emotions and experiences in childhood.

Reframe your past, transform your future, and experience the healing power of CBT—starting from the day you open this book. Have your goals, hopes, and dreams fallen by the wayside over the years? Do you find it hard to stand up for yourself, and are you so tired of trying to fulfill everyone’s demands that you feel burnt out and fatigued—so much so that all you want to do is be alone? Are many of your relationships unfulfilling, and do you constantly give your best self to people who are narcissistic, codependent, selfish, or uncaring? It doesn’t have to be that way—but don’t ...

This is the 5th book in the series of Abandoned Parents. It is a scientific analysis of alienation of adult children psychologically, sociological and biological. It speaks to the damage done to the human brain as a direct result of this cruelty. The book delves into the failure of efforts at reconciliation while proposing a new concept of healing.

Your past holds power over your present. Childhood experiences shape your beliefs, actions, and relationships more than you realize. Do you struggle with self-doubt, insecurity, or uncontrollable emotions? These are echoes of unresolved childhood trauma, staining your adult life like unseen residue on a canvas. But there's hope. This book offers a compassionate approach to healing your inner child while equipping you with practical tools for emotional growth.

Some parents are plain mean, mentally, emotionally, and physically abusive, manipulative, lying and cold blooded towards their children. They are the kind of parents that you would rather live without than live with; parents you want to distance yourself from and forget that they exist because every time you talk to them, they bring their vile of mean comments, arguments, bring you down, and find opportunities to be aggressive even when not necessary.

The trauma and grief of growing up in an alcoholic or addicted family create a lifetime of baggage. If you grew up in an addicted family, the dysfunction that permeated every aspect of your childhood may have seemed "normal", and you may not even realize the level of affect alcohol still has on your adult life - whether or not you drink. If you are one of the millions of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs), the cost of your childhood pain can be unbearable. You may have learned how to "survive", but are you "living" your life?

If you were raised by emotionally immature parents, you know that unpacking your childhood isn’t easy. You were made to feel like your feelings didn’t matter, while your parent or parents’ feelings were of paramount importance. You may have been neglected emotionally, gaslit, or had your boundaries crossed time and time again. In Emotionally Immature Parents: A Recovery Workbook for Adult Children, you’ll work through all of these experiences and more as you unpack your childhood, and practice creating boundaries with your parents in the present day.

♥ Heal the Hidden Wound That’s Been Keeping You Stuck ♥ Do you ever feel that there’s an invisible force preventing you from achieving your dreams? Do you have incredible gifts…and a long track record of getting in your own way? You may even seem very accomplished in the eyes of others as you put on a brave front. But inside, the strain is taking a toll. Sudden bursts of uncontrolled emotion suggest something wrong at the deepest part of your being. It’s time to uncover and heal the source of all the pain and chaos: The Father Wound. Dr. Simmons guides you through the intricate ...

This guide by Dr. Lawrence L James, an expert in alcoholism and trauma, offers not just knowledge but a shared understanding of the lifelong impact of adverse childhood experiences. Drawing from personal and professional experiences, Dr. James delves into the heart of the emotional and psychological turmoil faced by adult children of alcoholics.

Most people are familiar with PTSD. But many have not heard of complex PTSD and developmental trauma disorder. As adults, many of us experience symptoms of anxiety and depression. We feel chronically stressed. We have trouble trusting others, or we may even experience feelings of paranoia in our relationships with others. We struggle to define what it is that is bothering us, and we struggle to find ways effective ways to treat it.

Trauma is an inevitable aspect of life. You or anyone you care about has almost certainly been through trauma, whether it was "big-T" trauma like mental, physical, or sexual assault, or "little-t" trauma like divorce, loss of employment, terrible childhood events, or any scenario where you seemed worthless, frightened, or helpless. But we can recover. It doesn't have to be a lifelong process. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that has been shown to help individuals recover from trauma and enhance their quality of life.

Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged, Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more effective at recognizing that trauma impacts everybody's health, from patient to practitioner.

Bullying at school left scars on me. In time, I learned to face the childhood trauma, and so can you. The free fall that began when you were tormented by bullies can end. I learned through trial and error. My experiences can make your path easier. The memories of bullies at school are no longer yours to handle alone. This book offers a 4-part program for healing and recovery. Using these strategies, you may be able to make peace with your past and move on. That's what this book is about. Please follow the advice of your licensed mental health professional and members of your support network...

Do you ever feel trapped by your past emotional wounds, unsure how to break free and truly heal? Discover a path to emotional liberation and self-discovery. In 'Thaw - Freedom from Frozen Feelings', Don Carter unveils the profound impact of childhood experiences on our emotional health as adults. Through an insightful exploration of trauma and attachment wounds, the book addresses how early family dynamics shape our core beliefs about ourselves, others, and the life in general, often leading us into cycles of dependency, codependency, and/or addiction. Don Carter, leveraging his expertise ...

Do you find it hard to trust people? Perhaps you imagine how they might hurt you before you even begin to explore a relationship… Your trust issues have to do with your attachment style, and that’s something that cemented itself long ago… but you’re not attached to this forever: It’s something you can change. Find out how to be in adult relationships that are truly healthy and fulfilling. This engaging therapy workbook for adults is the relationship book you need to get you there.