Healing From Childhood Trauma: A Science Based Guide to Understanding Your Wounds, Breaking the Patterns, and Building Life You Were Always Meant Have

Childhood trauma does not stay in childhood. It travels forward through the patterns it creates -- the automatic reactions, the relational templates, the survival strategies that were formed to manage the original wound and that continue to shape your adult life long after the original conditions >Healing From Childhood Trauma is a science-based guide to understanding those wounds, recognizing how they run your present, and doing the work >Inside this book you will find: - What childhood trauma actually is -- including the ACE research, small-t trauma, and why the body holds what the mind cannot - The polyvagal theory and the nervous system science of trauma -- why you react the way you do - The patterns trauma creates: relational patterns, core beliefs, behavioral survival strategies, and the reenactment cycle - The three phases of trauma recovery and what the work of each phase actually involves - Nervous system regulation skills including grounding, safe place, titration, and window of tolerance expansion - The grief and anger that trauma recovery requires -- and why most people avoid them - Reparenting -- becoming the caregiver you needed -- with practical tools and daily practices - How to heal relational wounds through relationships, including the therapeutic relationship and earned secure attachment - Post-traumatic growth -- what genuine healing makes possible that the defended life cannot >This book also provides clear guidance on when professional support is necessary and how to >You did not choose the childhood you had. You can choose what you do next.