Posts Tagged ‘attachment’
Transgenerational Trauma and Attachment: What are These Two Things and How Do They Fit Together?
Part 1 We all know that childhood trauma can have lasting impacts, especially if this trauma goes unresolved. The symptoms of PTSD and other chronic stressors take a toll on our physical, emotional, and cognitive selves. Traumas can be single incident traumas, such as a car accident, or complex trauma, such as ongoing child abuse…
Read MoreFeelings of Abandonment Causing Problems in Your Relationships: How Anxious Attachment and Other Traumas Make You Fear Being Alone and 5 Tips to Overcome This
There is a hollow feeling that comes when you feel like you’ve been abandoned. A tension or tightness in the chest or stomach may constantly linger when you are with others but when they leave, and you are alone, the hollow feeling comes right in. You don’t know which is worse, the ever present tension…
Read MoreThe Sexualization Of Children and How This Can Impact Your Child Sexual Abuse Survivor: 4 Tips To Help Them Stop Blaming Themselves For The Sexual Abuse They Endured
The sexualization of children is not the same as child sexual abuse and yet the lasting impacts can be just as pervasive. When we sexualize children we place them in adult roles, as opposed to seeing them as children. The sexualization of children refers to placing adult attributes on a child’s body and then assigning…
Read MoreHow Child Sexual Abuse Impacts the Developing Brain During Middle Childhood (ages 6-12 years old)
How Child Sexual Abuse Impacts the Developing Brain During Middle Childhood (ages 6-12 years old) (part 3 in a 5 part series) Children who have been sexually abused are typically abused by someone they know. Whether it’s a parent, grandparent, babysitter, family friend or someone else close to the family, this type of trauma has…
Read More4 Tips to Stop Child Sexual Abuse From Continuing and Surviving Being Stuck With Your Abuser
This is for you, the person who is currently surviving sexual abuse being perpetrated against you, at this moment. I know you are feeling afraid to disclose, fear that others will blame, shame and/or judge you, and feeling all alone in your pain. The sexual abuse of a child, has sadly, been a problem in…
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