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Understanding Childhood Trauma

1/20/2023

Young woman with blonde hair swimming water represents someone who has experience childhood trauma. I offer treatment for childhood trauma, anxiety, low self-esteem, and codependency for adults in Kansas and Florida.

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What is Trauma?

Trauma is a subjective experience of psychological distress. What may be highly traumatic for one person, might not be traumatic at all for another.

Trauma occurs when 1) our brain interprets something as a threat to our survival, 2) our nervous system becomes overwhelmed, and 3) we feel alone in that overwhelm. That last part is really important, especially when trying to understand trauma that occurs in childhood.

You Don't Have A Mental Illness, You Experienced Trauma

1/6/2023

Young man wearing yellow sunglasses representing a young adult who is attended online therapy to trauma treatment. Sacred Circle Holistic Healing offers individual counseling for adults in Florida and Kansas.

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It's All About Trauma

Many of my clients come to therapy thinking that there is something fundamentally wrong with them. I hear them say things like,

“My brain just doesn’t work right.”
“I struggle with anxiety, so does my mom; mental illness just runs in our family.”
“I have mental illness.”

But usually what we find is that the issue isn’t with their brain at all, but rather the unresolved trauma they’ve been carrying.

Understanding Childhood Trauma

What is Trauma?

You Don't Have A Mental Illness, You Experienced Trauma

It's All About Trauma

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