Tian Dayton Quotes: Feeling Angry All The Time

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Feeling Angry Is Normal, Acting Out Hurts Everyone Feeling angry all the time is often a characteristic of someone who has experienced trauma or been hurt. It’s also part of addiction. How do anger and addiction go together? We get this question all the time. They are related, and when you add stress and anxiety […]

Why Child Trauma Is So Tough To Process

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Adults Need To Know Their Child Trauma Child trauma has lasting impact because we don’t forget and get over the painful effects of abuse, neglect, or heartbreaking incidents. Lasting impact from war, discrimination, addiction, family dysfunction are just some of the ways that our brains are affected. From Dr. Tian Dayton, Forgiving Parents: Breaking the […]

Gratitude for Children Of Alcoholics

Gratitude for children of alcoholics

Gratitude For Children Of Alcoholics: Rethinking Your Life Gratitude for children of alcoholics doesn’t come easy. Feeling gratitude is difficult when there is abuse and neglect in your past. Here are 7 ways children of alcoholics can feel grateful this holiday season from Tian Dayton. How many times have I heard people share that they […]

Tian Dayton Quotes: Taking Responsibility

Tian Dayton Quotes Taking responsibility

Taking responsibility means being able to say “my bad” when things don’t turn out well and not keep pretending it’s someone else’s fault. Say you didn’t do something you were supposed to do and the consequences were dire. You don’t say, well, you kept me up last night. Or you did this so I forgot […]

How The Past Comes Back To Haunt Us

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Does what happened in the past stay in the past? Absolutely not. One of the most significant triggers for childhood relationship trauma are adult relationships.