Why Significant Childhood Trauma Is So Tough To Process

childhood trauma

From Dr. Tian Dayton, Forgiving Parents: Breaking the Chain of Anger, Resentment and Pain –  Triggered pain is so confusing to decode and deal with. Primarily, emotional responses to childhood trauma are recorded by the parts of the brain that were developed early in our evolution. This area of brain memory is often referred to […]

Questions Children Of Alcoholics Ask Their Therapists

Adult children often ask these questions

“Will I be like my dad?” “My whole family are addicts; does this mean I’ll be one too?” Many children of an alcoholic parent are driven to “not end up like” that parent. Unfortunately, what we resist only persists.  These adult children often create a life that’s fertile for alcoholism or other addictive behaviors. Anxiety, […]