Psychology
Childhood Trauma and its impacts
“Early life adversity is the single biggest determinant of psychiatric illness, greater even then genetics” Charles Nemeroff MD,PHD
Experts agree that developmental trauma is caused by events which occur between the ages of 0-3 years old.
Biology and contraction lead to a shutdown of the self. The brain is highly plastic and vulnerable during childhood. If babies get what they need from an empathic caregiver they feel safe and learn to experience joy and fulfilment later on in life.
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A stressed, unemphatic, distracted or unaware mother or caregiver can affect a child´s procedural memory and create maladaptive patterns including later on behavioural risk, social isolation and physical or psychological health issues, burnout, depression, auto immune diseases, anxiety, unhappiness, sleeplessness, difficult relationships, unmanaged emotions and many other symptoms.
Because deep brain areas are activated they become our automatic reaction or gut response in the future. Therefore you might feel that you are constantly stressed.
Early trauma affects our attachment system, our emotions and the nervous system. Neglect in early childhood can put you at risk for identity distortion, risky behaviour and low self-esteem. Old identifications block us from being present. Trauma is the loss of connection, a loss of connect to the self. This disconnection can cause life long symptoms with profound health issues and social affects and intentional self harm.
How do we loose ourselves?
As a child we had to choose between our authenticity and our survival style. Adults wanted something to happen within the child that didn´t feel attuned. This adaptation internally impacts. Maladaptive patterns protect the attachment relationship and create critical feelings of the Self such as shame and guilt.
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Therapy:
Therapy can help find a better way of coping now with your life. Let go of who you think you should be and realize who you are. If you understand the root of a pattern you have been struggling all life but haven’t been able to understand, you will get so much relief. Therapy can help unlock or process traumatic memories and release them from being trapped in your system. When the traumatic memory is psychobiologically reintegrated your nervous system, your emotions, your body, your relationships begin to heal.
You will get from an overwhelming level to an overcoming one. You can reach there if you get out of your traumatic identity. New possibilities, good health, joy and authenticity will surface and lifeforce will regain.
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Therapy should definitely get released from stigma. Parts of traumatic imprints are almost in every individual. As CG Jung already said, it should be a privilege to everyone to become the person you truly are.
“The quality of our relationship is the most important factor for happiness and health” (75 year Harvard study)
Reconnection and authenticity is the best you can do for yourself. Healing our traumatic imprints is great healing for our world, our society, family, partners,
How to relate to ourselves differently is what we can do to ourselves and others.
“At the center of your being you have the answer, you know who you are and you know what you want to.” Lao TZU.
Are you ready to explore?
I am looking forward to connect with you. You can book your own personal talking-session here. Please you can reach me per email at info@narm-traumaheilung.ch or fill out my contact form on my website: http://www.narm-traumaheilung.ch or call at +41(1) (O) 77 529 47 61, I will explore how I can be of service to your wellbeing.
About the author:
Dominique is active in the ever growing trauma community. As a practitioner of the revolutionary Neuro Affective Relational Model(NARM®)method, which focuses on helping people heal from complex trauma. Her mission is to support people in finding effective ways to confront their trauma related challenges and help them heal individually and collectively. She has extensive expertise in psychology including various areas of depth psychology and is certified in the psycho-therapeutic NARM®method
