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Start Healing Your Childhood Trauma
How we were raised shaped us.
Everyone is undoubtedly influenced by their upbringing. Thus, we can all gain from examining how our childhood impacted our adult lives. There are many different childhoods out there. Sometimes, childhood memories and impacts are happy and loving; other times, they involved pain, neglect, or abuse.
We can’t change how we were raised but we can start changing how our upbringing affected us.
People are all different, even within your own family. Each of your siblings had a different experience growing up. Each person in your family has their own distinct memories and individual impacts of their younger years.
You may have been raised in the same home with the same parents. However, this doesn’t mean you will have the same memories. Your feelings and emotional scars also differ.
Many factors contribute to our unique experiences. These include personality differences and sibling order. Changes in our parents over time also play a role, as do childhood friends and support systems. Childhood is truly unique for every person.
Some of us need to heal from our childhoods. Maybe you do. You may think it is too late. You might feel you are too old. It was so long ago, it can’t possibly affect you now. But it does.
