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RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA: BREAKING THE CYCLE OF PAIN

Recovering from Your Traumatic Childhood helps people see how experiences that they had growing up can have a profound effect on their adult life. A parent can unknowingly traumatize their child by being overly critical, shaming or by behaving in other ways that cause immense pain. The trauma can also occur through physical, emotional or sexual abuse. Children who grow up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes are also at risk for becoming adults who find little satisfaction in life and have difficulty sustaining relationships. As adults they may feel angry, afraid and isolated without understanding the source of their issues. Often they seek solace in addictions just as their parent did. This seminar helps make sense of a traumatic childhood and offers ways to heal before another generation is traumatized.

What You Will Learn:

• Why childhood trauma is the single most important public health challenge in the United States
• How trauma affects a child
• The difference between "single event" trauma and "chronic" trauma
• How growing up in an addicted home causes chronic trauma
• What the "victim mythology" is and how it affects a person's worldview
• The effect of unconscious parenting
• What a symbiotic relationship is and how it affects the child
• How having an overly critical, shaming or perfectionist parents effects the child
• How the wounds of childhood trauma affect the adult
• Ways that an adult repeats the patterns of their childhood trauma
• How to develop "empowering tools"for breaking the cycle of abuse
• How to recover from childhood trauma and stop the cycle before it effects another generation

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Contact Mark Felber and schedule this series for your group.

Office:
Human Connections Counseling Services
Plano, Texas

Phone: (214) 796-2323

E-mail: mark@marriagecpr.com

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