Amanda describes one of the seemingly silly things that she has to do to feel safe in the article: For years, I didn’t understand my need to sit in a booth or corner bench. I felt I needed to make excuses. Now I understand it as just one of the many symptoms of growing up…
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I have talked many times about how we can make kids less of a target for abusers when they have open, caring, communication with parents. But, even with that in place, traumatic events can still happen. Well, it turns out having that parent helps kids deal better with that too: “Worse, the negative effect on…
I really like the way Katie has tried to simplify what goes on in our brains, and how someone with a traumatic childhood may have some difficulty in how the brain processes threats. Or, in her words: “This is why when we encounter the everyday fuzz that either consciously or unconsciously reminds us of our…
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