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Growing Up in a Troubled Family
Childhood Trauma is the Wound. The Band-aid is Addiction.

Childhood Trauma is the Wound. The Band-aid is Addiction.

“Your instincts may tell you that you can’t survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftover child instincts. They’re the ones…
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Kathy Berman
The Family Roles We Adopted Set Up Patterns of Behavior

The Family Roles We Adopted Set Up Patterns of Behavior

Our self-image is formed by allowing ourselves to be influenced by various authority figures. As we mature and accept the responsibility…
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Kathy Berman
Your Brain Developed Differently Because of Childhood Trauma

Your Brain Developed Differently Because of Childhood Trauma

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they…
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Kathy Berman
My Childhood Held the Clues for Discovering Who I Am

My Childhood Held the Clues for Discovering Who I Am

By the time my father was 26 years old, he was the married father of two daughters, had been a tail gunner in World War II for 3 years…
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How We Coped
During My Childhood, I lived on an Emotional Island

During My Childhood, I lived on an Emotional Island

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Dissociation Helped Us Cope With Childhood but Keeps Us Stuck in the Past

Dissociation Helped Us Cope With Childhood but Keeps Us Stuck in the Past

A lot of the recovery from childhood trauma, abuse, etc. is about learning the ways we avoided feeling the feelings. We don’t heal until…
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Kathy Berman
You Are Who You Think You Are: Learn to Curb Your Inner Critic

You Are Who You Think You Are: Learn to Curb Your Inner Critic

Our self-image is formed by allowing ourselves to be influenced by various authority figures. As we mature and accept the responsibility…
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Kathy Berman
We Plan in Our Minds But Live in Our Feelings

We Plan in Our Minds But Live in Our Feelings

“It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the…
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Changing Your Core Beliefs
We Learned Our Core Beliefs as Children Trying to Fit Into Chaos

We Learned Our Core Beliefs as Children Trying to Fit Into Chaos

You cannot make a long-term change in behaviors without addressing the beliefs that underlie them… Most humans try to change things by…
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Kathy Berman
Your Core Issues Undermine Your Life Until You Let Go of the Defenses You Developed as a Child

Your Core Issues Undermine Your Life Until You Let Go of the Defenses You Developed as a Child

“You cannot make a long-term change in behaviors without addressing the beliefs that underlie them… Most humans try to change things by…
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Kathy Berman
The Childhood Core Issue That Helped to Feed My Depression

The Childhood Core Issue That Helped to Feed My Depression

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Core Beliefs Can be Changed. But First They Must be Accepted.

Core Beliefs Can be Changed. But First They Must be Accepted.

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Core Beliefs Determine Our Self Acceptance

Core Beliefs Determine Our Self Acceptance

From “You are not hard to love”:
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