8 Trauma Books That Will Help You Understand And Heal Your Childhood
We all deserve to be free.
Childhood trauma is far more common than you might imagine — and it can incredibly difficult to realize your childhood was not as great as you thought it was.
In our first years of life, we need a safe environment with predictable, available, and loving caregivers. This creates a secure base that will allow us to become confident and emotionally healthy adults.
Without this secure base, we develop unhealthy beliefs and coping mechanisms: our nervous system becomes dysregulated, we people-please, we don’t know how to identify or satisfy our needs, and we don’t know how to build fulfilling intimate relationships. These are clear signs of “invisible”, developmental trauma.
Developmental trauma is the root cause of C-PTSD and is defined as chronic and prolonged developmentally adverse traumatic events, most often of an interpersonal nature.
If you’d like to understand yourself better and make sense of your childhood, these books will definitely help you!
1. “When Pleasing You Is Killing Me” by Dr. Les Carter
Are you one who likes to keep the peace even when it comes at a high emotional price for…
