Trauma – what’s that?

These days more people speak about trauma. And that’s good. Awareness is building. But really what is trauma? Unresolved trauma alters memory, effects our health, determines our capacity to relate, to cope with stress and much more…

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childhood trauma lives under the skin

adverse childhood experiences, their lifelong effect and what helps for a better life

We are finding that adverse childhood experiences do not only alter our so-called psyche, but the immune system, the set up of the brain, our stress response, the capacity to take information in, social behaviour, even the DNA. That obviously has a determining impact on chances in life.

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Relating starts earlier than we thought

Most of us have heard it or have recognized it in themselves:
relating starts within me, starts with the relationship I have with myself.

So what influences the relationship I have with myself? How does that come into existence? What plays into that?

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