As a young child, you depended on your caregivers to teach you about things like boundaries, love, and individuality. You were vulnerable, dependent, and open - always learning new ways to survive and to ensure that you would not be abandoned, or rejected. You would have learned certain survival mechanisms and to some degree, you would have experienced trauma.

Trauma being an emotional response to an event or person like an argument, a breakup, a form of abuse, or accident perhaps. And this is completely unavoidable - you are living a human experience where things won’t always run smoothly.

In this episode, I discuss how trauma can provide you with life lessons and the importance of exploring your trauma when it comes to unlearning survival mechanisms that are no longer serving you in your adulthood life as they would have in childhood. This is about getting back to the real you - beneath the trauma and roles that were so successfully forced upon you. 

To dive deeper, you can find a supporting blog post on the following link:

https://katieodonoghue.com/theself/healing-trauma