012: Pete Buecker: Healing Childhood Trauma

In this episode you will learn about:

• What childhood trauma is and how no-one escapes childhood completely unscathed
• How childhood trauma can make us feel isolated and different, and how it shapes us as we grow older
• How the effects of issues from our childhood can be present in our lives for years
• How trauma is characterised by the presence of shame and shame-based thoughts
• The symptoms of early-life trauma and family dysfunction
• How your inner voice is a strong indicator of early-life trauma and how self-talk can reflect shame-based thoughts
• How many of us feel inadequate and intrinsically flawed deep within ourselves, but how we conversely believe that everyone else is adequate and absolutely fine
• How understanding childhood trauma can shape us as parents so that we that we can help our kids feel comfortable in their own skin
• How shame is present in many aspects of our lives
• How we all deserve to be happy and how this can sometimes require facing our past experiences so that we can process them in order to be comfortable in our own skin
• How being exposed to childhood trauma doesn’t make our families bad people
• The importance of talking about childhood trauma
• How trauma can be inherited
• How to let go of the legacy of childhood trauma.

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Resources

The following books are mentioned in the Podcast:

• Bradshaw, J. (1990). Home coming. [London]: Piatkus
• Harris, T. (1973). I’M OK – YOU’R OK. LONDON: PAN Books

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