Healing from Childhood Trauma as an Adult in Ohio
Your childhood trauma may have followed you into adulthood through symptoms like: anxiety, emotional dysregulation, dissociation, flashbacks/intrusive thoughts, avoidance, hypervigilance, relationship/attachment challenges, chronic health problems, difficulties with trust, and low self-worth,
but that doesn’t mean it defines you or has to limit your present and future.
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The trauma you experienced may have made it feel safer for you to grow up quickly and shut down your emotions. There wasn’t room or safety for you to express your emotions before, so you did what you had to just to push through.
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You likely became an expert at avoiding, repressing, and then later intellectualizing and analyzing your overwhelming feelings… but yet they always come back or come out in other ways. You may also have developed a "spidey sense" for what other people around you are feeling, as predicting this helped you strategize how to best avoid conflict and/or people please.
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These strategies have protected you and gotten you this far in life. But are they still serving you? Are you ready to thank and outgrow them?
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Trauma therapy shouldn't be retraumatizing and you don't have to talk about it in painstaking detail. What we are healing is the way you've been impacted. Approaches like EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and somatics give us paths to healing that are often faster than talk therapy alone, give you choice in how much you want to share verbally, and don't require you to relive the past to heal it.
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These approaches also honor the wisdom that's already within you. Your brain, body, and spirit all want you to heal and live more freely; the question is are you listening?
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Regulating your nervous system empowers you to stay present with your emotions. Changing your relationship with the feelings allows you to get more in tune with what you really need.
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Together we can rewire your nervous system to not only feel safe to feel emotions, but also safe to expand and embody the life you desire, beyond survival.
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You can break free from your wounds of the past. You are worthy of healing. You deserve to live a life you love with peace and ease. I would love to help you with this.
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