Mental health awareness week is a good time to reflect on how far you’ve come in your life. Healing wounds from childhood trauma calms anxiety.
If you held shame inside as a child, you grew up with a distorted view of life. Then you most likely had emotions you repressed inside you such as anxious feelings, sadness, and frustration. As a child, you learned and used anxiety to cope.
When you became an adult, you expressed anxiety in unlikely moments when your brain confused current situations with the past. That’s what post-traumatic childhood wounds can do, and can stay with you. It’s the elephant in the room. And no one teaches you along the way how to heal on your own.
I know this because that’s my story in a nutshell.
My parents raised us the best they could. They immigrated to America as adults with their dreams and aspirations, and hope to give their future daughters a better opportunity. That didn’t come without a cost. Continue reading “Mental Health Awareness Week and Better Wellness We Should All Embrace”