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Childhood trauma doesn't stay in childhood. It shows up in your relationships, your work, and the voice in your head that says you're not enough.In this series, trauma expert Ernest Ellender, PhD, has honest conversations about what happens after the harm — and what it actually takes to move forward.Each episode blends real stories with clinical insight and steps you can put to use right away. If the past still has a grip on your present, this series is for you.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/healing-childhood-wounds--6243378/support.

Did your childhood feel like something you survived instead of enjoyed? Painful childhoods naturally result in many sticky obstacles to adult success, ranging from distrust in others to self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors. Chronic family stress prompts a young brain to create deeply ingrained physical and mental habits that help survive childhood but later work against you in adulthood, often resulting in diagnoses like depression, bipolar, ADD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Complex PTSD.