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How Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Self—Rejection: Reflections from Gabor Mate

Inspired by Gabor Maté's work on trauma and his powerful reflections on self-rejection, I explore how childhood experiences can shape the beliefs we develop about ourselves, and how the ways we learned to survive may continue to influence our thoughts, emotions and behaviours well into adulthood.

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What Is Inner Child Healing? How Childhood Experiences Shape Us as Adults

Sometimes our strongest reactions in adulthood belong to much younger parts of us. Inspired by John Bradshaw’s Homecoming, I explore the inner child, the beliefs we carry from childhood, and how we can begin offering ourselves the safety, compassion and care we may have needed then.

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Why Do I Never Feel Good Enough? Understanding Self—Worth.

Why do so many of us carry the feeling that we’re somehow not enough? Explore how childhood emotional needs can shape anxiety, perfectionism, overwhelm and self-esteem - and how therapy can help us reconnect with ourselves, understand what we need, and begin filling our own emotional tank.

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