{"id":9144,"date":"2019-07-22T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2019-07-22T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T17:49:35","slug":"how-to-overcome-childhood-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/07\/22\/how-to-overcome-childhood-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"How to overcome childhood trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072219-6.jpg\" alt=\"How to overcome childhood trauma\" class=\"wp-image-9131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072219-6.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw072219-6-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>How to overcome childhood trauma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m so sorry you experienced childhood trauma. What has a way of sticking with people for years is not so much the trauma itself, but the strategies those heroic little child-selves created to protect themselves from the trauma. Those strategies were absolutely brilliant &amp; served their purpose well at the time: you survived. Adults no longer subjected to the trauma need new strategies that won&#8217;t interfere with adult relationships &amp; situations, at the same time that they need to recognize (and celebrate!) the remarkable self-preservation accomplishments of the child-self. There are many different avenues of healing; almost all of them begin with some form of therapy. If you are a student at BC, avail yourself of counseling (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-counseling\">bit.ly\/BC-counseling<\/a>). If you aren&#8217;t, begin with your primary care physician &#8211; you may need a referral for insurance purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so sorry you experienced childhood trauma. What has a way of sticking with people for years is not so much the trauma itself, but the strategies those heroic little child-selves created to protect themselves from the trauma. Those strategies were absolutely brilliant &amp; served their purpose well at the time: you survived. Adults no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/07\/22\/how-to-overcome-childhood-trauma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to overcome childhood trauma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[679],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}