Growing up often feels like living in a bubble where everything inside your four walls seems perfectly standard. You assume ...

As children, they had all learned that their emotions were not accepted in their childhood homes. As children, they all had, ...

I’m a kid of the ’70s and ’80s. Nobody scheduled my afternoons. I rode my bike until the streetlights came on. I settled my own arguments. I got bored, stayed bored, and eventually invented something ...

Childhood trauma does not inevitably lead to poor outcomes in adulthood, new research from UNSW Sydney has found—and many ...

People who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s got experienced several unique things during their childhoods that shaped how they handle their lives to this day.

People process childhood trauma differently. Some are lucky enough to be unaffected by it as they grow into adulthood. However, others have an altered perception of what is normal. The realization ...

Consider Ethan and Kevin (their names are pseudonyms to protect their privacy), two children that I worked with as an ...

I, Setareh Harsamizadeh Tehrani, remember the sound of my parents fighting when I was a child, glasses shattering. I was experiencing something known as an adverse childhood experience, but I didn’t ...

It is well understood how attachment disruptions and other forms of toxic childhood stress commonly lead to deep-rooted shame and damaged self-esteem. Both shame and damaged self-esteem typically ...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are characterized as stressful or traumatic experiences encountered before 18 years of age. ACEs can lead to toxic stress, which causes negative physical and ...